Airbnb wants to give the homeowners who power its service the opportunity to own a piece of its business. That’s why, as Axios reports, the $31-billion-valued company has written to the SEC to ask if its rules around security ownership can be revised. Specifically, Airbnb is seeking a change to the SEC’s Rule 701 — which…
It’s been obvious for a while now that the security industry is turning in circles. Users have walked a very insecure tightrope for decades, clicking on links, opening attachments, and downloading unchecked files without a safety net in place. I always find it sad when organizations are surprised that the bad guys found a way…
The incident, hard on the heels of the British Airways breach, shows that Magecart is quickly evolving and shows no signs of slowing down.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Amazon is reportedly considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new Amazon Go cashier-less convenience stores worldwide. The concept could see the retail and Web services giant move aggressively into bricks and mortar shopping, by disrupting the market for healthy ‘food on the run’ in city centres and transport hubs, suggests Bloomberg. If…
Hard to believe, but Startup Battlefield MENA is just over a week away. We’ve got some of the top founders and investors in the region speaking, including Magnus Olsson of Careem, Imad Kreidieh of Ogero, Mai Medhat of Eventtus, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis of Facebook and Henri Asseily of Leap Ventures, and many more! As we told…
When sports analytics folks crunch the numbers behind professional athlete’s batting, pitching, throwing and dunking, they are looking at past performance to better predict future behavior. Marketers and developers do the same for you and me but therein lies a problem (and a tremendous opportunity). Professional athletes are paid to do the same things well,…
Vulnerability allowed an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to a device at the time the system initially boots up.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Cognitive services giant IBM has announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Trust and Transparency’ service, which it claims gives businesses greater insight into AI decision-making and bias. The new Watson-based cloud service is designed to not only ‘open the black box’ of complex AI systems, but also to reinforce organisations’ trust in their own AI-based…
This week Facebook has launched a major new product play, slotting an algorithmic dating service inside its walled garden as if that’s perfectly normal behavior for an ageing social network. Insert your [dad dancing GIF of choice] right here. Facebook getting into dating looks very much like a mid-life crisis — as a veteran social…
Fintech promises to be one of the hottest topics at Disrupt Berlin 2018, and you can take that to the bank — see what we did there? On 29-30 November thousands of attendees will descend on Berlin, and what better way to get your fintech business in front of them than to exhibit in Startup Alley? Oh…
