Can Billionaires Be Trusted to Control Their Charitable Spending?

If the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were a country, it would be the 10th largest donor of development aid in the world. With an endowment of around $ 40 billion from primary donors Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and an annual spend of about one-tenth of that total sum, the Gates Foundation (and dozens […]

Majority of Android VPNs can’t be trusted to make users more secure

(credit: Ron Amadeo) Over the past half-decade, a growing number of ordinary people have come to regard virtual private networking software as an essential protection against all-too-easy attacks that intercept sensitive data or inject malicious code into incoming traffic. Now, a comprehensive study of almost 300 VPN apps downloaded by millions of Android users from […]