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Days after the United Kingdom outlawed TikTok on official devices, New Zealand has followed suit by outlawing the short video app on parliamentary gadgets. The decision was made in response to rising security worries about ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, giving user data to the Chinese authorities. By the end …

Google’s security research division is raising the alarm about a number of holes it found in Samsung semiconductors used in many Android devices, wearable tech, and cars. They are worried that the holes will soon be found and used against Google. Tim Willis, the head of Google’s Project Zero, claimed …

Many adult entertainment websites owned by MindGeek, including Pornhub, Brazzers, and Redtube, were purchased by a Canadian private equity company, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP). The deal’s specifics were kept under wraps by ECP, which was only founded last year. With ECP’s resources and extensive expertise spanning regulatory, law enforcement, public …

SVB Financial has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. This comes one week after trading was stopped for the company and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries.As a result, …

Without last week’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse, AI and chatbots would dominate tech conversations. Microsoft-backed OpenAI released GPT-4, a new language model, in recent days. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot competed. Gmail and Docs are getting AI from Google. Chatbot-enabled Bing search has garnered attention. Missing name? Apple. The Cupertino-based company …

Austria’s data protection authority found that Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law by transferring personal data to the US, where government surveillance was possible. In August 2020, the European privacy rights group NOYB filed a number of complaints against websites using Google Analytics for data export. Several EU …

Yesterday, rival Anthropic announced Claude, a ChatGPT competitor to OpenAI’s new GPT-4 model. In a related announcement, Quora stated that its Poe chatbot app will soon have a paid version that will allow you to communicate with bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 …

One reason why cryptocurrencies aren’t used by a lot of people is that fraud is common in the industry.Despite the fact that the amount was already almost 50% lower than the year before, an industry analysis claims that over $3.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was “lost” last year alone. The …

The best piece of smart home hardware I’ve ever bought is the Nest Protect. Smoke detectors, more so than other household items, might benefit from being connected. They significantly contribute to your feeling of security while you’re away from home. Ideally, you won’t ever need it, but if you do, …

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has said that internal data analysis shows that engineers who joined the company in person did better than those who joined remotely. He also said that younger engineers, or those who are “early in their careers,” do better …