The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet. MacRumors reports: The Apple Wallet vaccination card can be shown to bus…
FBI Held Back Ransomware Decryption Key From Businesses To Run Operation Targeting Hackers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bur…
Comcast and UK Subsidiary Sky Reportedly Launching Smart TVs
Comcast appears to be planning to offer TVs running its own software across at least two territories, according to recent reports from Protocol and The Financial Times. It comes a little more than a week after Amazon announced that it too will be getti…
CIA Director ‘Fuming’ After Havana Syndrome Strikes Team Member In India
FallOutBoyTonto shares a report from Ars Technica: A US intelligence officer traveling in India earlier this month with CIA director William Burns reported experiencing a mysterious health incident and symptoms consistent with so-called Havana syndrome…
Amazon Relaxes Drug Testing Policies, Will Lobby To Legalize Marijuana
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon is further relaxing its screening policies for marijuana, as it ramps up support for federal legislation to legalize the drug. In a blog post Tuesday, Amazon HR boss Beth Galetti wrote that the comp…
Virgin Media Subscribers Told To Pay ‘Thousands of Pounds’ To Settle Piracy Laws
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Virgin Media subscribers receiving letters accusing them of movie piracy may find that settling their cases will be a costly affair. TorrentFreak understands that settlement demands run to several …
Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers For Mistakes They Didn’t Make
em1ly shares a report from Motherboard: Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control. In February, Amazon announced that it would install cameras made by the AI-tec…
NASA Reviews Private Space Station Proposals, Expects To Save Over $1 Billion Annually After ISS Retires
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to retire the International Space Station by the end of this decade, so the U.S. space agency is turning to private companies to build new space stations in orbit — and expects to save more than …
World’s Largest Chip Foundry TSMC Sets 2050 Deadline To Go Carbon Neutral
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: TSMC announced last week that it would flatten its emissions growth by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon by 2050. That’ll be a tall order for a company that produced over 15 million tons of carbon pol…
The Chinese Version of TikTok Is Limiting Kids To 40 Minutes a Day
The Chinese version of TikTok is introducing a “teenage mode” that will limit the amount of time children under the age of 14 spend on the short-form video app to 40 minutes a day. CNN reports: The measure will apply to all Douyin users under the age o…