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The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to ...

Google appears to working on an email forwarding alias system. Called “Shielded Email,” the intent appears to be hiding your main email address from apps demanding one. If spam ever becomes a problem, ...

Columbia University’s president issued a groveling apology, saying she regrets a text suggesting removal of a Jewish board member and a separate one urging the school to get an “Arab” board member ...

The end-to-end encrypted communication app WhatsApp, used by roughly 3 billion people around the world, will roll out cloud-based AI capabilities in the coming weeks that are designed to preserve ...

The message reiterated an offer to take a second job or travel to a “dream destination” and remain on the federal payroll for months. But questions remain about whether that would be legal. By Kate ...