A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
07/24/20 Update below. This article was originally published on July 23rd, 2020. It has been updated to reflect that BleepingComputer …
After user reports, Instagram says it is “fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren't”
The company says it's fixing the issue — In the latest instance of iOS 14's beta mode tattling on unexpected app behavior …
Source: the rescheduled House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will take place this Wednesday
The CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google will now testify before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday …
A vigilante hacker has been sabotaging the Emotet malware botnet, replacing a quarter of daily payloads with animated GIFs, stopping victims from being infected
Emotet botnet activity goes down as Emotet admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure.
Tech went from interesting to a crucial part of society in a decade, with events in 2016 polarizing the conversation, causing a rush for easy regulatory answers
Technology was a small industry until very recently. It was exciting and interesting, and it was on lots of magazine covers …
While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat
Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams …
A survey of 500+ cybersecurity pros sheds light on which skills they find most useful in cybersecurity job candidates, and which are most frequently lacking
Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers … Tweets: @bettersafetynet , @briankrebs , @infosecsherpa , ...
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies
Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US. Tweets: @paulsweeney , @agnescallard , @plexus , @michlimlim , @rossdawson , ...
This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription
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TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete
Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor. Tweets: @readmargins , @mdudas , @adamconner , @adamconner , @hkanji , @mattzeitlin ...
Despite smartphone sales in China declining 17% YoY in Q2, Huawei grew 14%, capturing 46% of the market, as Apple grew 32%, becoming the fastest growing OEM
- Huawei captured a massive 60% share of the 5G smartphone market — Huawei reached its highest ever share in China capturing 46% of sales volumes.
Sea Machines Robotics, a provider of software and equipment for autonomous boats and ships, raises $15M Series B led by Accomplice
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Intel's decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the US, dominated the semiconductor industry
- World's largest chipmaker considers outsourcing manufacturing — Crucial technology expertise is shifting overseas, to TSMC Tweets: @amirmizroch , @ralpheezy , @bilalfarooqui , @esaagar , @iancutr...
StuffThatWorks, a crowdsourcing platform for data-driven treatments for chronic conditions, raises $9M seed funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and others
Imagine what chronic illness research … Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : StuffThatWorks raises $9 million to build an AI-powered, crowdsourced medical knowledge platform Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Stuff...
Experts call for US legislation to make it easy for domestic abuse victims to leave family phone plans, which can be used by abusers to stalk their victims
who they talk to, their location, everything. https://www.semanticscholar.org/ ... https://twitter.com/... Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : Let me tell you about an extremely upsetting & frustrating pro...
NTT Disruption, which acquired Jibo's assets, says the social robot will remain operational for existing owners as it plans to target the enterprise market
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Given TikTok's potential future value, ByteDance shouldn't sell its majority stake in it at the reported $25B-$40B valuation, despite the risk of a US ban
- ByteDance is evaluating new corporate structures for TikTok, including setting up an independent board and selling a stake in the company … Tweets: @sherman4949 Tweets: Alex Sherman / @sherman4949 :...
AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M
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Dragoneer Growth Opportunities, a SPAC with a broad tech focus including online retail and financial services, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $600M
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The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff Tweets: @eff : In a democracy, the state can't take over private organizations and replace their boards with political appointees. That's what the admini...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.