Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo(washingtonpost.com)

72 points by planb 1 year ago | 170 comments

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance(washingtonpost.com)

474 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 459 comments

Washington Post article reporting that Google removed from its AI principles a 2018 pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance.

Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back(washingtonpost.com)

70 points by luafox 1 year ago | 50 comments

Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta(washingtonpost.com)

430 points by ta988 2 years ago | 448 comments

Washington Post article reporting that misinformation researcher Joan Donovan alleges in a whistleblower complaint that Harvard ousted her to appease Meta.

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs(washingtonpost.com)

172 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 125 comments

DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies warn investors(washingtonpost.com)

44 points by howard941 1 year ago | 12 comments

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws(csoonline.com)

394 points by zdw 1 year ago | 317 comments

CSO Online news analysis reporting that foreign hackers breached the NNSA's Kansas City nuclear weapons plant by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities.

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says(apnews.com)

669 points by cbg0 2 years ago | 734 comments

AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.

Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service(propublica.org)

449 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 206 comments

ProPublica investigation into how federal cybersecurity reviewers approved Microsoft's cloud service under FedRAMP despite serious doubts about its security.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted(graz.social)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records(blog.faav.net)

287 points by luispa 27 days ago | 120 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.

Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says(propublica.org)

565 points by tyleroconnell 2 years ago | 269 comments

ProPublica investigation reporting a whistleblower's claim that Microsoft ignored a Golden SAML security flaw later exploited in the SolarWinds hack, prioritizing profit.