Category: Global IT News

Indonesia’s antitrust agency KPPU fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, equivalent to $12.6 million, on Wednesday for antitrust violation related to its payment system services for the Google Play Store. The KPPU ordered the search giant to cease the mandatory use of Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also asked Google to let…

Hindustan Unilever acquires Peak XV-backed Minimalist for over $340M

January 22, 2025

Hindustan Unilever has agreed to acquire beauty startup Minimalist for about $342 million, marking its latest push to expand in India’s fast-growing premium skincare market. The consumer goods giant will initially acquire a 90.5% stake in the four-year-old direct-to-consumer brand through secondary buyouts and primary investment, with the remaining 9.5% to be purchased from founders…

UK appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair of antitrust body

January 22, 2025

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new interim chairman: former Amazon executive Doug Gurr (pictured above). The announcement comes as the U.K. seeks to position itself as a pro-growth, pro-tech nation by cutting red-tape and bureaucracy, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The country is also nearing the end of a…

Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform

January 22, 2025

London startup Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the very crowded world of expense management with a focus on applying AI to optimize a single area where businesses, collectively, are currently sinking hundreds of billions of dollars in IT budgets that are exceeding $5 trillion annually: software and cloud spend.…

Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users

January 21, 2025

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

January 21, 2025

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. Trump announced the news in a Truth Social post, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht’s mother and the Libertarian movement. In 2015, a federal…

MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok

January 21, 2025

Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails

January 21, 2025

A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The decision arises from a case Meta shareholders brought against Sandberg and another former Meta board member, Jeff Zients, late last year. The plaintiffs alleged that Sandberg and Zients used personal…

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

January 21, 2025

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. As part of Stargate, OpenAI’s massive new AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “right of first refusal” on new…

OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

January 21, 2025

OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. The joint venture, called The Stargate Project, will begin with a large data center project in Texas and eventually expand to other states. The companies expect to commit $100…

Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers

January 21, 2025

Startup founders flooded inauguration parties hopeful for dealmaking

January 21, 2025

Patrik Hammarén appointed as President of Nokia Technologies and member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Nokia today announced the appointment of Patrik Hammarén as President of Nokia Technologies and member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team, effective 22 January 2025.

Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes: report

January 21, 2025

Meta’s Reality Labs is expanding its lineup of AI smart glasses with a new pair of Oakley-branded spectacles targeted at athletes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Bloomberg reports the new smart glasses, with which Meta seeks to capitalize on the Ray-Ban Meta’s success, will be based on Oakley’s Sphaera glasses, and will shift the camera…

Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search

January 21, 2025

Perplexity on Tuesday launched an API service called Sonar, allowing enterprises and developers to build the startup’s generative AI search tools into their own applications. “While most generative AI features today have answers informed only by training data, this limits their capabilities,” Perplexity wrote in a blog post. “To optimize for factuality and authority, APIs…

Trump targets EV charging funding programs Tesla benefits from

January 21, 2025

President Donald Trump is trying to halt the flow of funding for EV charging infrastructure from two programs that Tesla has benefitted from — the latest example of how Elon Musk’s political interests seem to be at odds with his car company’s goal of advancing sustainable energy. It’s not a given that Trump’s gambit will…

Govtech giant Conduent won’t rule out cyberattack as outage drags on

January 21, 2025

It’s a space race for the AI era: Trump kicks off $US500 billion Stargate Project

January 21, 2025

On day two of his second term, USA President Donald Trump has announced the Stargate Project – a massive half-trillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence instrastructure in the United States.

EXA Infrastructure to acquire transatlantic subsea operator Aqua Comms

January 21, 2025

Global infrastructure investment manager EXA Infrastructure has signed binding agreements to acquire Aqua Comms, a specialist owner/operator of significant Transatlantic and intra-European subsea infrastructure.

Spotify introduces educational audio courses, starting in the UK

January 21, 2025

Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of a new feature called courses, which will allow users to learn about topics in areas like business, tech, lifestyle, music, and more. The feature will initially be made available…

Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to U.S.

January 21, 2025

Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday referenced one of its newer features called courses, which allow users to learn about topics in areas like business, tech, lifestyle, music, and more. The feature is initially being piloted in the U.K.,…

Trump moves to sink offshore wind

January 21, 2025

Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses, content deals, free verification

January 21, 2025

Meta is luring TikTok creators over to its platforms with the promise of cash bonuses, content deals, and support to grow their communities. The company announced on Tuesday that eligible TikTok creators will be able to earn “up to” $5,000 in bonuses over three months for posting Reels on Facebook and Instagram. These creators will…

Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace

January 21, 2025

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how much fintech startups raised in 2024, a slew of fundraising deals, Plaid’s reported revenue growth last year, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The…

Telstra International to upgrade subsea cable infrastructure to 800 Tbps

January 21, 2025

Telstra’s global arm Telstra International has announced a plan to upgrade its international network, which includes boosting the capacity of its subsea cable infrastructure from its current 235 Tbps to more than 800 Tbps of total lit capacity.

