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5 Best Free Stock Analysis and Research Tools Online 02/25/2024 07:00pm • The U.S. stock market is off to a great start in 2024. Through Feb. 23, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 are up more than 7% year to date (YTD). The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up nicely as well, though not as dramatically. That well-known index has gained just over 3% YTD. You may be thi Ukrainian man pleads guilty in cyberattack that temporarily disrupted major Vermont hospital 02/16/2024 06:41pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to involvement in two separate malware schemes including a cyberattack at the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 that temporarily shut down some of its vital services and cost it tens of millions of dollars, according to the U.S. D Poland's PM says authorities in the previous government widely and illegally used Pegasus spyware 02/13/2024 01:56pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Poland's new prime minister said Tuesday he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a ���very long��� list of hacking victims. Donald Tusk made the announcement during a news brief Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members 02/02/2024 12:25pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� State-backed Russian hackers broke into Microsoft's corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company's leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams, the company said Friday. In a blog post, Microsoft said the intrusion How To Tech: Why it's important to turn on Apple's new Stolen Device Protection 01/25/2024 07:00am • LONDON (AP) ��� You���re in a crowded bar when a thief watches you unlock your iPhone with your passcode, then swipes it. That sinking feeling hits when you realize it's gone, along with priceless photos, important files, passwords on banking apps and other vital parts of your digital life. Apple r Netflix's gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results 01/24/2024 08:29am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service and a smattering of price hikes. The fourth-quarter How a school tech software company's data breach could impact DC-area districts 01/16/2024 02:44pm • A data breach that affected school software company Raptor Technologies may have left some Northern Virginia school systems' information vulnerable. Arlington Public Schools, for one, uses the company's software for its visitor management system, the school district said in a memo to staff and fa The 'easy way' hackers are getting into unsuspecting users' Facebook accounts 01/11/2024 09:47pm • Following WTOP's reporting on two cases where Facebook users' accounts were hacked, the social media giant has taken down one of the hijacked profiles. A digital expert says there are steps you can take to prevent hackers from accessing your social media accounts. Erin Solomon, a schoolteacher fr 'Facebook doesn't care': Those who've had accounts hacked call on the social media platform to take them down 01/10/2024 09:24pm • Several months ago, Debbie Hickman of Chestertown, Maryland, began receiving messages from friends about joining a cryptocurrency training program they thought she was behind. "I've had people come to me, and call me and send me messages on if that's what I'm doing now and asking me questions. w Review: In the bonkers 'The Beekeeper,' Jason Statham has more than a bee in his bonnet 01/10/2024 06:44pm • Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember ���The Accountant" with Ben Affleck? Or ���The Tax Collector��� with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about ���The Bricklayer��� with Adam Eckhardt? You probably don't ��� none of these films were exactly Barack Obama, John Mulaney and Carol Burnett are among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 01/08/2024 12:29am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Barack Obama won his second Emmy, John Mulaney won his third, and Carol Burnett took her seventh Sunday on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Obama won the Emmy for best narrator for his Netflix documentary series, ���Working: What We Do All Day," repeating in a categor 5 Best-Performing Assets of 2023 12/19/2023 07:00pm • The past year has been an eventful one in the global economy. In 2023, the Russia-Ukraine war accelerated the cost-of-living crisis that has plagued many nations across the world. It was also a year of banking failures, as otherwise strong banks in the U.S. and Switzerland collapsed. The cryptocurre Xfinity notifies its customers of data breach linked to software vulnerability 12/19/2023 11:50am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Hackers accessed Xfinity customers' personal information by exploiting a vulnerability in software used by the company, the Comcast-owned telecommunications business announced this week. In a Monday notice to customers, Xfinity said there was unauthorized access to internal syst 2023 in other words: AI might be the term of the year, but consider these far-flung contenders 12/13/2023 12:03am • Many sentiments are universal. Many words are not. As 2023 ends, The Associated Press reached out to colleagues around the world for terms that emerged this year and seized or crystalized the popular mood. Some were newsy, some cultural. A couple were kind of delightful. Whatever the language, the Rishi Sunak faces a revolt in the UK Parliament over his Rwanda plan after a grilling on COVID-19 12/11/2023 02:45pm • LONDON (AP) ��� U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced a rebellion from restive lawmakers over his signature immigration policy, while fending off tough questions Monday about his judgment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The twin pressures add up to one of the toughest weeks of Sunak���s 13 months in o