Stalkerware like MobileSpy, PhoneSheriff and TeenShield were tracking physical and online movements without people’s knowledge, the FTC says. …read more Source:: CNet

Three U.S. lawmakers active in tech issues introduced a bill on Tuesday that would require social networks like Facebook to allow users to pack up their data and go elsewhere, they said in a statement. From a report: The senators, Republican Josh Hawley and Democrats Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal, offered the bill at a…

The latest installment in the sci-fi game series that inspired the “looter-shooter” genre is here. …read more Source:: CNet

IBM is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone. From a report: A month ago, news broke that Google had reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy”: it had gotten a quantum computer to run a calculation that would take a classical computer an unfeasibly long time. While the calculation itself — essentially, a…

The Nok Nok App SDK for Smart Watch is designed to let businesses implement FIDO-based authentication on smartwatches. …read more Source:: DarkReading

A majority of banks globally may not be economically viable because their returns on equity aren’t keeping pace with costs, McKinsey said in its annual review of the industry released Monday. From a report: It urged firms to take steps such as developing technology, farming out operations and bulking up through mergers ahead of a…

Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead After being hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit last month, the GNOME Foundation has fired back with a counterclaim – and urged the courts to dismiss the case.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Qode Instagram Widget and Qode Twitter Feed both have bugs that could allow redirects to malicious sites. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Christine Peterson, a long-time futurist who co-founded the nanotech advocacy group the Foresight Institute in 1986 and coined the term “Open Source software” among other things writes: I am currently cited on the home page of the Ethical Source Movement, home of the Ethical Source Definition: “In the twenty years since Christine Peterson first coined…

Yeah, it’s not us Firefox turned 70 today, at least in terms of version, with an update focused on – surprise, surprise – security and privacy.… …read more Source:: Register