Technology

Apple announced this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference a new feature in its forthcoming operating system, iOS 15, that will digitize state-issued licenses and ID cards.

National

Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge

4:15pm June 12, 2021

by Bobby Allyn

Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.

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Clippings from the Great Falls Tribune were part of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office investigative file into the 1956 murders of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle.

National

Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve A 1956 Double Homicide. They May Have Made History

2:06pm June 12, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

It's one of the oldest criminal cases cracked with the new DNA technology. The murders of teen sweethearts Lloyd Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke had gone unsolved for more than 60 years.

Privacy Experts Ask: Should State-Issued IDs Be Stored On Our iPhones?

1:59pm June 12, 2021

by Bobby Allyn

Apple says it is working with states to digitize government-issued IDs. The announcement has privacy advocates on edge.

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Amazon's Echo Show devices are among those that will automatically be added to its shared wireless network scheme, called Amazon Sidewalk.

Your Amazon Echo Will Share Your Wireless Network With Neighbors, Unless You Opt Out

4:07pm June 11, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

The company says its Sidewalk system extends the range of low-bandwidth devices by pooling neighbors' networks to improve connectivity. It's all in the customer's interest, Amazon says.

Reesha Howard, who calls herself the "Queen of Spaces," was one of the first users of Twitter's audio rooms, known as Spaces.

Social Audio Began As A Pandemic Fad. Tech Companies See It As The Future

4:07pm June 11, 2021

by Shannon Bond

Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.

A sign at a store in El Zonte, El Salvador, advertises that it accepts bitcoins for payment.

Science

El Salvador Plans To Use Electricity Generated From Volcanoes To Mine Bitcoin

12:16pm June 11, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Bitcoin mining has taken a lot of heat for being harmful to the environment since it requires massive amounts of electricity to generate the invisible currency.

How Zoom Beat Big-Tech Rivals To Win The Battle Over Video Conferencing

6:29am June 11, 2021

Zoom is the most popular video conferencing software and many people's communications lifeline during COVID-19. How did the tiny company beat tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Cisco?

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Inner Workings Of DarkSide Cybergang Reveal It's Run Like Any Other Business

2:03pm June 10, 2021

by Terry Gross

New York Times investigative reporter Michael Schwirtz gained access to the dashboard of DarkSide, a Russian ransomware operation that's pulled in more than $90 million since it began last August.

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The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a standoff with social media companies over what content gets investigated or blocked online, and who gets to decide.

World News

India And Tech Companies Clash Over Censorship, Privacy And 'Digital Colonialism'

12:21pm June 10, 2021

India's new social media rules give the government broad powers to block some content and break encryption. It's the latest in a standoff with tech companies over censorship, privacy and free speech.

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As ransomware cases surge, the cyber criminals almost almost always demand, and receive, payment in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The world's largest meat supplier, JBS, announced Wednesday that it paid $11 million in Bitcoin to hackers in a recent ranso

National

How Bitcoin Has Fueled Ransomware Attacks

10:50am June 10, 2021

by Greg Myre

If you're planning a multi-million dollar ransomware attack, there's really only one way to collect - with cryptocurrency. It's fast. It's easy. Best of all, it's largely anonymous and hard to trace.

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