Indian government open sources its contract-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, on GitHub, starting with Android app code, with iOS code coming soon after
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IBM announces job cuts, will offer subsidized medical coverage to all affected US employees through June 2021; sources say layoffs will be in the thousands
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg :
IBM announces job cuts, will offer subsidized medical coverage to all affected US employees through June 2021; sources say layoffs will be in the thousands
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg :
Sources: IBM is laying off thousands of workers across five US states including North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, and New York
- Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession
Amid Epic Games' Houseparty smear campaign bounty controversy, a researcher claims Houseparty's domain infrastructure was hijacked by a credit card skimming org
A global hacking group took over Epic Games subdomains, then the problem was swept under the rug by Epic Games.
Apple and Google launch the Exposure Notification API to the public in updates to iOS and Android; at least three US states are working on apps that use it
but will it help? MacDailyNews : Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing tech launches; 23 countries seek access Paul Sandle / Reuters : Apple and Google still in talks with UK about COVID-19 app techno...
Despite qualms from some experts, Google and Apple's exposure notification API enables the most privacy-respecting approach to contact tracing in history
Apple and Google have now released their update to their mobile operating systems to include a new capability for COVID-19 exposure notification.
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features
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At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source
Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …
A nonprofit founded by privacy advocate Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming Android Ad ID violates GDPR
Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free - but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID
A bipartisan amendment to FISA to prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans' online browsing and search histories failed in the Senate by one vote, 59-37
Congressional privacy hawks scored a critical victory on Wednesday that deepens the uncertainty about the fate of expired federal surveillance powers.
UK's NHS contact tracing app won't work unless it's running in the foreground and the phone is kept awake and unlocked, and will also ask for users' location
Kieren McCarthy / The Register :
UK's NHS contact tracing app won't work unless it's running in the foreground and the phone is kept awake and unlocked, and will also ask for users' location
Herd immunity all over again — Comment Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster by failing to listen …
ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital
ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital
Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.
Arm announces Arm Flexible Access for Startups, offering zero-cost access to its most widely used chip designs, in an effort to accelerate time to market
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UK's NHS says it's making a contact tracing app that uses a centralized approach, giving it more insight into COVID-19's spread than Apple and Google's tools
The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
UK's NHS says it's making a contact tracing app that uses a centralized approach, giving it more insight into COVID-19's spread than Apple and Google's tools
The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, seeing 1.1M signups within a few hours
- Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed
Researchers say they found two actively exploited iOS 0-days, present since at least iOS 6, including a remote zero-click flaw in Mail; Apple says patch coming
In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …