U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) speaks with reporters as he arrives for the weekly Democratic Caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 2, 2015. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst U.S. Senator Ron Wyden pledged on Wednesday to fight legislation expected shortly in Congress that would limit enc...

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. Reuters/Ashikur Rahman No need for stocking masks and sawn-off shotguns. The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S. account of Bangladesh’s central bank is the latest among increasingly large ...

A 3D printed Apple logo is seen in front of a displayed cyber code in this illustration taken March 22, 2016. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to a gunman in the December San Bernardino shootings, despite a U.S...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivers her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) will allow investors who have held stake of at least 3 percent in the struggling Internet company for a minimum of thre...

The founder of an oil and gas networking website was arrested on Wednesday on charges that he hacked and stole information from a rival site he had created and sold to DHI Group Inc, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. David Kent, 40, was accused in a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan fede...

Various U.S. military drones are seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington September 1, 2015. Reuters/Gary Cameron The Pentagon is examining how it might use unmanned craft in the future to accompany piloted battlecraft, likely starting with drones that would fly alongside ...

The American people should "absolutely" still have confidence in their personal privacy despite the government's success in unlocking an Apple iPhone belonging to a shooter in the San Bernardino, California, killings, the White House said on Wednesday. "The reason they should be confident in that pr...

The latest version of Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system has 270 million active users eight months after launch, the world's largest software company said on Wednesday. The number, announced by executive Terry Myerson at Microsoft's annual gathering for developers in San Francisco, represents...

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files A lull in high-profile data breaches prompted insurers to cut cyber insurance rates for high-risk businesses such as retailers and healthcare companies during the first three...

Early indications of stronger-than-expected sales of new Galaxy S7 smartphones suggest technology giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is emerging from a two-year decline at its flagship mobile business. Squeezed by Apple Inc in premium products and undercut by Chinese rivals like Huawei [HWT.UL] in che...

Customers can be seen inside the Apple store in central Sydney, Australia, in this picture taken March 18, 2016. Picture taken March 18, 2016. Reuters/David Gray The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday said it had identified 63 cases across the U.S. in which the federal government asked for ...

A man use his iPad inside a local coffee shop in downtown Shanghai November 28, 2013. Reuters/Carlos Barria China's technology regulator has rejected criticism of proposed Internet rules that could block access to foreign websites, saying there was misunderstanding about what some people see as a wa...

A billboard displays the logo of Snapchat above Times Square in New York March 12, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Fidelity Investments boosted its estimated value of free mobile messaging app Snapchat by 62 percent in February, despite recent concerns the company is struggling to gain traction with adv...

Chinese chipmaker 3Peak expects a sharp increase in integrated circuit (IC) shipments this year due as it expands its manufacturing output to a plant in Japan through an extension of its collaboration with Israel's TowerJazz. 3Peak's products are currently solely produced at TowerJazz's 200mm fab in...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday customer orders for home services like plumbing and mounting TVs had increased 20 percent per month on average since the online retailer launche...

A national flag of Switzerland flies in front of a branch office of Swiss bank Credit Suisse in Luzern October 30, 2014. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Switzerland's five biggest banks are discussing with top retailers a joint mobile payments platform for the country, the partners said on Wednesday. The talk...

A man walks past a Toshiba Corp logo displayed on one of its television sets in Tokyo, Japan, November 26, 2015. Reuters/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it would book a pretax profit of 90 billion yen ($801.7 million) for its first quarter ending June, on the sale of its while good busines...

A car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to a taxi sign is seen in this photo illustration taken in Madrid on December 10, 2014. Reuters/Sergio Perez Uber will be back in Spain from Wednesday, after regulation and hostility from local taxi firms drove it off the streets at the end of 2014...

People wearing balaclavas are silhouetted as they pose with a laptops in front of a screen projected with the word 'cyber' and binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic A California computer scientist who has studied the economics of cybercrime an...

A man walks past Sharp Corp's liquid crystal display monitors showing the company logo in Tokyo, Japan, February 25, 2016. Reuters/Yuya Shino Taiwan's Foxconn is planning to overhaul Sharp Corp's (6753.T) management including replacing its CEO after a multi-billion-dollar takeover of the Japanese di...

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. Reuters/Mike Segar Amazon.com Inc agreed to pay over $80,000 in dues and fines after a delivery contractor of the online retailer failed to pay employee wages, Massachusetts' attorney general said...

MedStar Health's computer systems remained offline on Tuesday for the second straight day as the non-profit, one of the biggest medical service providers in the U.S. capital region, worked to stem the spread of a virus and restore its network. The virus was discovered at MedStar after several recent...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday kicked off an auction of low-frequency spectrum relinquished by television broadcasters to wireless companies and other bidders that are seeking new airwaves to build and improve wireless networks. The so-called "broadcast incentive" auction is c...

A Google Fiber technician gets supplies out of his truck to install Google Fiber in a residential home in Provo, Utah, January 2, 2014. Reuters/George Frey Alphabet Inc's high-speed internet service, Google Fiber, is introducing a home phone service, Fiber Phone, the company said on its blog on Tues...

The logo of India's largest online marketplace Flipkart is seen on a building in Bengaluru, India, April 22, 2015. Reuters/Abhishek N. Chinnappa India on Tuesday approved 100 percent foreign investment in marketplace e-commerce companies, formalizing rules for the first time for the multi-billion do...

The steering wheel is seen resting in the middle of the dashboard inside a Rinspeed Budii self-driving electric city car during the second press day ahead of the 85th International Motor Show in Geneva March 4, 2015. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Near-universal adoption of self-driving cars in the United St...

A Chinese junket operator in Manila said on Tuesday that two high-rollers from Beijing and Macau were responsible for bringing $81 million stolen by hackers from Bangladesh's central bank into the Philippines. Kim Wong, a long-time Chinese resident of the Philippines, denied any wrongdoing or knowle...

The Vivendi logo is pictured at the main entrance of the entertainment-to-telecoms conglomerate headquarters in Paris, March 10, 2016. Reuters/Charles Platiau - Gameloft (GLFT.PA)'s founding Guillemot family could further increase its stake in the mobile video games maker to fend off an unsolicited ...

Cesar Alierta, chairman of Spain's telecom giant Telefonica, attends the company's 2015 annual results presentation at the Telefonica headquarters in Madrid, Spain, in this February 26, 2016 file picture. Reuters/Juan Medina/Files Spain's Telefonica chairman Cesar Alierta will step down after 16 yea...

The logo of French oil giant Total is seen at its headquarters in the financial and business district of la Defense in Courbevoie near Paris October 21, 2014. Reuters/Charles Platiau Total has tripled the power of its Pangea supercomputer, making it one of the world's most powerful and helping the F...