A draft executive order circulating around the White House “is not the result of an official White House policymaking process,” according to deputy White House press secretary, Lindsay Walters. According to a report in The Washington Post, Walters denied that White House staff had worked on a draft executive order that would require every federal agency to…
When Adam Smith, champion of capitalism, wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, he could not have foreseen that someday many of the world’s biggest companies would be giving away their services for free. But that’s exactly what’s happening in today’s digital economy. Costs are rapidly approaching zero across a wide range of services as…
The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that’s not just Facebook is dealing with. A bug in Twitter’s API inadvertently exposed some users’ direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers who weren’t supposed to get them, Twitter disclosed in its Developer Blog on Friday. What…
Renaud Laplanche spent ten years building LendingClub. In the process, he created an industry from scratch. Circumventing conventional banking channels for consumer credit began in 1996 when Chris Larsen started E-LOAN, which ultimately led to Prosper Marketplace. But LendingClub, which Laplanche founded in 2007, was and remains the poster child for the business of marketplace…
I’ll admit it, this prolonged cryptocurrency bear market that we’re in has got me feeling down. A year ago I was enormously bullish on everything blockchain and cryptocurrency, and I still am, but 2018 has given me a mild distaste for the whole space. The market’s continuous, slow bleed throughout the year definitely has to…
A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service “Scan4You” has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian “non-citizen” or “citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia,” was found guilty on May 16 in federal court in Alexandria, during…
When the MOBI blockchain consortium was formed in May 2018 by some of the world’s biggest automakers and cutting-edge technology providers, it promised to revolutionise connected transport. With new associates coming onboard this week, including the World Economic Foundation, Chris Middleton catches up with MOBI to find out what it has achieved to date. The…
First things first. Since your digital media buying agency charges you a percentage of the ad buy spend, they have no intention of saving you money. That’s just the way it is. As a result, campaigns which could’ve achieved their objectives by spending $100,000 will end up spending $200,000. Because if they spend 100K, they…
The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.
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Enterprise software giant SAP has announced a set of ethical guiding principles for artificial intelligence (AI) development, along with the creation of an external advisory panel on AI ethics – making it the first European technology company to do so. The panel, comprising experts from academia, politics, and industry, will ensure the adoption of SAP’s…
