Daily Crunch: State-sponsored hackers target private email addresses of Ukrainian military

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 25, 2022. It has been a challenging week,

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Governor Abbott Signs Executive Order Expanding Vaccine Mandate Ban to Any Private ‘Entity’

Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) After previously issuing an executive order prohibiting state agencies from requiring employees to get vaccinated, Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott

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Largest Private Health Care Provider in New York Fires 1,400 Unvaccinated Employees

A registered nurse applies a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Sarasota Hospital patient technician Carol Garcia at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla., September 24, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system, said Monday

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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most

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How Chadwick Boseman's Private Love Story Added Another Layer to His Legacy

And so he did, giving Ledward multiple opportunities to share her truth about the bittersweetness of it all.  Accepting on his behalf during the Critics’ Choice Awards in March, she admitted, “For those of us who know Chad—intimately, personally, professionally, those

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