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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children’s hospital, and that the U.S. government is doing too little to prevent such breaches. Hospitals in recent years have shifted their use of online technology to support everything from telehealth to medical devices to patient records. Today, they are a favorite target for internet thieves who hold systems’ data and networks hostage…

(NEXSTAR) – Apple has begun payouts to iPhone users who joined a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of intentionally slowing down the devices. Apple agreed in 2020 to pay between $310 and $500 million as part of a settlement in response to the class-action lawsuit, which stemmed from earlier legal complaints that the company’s software updates were deliberately throttling the performance of specific older iPhone models. Apple did not deny that certain iPhones were slower after the updates,…

(KTLA) – Major retailers in California are now required to have gender-neutral toy aisles under a new state law that went into effect Monday. The new law requires retail department stores physically located in California with 500 or more employees to “maintain a gender-neutral section or area, to be labeled at the discretion of the retailer.” New California law to limit how much landlords can charge for security deposits Stores that already have gender-focused toy areas won’t have to get rid of…

(NEXSTAR) – Verizon customers may be entitled to a piece of a $100 million sum the company agreed to pay to settle a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges Verizon customers were hit with an administrative charge as part of a “deceptive scheme.” Verizon denies any wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay affected users up to $100 each. The group of people who qualify includes all Verizon customers, current or former, in the U.S. who “received postpaid wireless or data services from Verizon and who were…

Google Maps’ Timeline feature logs all the routes and stops a user takes. Google is changing the way the data is stored, moving it to the phone from the cloud. Google is giving users the ability to delete individual stops and activity from Maps. (NewsNation) — A new update coming to Google Maps will give users more local control over their location data, including the ability to delete the places they’ve been. The app’s Timeline feature logs all the routes and stops a user…

(NewsNation) — Nearly a decade ago, a meteor traveling faster than 95% of nearby stars crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb says there’s a possibility it wasn’t a space rock at all. Loeb just returned from an excursion to the Pacific Ocean, the aim of which was to recover pieces of that meteor. He says those fragments could be the remains of a “technological gadget” from another solar system. The 50 tiny spherules, or molten droplets, are believed to be made up of…

LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman received a settlement check after contacting WFLA in Tampa’s Consumer Investigator Shannon Behnken with her story: her car was hit by an Amazon delivery driver and declared totaled. Sara Dooley’s troubles started in February when the Amazon driver hit the gas to leave her Land O’Lakes driveway, was going the wrong way and slammed into her car. Even though the damage on her 2018 RAV-4 didn’t appear that bad, the insurance company for Amazon deemed it totaled.…

(KDVR) — Have you ever received an email saying one of your accounts has been compromised and you need to update your security information? You’re not alone. Scam alert: Can you stop those fake texts? “With hacking becoming increasingly sophisticated, regular users are bearing the brunt of it. Certain social media accounts are especially vulnerable to cyberattacks,” Deyan Georgiev of VPN Central said. What accounts are being targeted most by hackers? VPN Central analyzed ten platforms and…