As ISPs seek payments from Big Tech, Google criticizes “sender-pays” model

Enlarge / Google’s Matt Brittin, president of EMEA Business and Operations, speaks at the Web Summit on November 9, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. (credit: Getty Images | Horacio Villalobos ) Big Tech companies shouldn’t have to pay for Internet service providers’ network-upgrade costs, a Google executive said today amid a push in Europe to have […]

How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

Enlarge Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $ 235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis shows. The hackers seized control of roughly 256 IP addresses through […]

James Earl Jones Has Stepped Away From Voicing Darth Vader

James Earl Jones is 91 years young, and after voicing the character for 40 years, it sounds like he has finally moved on from the role of Darth Vader. By now, “Star Wars” fans have gotten used to seeing actors digitally resurrected or de-aged, as in the case of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher in “Rogue […]

US stocks rise ahead of anticipated 75-basis-point rate hike from the Fed

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Win McNamee/Getty Images US stocks moved higher on Wednesday as investors geared up for a Fed interest rate decision. Chairman Jerome Powell is expected to raise rates by 75 basis points to tame inflation. Powell's press briefing should give investors more insight as to how much more tightening the Fed […]

Walmart’s secretive fintech ONE is the new disruptor in consumer banking, and the retailer has nabbed talent from Wall Street mainstays like Goldman Sachs.

Hi. I'm Aaron Weinman. The most interesting thing I learned when I first visited a Walmart was the sheer range of goods the retailer has on offer. Turns out that diversity extends to services — specifically banking — too. Walmart has sewn the seeds for a thriving fintech for some time. In January last year, […]

Big gaming companies get DHS help to keep players from becoming terrorists

Enlarge (credit: Jun | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Last December, the United Nations warned of an overlooked but critical “emerging terrorist threat”: extremists radicalizing members of online gaming communities. Despite ample interest in saving gamers from such exploitation, experts say that a lack of research funding on the topic has put the gaming industry […]

Federal court upholds law banning tech companies from censoring viewpoints

Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor | Archive Photos) For the past year, Texas has been fighting in court to uphold a controversial law that would ban tech companies from content moderation based on viewpoints. In May, the Supreme Court narrowly blocked the law, but this seemed to do little to settle the matter. Today, […]