YouTube‘s comments section can be a mix between no man’s land in a war zone and the Wild West. Translation: The place can be dangerous. So instead of making you read what the New Statesman called “the worst of the internet,” YouTube is working on a new feature that would hide comments by default. YouTube …

The US Commerce Department has blacklisted another five Chinese tech companies, preventing them from buying US-made chips and components. Like Chinese tech giant Huawei last month, the companies were added to the United State’s “entity list” (PDF) due to national security concerns.  The filing, spotted earlier Friday by CNBC, blocks China-based Higon, Sugon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit, Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology …

Will Dish be the savior to T-Mobile and Sprint’s $26 billion merger? It depends on which report you want to believe.  After recently being rumored to have interest in swooping up the assets T-Mobile and Sprint would divest, on Friday the New York Post reported that Dish CEO Charlie Ergen could be “months away” from completing the deal. By combining …

Huawei’s Mate X will reportedly be launched in September at the latest, after being delayed earlier this month. The time frame for its foldable phone launch was confirmed by a Huawei exec, TechRadar reported Friday afternoon. “It’s coming in September at the latest,” Vincent Peng, a senior vice president at the company, told TechRadar. “Probably earlier, but definitely September is guaranteed.” …

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Slack’s stock price ended up at $38.62 a share on its first day on the market after reaching a high of $41.95 on a busy Thursday. Shares of the company began trading shortly after 9 a.m. PT on the New York Stock Exchange for $38.50 and saw an immediate jump in price to more than $40. Its reference price was $26 under …

Amazon’s current deal of the day features discounts on about two dozen Logitech accessories. It’s mostly keyboards and mice, with a few webcams and gaming headsets thrown in, but there are a few significant discounts. It’s worth a look if you’re trying to round out a gaming setup or home workstation. You can see all of the deals on Amazon’s …

Quantum computing can be baffling, but one effect of this evolving technology is pretty easy to grasp: It threatens to blow up the encryption that protects internet communications and lets you do things like shop online without thieves stealing your credit card number. Now internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has joined an effort to come up with new “post-quantum” algorithms that’ll …

For three weeks, Riviera Beach, a city of 35,000 people in Florida, had its computer systems held hostage. On Monday, the city council voted unanimously to pay $600,000 in bitcoin to the hackers who caused the problem. After a city employee clicked on a malicious link in an email, ransomware quickly spread throughout Riviera Beach’s computer network, locking it down …

The Mac App Store has received significant criticism, but Apple’s efforts to improve it apparently have paid off, as Adobe started using the store to sell its Lightroom software for the first time on Thursday. The photo-editing and cataloging software, geared for photo enthusiasts and pros who want something richer than Google Photos or Apple Photos, costs the same as …

It’s a big week for Niantic, which expanded its UK studio just before Harry Potter: Wizards Unite lands in the US and UK (here’s how you get started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite). The Pokemon Go developer acquired London-based Sensible Object, known for games like the AR-tabletop hybrid Beasts of Balance and Amazon Alexa-powered When in Rome, which basically combine physical …

Apple has asked its suppliers to look into the possibility of shifting final assembly of some products out of China, according to report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The iPhone maker is looking into moving “up to around a third of the production for some devices” to other countries, including locations in Southeast Asia, the Journal reported. This …

Out now in the US, the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite augmented reality game will be familiar to anyone who’s played the wildly successful Pokemon Go and even Niantic’s first game, Ingress. (Here’s how you get started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.) Relying on your phone’s GPS, you move around the physical world and interact with beasts, objects, points of interest …