Month: March 2022

Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checking project it started as a small and little-publicised pilot programme more than a year ago. The programme lets regular people flag and notate misleading tweets. This is separate from Twitter’s news verification partnerships with The Associated Press and Reuters. Starting Thursday, a small, randomised group of US
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As the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate, the Russian government on Thursday released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that it said are behind a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its domestic infrastructure. Some of the noticeable domains in the listing released by Russia’s National Coordination Center
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Thomas Walle, CEO and cofounder of Unacast. Human mobility data — anonymized, aggregated information about how people move based on their cellular network locations — is being used in enterprises across sectors to improve decision-making and
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Cyber criminals and hacktivist groups are increasingly using the Telegram messaging app for their activities, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its eighth day. A new analysis by Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research has found that “user volume grew a hundred folds daily on Telegram related groups, peaking at 200,000 per group.” Prominent among the
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MWC 2022 took place this week as a physical event in Barcelona, Spain — almost a year after its mostly online-only presence and a couple of years after the cancellation of its original on-ground version due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its inception back in 1987, Mobile World Congress (MWC) is known for mobile phones
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Knative, a Google-led open source platform for building and managing serverless workloads in Kubernetes environments, is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google first released Knative back in
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British satellite company OneWeb said on Thursday it was suspending all launches from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after Moscow’s space agency demanded guarantees that its technology would not be used for military purposes. The British government, which owns a stake in OneWeb, said it supported the decision. “In light of Russia’s illegal and unprovoked
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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, global technology companies have joined governments and the international business community in cutting ties with the world’s largest country over its ongoing military actions. Companies including Apple, Google, and Meta are restricting the availability of their products and services to Russian users. Similarly, AMD, Dell, TSMC, and Intel are
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Researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security vulnerability in GitLab, an open-source DevOps software, that could potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to recover user-related information. Tracked as CVE-2021-4191 (CVSS score: 5.3), the medium-severity flaw affects all versions of GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition starting from 13.0 and all versions starting from 14.4
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Samsung Galaxy Awesome Unpacked launch event is tipped to be just around the corner, where the South Korea tech giant is expected to unveil its upcoming midrange phones, as part of the Galaxy A-series portfolio. The company released its Galaxy S22 series, smartphones comprising Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, and Galaxy S22 Ultra, alongside the Galaxy
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