It feels like my tryst with invoices dates back to the Neolithic age. This time-stamped commercial document that itemizes and records a transaction between a buyer and a seller — the quintessential ...

An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

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Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal — ...