Will it be an amicable deal — or a federal case? That’s the question hanging over a megadeal between AT&T and Time Warner Cable valued at $85 billion as of last year. According to The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice is looking into how it would build a case against the acquisition …

Some iPhone users are feeling exposed by a feature in their phones’ Photos app.  When they type in the word “brassiere” in the photo search function, iPhone users find pictures their phone thinks include bras. As it happens, those photos tend to be a little intimate. Word began spreading on Twitter on Monday about this feature, and iPhone users began …

There’s nothing like a disaster to prompt a call for change.In early October, Congress grilled Equifax’s former CEO, Richard Smith, in four separate committee hearings about how his credit reporting agency put the consumer records of over 145 million people in jeopardy.How bad was the hack? Pretty bad. We’ll be feeling the effects for “essentially a hundred years, until everybody …

A researcher was still combing through Facebook posts from Russia-affiliated accounts when the social networking company deleted them from the public record.  That’s according to The Washington Post, which reported Thursday that analyst Jonathan Albright had downloaded posts from six of the Facebook pages before learning information from all 470 accounts was no longer publicly available. Albright told the Post …

Uber’s iOS app had the ability to record users’ screens, and anything on them, such as passwords or messages, security researchers told Gizmodo on Thursday.  The ride-hailing company has permission from Apple to build that ability into the app, and the researchers said Uber’s was the only app on the App Store that appeared to have that permission. The capability was …

When it came to interference with the 2016 election, tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google “did not take this threat seriously enough,” Democratic Sen. Mark Warner told reporters at a press conference at the US Capitol on Wednesday. Warner and Republican Sen. Richard Burr addressed reporters to give an update on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into allegations of …

Now playing: Watch this: Find out if your Yahoo account was hacked 1:21 The Yahoo hack is the biggest publicly disclosed data breach of all time. Getty Images In September 2016, Yahoo revealed a hack that compromised 500 million user accounts. In December, the company revealed yet another hack, this time affecting a record 1 billion accounts. On Tuesday, Yahoo …

Streaming services like Netflix have changed the landscape for filmmakers, director Ava DuVernay said Tuesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Sharing the stage with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, DuVernay said making films for a streaming service has helped her ignore ratings and awards so she can create. DuVernay directed documentary “13th” for Netflix, …

Maybe it isn’t sexy, but it stops hackers from using well-known bugs to break into your computer. In fact, it’s the most important thing you can do to keep your computer safe. Say it with me: Update your software. But there isn’t much you can you do if the update doesn’t work the way it should. That’s what’s happening with …

Can the police locate suspects by scanning through all the phone numbers that pass through a certain area? Sure, but they’ll need a warrant first. That’s according to a federal appeals court, which ruled Thursday that police must get permission from a judge to use “Stingray” devices, also called cell-site simulators, as part of their investigations. The simulators act like …