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Telegram's billionaire founder/CEO Pavel Durov was arrested Saturday night outside Paris, reports Reuters, citing French TV news stations TF1 TV and BFM TV which attributed the news to unnamed sources: Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website,...

Microsoft will meet with CrowdStrike and other security companies' on September 10, reports CNBC, to 'discuss ways to evolve' the industry after a faulty CrowdStrike software update in July caused millions of Windows computers to crash: [An anonymous Microsoft executive]...

Reuters reports that the Iranian hacking team which compromised the campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump 'is known for placing surveillance software on the mobile phones of its victims, enabling them to record calls, steal texts and silently turn on cameras...

Boeing 'will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts,' reports CNBC. Though they've been on the space station since early June, the plan is to have them stay 'for about six more months before flying home in February on...

He was employee #13 at Apple Computers — after impressing Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs with his 'blue box' phone-phreaking technique. Now 81-year-old John 'Captain Crunch' Draper has launched a new YouTube channel and web site. 'I spent decades exploring the depths of...

The second golden age of portable gaming is here! Mostly. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.

NASA's 2022 DART mission 'successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid's trajectory by crashing into it,' remembers Gizmodo, 'potentially providing a way to defend Earth — though the asteroid in this test was never a real threat.' But a foll...

The decision will leave the crew on the ISS until February. The mission was initially supposed to last about a week.

Under the streets of New York City, they're testing a 'quantum network,' reports Phys.org — where engineers from a Brooklyn company named Qunnect Inc are taking steps to 'overcome the fragility of entangled states in a fiber cable and ensure the efficiency of signal...

Monday brought spectacular footage of an explosion at a UK rocket test site after an engine test went awry. The plan had been to test-fire all of a rocket stage's nine engines at the same time — they've successfully ignited the mores more than a hundred times — but this time...

Alien: Romulus director Fede Ãlvarez 'briefly dropped into an Alien franchise subreddit this week to chat with fans about his new sequel,' reports Deadline. 'But the moderators weren't having it, flagging Ãlvarez as an imposter in a notice that he is 'permanently banned'...

If you’re leaving Apple behind to try Google’s Pixel, a Samsung Galaxy, or another Android phone, this guide covers all your bases.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Volkswagen will wait to see what electric car demand is like before building out all six of its previously planned battery factories. Thomas Schmall, VW's board member in charge of technology, told a German newspaper...