Imagine receiving an email from US VP Mike Pence’s official email account asking for help because he has been stranded in the Philippines. Actually, you don’t have to. This actually happened. Pence’s email was hacked when he was still the governor of Indiana, and his account was used to attempt to defraud several people. How…
Uber sold Uber Eats, the ride-hailing company’s food delivery arm, to rival Zomato today in India. In an all-stock deal, valued anywhere between $300-$500 million, the former will gain a 9.99 percent stake in Zomato. Uber Eats arrived in India back in 2017. Due to stalled growth and increasing losses, rumors of the company selling the business to…
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change. The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, the government departments responsible, respectively, for economic development and inward…
Instagram has removed that IGTV button that’s been sitting in the upper corner of the app, thankfully putting it out of its misery before it atrophies from disuse. IGTV is Instagram‘s answer to YouTube, a separate-but-not-really app for longer-form videos than the base app allowed for. It launched in June 2018 to great fanfare, but…
Autonomous fleet control, remote health monitoring, smart traffic control and the use of digital twins for smart buildings are all among the applications called out by Derek O’Halloran, the World Economic Forums’ head of digital economy and new value creation, in blog posted ahead of the event this week in Davos, Switzerland. All of these…
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, wants the world’s governments to regulate artificial intelligence. In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times over the weekend, the big tech boss says: Now there is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated. It is too important…
Citrix has finally started rolling out security patches for a critical vulnerability in ADC and Gateway software that attackers started exploiting in the wild earlier this month after the company announced the existence of the issue without releasing any permanent fix. I wish I could say, “better late than never,” but since hackers don’t waste…
If you’ve ever spent hours trolling the web for information about Radiohead, today’s your lucky day. In a press release, the band announced they have created the Radiohead Public Library, a centralized collection of information and media. It states: The internet as a whole has never been a reliable resource for detailed or even accurate…
Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face at this moment? “Decide…
Elon Musk said last night that SpaceX plans to send NASA astronauts to space between April and June. The mission, dubbed as Demo-2, will see the crew rocket up to the International Space Station for several days. SpaceX just completed a successful uncrewed test of its Crew Dragon capsule’s in-flight launch escape capabilities last night.…
