Sheera Frenkel

2 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Eli Tan |Sheera Frenkel

The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle after NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, human-rights activists and government officials.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Eli Tan |Sheera Frenkel

Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others. The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle after NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, human-rights activists and government officials.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |Sheera Frenkel |Sapna Maheshwari

By Image The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family's lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied. Credit... Annie Mulligan for The New York Times Sheera Frenkel is a reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering the ways technology impacts everyday lives with a focus on social media companies, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sheera Frenkel |Natan Odenheimer

Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences. In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip who had helped plan the Oct. 7 massacres. But Israeli intelligence could not find Mr. Biari, who they believed was hidden in the network of tunnels underneath Gaza.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sheera Frenkel |Natan Odenheimer

NowMany Jews say Trump is politicizing the fight against antisemitismA number of prominent groups welcome Trump’s focus on fighting bigotry but say his approach is harmful. The Trump administration declared last week that “harassment of Jewish students is intolerable” as it suspended $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University.