Well, here’s something you might have never considered: Your iPhone and Android device push notifications can be used by law enforcement or governments to spy on you. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice with a concern that his office was attempting to investigate. According to Senator Wyden’s letter … Read more
Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked Apple and Google to share this information with the U.S. government as well, which would evade the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that protects … Read more
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is challenging on Tuesday the British government’s decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States. The Duke of Sussex said he wants protection when he visits home and claimed it’s … Read more
British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt that the U.K. economy would not enter a technical recession in 2023, while announcing the government’s spring Budget. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday announced a substantial cut to the National Insurance tax on workers, but its benefit … Read more
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative government is setting out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and measures to tame inflation and boost economic growth at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday. King Charles III will read out a speech, written by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, outlining its legislative plans for … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BLETCHLEY, Britain – As Adolf Hitler rained terror on Europe, the British government recruited its best and brightest to this secret compound northwest of London to break Nazi codes. The Bletchley Park efforts helped turn the tide of war and lay the groundwork for the modern computer. … Read more
President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with AI experts and researchers at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Jane Tyska | Medianews Group | Getty Images President Joe Biden unveiled a new executive order on artificial intelligence — the U.S. government’s first action of its kind — requiring … Read more
JERUSALEM — More than two weeks after Hamas militants rampaged through a string of sleepy farming towns, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. While the military is launching unrelenting airstrikes in Gaza that have … Read more
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle. Pregnant women and men carrying children atop their shoulders waded across the waist-deep Tuquesa river and into the … Read more
COSTA DA CAPARICA, Portugal — Sofia Oliveira was 12 years old when catastrophic wildfires in central Portugal killed more than 100 people in 2017. She “felt it was now or never to raise our voices” as her country appeared to be in the grip of deadly human-caused climate change. Now a university student, Sofia and … Read more