Month: May 2020
Sundar Pichai says Google has ‘more resources invested in diversity’ than ever after reports of cut training programs
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai responded to a report that Google has dramatically scaled back diversity and inclusion programs to appease conservative critics, promising that the company remains committed. “Diversity is a foundational value for us. Given the scale at which we build products and the fact we do it locally…
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Apple is reportedly buying older TV shows to take on Netflix and Amazon
When Apple TV+ launched last year its MO was very much original content. The company had poured an eye-watering sum of money into creating new shows specifically for the platform and people were, understandably, a bit wary of paying for a service to… Source
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New web domain registrations see huge spike
As the world battled Covid-19 amidst a lockdown, cybercriminals were surreptitiously registering new domains as part of their devious plans to attack enterprises and individuals after domain registries in the UK and Australia reported an uncharacteristic spike in bookings during April. UK local registry Nominet reported 132,250 new domain registrations…
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EasyJet hack hits 9 million customers
British airline EasyJet says that it has been the victim of a cyberattack that exposed the email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers, Bloomberg News reports. In a statement, the company said that, of these customers, 2,208 had their credit card details accessed by what…
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EasyJet says 9 million travel records taken in data breach
EasyJet, the U.K.’s largest airline, said hackers have accessed the travel details of 9 million customers. The budget airline said 2,200 customers also had their credit card details accessed in the data breach, but passport records were not accessed, a company statement said. EasyJet did not say when the security…
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Europe to Facebook: Pay taxes and respect our values — or we’ll regulate
A livestreamed “debate” yesterday between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a European commissioner shaping digital policy for the internal market, Thierry Breton, sounded cordial enough on the surface, with Breton making several chummy references to “Mark” — and talking about “having dialogue to establish the right governance” for digital platforms…
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