Fox apps are abruptly disappearing from Roku before the Super Bowl If you're planning on watching Super Bowl LIV using a streaming app, then you might not be able to use Roku hardware. While the […]
Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers. An investigation by EFF of the Ring […]
Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars The popular antivirus program Avast has been selling users data to giant companies like Google, Home Depot, Microsoft and Pepsi, a joint investigation […]
I am my own spy: A personal surveillance story One of the first webcams I purchased was a Dropcam several years ago. We'd had a couple of package thefts, and I wanted to see if […]
DirecTV satellite is at risk of explosion due to battery issues DirecTV has one month to remove a satellite from geostationary orbit, so it doesn't take other satellites down with it if it ends up […]
Some Under Armour fitness devices lose their smarts on March 31st People who bought some of Under Armour's fitness devices are learning a hard lesson about the fragility of connected tech. Ars Technica has learned […]
Wikipedia comes back online in Turkey after multi-year ban Access to Wikipedia in Turkey has been restored after a nearly three-year ban, which saw the site blocked after it refused to remove content tying the […]
‘GTA4’ leaves Steam after an old Microsoft service breaks game sales Rockstar is learning first hand about the pitfalls of trusting your game's functionality to a third-party service. The developer has confirmed to The Verge […]
Most websites don’t follow European cookie consent laws, study shows Websites that operate in Europe are supposed to follow GDPR rules that let consumers to opt out of cookie-type tracking. However, most are making it […]
Study finds five major US carriers vulnerable to SIM-swapping tactics A Princeton study (PDF) has discovered that five US prepaid carriers use authentication techniques that are vulnerable to SIM-swapping tactics. The researchers signed up for […]