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Twitter said Thursday that it would begin allowing users to apply for verification, giving new hope to those who have spent years coveting the blue check mark that denotes some level of social media clout.Representatives from governments, companies and news organizations are already eligible...
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Competition Market’s Authority (CMA) have published a joint statement setting out a blueprint for their cooperation in regulating the digital economy.
The ICO and CMA affirmed there are “strong synergies” between their respective data protection and competition policy...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.My colleague Sheera Frenkel has a unique perspective on what happens when the modern mechanics of the internet combine with an old conflict.She reported from the Middle...
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By 2025, most cloud service platforms will provide at least some distributed cloud services that execute at the point of need, according to Gartner, for a cost-effective single pane of control while staying the right side of data sovereignty and residency requirements even at the edge.
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The dramatic expansion of the average person’s digital footprint due to Covid-19 restrictions is causing increased anxiety over personal privacy, and a feeling for many people that they are losing control over how much data online platforms hold on them, according to a report compiled by...
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An EU-backed effort to create a regulatory framework that would make it easier for IT buyers to identify and purchase cloud services that are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has found favour with the European Data Protection Board.
The EU Cloud Code of...
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Malicious actors begin to scan for at-risk systems within an average of 15 minutes of the disclosure of a new Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE), and in many instances much quicker than that – scans for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Server deployments began within five minutes back...
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Credit Suisse will recruit more than 1,000 staff in its India-based tech operations this year, as the country becomes the bank’s global technology innovation centre. When the recruits are on board, 25% of the bank’s global IT workforce will be in India.
The new recruits will...
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The European colocation market enjoyed another record-breaking quarter of take-up during the first three months of 2021, prompting renewed concerns about the pressure all this growth is putting on the electricity grids in several of the continent’s colocation hubs.
According to real estate consultancy CBRE’s latest...
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Paul Romer was once Silicon Valley’s favorite economist. The theory that helped him win a Nobel prize — that ideas are the turbocharged fuel of the modern economy — resonated deeply in the global capital of wealth-generating ideas. In the 1990s, Wired magazine called...
