The measure was included in a mammoth $1.7 trillion spending bill that President Biden just signed. TikTok will be outlawed on almost all devices issued by the federal government after lawmakers passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill. Officials crammed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, which the Senate... Read more

Iris scans, fingerprints, and photos of over 2,600 people were found unencrypted and protected by a default password. Image: Getty Old US military equipment being sold on eBay contained what appears to be biometric data from troops, known terrorists, and people who may have worked with American forces in... Read more

/ In 2020, the FCC proposed a $200 million fine over claims that the carriers sold customers’ real-time location data to third parties. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, could temporarily avoid paying $200 million in privacy penalties because of the... Read more

Home Assistant is getting a new voice assistant that takes on the “basics” of smart home control. It will be built by developer Michael Hansen, who is responsible for the open-source voice assistant Rhasspy. Home Assistant’s Conversation integration can already take text commands and could become the basis of... Read more

The camera component supplier has unveiled a telephoto module with real moving optics to cover a 4-9x range — no digital zoom required. The camera module uses a tiny, precise actuator to move the lens between 4x and 9x telephoto settings.Image: LG Innotek LG’s smartphone-making days may be over,... Read more