MOVEit cyberattacks: keeping tabs on the biggest data theft of 2023
Illustration: Beatrice Sala A ransomware gang used a zero-day exploit in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer to steal thousands of companies’ data, affecting over 60 million people. In May 2023, a ransomware gang called Clop began abusing a zero-day exploit of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer enterprise file transfer tool. Progress quickly
Read moreEricsson Set to Accelerate Digital Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Ericson Mobility Report for June 2023, forecasts Sub-Saharan Africa to be the the region with the highest growth in total mobile data traffic, rising by 37% annually between 2022 and 2028. This increase in data traffic will primarily be driven by a four-times increase in smartphone traffic in the
Read moreLiberals to add ‘fundamental right to privacy’ to proposed law, but no details yet
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne tempted members of a parliamentary committee meeting Tuesday with promises of big amendments to proposed Canadian privacy and AI legislation in hopes of getting the laws passed quickly. However, he left several opposition MPs frustrated with his refusal to say when the detailed wording of the
Read moreSafaricom Introduces Advanced Cloud Services for Businesses
Safaricom, one of Kenya’s leading mobile network operator revamped its in-country cloud computing platform and services, to help businesses and organisations digitise their operations offer flexibility and resilience to an ever changing environment. Powered by VMware The new cloud services, hosted in Data centres in Nairobi and Kisumu are powered
Read moreFintech actually has a value system: Here’s how we can reclaim it
One of the big lessons of the social finance backlash is that empowerment without education can do more harm than good.
Read moreCybersecurity firm Lumu raises $30M to detect network intrusions
Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Forgepoint Capital, $6 million of which is debt. Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu’s founder and CEO, says that the new cash will be put toward growing Lumu’s
Read moreCloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run AI models at the network edge. One of the new offerings, Workers AI, lets customers access physically nearby GPUs hosted
Read moreCircular coordinate art
About three years ago I ran across a strange coordinate system in which familiar functions lead to interesting plots. The system is called “circular coordinates” but it is not polar coordinates. This morning I was playing around with this again. Here’s a plot of f(x) = x. And here’s a
Read moreTravel wheelchair Revolve Air launches on Kickstarter
Revolve Air, a travel wheelchair that can fold to cabin luggage size, is now available for pre-orders on Kickstarter at a cost of $4,999.
Read moreFormer Tinder CEO’s startup to fight loneliness with AI chatbot gets backing by Sequoia
Former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg’s startup Meeno, which aims to fight loneliness through an AI-powered chatbot, announced that it has raised a $3.9 million seed round led by Sequoia. Meeno aims to release its app on the App Store in December in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
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