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This Friday, Facebook will go public in one of the most anticipated IPOs in history. With more than 900 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's expanding social media empire has become a seemingly irreplaceable part of the online experience. Unfortunately, a byproduct of its success is that millions of...

If you care about your privacy at all, you might want to muzzle Siri. The groundbreaking voice-recognition personal assistant on the brand-new Apple iPhone 4S turns out to be quite the chatterbox when you least expect her to be, and doesn't go to sleep when the phone is locked.

Almost a year after Google's China servers got hacked, launching a standoff between Google and the Chinese government over censorship, a set of classified cables released by WikiLeaks confirms that the Chinese government was indeed involved in the cyberattacks.

Taxis may soon become a growth industry in some U.S. cities -- where more transportation options are needed in outlying areas, and where the population is aging. But established cab companies may not be so happy to see the business expand, drivers in Denver have discovered.

In a highly anticipated demonstration at the Black Hat computer-security conference in Las Vegas, IOActive director Barnaby Jack hacked into two ATMs using two different techniques. He's found a flaw in every ATM he's looked at, he told an applauding audience.

Early Sunday, suspicious activity in the Apple App Store prompted customer complaints and technology sleuths to discover an inexplicable rise in sales of Vietnamese-language books, seemingly pirated, in both the App and Apple iTunes stores. The hackers, burned customers reported, were hijacking...

A large number of Apple iTunes and App Store users are reporting their accounts have been hacked, purchasing Vietnamese-language books and driving the items to top ranking in their categories.

The revelation that hundreds of pages of confidential documents belonging to a highly popular private company have intentionally (or unintentionally) been made available to the public would ordinarily be seen as a total disaster. But perhaps the Twitter stolen documents incident, if anything, will...