Etsy sellers say a fraud protection program is destabilizing their businesses
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge D., a carpenter and Etsy seller of several years, recently sold a piece of custom, made-to-order furniture for around $150. The sale itself was business as usual for their shop — but it came with a sense of exasperation. Their earnings would be
Read moreCISA’s security-by-design initiative is at risk: Here’s a path forward
Trey Herr Contributor Trey Herr is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Maia Hamin Contributor Maia Hamin is an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Will Loomis Contributor Share on Twitter Will Loomis is an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Stewart Scott Contributor Stewart
Read moreVancouver-based company selected for NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standardization process
BTQ Technologies, a Vancouver-based global quantum technology company, has announced that its post-quantum cryptography scheme, Preon, has been selected by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the first round for consideration in their Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process. Preon is a post-quantum signature protocol that enables
Read moreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, July 28, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, July 28th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada, will be here to comment on
Read moreIf it hadn’t been for them meddlin’ kids
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Not to get all GrumpyManYellsAtCloud.gif, but I’m getting pretty tired of the myth of the dropped-out-of-college founders. Investors — and the broader ecosystem — have known for a long time that while there are some
Read moreTwitter, now X, opens up its ad revenue sharing program with global creators
Earlier this month, Twitter — which has since rebranded as X — began sharing ad revenue with verified creators in an attempt to retain top talent on its platform. Today, the company announced its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is now available for eligible creators globally. The program, according to posts
Read moreNASA is launching its own streaming service later this year
NASA is getting in on the “+” streaming action. The government agency announced that it’s going to launch a new streaming service later this year called NASA+. The ad-free, no-cost streaming service will include live coverage of future launches, documentaries and new original series that will be exclusively available on
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: Unito’s $20M Series B deck
Unito is a platform that takes a different approach to managing SaaS apps. Today we’ll take a look at how the company’s pitch deck helped it raise $20 million in Series B funding last year. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to
Read moreDeepfakes fueling the online anarchy: researchers weigh in on the complexities of regulation
From U.S. President Joe Biden spewing transphobic discourse, the Pentagon in flames, and Donald Trump resisting arrest to the Pope ennobling the puffer jacket – we’ve seen it all, none of it real, and each image more ludicrous than the next. With unprecedented advances in AI, deepfake, the ability to
Read moreWorldcoin’s official launch triggers swift privacy scrutiny in Europe
Worldcoin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s bid to sew up the market for verifying humanness by convincing enough mobile meatsacks to have their eyeballs scanned in exchanged for crypto tokens (yes, really), only started its official global rollout this week but it’s already landed on the radar of European data protection
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