Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware
Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware …
The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025
- Ofcom released first guidelines for Online Safety Act — Rules require firms to remove illegal content or face fines
The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030
Communications network is EU's most ambitious space project in a decade — Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme …
US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon's performance
A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.
At a meeting with Trump, Masayoshi Son says SoftBank will invest $100B and create 100K jobs in the US, largely via AI-focused jobs and infrastructure projects
WATCH NOW — Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years during …
A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands
Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide …
BlackBerry sells its beleaguered cybersecurity business, Cylance, to Arctic Wolf for $160M, after paying $1.4B to acquire Cylance in 2018
Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry's beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid …
Arm and Qualcomm's chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia acquisition
Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies' relationship
Snapchat plans to roll out a unified monetization program to pay influencers for ads placed in eligible Stories and Spotlight posts starting February 1, 2025
Snapchat is tweaking how people earn money on the platform by introducing a new, unified monetization program.
A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's Department of For-Hire Vehicles
Drivers for the ride-hailing company Empower protest outside a City Council meeting in Washington, D.C.Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/t... Mark Medley / @markmedley : Social media is exacerbating violence in schools to a shocking degree. Naomi Buck wrote about the issue in yesterday's @theglobeandmail.com...
Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers
not exactly devs, but we thought ETF traction in 2024 was worth summarizing and understanding. What makes Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs the best performing ETFs of all [image] Ren / @0xren_cf : We looked ...
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI's potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more
The head of the ubiquitous chip design firm on the ‘breathtaking’ pace of AI. … Earlier this month, I teased an upcoming interview …
Sources: Revolut staff and early investors offloaded nearly $1B in stock in a secondary sale since August 2024, after the UK granted Revolut its banking license
Financial Times :
Ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic's merger shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out creative talent
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal :
Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% of the US workers already use the tech weekly
Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so
How some companies are using AI agents: McKinsey for client onboarding, insurer Nsure to handle customer requests, and Accenture to support its marketing team
Jo Constantz / Bloomberg :
TikTok critics like Marco Rubio, Jacob Helberg, and Brendan Carr are set for senior roles in Trump's administration, emphasizing Trump's murky stance on the app
Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg :
Fastmarkets: the price of gallium, a metal used to make chips, rose to $595 per kilogram on December 13, the highest since 2011, after China restricted exports
Jack Ryan / Bloomberg :
Chinese merchants are rapidly expanding their presence on Russian e-commerce platforms like Ozon Global and Wildberries to find new markets and avoid US tariffs
William Langley / Financial Times :
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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.