World News
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made a confession of sorts, telling a 16-year-old girl that he doesn’t have a clue about how to work a computer. The 78-year-old Francis made the confession Thursday…
February 05, 2015 -
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — What’s the best way to counter an unwelcome drone: a bigger, faster drone, laser guns, sky-high netting or devices that block remote controls? Scientists, governments and companies…
February 05, 2015 -
BEIJING (AP) — Already the world’s largest, China’s online population grew last year but drifted away from Twitter-like microblogs, with the number of microblog users falling by 32 million. The decline shows that Chinese microblogging…
February 04, 2015 -
By RAYYAN SABET-PARRY Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) — The EU on Thursday called for more help from Internet companies to fight online terrorist propaganda in the face of the terror attacks in France. Home…
January 29, 2015 -
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Internet giant Google said Wednesday that the sheer volume of video on its YouTube website makes it tough to catch all terror related content, complicating the struggle…
January 28, 2015 -
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers defaced the website of Malaysia Airlines on Monday and threatened to dump stolen information online after posting a glimpse of customer data obtained in…
January 27, 2015 -
BERLIN (AP) — A German official says Chancellor Angela Merkel’s website and several other German government sites have been blocked, and a pro-Russian organization has claimed responsibility. A pro-Russian organization calling itself CyberBerkut claimed on…
January 08, 2015 -
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday criticized the United States for slapping sanctions on Pyongyang officials and organizations for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures — the latest fallout from a Hollywood movie…
January 06, 2015 -
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at President Barack Obama over the hacking…
December 30, 2014 -
LONDON (AP) — In a story Dec. 24 about North Korea’s Internet outages, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Falkland Islands are located in the North Atlantic. The Falkland Islands are in the South…
December 29, 2014 -
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday offered sympathy to North Korea amid the Sony hacking scandal, saying the movie that sparked the dispute was so scandalous that Pyongyang’s anger was…
December 29, 2014 -
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the…
December 27, 2014 -
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Supporters of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader on Tuesday revived their campaign to stage a protest near the Kremlin, despite government attempts to hamper their efforts by…
December 25, 2014 -
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how…
December 22, 2014 -
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Security flaws in a system used by cellphone carriers around the world could open the door to wide-ranging surveillance of mobile phone traffic, according to a German…
December 21, 2014