Major internet companies Google, Facebook and Twitter gave evidence to British lawmakers during a hearing on “fake news” in Washington D.C. on Thursday, The Guardian reported.
The UK’s Digital, Media, Culture, and Sport Committee took the unusual step on traveling to the U.S. to hold the hearing, which was designed to...
American tech giant Oracle has tightened the terms for providing products and services to Russian customers from the oil and gas industry included in the U.S. sanctions list, Kommersant reports.
Since January 29, Oracle has ceased new transactions with the oil and gas companies and banned extensions, modifications and renewals of...
Russian hacker group Fancy Bear targeted at least 15 U.S. scientists and employees in aviation companies working specifically on drone technology, The Associated Press (AP) reports.
Fancy Bear is the largest group of weapons specialists identified as targets of the cyber spy group, as part of a broad hacking attempt aimed...
Actor Jim Carrey says he is dumping his Facebook stock and urged his fans to delete their accounts because the social media site profited from Russian interference during the U.S. election, CNBC reported.
In a Twitter post on Tuesday using the hashtag #unfriendFacebook, Carrey said Facebook was still not doing enough...
A Russian hacker group known as Fancy Bear tricked key U.S. contract workers into exposing their email to theft, possibly revealing secrets of military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology, an Associated Press investigation has found.
It is uncertain what may have been stolen, but the hackers clearly exploited a...
The scientific space race in the next years will be dominated by space drilling rigs, water extraction on the Moon and 3D printers at space stations, says Pavel Ananyev, the director of the Scientific-Educational Center for Innovative Mining Technologies of the Moscow-based National University of Science and Technology
Ananyev is...
A Russian citizen extradited to the United States from Spain is currently being held in an American detention facility where he is prohibited from calling his relatives, reading newspapers and communicating with other prisoners, Russian Izvestiya newspaper wrote citing his lawyer Igor Litvak.
"Peter Levashov has been held in an isolation...
Sony Corp production studio Sony Pictures Television and Russian media holding company National Media Group (NMG) have set up a joint venture to operate Sony’s pay television channels in Russia, NMG said on Monday.
According to Reuters, NMG said it was buying 80 percent in a company broadcasting Sony channels...
U.S. Democrat Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, has warned that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm may be susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities,” The Guardian reported.
The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the powerful algorithm is “optimizing for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content.”
An earlier investigation by...
When the state-backed Russian news channel RT became the first news organization to surpass one billion views on YouTube in 2013, it marked the achievement with a retrospective of its most popular videos and a special guest — one of the Google-owned site’s senior executives.
Robert Kyncl, a YouTube vice...
