UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers
British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems. — The airline, owned by IAG, says it is “surprised and disappointed” …
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show
A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.
Sources: White House has not invited Facebook and Twitter to attend its “social media summit”, to be held on Thursday
(CNN)The White House has not extended invitations to Facebook and Twitter to attend its social media summit on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said.
AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen 3700X and 3900X CPU review: best performance for Office and web scenarios with heavy multithreading, lag behind Intel for gaming performance
It's the review we've all been waiting for. Since December last year - and particularly since CES - AMD has been teasing us …
Inside the malware attack on Lake City, Florida, which paid ~$460K to free 16TB of data, including more than 100 years' worth of municipal records
LAKE CITY, Fla. — Audrey Sikes, city clerk of Lake City, Fla., has a thing for documents: She does not like losing them.
Report: VC investments in China tumbled 77% YoY to $9.4B in Q2 this year, while the number of deals roughly halved to 692, amid concerns about a trade war
- Value of venture deals in the country plummets 77% in quarter — Deals had surged to almost the same level as the U.S. in 2018
15Five, which builds software and services to facilitate employee self-evaluations, raises $30.7M Series B, bringing its total raised to $42.6M
Technology has been used to improve many of the processes that we use to get work done. But today, a startup has raised funding to build tech to improve us, the workers.
Sources detail how Facebook tracked and fought hoaxes about itself using a tool called Stormchaser; Facebook says it stopped using the tool in mid-2018
Polling data and secretive projects - ‘Stormchaser’ and 'Night's Watch' - helped the social media giant track public sentiment, and respond to it
Sony Xperia 1 review: the 6.5" 21:9 4K screen is big enough for content and narrow enough to hold comfortably but is too dim, and the phone is too expensive
Sony's best phone yet still isn't worth the price — You can immediately see what Sony is going for with the new Xperia 1 just by looking at it. Tweets: @backlon Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : I li...
TradeLens, Maersk and IBM's blockchain-based platform, now has five of the world's top six carriers, responsible for 50%+ of all container shipping, on board
Japan's ONE and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd—have joined a digital initiative that seeks to speed the flow of goods and data in seaborne supply chains https://www.wsj.com/...
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloud․com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas
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A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated
In recent weeks, TF was able to speak to a member of The Scene, the shadowy network of individuals and groups sitting right at the apex of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’. Tweets: @manan Tweets: @manan...
Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev's other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble
Even for an afternoon business meeting, Andrey Andreev, the world's top online dating tycoon, dresses like he's headed to a nightclub …
UK-based Soldo, which offers multi-user spending accounts for businesses, raises $61M Series B led by Battery Ventures and Dawn Capital
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Mozilla says it has no plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox in the UK, after ISPs and the UK government criticize its support of the protocol
But there's nothing stopping users from enabling the DNS-over-HTTPS feature in Firefox on their own, though. Tweets: @zackwhittaker , @maxtemkin , @firefox , @leonardjfrench , @campuscodi , and @liamp...
A look at the rise of the ambivalent conspiracy theorists, popular YouTubers using irony and nonchalance to refurbish old conspiracies for new audiences
Amanda Hess / New York Times : Tweets: @crackedscience , @mkonnikova , @notjessewalker , @nytimes , @skeptinquirer , @nytscience , and @robinhanson Tweets: Jonathan Jarry / @crackedscience : Very int...
Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders by bikes, describe dangerous work conditions and impossibility of obtaining promised insurance after accidents
it hasn't. Great story by @psskow https://www.theverge.com/... @thesocreview : Deaths and injuries don't slow Uber Eats' rapid expansion in Mexico https://www.theverge.com/... @psskow on the costs of ...
Berlin and Barcelona-based Wind Mobility, which offers e-scooter rentals in Europe, Israel, and Asia, raises $50M Series A from existing investors
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch : Thanks: @sohear
EU's Rapid Alert System to combat election interference has become hamstrung by disagreements, produced no alerts, and is at the risk of becoming defunct
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times :
Podimo, which says it is building Europe's “Netflix for podcasts,” raises €6M in seed funding, ahead of a planned launch in Germany and Denmark later this year
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch : Tweets: @kkiyer90 Tweets: Karthekayan Iyer / @kkiyer90 : So everyone is trying to build a “Netflix for podcasts” and surprisingly, everyone is getting funded. Podcast is 💰...
UK's Financial Conduct Authority proposes a ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives like futures, options, and ETFs to consumers from next year
Financial Times : Tweets: @katie_martin_fx and @davidgerard Tweets: Katie Martin / @katie_martin_fx : ICYMI crypto (the ‘asset’, not the faeces-born bacteria) is a very sensible store of value: https...
As China's economic growth slows and US trade tensions hit new investment, companies like Baidu and Tencent are freezing headcounts and restructuring operations
South China Morning Post : Tweets: @benktallmadge Tweets: BenTallmadge / @benktallmadge : China's Tech Sector Faces ‘Hangover After The Party’ With Trade War And Economic Slowdown Hitting Employment ...
Companies like Alibaba are helping Shanghai deal with a new compulsory recycling program with services like on-demand trash pickup and garbage sorting mini-apps
Rita Liao / TechCrunch : Tweets: @brenthoberman Tweets: Brent Hoberman / @brenthoberman : Image recognition, mini apps, QR codes: how China uses tech to sort its waste Does any do this in Europe? htt...
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