Tue, 11 May 2021 05:07:00 -0400 News Brief: Kids' Pfizer Shots, Gaza Tensions, Hacked Pipeline Status FDA approves Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 to 15. A new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated Monday. Pipeline hack is different from another big intrusion blamed on Russia.
Tue, 11 May 2021 05:07:00 -0400 States Call On Facebook To Stop Plans For An Instagram For Kids A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general is urging Facebook to abandon plans to build a version of Instagram for children under 13 because of fears it could harm children's mental health and safety.
Tue, 11 May 2021 05:07:00 -0400 What The Ransomware Attack On Colonial Pipeline Means For The Industry NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Amy Meyers Jaffe of Tufts University's Fletcher School and author of the book Energy's Digital Future about the cyberattack on a critical U.S. fuel pipeline.
Tue, 11 May 2021 05:07:00 -0400 How One Man's Fight Against An AOL Troll Sealed The Tech Industry's Power A fight between a Seattle man and AOL in the mid-1990s led to what has been called "the most important Internet law ruling ever." Decades later, the decision still governs how the web functions.