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In this March 18, 2014 file photo, voters cast ballots. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Microsoft offers software tools to secure elections

May 7, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

Microsoft has announced an ambitious effort to make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits by registering ballots in encrypted form so they can be accurately and independently tracked...

Documents show Facebook used user data as a competitive weapon

December 5, 2018 at 7:33 p.m.

Internal Facebook documents released by a U.K. parliamentary committee offer the clearest evidence yet that the social network has used its enormous trove of user data as a competitive weapon,...

U.S. suspects cellphone spying devices in D.C.

April 4, 2018 at 9:34 p.m.

For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to...

Georgia election server wiped after suit filed, AP learns

October 26, 2017 at 6:47 a.m.

A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.

A gate at the U.S. Oil Recovery Superfund site

Evidence of spills at Houston Superfund sites following Harvey floods

September 18, 2017 at 5:17 p.m.

The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finally stopped. Aerial...

Antonio Barron, right, looks back to ...

Harvey spins deeper inland; full scope of damage is unknown

August 27, 2017 at 1:07 a.m.

Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas early Saturday, lashing the state's Gulf Coast with damaging winds and dumping torrents of rain over hundreds of miles of coastline that braced for...

Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data

August 8, 2017 at 8:42 a.m.

A group of hackers posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online Monday, and demanded a multimillion-dollar ransom from the network to prevent the release of entire television series...

James Mathew Bradley Jr., left, arrives ...

Investigator: Driver part of larger human-smuggling scheme

July 26, 2017 at 1:25 p.m.

Investigators believe a truck driver accused in the deaths of 10 people found inside a packed, sweltering tractor-trailer is part of a larger organization involved in human smuggling that authorities...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor ...

Face scans for U.S. citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues

July 12, 2017 at 2:02 p.m.

HOUSTON -- If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call an ill-advised step...

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