Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When visiting The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) on Wednesday afternoon, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up claiming the site had been hacked. After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly. However, as of
This post was written by EFF intern Nazli Ungan as an update to a 2020 Deeplinks post by Cindy Cohn . Everyone wants an election that is secure and reliable and that will ensure that the voters’ actual choices are reflected in the results. That’s as true as we head into the
Image: The Verge On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending . Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics. Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri is directly replying to some
Illustration: The Verge After winning a fight to get Google’s search business declared an unlawful monopoly, the Department of Justice has released its initial proposal for how it’s thinking about limiting Google’s dominance — including breaking up the company. The
The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned. Research has shown
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this: The Wall Street Journal reported on a major breach of U.S. telecom systems attributed to a sophisticated Chinese-government
Illustration: The Verge Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency sent orders to service providers to unblock X , ending a five-week ban of the social media company. The agency known as Anatel, which is like the country’s FCC, issued the directive today and indicated that
It's hard enough creating one air-gap-jumping tool. GoldenJackal did it 2x in 5 years.
Attempting to identify the inventor, known only as Satoshi Nakamoto, has captivated the internet.
The US Government considers whether Google should spin off the Android operating system and Chrome browser.
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Now that Judge Amit Mehta has found Google is a monopolist , lawyers for the Department of Justice have begun proposing solutions to correct the company’s illegal behavior and restore competition to the market for search engines. In a
Image: The Verge A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 — relinquishing the
The earliest post on the account is a picture of Biden getting briefed on the hurricanes. | Screenshot: The Verge Reddit isn’t the first place you’d think to see official statements and news coming from the federal government, but today, The White House is on the site making
Image: The Verge On Tuesday, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the country’s telecommunications agency Anatel to unblock X within 24 hours, writing that it has fulfilled “all the requirements necessary for the immediate return of activities.