There are two important lessons in the announcement that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has finally succeeded in cracking two mobile phones belonging to the aviation student who killed three people last December at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida. The first lesson is that cracking an encrypted device takes time and effort even when the federal government brings ...

The work-from-home movement is gaining steam in Silicon Valley as a flurry of companies — big and small — are embracing remote-working policies beyond the pandemic. But even as some executives extol its virtues, other tech leaders aren’t so sure, opening a growing divide inside the industry over the future of work. It’s a worthy debate. Facebook Inc CEO Mark ...

Franco-German plan for a 500 billion-euro ($548 billion) “recovery fund” for the European Union has raised the hackles of a group of smaller countries, made up of Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. The so-called “frugal four” believe the EU should only loan the money to the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, rather than giving it away in ...