John McAfee found dead by apparent suicide in Spanish prison cell
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019.Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on...
Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86% next month
Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of 35Mbps will be...
Twitter starts testing Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces
Twitter seems to be on a roll of late at whatever it does. Be it its tussle with governments across the globe or launching new features. After introducing its Clubhouse...
Ahoy, there’s malice in your repos—PyPI is the latest to be abused
Getty Images Counterfeit packages downloaded roughly 5,000 times from the official Python repository contained secret code that installed cryptomining software on infected machines, a security researcher has found. The malicious...
Bahrain university uses Alexa on campus
The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) is using Alexa across its campus to support students, staff and visitors by enabling them to ask the artificial intelligence assistant for information....
Zee5 launches in the US with 130,000-plus hours of content
Streaming platform Zee5, which has a good library of South Asian content, is now available in the US, and it hopes to offer a world of multicultural entertainment to the...
Indian digital rights advocacy group red flags Clubhouse on data security
With over a million users from India alone reportedly regularly participating in Clubhouse discussion rooms, its data protection and data processing practices in the country have come under the microscope....
Facebook extends Shops to WhatsApp, Marketplace – Major e-commerce push
As the economic lockdown continues across the globe and e-commerce becomes even more crucial, Facebook has unveiled new ways to shop through it apps, as the social media platform is...
Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations
Oracle is rolling out an incentive programme to help customers pick up the pace of their cloud migrations. It will reward enterprises that agree to move their workloads to...
A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data
A week after Ukrainian police arrested criminals affiliated with the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang, Cl0p has published a fresh batch of what’s purported to be confidential data stolen in a...