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Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for b...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

Enlarge ImageThe NeXT computer Tim Beers-Lee used as the first server for the World Wide Web.CoolcaesarInteauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991 -- 25 years ago today -- the public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, designed and deployed by computer scientist Tim Beers-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.It gave rise to the inteet as we know and use it today.The inteet and the World Wide Web are not interchangeable. The inteet was first coected in 1969, and refers to the network that carries information between nodes. The World Wide Web refers to the space on this network where information, such as web pages and document...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIn the interests of justice? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I don't know whether you've heard, but there's no need to vote.The election is apparently going to rigged. At least that's what Republican candidate Donald Trump intimated on the campaign trail this week. It's unclear what evidence Trump has for this worrying assertion. What is clearer is that he's doing something about it.He's using the open and coected power of the web to hire so-called election observers. Well, when I say "hire," I of cou...

The Democrats have been dogged by hacking and leaks during the presidential campaign. This past week was no exception. Erwin Wodicka/Getty Images The Democratic Party's hacking woes continued this week, as personal phone numbers and email addresses of US Congress members wound up on the inteet. A person, or people, using the alias "Guccifer 2.0" dumped the data on a website on Friday and said it had been acquired in a computer breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a group that raises funds for Democratic members of the House of Representatives. That attack was revealed in late July. "It's...

Brave Software's logo A bold plan to rid the web of obnoxious advertising just came one step closer to reality. Browser maker Brave said Monday that it has raised a seed round of $4.5 million, money that will go toward its browser and its technology for replacing conventional web ads with its own. The investors are Founders Fund, the high-profile venture capitalist firm run by Peter Thiel, as well as Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital and Digital Currency Group. Brave is trying to make a business by solving a thoy issue on the web: Many sites are supported by advertising, but that advertising slows down computers, drains phone batteries, tracks users and sometimes ...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Beers-Lee has made an impassioned bid in favour of net neutrality in Europe, calling on European citizens to stop legislation that could see the creation of so called Inteet "fast lanes".In an open letter published by the World Wide Web Foundation, Beers-Lee, along with law academics Professor Barbara van Schewick and Professor Larry Lessig, wa that "potential loopholes" in EU guidelines -- which are being written following a European Parliament vote on net neutrality in October -- could threaten the open nature of the Inteet. With public consultation on those guidelines due to end on 18 July, the open letter urges EU citizens to have their say on regu...

An archive of Prince's official and unofficial websites has launched as a free online museum. The Prince Online Museum currently features seventeen of The Purple One's websites, with the oldest dating back to 1994.Easily browsable on a timeline, each site has its own profile page with a brief summary about it. The content of the sites ranged from lyric books for albums and merch stores, to artsy video projects. Some have a short Q&A with the webmasters, designers and other creatives who helped put each website together, and most are fully restored and explorable. While you can visit the websites through the museum, links for purchasing merchandise and music have been taken down. If you'r...

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Albert Gea/Reuters/Corbis A Brazilian judge has frozen 19.5 million reais ($6.07 million, £2.2 million, $4 million AU) in Facebook funds after the social networking company repeatedly ignored federal orders to release WhatsApp messages related to a drug investigation. The messages could contain evidence linking a cocaine smuggling ring in Brazil to local cohorts in Bolivia, Paraguay and Spain, according to a Reuters report Thursday.Brazilian police have repeatedly asked WhatsApp for the messages, Reuters said. After determining non-compliance, a judge blocked parent company Facebook from...

Gone is the campaign material on the "Vote Leave" website. All that is left is this baer. Screenshot/Vote Leave The successful "Leave" campaign in the UK's EU referendum debate has wiped its website of all vestiges of the material it used to make its pro-Brexit case.The full website has been replaced by a static baer thanking supporters for their hard work and votes, spotted Guardian reporter Alice Ross. An archived version of the site, which features all of the campaign material, can still be seen online. "On 23 June, it's safer to Vote Leave and take back control," the subhead on the website used to say. "W...

The message with which ElSurveillance replaces the homepage of the websites he targets. Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET A hacker going by the name ElSurveillance has targeted at least 26 websites in June alone for defacement, most of which offer escort services, although he also managed to scoop up a motorcycle enthusiast and some real estate websites. According to an interview with website Data Breaches in December of last year, he is citing religious reasons. "I have been ruing an operation under the hashtag #EscortsOffline against the escorts website and agencies, because I strongly believe that our bodi...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNigel Farage, facing a barrage of wonder. GMB/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I was brought up in the UK in a refugee household. We didn't speak English at home. So, although I have the British accent, my mental accent isn't entirely Brit.Growing up there, Britain seemed to enjoy a psychology of both superiority and insularity, bo perhaps of an empire that crumbled. A more European influence offered some elements of civilization. (The food got better, for one.) My colleague Stephen Shankland ...

Google Fiber will soon have a new tool in its toolbox to bring ultra-fast 1Gbps broadband service to millions of people in cities throughout the US. Google On Wednesday Webpass, an inteet service provider that uses point-to-point wireless to deliver high-speed broadband to apartment buildings and businesses, said it was being bought by Google for an undisclosed amount. Neither company has disclosed details of the transaction, but the deal is expected to close this summer after regulatory approval. Webpass uses a combination of rooftop wireless networks coected to high speed fiber coections to deliver broadba...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDoes he use Zuck tape? Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Instagram now has 500 million users.This is a time for celebration. At least, for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After all, his company owns the site where we're desperate to share pictures of our tacos and toenails.Zuckerberg may not be so keen to share images of himself at work. I deduce this from the picture that he posted to accompany his joy. He appears to be sitting at his desk, holding a frame hurriedly provided by his PR people.But, as the deeply obse...

Verizon is reportedly wooing Yahoo. Richard Nieva/CNET Verizon could spend $3 billion to acquire Yahoo's Inteet business. The telecom giant plaed to submit a proposal before the second round of bidding ended Monday for Yahoo's core online assets, an uamed source familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Joual. Private-equity firm TPG was also expected to tender an offer before the deadline, the Joual reported, but Verizon is currently seen as the leading contender. A major Inteet player in years past, Yahoo has been trying to revive its slumping business fortunes. CEO Marissa Mayer aimed to shake things...