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WASHINGTON: Colonial Pipeline CEO and President Joseph Blount defended his company’s actions after it was hacked, saying it “was extremely transparent” in sharing information with the federal government. The acting director of DHS’s cyber arm, Brandon Wales, had told Congress that CISA was not getting the “technical information” it needed to share publicly about the Colonial …

USC has joined a coalition of leading research universities that aims to boost the transfer of researchers’ patented technologies and inventions to companies. All told, 15 universities are members of the limited liability corporation University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP): USC, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SUNY Binghamton, UC Berkeley, UCLA …

GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — The Towers Casino and Card Room in Nevada County says six Department of Justice agents shut them down Tuesday night for violating the state’s public health order. Owner Jamey Robinson says there was no indication from Nevada County Department of Public Health or local law enforcement that she was doing anything …

It’s not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that when I sat down with Lisa Page the week before Thanksgiving in my hotel room in Washington, D.C. Page, of course, is the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that …

(Drew Angerer/Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty) Attorneys general for 50 U.S. states and territories on Monday officially announced an antitrust investigation of Google, embarking on a wide-ranging review of a tech giant that Democrats and Republicans said may threaten competition, consumers and the continued growth of the web. Appearing on the steps of the Supreme Court, Texas …

Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Chris Hughes created Facebook together at Harvard University. Hughes has now become one of Facebook’s biggest antagonists. (Rick Friedman/Corbis News via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has become one of the company’s biggest problems. In recent weeks, Hughes, who left the social media giant in 2007 and …

(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint secured final approval on Friday from the Department of Justice, where regulators blessed the combination of the country’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers after they agreed to sell off a critical portion of their business to Dish Network. The green-light from the government’s antitrust watchdogs …

Millions of seniors have been falling victim to some form of elder abuse, neglect or monetary manipulation around the world. It’s a problem here in the U.S., too. On Friday — the day before World Elder Abuse Awareness Day — thirty-three-year-old Yahaira Diaz, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was accused by federal prosecutors of taking part in …