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Colonial Pipeline restarts operations days after major hack

The nation’s largest fuel pipeline restarted operations, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.

May 12, 2021, 8:46 PM

Amazon cloud technology aids NFL in schedule making

The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives spending months slotting the games one by one on a board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve.

May 12, 2021, 7:54 PM

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Crash, arrest draw more scrutiny of Tesla Autopilot system

Federal safety regulators are sending a team to California to investigate a fatal freeway crash involving a Tesla, just after authorities near Oakland arrested a man in another Tesla rolling down a freeway with no one behind the steering wheel.

May 12, 2021, 6:44 PM

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Editorial Roundup: U.S.

May 12, 2021, 5:59 PM

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Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems

The author of a 3-year-old audit of the pipeline company hit by a cyberattack threatening East Coast fuel supplies has told The Associated Press that he found “atrocious” information management practices and “a patchwork of poorly connected and secured systems.”.

May 12, 2021, 5:54 PM

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Prosecutors probe Pennsylvania contact tracing data breach

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is looking into a breach of COVID-19 contact tracing data that may have compromised private information of some 72,000 people.

May 12, 2021, 3:16 PM

National & International

Louisiana sports betting regulations start moving in Senate

The Louisiana Senate has started advancing regulations for sports wagering that would allow people to bet on athletic competitions at sports book locations and through mobile applications.

May 12, 2021, 12:10 PM

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Farm bill passing NC Senate includes new biogas permits

The annual farm bill has been approved by the North Carolina Senate.

May 12, 2021, 12:10 PM

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California judge dismisses Twitter lawsuit against Texas AG

A California judge has dismissed a Twitter lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

May 12, 2021, 12:10 PM

National & International

EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters

A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation’s aging energy infrastructure.

May 12, 2021, 12:10 PM

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Asian stocks mixed after Wall St falls on inflation fears

Asian stock markets are lower as investors look ahead to U.S. data they worry will show inflation picking up.

May 12, 2021, 12:09 PM

National & International

Kemp waives Georgia gas tax for now due to pipeline outage

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he’s suspending state taxes on motor fuels through Saturday to offset increasing prices after a computer hack shut down a pipeline that carries fuel to much of Georgia.

May 12, 2021, 12:09 PM

National & International

Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter

A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times.

May 12, 2021, 12:08 PM

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Florida declares state of emergency after pipeline shutdown

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in response to gasoline shortages caused the shutdown of a major pipeline by hackers.

May 12, 2021, 12:07 PM

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Gadgets: Air purifier/deodorizer easy to use, perfect for allergy season

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Tech Q&A: Viewing photos that are stored in outdated digital formats

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German watchdog bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp data

A German privacy regulator banned Facebook on Tuesday from gathering data on WhatsApp users, citing an update to its privacy policy that breaches stringent European data protection rules by allowing access to a lot more information on the chat app’s users.

May 11, 2021, 11:11 AM

China adds few babies, loses workers as its 1.4B people age

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