Tag: Computing and information technology
Ford posts surprise $3.26B 1Q profit; chip shortage looms
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. says it made $3.26 billion in the first quarter, helped by rising vehicle prices and in spite of production...
DC police department hit by apparent extortion attack
WASHINGTON — The Washington, D.C., police department said Monday that its computer network was breached, and a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate claimed to have stolen...
France, Germany plan billions in pandemic recovery spending
FRANKFURT, Germany — France and Germany together laid out plans for billions in spending from the European Union's pandemic recovery fund aimed at fighting...
Italy’s Draghi presenting ‘epochal’ virus recovery plan
ROME — Italian Premier Mario Draghi is presenting a 222.1 billion euro ($268.6 billion) coronavirus recovery plan to Parliament on Monday, aiming to not...
Apple’s iPhone privacy clampdown arrives after 7-month delay
SAN RAMON, Calif. — Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on...
Defining numbers from Biden’s early days, from jobs to virus
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's opening months in office have been a whirlwind of activity during the pandemic and the start of an economic...
Bitcoin millionaire puts money on Greens in German election
BERLIN — A German software developer who made a fortune from bitcoin has given the environmentalist Green Party one of the biggest political donations...
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved
BOSTON — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a...
UK spy chief says West faces ‘moment of reckoning’ on tech
LONDON — Western countries risk losing control of technologies that are key to internet security and economic prosperity to nations like China and Russia...
Outages blamed on malware still plaguing budget airlines
A technology provider says a malware attack triggered a dayslong outage that has caused reservations systems to crash at about 20 low-cost airlines around...
