Technology

The health care system is on the brink of disaster because of a cyberattack

5:14am March 06, 2024

Because one company, Change Healthcare, has been hit with a cyberattack, people across the country are having trouble filling prescriptions, and doctors haven't been able to bill insurance providers.

Politics & Government

Super Tuesday was the biggest test yet to this year's voting systems

5:14am March 06, 2024

Indications are that things generally went smoothly — good news in a year that has experts worried about the state of democracy.

EU Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager addresses the media about Apple Music streaming services at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday.

World News

The EU fines Apple nearly $2 billion for hindering music streaming competition

8:08pm March 04, 2024

by The Associated Press

Apple muzzled streaming services from telling users about payment options on their websites, which avoids a 30% fee charged when people pay through apps downloaded with the iOS App Store, the EU said.

How some companies hope to bring China's livestream shopping trend to the U.S.

5:12pm March 04, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to reporter Caiwei Chen about the booming livestream shopping trend in China, and how Chinese companies and TikTok are training American influencers to sell on livestreams too.

Many women, as well as some men, took to social media to share tales of sexual harassment and assault during glitzy legal tech events.

She was harassed at a tech conference. Now other women are sharing #MeToo moments

5:28am March 04, 2024

Fed up with what they see as their industry's tolerance of men's transgressions and predatory behavior, women are telling their stories — in person, in group chats and on LinkedIn.

Politics & Government

AI concerns grow as billions of people worldwide prepare to vote this year

5:26am March 04, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with scholar and technology policy expert Alondra Nelson about the ways artificial intelligence is posing challenges to electoral integrity around the world.

Ibrahim, 12, speaks to his grandmother, who lives in Gaza, from his home in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Jan. 31. The family did not want to use their full names out of fear of reprisals from Israeli authorities.

Destruction from the war with Israel has cut Gaza off from the outside world

1:41pm March 03, 2024

by Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Spotty internet and cell services, blackouts and the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas have hampered aid and medical services and keeping in touch with loved ones.

Queue Listen Now

Social media bans for kids would violate their constitutional rights, some argue

4:22pm March 01, 2024

by Valerie Crowder

Efforts to curb social media for minors are popping up in state legislatures. Advocates say it'd help temper harmful mental health effects. But the constitutionality of all out bans is up for debate.

From left, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times financial columnist, speak during the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 6, 2015, in San Francisco.

National

Elon Musk sues OpenAI for choosing profits over 'the benefit of humanity'

3:03pm March 01, 2024

by Juliana Kim

A former co-chair of OpenAI, Musk says he invested millions in the AI lab on "false promises" that it would be nonprofit and open-source. OpenAI is now backed by Microsoft.

A prescription is filled on Jan. 6, 2023, in Morganton, N.C. A ransomware attack is disrupting pharmacies and hospitals nationwide this week.

Health care company ties Russian-linked cybercriminals to prescriptions breach

1:58pm March 01, 2024

by Jenna McLaughlin

A ransomware attack targeting a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary is disrupting pharmacies and hospitals nationwide, leaving patients with problems filling prescriptions or seeking medical treatment.