Category: Technology

Enlarge / As of 7:30 am Eastern, all domestic flights have been grounded due to a NOTAM outage. Getty Images Today might not be the best day to fly. Earlier this morning, the Federal Aviation Administration suffered an outage to its Notice to Air Missions system. Better known as NOTAMs, these provide information to pilots […]

Saving money is a top priority for many people, and with good reason. It can be challenging to make ends meet, especially if you have a lot of financial obligations or are living on a tight budget. The good news is that there are many different ways to save money, and with a little bit […]

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person talking to a secret robot therapist. Ars Technica On Friday, Koko co-founder Rob Morris announced on Twitter that his company ran an experiment to provide AI-written mental health counseling for 4,000 people without informing them first, The Verge reports. Critics have called the experiment deeply unethical because […]

A data breach against fast food chain Five Guys resulted in the unauthorized access of files containing information submitted to the company in connection with its employment process, according to consumer notification letters dated Dec. 29 and published by state attorneys general in New Hampshire and Montana. Per the letters, Five Guys first identified the […]

Getty Images More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were weak enough to be cracked using standard methods, a recently published security audit of the agency found. The audit was performed by the department’s Inspector General, which obtained cryptographic hashes for 85,944 […]

A ransomware attack against San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit exposed highly sensitive and personal data after a threat group leaked the records Friday. The nation’s fifth-largest transit system by ridership, and largest in California, remains operational. Vice Society, a prolific ransomware group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday when it listed BART on […]

GREENCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA — At a dual-monitor computer in the office of the XPO Hagerstown terminal just off Interstate 81, freight operations supervisor Kylee Garnett tracks dockworkers’ productivity and drivers’ progress on their routes in real time. XPO’s labor management software helped determine the terminal required more forklifts, which the carrier shifted over from a shop in […]

Some Android devices, like Samsung phones, have this setting hidden in the Phone app. Here’s how to find it: Open the Phone app, tap the triple-dot icon at the top right, and tap Settings. If you see an option for Wi-Fi Calling, tap it and toggle it on.  If you don’t see the Wi-Fi Calling […]

Enlarge / The iPhone 14 Pro. Apple For years now, Apple has wanted to replicate its success in processors with its own in-house cellular modems. The company spent $1 billion to buy Intel’s modem technology in 2019, and since then the company has perennially been just a year or two away from replacing Qualcomm’s modems […]

Over the past decade, the list of industries that haven’t been transformed by technological innovation is far shorter than the list of those that have. But many are surprised to learn that technology is also now transforming the traditional insurance industry as well. That’s right, insurance is no exception. Historically operating as a traditional, relationship-driven […]