Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
Substack says Twitter “unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets”; Twitter seems to have disabled likes and RTs for some tweets with Substack links
Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site …
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”
The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.
Samsung plans to cut memory chip production to a “meaningful level” after estimating that its Q1 operating profit fell 95%+ YoY to ~$450M, its worst since 2009
Samsung Electronics Co. said it is cutting memory chip production after reporting its slimmest profit since …
Microsoft adds three Bing features to its SwiftKey keyboard beta for Android: web search results, a tone option in which AI rewrites text, and the AI chatbot
Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft.
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission cancels the license of Binance Australia Derivatives, which must close all derivatives positions by April 21
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines
Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry's next big thing.
Bitdefender survey of 400+ IT/security professionals: 42% were told to cover up data breaches that should have been reported, 29.9% admit covering up breaches
In a world where cybercrime is becoming more difficult to prevent, many security leaders are putting pressure on IT professionals to bury the truth.
MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code
The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code.
An interview with Sundar Pichai on adding conversational AI to Search, why chatbots are not a threat to the Search ads business, the efficiency drive, and more
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing
Utah's bills restricting kids' social media use have galling civil liberties concerns and hazy enforcement plans, and will likely face constitutional challenges
Samsung signs a multi-year IP licensing extension with AMD, bringing AMD Radeon's “console-level graphics and optimized power consumption” to more Exynos SoCs
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet :
Influencers, small businesses, and others say Meta gutting its customer service teams has left them with nobody to call to handle scammers and technical issues
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
OPNX, an exchange from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie for trading bankruptcy claims, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+
The Block :
Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device
Amazon has banned the sale of the Flipper Zero portable multi-tool for pen-testers as it no longer allows its sale on the platform after tagging it as a card-skimming device.
Colorado-based True Anomaly, which develops software and “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicles” to collect space data, raised $30M including a $17M Series A
As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth …
YouTube adds a Podcasts tab to channel pages globally on its website and mobile apps, showing playlists that creators have marked as podcasts
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Sources: Chinese state-owned telecoms are planning a $500M undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
Substack discloses financials as required by crowdfunding rules: 2021 gross revenue of $11.9M vs $2.3M in 2020, 2021 net loss of $22M vs $2.3M in 2020
When newsletter platform Substack last month launched a crowdfunding campaign, its writers and fans responded with more than $7.5 million …
Analysis: in an information campaign on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media widely mocked a US TikTok ban, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate
As Revolut and other online payments companies grow in the EU and the UK, clients complain of patchy customer support, leading to a UK FCA warning in March 2023
Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI's reported $10B and Stripe's $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News :
Sources: Stability AI looks to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like exec after burning through a big chunk of $100M raised in 2022 without generating much revenue
Stability AI, one of the hottest companies in artificial intelligence, is burning through cash and has been slow to generate revenue … Tweets: @greglinden and @levynews Tweets: Greg Linden / @greglind...
US Census data: chip imports rose 17% YoY to $4.86B in February 2023 with Asia accounting for 83%, led by Malaysia at 20%, Taiwan at 15.1%, and Vietnam at 11.6%
Google plans to stop personal loan Android apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, to counter predatory behavior
Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and other telecoms in South Africa scramble to stay online as the power grid crumbles, spending millions on alternative power sources
A look at how invading Ukraine supercharged the decline of Russia's struggling tech sector, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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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.