Month: January 2025
Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET
SAM YEH via Getty Images It’s hard to find a company that had a better 2024 than NVIDIA. Even after some choppiness in recent weeks, the chip giant’s stock price finished last year up 178 percent, and its market cap of more than $3.3 trillion dollars — with a T…
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Myanmar enforces new cybersecurity law – and VPN usage is the main target
Up to six months in prison and fines of up to 2 million kyats (almost $1,000). This is what people in Myanmar now risk for using a VPN service without approval after a new controversial cybersecurity law was enacted on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. According to the military junta, the…
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Everything new on Paramount Plus in January 2025
Paramount Plus might not rival the popularity of the biggest and best streaming services, but it’s quickly building an impressive library of must-watch movies and TV shows. January 2025 is no exception, kicking off the new year with a bang by adding over 100 new films to its catalog. A…
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That Elon Musk ‘Adrian Dittmann’ screenshot is almost certainly fake
A screenshot that seems to suggest billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X account permissions beyond that of an ordinary user — is almost certainly fake, a source at X tells The Verge. The source, who claims no knowledge of Dittmann’s identity, says an image posted…
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Thomson Reuters just spent $600m on a tax automation start-up
SafeSend is now owned by Thomson Reuters after $600m deal 70% of America’s 500 largest companies use the services 25% annual growth predicted “in the next few years” Thomson Reuters has splashed out $600 million on a company specializing in tax automation software. The company confirmed it had acquired cPaperless…
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Japan’s largest telco NTT Docomo disrupted by DDoS attack
Japanese telecoms giant NTT Docomo hit with a cyberattack Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack affected services for 12 hours Telecoms firms are being increasingly targeted by cybercriminals NTT Docomo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, has reported it has been hit with a cyberattack which targeted its systems by…
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