Firm’s share price has risen twentyfold after it changed its strategy to become first ‘bitcoin treasury company’ In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify. MicroStrategy, whose head office is situated next to a shopping mall and metro station in Tysons …
As I compulsively check my new device, ping-ponging between real and virtual spaces, I can feel my adolescent self eye-rolling at me across the decades More summer essentials They say it’s good to let something go to mark one year’s turn to the next. I tried to keep this in mind when, during a blissful …
China says claims a state-sponsored actor was behind cyber breach earlier this month are ‘groundless’ Beijing has hit back at accusations that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach at the US treasury department, calling the claims “groundless”. The breach was orchestrated via a third-party cybersecurity service provider. Hackers were able to gain …
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Analysts argue 2024 is minor blip and that lobbying for relaxation of rules could harm industry in long term Affordable new electric family cars – particularly those that are EU-made – have been tough to come by in Europe for the past few years. There were no launches of homegrown electric models for less than …
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Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for disaster that never materialised On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down. The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world’s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between …
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As soon as people decide that crypto is valueless, it will be – but in the next few years, exposure of traditional institutions will likely run into the hundreds of billions As a principal adviser to the then treasurer Wayne Swan, Jim Chalmers had a ringside seat to observe the impact of the global financial …
Third-party cybersecurity service provider was compromised and some unclassified papers were accessed A Chinese state-sponsored actor broke into the US treasury department earlier this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers that was provided to Reuters on Monday. The actor compromised a third-party cybersecurity service provider, BeyondTrust. The hackers …
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Retailers already trialling new codes that contain sell-by dates, product instructions, allergens and ingredients It is the zebra-striped tag that has become ubiquitous over the last 50 years, but the barcode’s days could be numbered. The global organisation overseeing their use has said a more powerful alternative will be readable by retailers everywhere within two …
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Match Group’s digital assistant will tailor profiles and search for dates – but critics fear genuine connections are at risk Fed up with writing dating profiles? Or sick and tired of swiping? Dating apps not really doing it for you? Let a digital sidekick take the strain. While user fatigue may be setting in – …
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UK culture minister says government wants to ‘open a dialogue’, but will intervene if platforms do not comply The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has written to video-sharing platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok, urging them to promote higher quality educational content to children. Recent statistics suggest that although a decade ago children watched an …
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