Tag: TechInnovation

Atlantic Labs spins-out FoodLabs, a €100m FoodTech fund addressing climate and health (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

In the latest sign that that the tech industry is pivoting towards climate and sustainability, Atlantic Food Labs – an offshoot of the Berlin fund...

Ex-minister predicts ‘huge battleground’ over UK’s plan to set Internet content rules (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

The former UK minster of state for what is now the digital and culture department, DCMS, has warned of the looming battle in parliament over...

Tiger Global backs African fintech Mono in $15M Series A round (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

Mono, an African startup that helps connect consumers’ bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $15 million Series A round, the company confirmed...

Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum, another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led...

A company spotted a security breach. Then investigators found this new mysterious malware (Danny Palmer, ZDNet)

A previously undiscovered cyber-espionage campaign using never-before-seen malware is infiltrating global aerospace and telecommunications companies in a highly targeted operation that has been active...

Ransomware law would require victims to disclose ransom payments within 48 hours (Danny Palmer, ZDNet)

Victims of ransomware attacks who choose to pay a ransom to cyber criminals for the decryption key could have to publicly disclose that a...

Twitch source code, business data, gamer payouts leaked in massive hack (Jonathan Greig, ZDNet)

The hacker claimed it was in response to recent furor over Twitch 'hate raids' directed toward minority gamers Twitch source code, business data, gamer payouts...

JFrog becomes latest organization authorized as numbering authority for vulnerabilities exposure (Jonathan Greig, ZDNet)

Software company JFrog has become the latest organization to be designated by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority. Currently, there are 189 organizations from 31...

Open source: Google is going to pay developers to make projects more secure (Liam Tung, ZDNet)

Google is backing a new project from the Linux Foundation to the tune of $1 million that aims to bolster the security of critical...

Mozilla: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man dominate list of passwords leaked in breaches (Jonathan Greig, ZDNet)

Using data from haveibeenpwned.com, Mozilla found that hundreds of thousands of people continue to use their favorite superheroes for passwords. Mozilla: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man dominate...

Digital transformation is changing. Here’s what comes next (Charles McLellan, ZDNet)

In ZDNet's recent Tech Budgets 2022 special report, we noted how digital transformation has helped companies become more flexible and resilient in the face of worldwide...

Digital transformation is creating new security risks, and businesses can’t keep up (Danny Palmer, ZDNet)

Business strategies around technology are constantly evolving. Usually it's a process that takes time, carefully plotted out in order to avoid disruption. But that wasn't...

IT projects do go wrong, and tech chiefs are feeling the pain (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZDNet)

Past experiences often shape the way we approach situations, and it's no different for tech executives tackling digital transformation. And for many, their experience...

Online behavioral advertising can be discriminatory, so what’s the plan to fix this? (Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings)

Social media companies like Facebook are being called out on the racial discrimination appearing in and resulting from their machine-learning algorithms. Advertising platforms use...

The Potential Effects of COVID-19 on Radicalisation to Violent Extremism (Garth Davies, Edith Wu, Richard Frank, GNET)

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the newly discovered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a pandemic. COVID-19 has upended virtually...

Seeing past the cool: Facebook’s new smart glasses (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

The announcement of Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories glasses that capture audio and video is a technological triumph that adds yet another facet to the debate over the...