vrijdag 29 maart, 2024
Source is New York Times Elizabeth Mustillo, a cake maker in Mexico City, said the strangest thing happened on Monday: Her phone started to ring with orders. She was forced to talk, not text, with her clients.“It’s crazy,” said Ms. Mustillo. “No one ever calls anymore.”A decade ago, customers...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com A British judge has given people accused by the US a “trump card” to avoid extradition by finding in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a court heard today. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled in January 2021 that it would be “oppressive” to send Assange for...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Sky Global, the Canadian tech company that ran an encrypted phone network at the centre of an international police investigation into organised crime, offered free samples of its encrypted mobile phones to a Canadian police force. The company’s interactions with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were...
Source is New York Times A few weeks ago, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, falsely claimed that the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, a $1.75 trillion bill to battle climate change and extend the nation’s social safety net, would include Medicare for all.It doesn’t, and never has....
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Karl Hoods, chief digital and information officer at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), says every IT organisation, regardless of sector, faces a similar challenge – how to deliver value for the business. The key to success, says Hoods, is for CIOs to...
Source is New York Times The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to crack down on what it calls junk fees — late payment charges, hotel resort fees and other tacked-on expenses that collectively add billions to what Americans pay for goods and services.“Junk fees make it harder for...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has announced a two-year pilot programme aimed at training and recruiting 150 black teachers into science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. Hamilton's charity, Mission 44, will be working with social enterprise Teach First during the pilot, which aims to...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Funding for education, investment in innovation and skilled immigration were among the promises made by chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak in the 2021 Autumn Budget. Figures thrown around included investment to help “education recovery” post-pandemic, including funding to support schools and colleges, bringing investment in...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The apparent return of the REvil ransomware syndicate amid the reactivation of its infrastructure and dark web leak site – known as the Happy Blog – has cast doubt on previous reports of the crew’s demise and may yet herald a renewed campaign of ransomware attacks...
Source is New York Times Toyota Motor sold more cars and trucks last year in the United States than General Motors, the first year in recorded history that a foreign automaker has outsold American manufacturers.G.M., Ford Motor and other American automakers produced and sold fewer cars than they were...