Ocado hired 300 tech workers over past six months
Around 300 tech workers have been added to Ocado’s workforce in the first half of 2020 to cater for increased demand during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic alongside its strategy of...
Twitter lost control of its internal systems to Bitcoin-scamming hackers
Enlarge / A Twitter logo displayed on a smartphone. Twitter lost control of its internal systems to attackers who hijacked almost a dozen high-profile accounts, in a breach that raises...
Musk, Obama, Biden, Bezos, Gates—bitcoin scam hits Twitter in coordinated blitz
Twitter accounts of the rich and famous—including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Joe Biden—were simultaneously hijacked on Wednesday and used to push cryptocurrency scams. As of 3:58 PM...
Details on SpaceX Starlink beta emerge along with photos of user terminals
As SpaceX readies beta-testing for its Starlink broadband service, Internet users have dug into the Starlink website and found new details on the upcoming beta tests and images of the...
Google may have been tracking your mobile apps without permission
Google is facing a major lawsuit after allegedly continuing to track mobile app users even after they had opted out of sharing their data.The online giant is accused of monitoring...
Verizon’s 5G network is tiny—Verizon ads “falsely implied” it’s nationwide
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. Verizon has reluctantly agreed to stop running ads that falsely imply the carrier's 5G...
Plusnet’s broadband deals now cost just £13.83 per month – the UK’s lowest price
Who needs fancy TV add-ons, free gifts or clever advanced routers with complicated names. If the number 1 factor for you when it comes to broadband deals is the price,...
Video providers slammed by credential stuffing attacks
Nearly a fifth of all credential stuffing cyber attacks – 17 billion out of 88 billion – observed during 2019 targeted media and content delivery services, and this is likely...
11 obscure questions, Facebook, Max Schrems and the European Court of Justice
At 9.30am on Thursday in Luxembourg, a country of which we know little, in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a strange court of which we know even less, 11 obscure...
Why is Walmart putting $1.2 billion more in Flipkart?
When Jio Mart --- a potentially powerful e-commerce venture from Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms --- started rolling out in 200 cities across India, it was expected to stir up...