The biggest strategic tech challenge facing President-elect Joe Biden as he enters office will be uniting major powers including the US, Europe and India to shape the future of the internet so they’re capable of facing down threats from China, according to Facebook executive Nick Clegg. Speaking at Web Summit on Thursday, the social media company’s …
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It’s becoming a regular thing: Once again, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress. This time around, it was about how their social media companies handled the 2020 US election, though the questioning also touched on tech addiction, encryption and antitrust. That was midday Tuesday; later in the day, President Trump fired the head of …
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Google on Thursday said it will add a major privacy feature to its Android messaging app to make texting more secure. The search giant is testing end-to-end encryption, which safeguards messages so they can’t be read by Google or other third parties as the content is sent from one phone to another. Last year, Google revamped text messaging on Android …
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Looking for ways to get more out of WhatsApp on your Android phone or iPhone? We have your back. For example, rolling out right now is a new setting that will automatically clear out your messages after a week. It’s a Snapchat-like feature, sure, but who says that’s not welcome in other apps? You can even format the text you send in a message, adding …
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Apple said Monday it’ll change the way it logs data from your Mac about the apps you launch. Cybersecurity experts pointed out Thursday that a security feature was sending the information to Apple along with your IP address, which effectively ties data about the apps you use to your location. The data was also transmitted to Apple over the internet …
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It all started with two trips to China. The first, in August 2019, brought Jason Keats to Hong Kong just as protesters took over the airport. The head of R&D for the once-buzzy startup Essential Products was there to work on the company’s upcoming Project Gem, an eye-catching new smartphone with an unusual, skinny design. The second was in January. …
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Even if you’ve never considered using a VPN in the past, now might be a good time to think about setting one up. Thanks to the pandemic, you’re no doubt accessing the internet from home all day long, which raises the question: How well is your privacy protected? There’s a slew of VPNs to choose from (including CNET’s choice for …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. No, you can’t vote by text message. Or by tweet. Or, minus a few rare exceptions, over the internet. If you didn’t know that, now you do. If you did know it, good. Tell your friends. The reason I’m writing it is that …
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We’ve all seen the photos or videos. A politician or famous actor says something totally out of character. It looks like the person, sounds like the person and goes viral on social media. But it’s a deepfake, a form of digital manipulation that experts say is one of the biggest threats to trust on the internet. Truepic, a San Diego …
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Whether you’re using a free or paid Zoom account, you’ll now be able to get your first look at the videoconferencing giant’s new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature as the company rolls out the first phase of a four-step security plan. The E2EE feature is available as a technical preview both for those who join and those who host sessions with …
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