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An FBI watch list of suspected terror suspects was unsecured online for a while, according to an investigator. The list contains details of 1.9 million people, including names, date of birth, passport details and no-fly status.The list…

Blue Origin, the space company of former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is suing space agency NASA over its decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to SpaceX.Blue Origin "challenges NASA's illegal and inappropriate evaluation of…

Blue Origin, the aerospace company of former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is suing space agency NASA over its decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to SpaceX.Blue Origin is "challenging NASA's illegal and inappropriate…

Apple responds this week to criticism over its plans to scan iCloud for photos of child abuse. Among other things, the company says it will only mark images that appear in at least two different child safety databases.Apple hopes that…

Developer 11 Bit Studios has announced a sequel to citybuilder Frostpunk. The sequel will be called Frostpunk 2 and will only be released on PC for the time being. It is not yet known when the game will be released.In a trailer, the…

Google has banned the services of location data company SafeGraph in apps from the Play Store. This company would collect location and resell it to third parties. Developers who added code from SafeGraph to their apps were warned in June…

Microsoft is challenging a government contract that Amazon Web Services won with the US intelligence agency NSA. The contract is to support the intelligence agency's cloud infrastructure and would generate $10 billion for AWS.The exact…

Apple promises to use the photo scanning feature announced last week on users' devices only for the purpose of detecting known child abuse material. If governments want to track down other things, Apple will refuse.In its faq about the…

According to research firm Counterpoint, Xiaomi has taken the lead in the global smartphone market for the first time. The company is said to have delivered more phones worldwide in June than market leader Samsung.According to…

ABN Amro does not consider bitcoin suitable as a means of payment. The bank will inform you about this in a report. Due to the volatile exchange rate of the currency, the limited number of coins and the high energy consumption, the bank…