Facebook
Australia is drafting a new regulation that Facebook says misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect. In response, Facebook has said Australian users will no longer be able to post news stories on its platforms in protest of proposed media bargaining legislation.
Pebble Flow
Pebble, a new entrant to the electric RV market founded by veterans from Apple, Tesla, Cruise, and Volvo, announced at CES that its upcoming Pebble Flow RV will be the first on the market with semi-autonomous assists.
Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress (MWC 2020), has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. The GSM Association (GSMA), which organizes the show, have officially confirmed the cancellation.
Coronavirus
Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Ericsson has taken the decision to withdraw from Mobile World Congress 2020 (MWC2020) as the company says that the health and safety of employees and customers cannot be ensured.
Mobile security research firm, Check Point, has revealed a new bug in messaging service, WhatsApp. The bug appears to affect only WhatsApp Web has the potential to allow ransomware and malicious apps on your device.
European Commission
Only hours after Apple won their €13 billion EU Tax Bill Appeal, the European Commission has today adopted a new Tax Package to "ensure that EU tax policy supports Europe's economic recovery and long-term growth".
Hacker
Payday loan firm Wonga are warning more than a a quarter of a million customers that personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm. The online lender said it was “urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access” to personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland.
Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a formal offer to purchase Twitter outright for $43 billion. Musk has filed an updated 13D with the SEC, offering $54.20 per share for 100 percent control of the social media platform.
Data Breach
It's another day, so time for another Facebook scandal, as the company admitted Thursday that it had stored hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords internally in a readable format.  The world’s largest social network said in a blog post that during a routine review in January it had found the flaw in its internal data storage systems, adding that the company had now fixed the issue.
Wordle
Viral word game, ‘Wordle’, has been acquired by The New York Times. Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
Facebook
Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders, has called for the social network to be broken up by regulators, arguing that Mark Zuckerberg’s “unchecked power” has created a monopoly and given him “unilateral control over speech”.
USB-C Connector
The European Commission wants to make it mandatory for smartphone manufacturers and manufacturers of other electronics to include a USB-C charging port on their devices and is putting forward legislation to establish a common charging solution
Nest has announced 15 new partners for its six-month-old “Works with Nest” program. Nest’s partner program originally launched with just five partners — most notably a tie-in with the Pebble smartwatch.
Data Breach
A hack discovered by us-based firm vpnMentor that has exposed a database of 80 million (nearly 65 percent) American households. The unprotected 24GB database, hosted on Microsoft Cloud servers, includes the number of people living in each household with their full names, their marital status, income bracket, age, and more. While some information is available freely, other data like title, gender, etc are coded.
Apple Lockdown Mode
Apple today previewed a ground-breaking security capability that offers specialized additional protection to users who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.
Sachin Jogia
Sachin Jogia has been by appointed by Ofcom as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after nine years at Amazon, where he is currently the General Manager for Alexa Smart Home International – overseeing development of the company’s voice-activated services. A highly experienced product and technology leader, Sachin has also held senior technology roles at AOL and advertising.com.
OnePlus is to offer a bug bounty offering up to $7,000 USD to security experts who discover and report potential threats to OnePlus’ systems. The company has also partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats.
David VanderWaal has been named Vice President of Marketing, LG Electronics USA. He is responsible for overseeing all advertising, consumer research, sponsorships, promotion, shopper insights and digital marketing initiatives for LG's Home Entertainment and Home Appliance business units in the United States.
OpSec Security
OpSec Security has launched OpSec SmartCheck, a proprietary smartphone-enabled Optically Variable Device (OVD) validation tool that uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and offers clients a reliable method of validating overt OVD features with a high level of confidence.