Canada’s privacy czar investigating data theft of federal employees from relocation companies
Canada’s privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the theft of 24 years of data of federal employees from two government-contracted relocation firms. As we reported earlier this week, the Treasury Board said data as far back as 1999 on military, RCMP, and federal employees held by Brookfield Global Relocation
Read MoreI’m trying so hard not to gush over Teenage Engineering’s latest gadget
Teenage Engineering’s new $300 groovebox has no business being this cute. That’s the whole point. The EP–133 K.O.II (we’ll just call it Knock Out II) is a combination drum machine, synthesizer and sampler. It’s a supersized upgrade to Teenage Engineer’s pint-sized PO-33 K.O, which offers many of the same features for
Read MoreNigerian Tech Startup Launches New Screenwriting Tools for African Creators
Creative Nigerian tech startup – Albantsho, a suite of easy-to-use screenwriting tools for African creators, launched its latest feature – The Scriptwriter, which is currently available free of charge for users across Africa. It is a robust screenwriting tool created by Africans for Africans, offering a platform that enables screenwriters
Read MoreCybercrime Hotspot: Africa Tops the List for 2023
As organisations continue to become more digitised, throughout 2023 Africa remains one of the world regions most targeted by cybercrime. At a recent press conference in Johannesburg, Kaspersky shared some insights and statistics related to the regional threat landscape in the third quarter of 2023 and made forecasts on how
Read MoreMitacs celebrates researcher spearheading the development of next-gen AI networks
Nonprofit research organization Mitacs conferred the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership on Georges Kaddoum, a top researcher at Montreal-based École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS). Georges Kaddoum/Source: Mitacs The research director of the Resilient Machine Learning Institute (ReMI) at ETS, Kaddoum is being recognized for building an innovation hub to support
Read MoreCanadian organization are not prepared for new ESG standards and reporting regulations, study finds
Canadian organizations are nowhere near ready for the new environmental, social and governance standards and reporting regulations, a study finds. With the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandate, sustainability reporting pressures on Canadian companies are becoming demanding and complex. The mandate requires that, by 2025, companies both inside and
Read MoreIf I’m being honest, I didn’t have what it takes to be a founder
If I map myself against the standards of fundraising today, none of those startups would’ve had a gnat’s shadow’s chance of raising money. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreUnfolding OpenAI Drama: Is Sam Altman Here to Stay?
After six gruelling dramatic days of what seems to have been a corporate chess game, the abrupt dismissal of Sam Altman and reshuffling of OpenAI’s board members took a 360-degree turn, when Open AI released a statement disclosing the “agreement in principle” to reinstate Altman as Chief Executive Officer of
Read MoreUS chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet
Well before Washington banned Nvidia’s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country’s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation of an escalating tech war between the two nations. Baidu, one of the tech firms building China’s counterparts to OpenAI, has secured enough AI chips to keep
Read MoreProton Drive encrypted cloud storage service arrives on Mac
Swiss privacy-focused company Proton has launched its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage service for Mac users, four months after it landed on Windows. Founded some nine years ago, Proton was originally focused on its flagship Gmail alternative called Proton Mail, but the company has expanded its horizons into VPNs, a password manager,
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