From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Robert MacIntyre let his frustrations out on Thursday at the Masters. Hector Vivas / Getty Images AUGUSTA, Ga. — This was supposed to be one of the easier holes on the course. No. 15? That’s usually ...

In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software ...

(The Center Square) – An Illinois state lawmaker says a proposal to ban law enforcement from using biometric information systems would put crime-fighting efforts back in the Stone Age. House Bill 5521 ...

There’s a cool factor to the whole concept of biometrics, of buying some product with your palm or face. But privacy professionals warn you may be giving up more than you’re getting. Many people have ...

Goodbye passport stamps for European travelers. Starting April 10, visitors to the European Schengen area (the 29-country visa free area) will encounter new border control regulations. The new ...

Prince George's County police are taking a second look at hundreds of cases involving a single fingerprint examiner after an internal review found some inconsistencies in that examiner's work. The ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

Certain friendship red flags are universally understood. Most of us can quickly point to the flaky one, the perpetually late one, or the one-upper in our lives. Now there’s a new type of red flag ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options after installing Windows 11 updates released since August 2025. The password ...