The Texas Attorney General is making big headlines and while he is not running for election this year, you can count on him bringing this up next time. Meta has agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion or about one percent of its annual revenue (plus likely a tax deduction) for using facial recognition on Texas […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Candidates often say what they think will sell. In 2021 then president Trump said that bitcoin ‘just seems like a scam‘: “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I was surprised — you know, with us, it was at 6,000 and, much lower. I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Rolls back Decision to Kill Third Party Cookies Firefox and Safari, along with some other smaller browsers already block third party cookies by default. Google said that they would do the same. Google now says that phasing out third party cookies will hurt their revenue stream, uh, will impact online advertising, so they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of last week’s IT disaster, now would be a good time to review your cyber insurance policy. According to Parametrix, who does this for a living, just for US Fortune 500 companies, the cost from the CrowdStrike disaster is going to be more than $5 billion. In fairness, the Fortune 500 collectively have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What we don’t know is what the long term impact of this will be. Law enforcement around the globe has been attacking the attackers. They have been successful, at least to a degree. The problem for the hackers as a result of these attacks is whether they can they trust each other. Historically, hackers have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CrowdStrike is a major vendor of user workstation security software used by many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. On Friday, they caused a major meltdown of Windows workstations across the globe. CrowdStrike insists that this was simply a software update gone wrong and maybe that is true. But there are plenty of conspiracy theorists […]
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