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After a long break from fundraising, yesterday Cloudflare, a U.S. based company that provides content delivery network services, Internet security, etc, announced that it raised $150 million of funding. The company also announced the joining of Stan Me… Continue reading Cloudflare raises $150M with Franklin Templeton leading the latest round of funding
Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to call for the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names. ICANN took this decision because of the increas… Continue reading ICANN calls for DNSSEC across unsecured domain names amidst increasing malicious activity in the DNS infrastructure
Splunk announced that it will no longer be selling its services to Russian companies. There will be no direct sales or via partners. This also includes companies whose headquarters is situated in Russia. However, they will continue to provide support f… Continue reading Splunk will no longer be available for Russian companies
The Electronic frontier foundation is taking part in copyright week. Their motto, “Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.” According to EFF, copyright law often belongs in a majority to the media an… Continue reading Ahead of EU’s vote on new copyright rules, EFF releases 5 key principles to guide copyright policy
Yesterday there were discussions on Twitter about an Ethereum classic 51% attack which was a possible chain reorganization or double spend attack. However, Ethereum developers denied it and have shed some light on the incident. Ethereum classic is the … Continue reading Ethereum classic suffered a 51% attack; developers deny, state a new ASIC card was tested
IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) released its annual tech future predictions, earlier this week, unveiling the top ten most likely to be adopted technology trends in 2019. “The Computer Society’s predictions are based on an in-depth analysis… Continue reading IEEE Computer Society predicts top ten tech trends for 2019: assisted transportation, chatbots, and deep learning accelerators among others
In September, Goldman Sachs estimated that almost $9 billion dollar revenue is coming to Apple from Google for being the built-in search engine on Apple’s Safari web browsers. Till then, Apple had never talked about its revenue stream from Google… Continue reading Tim Cook criticizes Google for their user privacy scandals but admits to taking billions from Google Search
Microsoft had planned to bring ads to the Mail App in Windows 10. It also has an entire support page dedicated to ads on mail. But last week after the backlash from the people, Frank X. Shaw, the Head of Communications at Microsoft claimed on Twitter t… Continue reading Microsoft’s move towards ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 sparks privacy concerns
Last week, hackers attempted to extort ProtonMail by alleging a data breach with no evidence. One of the alleged hackers named, AmFearLiathMor has written in the message that, “We hacked Protonmail and have a significant amount of their data from… Continue reading Hackers claim to have compromised ProtonMail, but ProtonMail calls it ‘a hoax and failed extortion attempt’.
On Wednesday, New York Times published a report on Facebook that raised questions on the company’s way of dealing with the controversies surrounding it, disinformation, the way it treats competitors and critics. The report scathingly pointed out … Continue reading NYT Facebook exposé fallout: Board defends Zuckerberg and Sandberg; Media call and transparency report Highlights