Facebook goes Meta: Zuckerberg announces new corporate name

Facebook has a new corporate name

Just months after bankruptcy, Hertz says it will buy 100,000 Teslas for new electric fleet

Shares of Tesla surged on Monday, with the Hertz deal expected to net the electric car maker more than $4 billion.

Facebook whistleblower 'shocked' by company’s investment in metaverse

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was “shocked” when she heard the company planned to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to work on the metaverse.

Facebook reports $9 billion profit on day documents highlight internal anger

Facebook reported near-record revenue and quarterly profits of $9.2 billion Monday as the social media company faced scrutiny over how it polices its platform

'Carol's Journey': What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users

Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes.

Big Tech is pushing a 'national cloud.' Critics say Big Tech would profit from it.

Big tech has big designs on a big cloud.

Mohamed Noor resentenced to 57 months in prison for killing 911 caller

Mohamed Noor gunned down Justine Ruszczyk Damond on July 15, 2017.

China is pushing a new Covid origin theory: Maine lobsters

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline

The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private sector cyber experts working

After lecture is canceled, free speech debate roils science academia

A prominent climate physicist resigned Monday from one of his roles at the University of California, Berkeley, after he said faculty members would not agree to invite a guest lecturer to the school who had previously come under fire for his...

In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, researchers say.

Opinion | Think it's impossible to both-sides the Holocaust? It's already happening

In the U.S., we have monuments to Nazi collaborators in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio, among other states. In Europe, it’s worse.

Biden administration to beef up intelligence collection on migrant groups headed north

An intelligence cell run by DHS will expand biometric data collection from migrants and monitor social media disinformation that may spur mass migrant movements.

Toxic 'forever chemicals' are everywhere. The EPA has a new plan to crack down.

The Biden administration announced a three-year initiative to regulate and restrict the use of these chemicals, found in everything from cosmetics to food packaging.

Texas official to teachers: State law requires teaching 'opposing' views on the Holocaust - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

"How do you oppose the Holocaust?" one teacher can be heard asking on an audio recording that NBC News obtained, amid gasps.

Life as a 'foreign agent': Inside Russia's crackdown on free speech

Russia is in the midst of the largest crackdown on the free press and political dissent since the Soviet era.

‘Highway robbers’: How a trip to buy farmland ended with police taking all his cash

A Vietnamese immigrant and his business partner are fighting to get back more than $100,000 seized by Oklahoma police who allege that it was drug money.

Missouri governor calls for prosecution of journalist who flagged website flaw

Missouri's governor has called for a criminal investigation into a local journalist who discovered a website vulnerability that exposed teachers’ Social Security Numbers.

I was accused of having drugs in my jail cell. I didn't — but went to solitary anyway.

Low-cost field tests for drugs are imprecise and prone to user error. When prisons use them, they can land prisoners in solitary confinement for drugs they don't have.

Opinion | Why prosecutors are easily racking up wins against Jan. 6 rioters

The best part of putting together their cases against Jan. 6 participants? A lot of the incriminating evidence has come from the rioters themselves — and keeps on coming.