HR platform Personio valued at $1.7bn following $125m funding round
Personio, a startup that provides HR software for small and medium-sized businesses, is now valued at $1.7bn following a $125m…
13 Jan 2021
Mozilla CEO: “We need more than deplatforming”
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has called for social media giants to do more than deplatforming to tackle the spread of far-right content online. In a blogpost, Baker said that there…
13 Jan 2021
Tim Berners-Lee: Internet users are “fed up of a lack of control”
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has called for the re-opening of the web in order to “empower” users. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT virtual conference, Berners-Lee shared details of…
11 Jan 2021
Will the National Cyber Force make the UK safer? Industry responds
The UK faces a barrage of cyber threats from organised crime to state-sponsored hacking groups. In a move to bolster its cyber defences, the UK government launched a new National…
07 Jan 2021
Facebook and Twitter suspend Trump, drawing line at inciting violent attack on Capitol
As insurgents loyal to Donald Trump used violence to siege the Capitol building in Washington, Facebook and Twitter finally found their red line and suspended the outgoing president. The unprecedented…
06 Jan 2021
FBI: SolarWinds hack is “likely Russian in origin”
US security agencies have formally identified a Russian advanced persistent threat group as the “likely” culprit behind the SolarWinds hack that compromised approximately 18,000 organisations. A joint statement by the…
18 Dec 2020
This artist is creating a “belligerent algorithm” to expose AI bias
The algorithms underpinning artificial intelligence (AI) systems have increasingly been shown to reflect the biases of their designers. Artist and game maker A.M. Darke is creating a system based on…