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Security vendor Check Point has revealed the existence of a new strain of malware dubbed CopyCat that has infected at least 14 million Android devices and rooted 8 million devices. CopyCat earns money for attackers through an online ad fraud scheme and by obtaining affiliate payments for installing apps not authorized by users. It generated […]

Google has given £622,000 to the UK’s Press Association (PA) news agency for the group’s Reporters and Data and Robots (Radar) project. The project, which will launch in 2018, relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to write news articles. It will provide media outlets with up to 30,000 local news stories a month based on official […]

Two of the country’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs) are taking two very different approaches to home Internet data limits. Cox has added four states — Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada and Oklahoma — to the list of places where it charges fees if customers exceed their monthly data caps. Customers get 1TB of data per month […]

More and more websites are adding chatbot functionality. Facebook’s Messenger platform alone has more than 100,000 bots, and in a survey sponsored by Oracle, more than 80 percent of enterprises surveyed said they expect to be using chatbots by 2020. Sitepoint has an overview of chatbots and how they might impact Web development. Specifically, bots […]

TechCrunch has put together a list of 35 “invisible unicorns,” big companies that started with very little funding and no initial help from venture capital firms. The list includes a number of Web-based companies and startups related to Web design and development, including the following: Lynda Shopify Ipsy Wayfair GoFundMe Plenty of Fish SurveyMonkey GitHub […]

Using Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data, a group of researchers have determined that 10.6 million U.S. households do not have any wired access to Internet service with at least 25 Mbps, and 46.1 million households have only one option for an ISP providing that level of service. After accounting for homes served by fixed wireless […]

Germany has passed a new law requiring social media websites to delete illegal, racist or slanderous content posted by users within 24 hours. Any websites that do not comply could face fines as high as $57 million. “With this law, we put an end to the verbal law of the jungle on the internet and […]

A group of small Internet Service Providers (ISPs) has sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai encouraging him to keep net neutrality legislation in place. “We have encountered no new additional barriers to investment or deployment as a result of the 2015 decision to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service and […]

Google has taken the wraps off a new project called Advr that aims to explore how advertising would function in virtual reality. Advr is a Unity plug-in that shows viewers an advertising cube that they can choose to interact with by tapping it or just staring at it for a while. Google says it is […]

Bug bounty platform vendor HackerOne has released its 2017 Hacker-Powered Security report, which provides insight into the website security vulnerabilities identified through its services. Key findings include the following: 26 percent of reported issues are cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, making this the most commonly reported type of bug. The average bug bounty payout is $1,923. […]

Facebook has reached a major milestone. In a post on the social network, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people! We’re making progress connecting the world, and now let’s bring the world closer together.” By comparison, the next largest social platforms are YouTube with 1.5 […]

CNBC is reporting that Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, has been working on a translation service that would allow developers to translate websites and apps into multiple languages. Amazon already uses similar machine learning technology for translation across its own websites, and two years ago it acquired a translation startup known as […]