Month: December 2021
Elon Musk says the US should ‘get rid of all’ government subsidies
Elon Musk said Monday at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO summit that he doesn’t think the United States needs the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill — or any government subsidies, for that matter. “Just delete them all,” he said. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said during the interview that he’s concerned…
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I regret to inform you that Digital Human as a Service (DHaaS) is now an acronym
Science fiction movies have prepared us for the distinct possibility that artificial intelligence will walk among us someday. How soon? No one can say — but that isn’t stopping a raft of companies by trying to sell “digital humans” before that whole intelligence thing gets figured out. Ah, but what…
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Cloudflare launches cloud-native firewall in zero trust push
The web infrastructure company and CDN provider Cloudflare has announced that it is expanding its Zero Trust firewall capabilities to help organizations secure their entire corporate networks. While traditional firewalls consist of hardware boxes installed on company premises, they weren’t designed for employees working from home or for cloud applications.…
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Google Pixel Buds A-Series getting more options with firmware update
Google is releasing an update for its Pixel Buds A-Series wireless headphones, which will add a bass slider, a loudness compensation setting for better bass and treble response at low volumes, and a nice connectivity improvement (via Droid-Life). Given that the buds are only $99 (or free, if you got…
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Hackers are minting their own crypto to use in elaborate phishing scams
A new, elaborate fraud campaign involving airdropped tokens, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, and the MetaMask wallet has been spotted targeting naive cryptocurrency holders. Airdropped tokens are tokens (or crypto coins) that the project’s developers distribute to the wider community. It is a common practice in the blockchain industry, as it…
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Japan puts new restrictions on stablecoins
Japan is proposing new restrictions that would only allow banks and wire transfer services to issue stablecoins, first reported by Nikkei Asia. Stablecoins are a type of digital currency that’s pegged to an external asset, like a fiat currency, gold, or other investments, in an attempt to keep the coin…
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