Biden Adviser On Cyber Threats And The New Executive Order To Combat Them NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser focused on cybersecurity, about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and a new executive order on cyberdefenses. Mary Louise Kelly
How To Stop Ransomware Attacks? 1 Proposal Would Prohibit Victims From Paying Up The attack on Colonial Pipeline has focused new attention on a potentially radical proposal to stem the growing threat posed by ransomware: making it illegal for victims to pay their attackers. Jason Breslow
Internet Subsidy Gives $50 A Month Discounts For Low-Income Americans The $3.2 billion temporary pandemic program will last for up to six months after the pandemic is over or until the funds run out. Vanessa Romo
Amazon Wins Case Against EU Regulators Over Luxembourg Taxes The European Commission has said the online giant got a sweetheart deal from Luxembourg that amounted to "illegal state aid" worth $303 million. Scott Neuman
Social Media Hate Speech, Harassment 'Significant Problem' For LGBTQ Users: Report LGBTQ social media users encounter hate speech and harassment at higher rates than all other identity groups at 64%, according to GLAAD's inaugural social media index report. Jaclyn Diaz
Basecamp Blowup: Banning Politics At Work Prompts Over A Dozen Employees To Quit NPR's Audie Cornish talks with tech reporter Casey Newton about the mass exodus of employees from the software company BaseCamp after a new policy rolled out that restricts political talk at work. Audie Cornish
In 1st Big Test, Oversight Board Says Facebook, Not Trump, Is The Problem The first big test of Facebook's Oversight Board reveals the challenges of checking the power and scale of the social media giant. Shannon Bond
Want To Send A Mean Tweet? Twitter's New Feature Wants You To Think Again Twitter released a new feature that detects potentially offensive replies on its service and asks users to review a message before sending. Jaclyn Diaz
Google Adapts To Long-Term Telework, Offers Employees Hybrid Workweek More than a year into telework, the tech giant has said about 60% of its employees will work remotely two days a week. Twenty percent will work from home permanently. Jaclyn Diaz
Facebook Oversight Board To Announce Decision On Trump Ban Facebook's Oversight Board will announce whether former President Donald Trump can return to the social network, which kicked him off in January after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Shannon Bond