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Russia blocks Navalny-linked voting website 09/06/2021 12:21pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Monday blocked access to a website affiliated with imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny that advises voters on how to undermine the dominant pro-Kremlin party in this month’s parliamentary election. The move by state communications overseer Roskomnadzo Teaching Sept. 11 as history: 'We could do a better job' 09/06/2021 04:05am • No one who remembers seeing them will ever forget the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But 20 years later, they’re almost as far in the rearview mirror as the Carter presidency was when the attacks happened. An entire generation of children has been born, raised and graduated high school since then, and Facebook sorry for 'primates' label on video of Black men 09/04/2021 06:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has apologized for putting a “primates" label on a video of Black men, according to a report in the New York Times. The newspaper said the video was posted by a tabloid in June and showed Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers. After the vide Mutual aid groups give personalized help after Hurricane Ida 09/04/2021 06:36pm • The day after Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana, Delaney Nolan spent hours biking around New Orleans, handing out money to people who needed to pay for supplies or for the hotel rooms where they'd taken shelter. Once the cash ran out — banks were closed, and ATMs were empty or no longer running witho As flood alerts lit up phones, did 'warning fatigue' set in? 09/04/2021 12:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Cellphones across New York and New Jersey pulsed with urgent warnings of catastrophic flooding as the fury of Hurricane Ida's remnants, carrying torrential rains, approached upper New Jersey and New York City on Wednesday. The first alerts of severe weather blared across millions o Today in History 09/04/2021 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2021. There are 118 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine Black students from entering all-white Central High School in Litt Apple delays iPhone photo-scanning plan amid fierce backlash 09/03/2021 01:47pm • BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple is indefinitely delaying plans to scan iPhones in the U.S. for images of child sexual abuse following an outcry from security and privacy experts who warned the technology could be exploited for other surveillance purposes by hackers and intrusive governments. The EXPLAINER: What is Apple doing with its App Store? 09/03/2021 01:06am • Over the past week or so, Apple has eased some longstanding restrictions that helped make its App Store into a big moneymaker for the company. The company has long required app developers to pay high commissions to Apple on the sales of paid apps as well as purchases of subscriptions or digital item Russia urges Apple, Google to remove Navalny app from stores 09/02/2021 12:08pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's state communications watchdog warned Apple and Google on Thursday that they could face fines if they fail to remove an app created by allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from their stores. The agency, Roskomnadzor, warned Apple and Google that their fai Irish watchdog fines WhatsApp $267M after EU privacy probe 09/02/2021 10:44am • LONDON (AP) — Ireland's privacy watchdog has fined WhatsApp a record 225 million euros ($267 million) after an investigation found it breached stringent European Union data protection rules on transparency about sharing people's data with other Facebook companies. The Data Protection Commission s Google appeals $591M French fine in copyright payment spat 09/01/2021 07:50am • PARIS (AP) — Google is appealing a 500 million euro ($591 million) fine issued by French regulators over its handling of negotiations with publishers in a dispute over copyright. The dispute is part of a larger battle by authorities in Europe and elsewhere to force Google and other tech companies Ex-Backpage owners head to trial over alleged sex ads 08/31/2021 04:01pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Two journalists who founded an alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix and later created the lucrative classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to go on trial Wednesday on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly s Google again delays return to office due to COVID surges 08/31/2021 03:32pm • Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January, in addition to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and South Korea bans Google, Apple payment monopolies 08/31/2021 11:47am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday that bans app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing developers to use their in-app payment systems. South Korea is reportedly the first country in the world to pass such a bill, which become Google to invest $1.2B in Germany cloud computing program 08/31/2021 07:50am • BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the