Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover They say April is the cruelest month, but HBO may beg to differ. The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of its servers, in which hackers pilfered everything from full episodes of unreleased shows to sensitive internal documents. Not long …

Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States Fourteen of the biggest US tech companies filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Monday supporting more rigorous warrant requirements for law enforcement seeking certain cell phone data, such as location information. In the statement, the signatories—Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft among them—argue that the …