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Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster the development of industry standards that would make the companies' nascent digital worlds compatible with each other.

UK households are experiencing plenty of Wi-Fi-related problems. What they don’t know is that their refrigerators and neighbors might be slowing down their connection.

A regulator in Germany is taking action against Google for what it says are practices by its global mapping service that could unfairly disadvantage competitors.

A short-form video-sharing app will make it easier for users to spot all sorts of advertising, paying particular attention to children.

Nikolaj Kozachek, affiliated with Russia's state intelligence, is accused of penetrating the systems of a NATO think tank in Germany.

An American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare says it is investigating widespread issues with their services and network.

Paige A. Thompson, who was working at AWS at the time of the hack, was found guilty of seven counts of wire and computer fraud.

Employees from the company behind the popular Chinese social media app TikTok repeatedly accessed non-public data of US users between September 2021 and January 2022.

Elon Musk has been sued for $258bn by a Dogecoin investor for defrauding him through a “crypto pyramid scheme.”

Spyware that targets Android-based devices has been detected being used by the government of Kazakhstan against its own citizens, according to research by Lookout Threat Lab.

Billionaire Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time, expressing his view that Twitter would need to cut its headcount, but offering few other new details about his $44 billion planned takeover of the social media company.

The US, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet RSOCKS, which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around the world.

The European Commission published the strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation, which accounts for key takeaways from the war in Ukraine and the COVID19 crisis.

The proposed bill aims to ban data brokers from selling location and health information ahead of the potential Roe v. Wade overturn that could "criminalize essential health care."

A worldwide police bust has resulted in the arrest of more than 2,000 people suspected of social engineering scams and money laundering, according to Interpol.

65% more passwords are circulating on the dark web than in 2020. Users still choose basic passwords that can be cracked in mere seconds.

Cybersecurity firm Cloudflare says it has shut down a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that marshaled a botnet army of more than 5,000 ‘zombie’ devices to launch a staggering 26 million hostile service requests per second.

A deputy US marshal has been charged with abusing his position to access online records that allowed him to track the location of former “personal” associates.

Kaiser Permanente (Kaiser) – the largest nonprofit health plan in the United States – has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 69,000 people.

Apple's rules apply to third parties but not to Apple itself, Germany's antitrust watchdog said after initiating proceedings against the technology giant.