Reports are in that the co-founder of Apple has “launched a new cryptocurrency”
Bonus content:
“Here is all you need to know about it”
Today’s smartphone news includes apps from Brazil that will “warn residents of shootings” and will “give real-time warnings to residents about areas to avoid.”
Telemarketing has apparently reached a new level as “ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims if they restore from backups without paying”
If you have ever wondered about how a University can know where you are, today may be your lucky day.
Here is the low-down on Brown:
Here is a guy that really, really isn’t fond of “the popular “frictionless” intraoffice communication app that Salesforce just bought”
Here is a report that says the “Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital” because reasons:
Today’s retro-tech post takes a look at the Xerox 860, which was considered to be “the Cadillac, no, the Rolls-Royce of word processing systems”
Bonus content:
“It stored working files on one of the two 8″ (600 kb) floppy disks.”
The Chief Information Security Officer at Johnson & Johnson is saying that healthcare organizations “are seeing cyber-attacks from nation-state threat actors “every single minute of every single day.””
Attention travel agencies:
If you are sponsoring a hackathon using your own data it’s *very* important that you have “cleaned that dataset so that design jammers could see no personal information” that could identify your clients.
Reports are in that “Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc said on Saturday it has become the country’s first virtual platform to accept Beijing’s homegrown digital currency.”
Hold, please:
“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning to raise awareness of a new and increasingly widespread robocall scamming scheme that pretends to be Apple and Amazon.”
Here is news of “a German private bank” that is going to launch “its first crypto fund” on January 1st.
According to this report The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) and the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) are working on a “joint digital currency plan”
