Tag: ZD Net

Cybersecurity – Didi barred from China appstores amidst government cybersecurity review (Eileen Yu, ZD Net)

Didi Global has been removed from appstores in China following an order from the government to do so. The move comes just days after...

Global Corporate Tax Rules – 130 countries commit to overhauling global corporate tax rules (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZD Net)

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) has announced that 130 countries have signed an agreement to introduce a global minimum corporate tax, as part...

TechInnovation – HPE to acquire data management platform Zerto (Stephanie Condon, ZD Net)

HPE on Thursday said it's acquiring Zerto, a firm that provides data replication and protection services, as well as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)....

TechInnovation – Google releases new open-source security software program: Scorecards (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZD Net)

Some naive people may still think they're not using open-source software. They're wrong. Everyone does. According to the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) 2021 "Open Source Security...

USA/Russia – NSA, FBI warn of ongoing brute force hacking campaign tied to Russian military (Natalie Gagliordi, ZD Net)

A brute force password-hacking campaign led by Russian military intelligence tied to the group Fancy Bear has been targeting US and European organizations since...

TechInnovation – Facebook wants to help train the robots that will take out your trash and unload your dishwasher (Daphne Leprince-Ringuet, ZD Net)

Facebook has announced a new step in the company's journey towards achieving what it calls "embodied AI" – the technology that could one day...

TechInnovation – Microsoft announces its unified sales and marketing structure for fiscal 2022 (Mary Jo Foley, ZD Net)

It's July 1, Day 1 of Microsoft's fiscal 2022. To kick it off, Executive Vice President Judson Althoff is announcing internally the structure and...

Cybersecurity – Let’s take a walk on the Darkside (ZD net)

Tonya Hall interviews Limor Kessem, Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, and gets all the details on the Darkside ransomware attack campaigns. Let's take a...

TechInnovation – COVID vaccination cards to appear on Android in US (Chris Duckett, ZD Net)

Google said on Wednesday it has updated Passes API on Android to handle COVID vaccination and test information. COVID vaccination cards to appear on Android in US | ZDNet

TechInnovation – Global 5G population growing at 1M a day: Ericsson (Eileen Yu, ZD Net)

The global number of 5G subscribers is projected to surpass 580 million by end of this year, before hitting 3.5 billion in 2026. China...

TechInnovation – Tim Berners-Lee sells World Wide Web source code NFT for $5.4 million (Asha Barbaschow, ZD Net)

The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT version of his source code from the early 90s for just...

Australia – eSafety says tweeting commisioner will not qualify as a formal Online Safety Act request (Asha Barbaschow, ZD Net)

Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is set to receive sweeping new powers in early 2022 as part of the Online Safety Act that passed...

Australia – National Archives gets AU$67m from Canberra to digitise records and lift cybersecurity (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZD Net)

The Australian government has announced it will hand out AU$67.7 million to the National Archives of Australia to help further preserve the Commonwealth's aging...

TechInnovation – Research finds voice assistance could improve speech for Parkinson’s patients (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZD Net)

Speech impairment is a common condition found in patients who suffer from Parkinson's disease. However, early research between Monash University and Ulster University has...

USA – New data security rules instituted for US payment processing system (Jonathan Greig, ZD Net)

New data security rules governing how money changes hands in the US have gone into effect today, forcing major digital money processors to render deposit...

TechInnovation – Micron Technology sees DRAM, NAND demand holding firm, supply tight through 2022 (Tiernan Ray, ZD Net)

Memory-chip maker Micron Technology this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue and profit in line with a pre-announcement offered on May 25th, and offered an outlook that...