According to TechCrunch, DigitalOcean has warned customers via email about a data breach with the customer’s billing data. The cloud infrastructure giant told its customers on Wednesday in an email it received from TechCrunch that it “has confirmed unauthorized disclosure of details related to the billing profile in your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the … Read more
Primarily responsible for PATH’s COVID-19 diagnostic platform from left to right: Lorraine Lillis, Scientific Program Director for Diagnostics; Neha Agarwal, Assistant Director of Diagnostics, and Olivia Halas, Program Coordinator for Diagnostics. (PATH Photos) While all eyes are on the COVID-19 vaccine, the more dangerous variants of the virus are increasingly dominating. In Washington State, the … Read more
RBC Signals is acquiring communications services capabilities from ground station operators around the world, including the C-CORE facility in Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic. (Photo via RBC signals) Redmond, Wash., RBC Signals said it has completed a $ 1.2 million financing round designed to enable the company to meet growing demand for satellite ground station … Read more
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has proposed bill that would restrict the types of information that technology companies could buy and sell overseas and the countries in which it could be legally sold. The legislation is resourceful and not very specific. However, this indicates growing federal concerns about international data trading. “Shady data brokers shouldn’t get … Read more
European regulators have questions about a Facebook privacy breach, Clubhouse is adding payments, and a robotics company has SPAC plans. This is your daily crisis for April 6th, 2021. The big story: Facebook faces data breach questions A breach of personally identifiable information (such as email addresses and phone numbers) on more than 500 million … Read more
Daniela Braga, CEO of DefinedCrowd. (Photo by Dário Branco) Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution, and women should play a prominent role in its development, says Daniela Braga, CEO of Seattle startup DefinedCrowd. “We have left the code era to men for the past 30 years and see where it has led us,” Braga … Read more
T-Mobile is rolling out a plan later this week that will almost completely remove the throttling. The new Magenta Max plan includes unlimited premium data and unlimited video streaming at 4K. It also includes 40 GB of high-speed tethering data (T-Mobile will throttle your devices to 3G speeds after you exceed this limit) as well … Read more
Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy. (Photo of the state examiner) The Washington State Auditor’s office is investigating a security incident that compromised the personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment in the state in 2020. Auditor’s office, Pat McCarthy, accused a third party software provider called Accellion, whose services are … Read more
New transparency figures from Amazon show that the company has responded to a record number of government data requests in the last six months of 2020. The new numbers land in the company’s semi-annual transparency report, which was posted on the Amazon website over the weekend. Amazon said it processed 27,664 government requests for user … Read more
[Editor’s Note: Stein Broeder, a marketing executive at Microsoft, explores the components and value of trust in the new book, “The Business of Trust: How Experiences Build Trust and Drive Business Impact” Excerpt published with permission.] “Do you trust me?” This was a question a surgeon asked me once before an operation. I thought that was a fun question. … Read more