Altium acquires Part Analytics

January 21, 2025

Electronics design systems company Altium has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Milwaukee-based Part Analytics, a “further step towards an open electronics system design and lifecycle management platform”.

Stripe is laying off 300 people, but says it still plans to hire in 2025

January 21, 2025

Fintech giant Stripe is laying off 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported on Tuesday by Business Insider. The affected employees are “largely in product, engineering, and operations roles,” the memo said. Despite the layoffs, Chief People Officer Rob McIntosh said that Stripe intends to still grow its headcount by 17% “to land at…

Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse

January 21, 2025

Before there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it’s notable that one top forum software provider, NodeBB, is now joining the fediverse, also known as the open social web. The fediverse today includes apps like decentralized X rival Mastodon, Instagram alternative Pixelfed, an open…

Konica Minolta wins 2025 A3 line of the year award and four pick awards from Keypoint Intelligence

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Konica Minolta is proud to announce that it has received five Buyers Lab (BLI) Awards from Keypoint Intelligence, the world’s leading and independent evaluator of document imaging hardware, software and services.

OpenNebula Exec on VMware Alternatives & Future Cloud Trends

January 21, 2025

Public and private cloud have been one of the key technologies for channel partners and their clients over the past decade. Now, after major acquisitions and rising costs, some are beginning to rethink their infrastructure strategies. OpenNebula’s Principal Partner Manager Michael Abdou explained how his company fits into the equation in an interview with Channel…

Samsung Unpacked 2025: Here’s how to watch and what we expect

January 21, 2025

The biggest reveal from last week’s Samsung CES press conference may well have been another press conference. The hardware giant closed out the main event by teasing the company’s upcoming show. The next Samsung Unpacked event is set for Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. As with all recent Unpacked events, next week’s big show will…

Hack The Emulated Planet: Vulnerability Hunting Planet WGS-804HPT Industrial Switch

January 21, 2025

Claroty’s research team has discovered three vulnerabilities in Planet Technology’s WGS-804HPT Industrial switches, which are widely used in building and home automation systems for a variety of networking applications such as IP surveillance and wireless LANs. These severe vulnerabilities could allow attackers to remotely execute code on affected devices and move laterally throughout the network.

Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook

January 21, 2025

Meta announced on Tuesday that users will soon be able to add their WhatsApp account to their Accounts Center, a hub where users can manage connected experiences across their Facebook, Instagram, and Meta Quest accounts. With this integration, users will be able to cross-post their WhatsApp Status as Stories on Instagram and Facebook, getting rid…

Southern Cross Achieves World’s First 1 Tb/s Transmission across the Pacific with Ciena

January 21, 2025

New coherent optical technology allows Southern Cross to ride the Terabit wave

Make CNAPP Decisions to Stay Ahead of Cloud Threats

January 21, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Cloud environments, while offering unparalleled agility and scalability, are also a major source of risk exposure for organisations worldwide, with breaches ranging from misconfigurations to advanced cyberattacks. According to Tenable’s 2024 Cloud Security Outlook, 95% of organisations had experienced cloud-related breaches in the previous 18 months. New cloud-based attack vectors have combined with…

SUSE Delivers Seamless Retail Operations with SUSE Edge Suite and Edge 3.2

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Forrester study finds anticipating customer needs and improving

IMDb founder steps down as CEO after 35 years

January 21, 2025

IMDb, the Amazon-owned online database that provides information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, announced on Tuesday that its founder, Col Needham, is stepping down as CEO. Nikki Santoro, who has served as the Chief Operating Officer since 2021, has been appointed as his successor. Santoro’s appointment is significant, as she is the first woman…

Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude

January 21, 2025

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more about users and past conversations. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Amodei also revealed that Anthropic expects to…

UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI

January 21, 2025

Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot — built in collaboration with OpenAI — to interact with the main GOV.UK portal.…

Blue Connections IT achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, reinforcing its commitment to security-centric IT practices

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Blue Connections IT, a gold and platinum partner for the world’s largest technology vendors, has announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, the globally recognised standard for information security management systems (ISMS). This certification highlights the company’s dedication to implementing robust security practices that protect its clients, operations, and supply chain.

Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach

January 21, 2025

Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said that the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district between September 1985 and December 2024. The school…

AGL Energy ‘revolutionises Retail Operations’ with Appian

January 21, 2025

Leading Energy Company in Australia is Achieving Over 70% Automation TowardsNet Zero Goals COMPANY NEWS: Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) today announced that AGL (ASX: AGL), Australia’s leading energy retailer is using the Appian Platform as part of a large-scale retail transformation project, which aims to connect every customer to a sustainable future.

F5 equips network and security teams with AI assistant for F5 Distributed Cloud Services

January 21, 2025

‘Intelligent partner’ for SecOps and NetOps will allow teams to query network activity, drill down into security events and rapidly implement mitigations New support for teams who must manage more deployment models than ever, with 88% of organisations now employing a hybrid approach

Qomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers

January 21, 2025

Payments and financial solutions are two-a-penny at this point, but mostly for online e-commerce. What about physical stores? In 2023 Qomodo, a Milan-based “all-in-one” payment methods aggregator for physical merchants, came out with a €34.5 million ($36.9 million) pre-seed round (mostly debt), which we covered, to expand the BNPL model into other categories. It’s now…

NBN should be cautious on budget, dismissing alternative technologies

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Commpete has welcomed the Australian Government’s decision this week to invest $3BN to upgrade fibre connections, but cautioned on the ambitious timeline and budget, and danger of missing out on alternative technologies as they advance.

Sysdig Named Customers’ Choice in Gartner “Voice of the Customer” CNAPP Report

January 21, 2025

With a perfect 5 out of 5 score for Support Experience, Sysdig becomes the only company to achieve top customer ratings for both CNAPP and CSPM by Gartner Peer Insights

LogicMonitor and OpenAI supercharge data centre operations

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: The collaboration will transform ITOps and empower the workforce of tomorrow with cutting-edge AI technologies.

Australian businesses are asking more difficult questions of GenAI

January 21, 2025

GUEST OPINION:The honeymoon is over for generative AI, with users demanding more grounded responses and better performance at a whole-of-organisation level.

HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data

January 21, 2025

Private and secure: How to fortify your organisation’s data protection regimen in 2025

January 21, 2025

GUEST OPINION: As authorities at home and abroad continue to enforce ever-more-stringent regulations, Australian businesses can ill afford to get it wrong

Exabeam Continues to Deliver Real AI-Driven Cybersecurity with Launch of LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot

January 21, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, today announced the launch of LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot, a generative AI-powered feature delivering actionable insights to empower security teams and accelerate workflows. This release solidifies Exabeam as a trusted innovator, providing real AI to automate cybersecurity while competitors underdeliver. LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot harnesses purpose-driven…

MoneyHash, which provides single access to payment services in MENA, banks $5.2M

January 21, 2025

When merchants or companies launch online, they typically start by partnering with one or two payment processors. But as they grow and expand into new regions, they often need to onboard additional payment partners to meet different customer (and sometimes regulatory) needs, a process that comes with some hurdles. That’s given rise to companies to…

Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products

January 20, 2025

French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small companies facing a working capital crunch. It’s a €9 million equity-and-debt round ($9.4 million at today’s exchange rates) with Seventure Partners buying a stake in the small startup. Financière Arbevel…

President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official

January 20, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts to federal agencies, could soon become more official, should an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pass legal muster. On Monday evening, Trump signed an order that renames the U.S. Digital Service, which was created in 2014…

Trump signs exec order, delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days

January 20, 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at restoring TikTok service in the U.S. The order instructs relevant government agencies to “pursue a resolution” that “protects national security” while “saving [TikTok.]” Via the order, Trump is instructing the U.S. Attorney General not to take any action for 75 days to enforce the Protecting…

President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order

January 20, 2025

During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to author guidance that helps companies…

UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy

January 20, 2025

A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details around how this will take shape in the public sector. On the agenda: AI assistants to speed up public services; data sharing deals across siloed departments; and a new set of AI tools —…

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

January 20, 2025

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s long-rumored Operator tool. Publications including Bloomberg have previously reported on Operator, which…

Friend delays shipments of its ‘AI companion’ pendant

January 20, 2025

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to pre-order customers in Q1. But according to co-founder and CEO Avi Schiffman, that’s no longer feasible. “As much as I would liked to…

US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation

January 20, 2025

A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system known as BlueCruise — a required step before a recall can be issued. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation launched a probe into Ford BlueCruise last April after the agency confirmed the system was active…

At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel

January 20, 2025

An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned with a six-pack abs. In a new piece, the New York Times takes readers to an event that organizers call the Microsoft Excel World Championship, a 40-minute, Las Vegas-based competition featuring 12 contestants — all…

Powering profits with sunshine: How businesses are leading the Solar Revolution

January 20, 2025

GUEST OPINION: As the global push for sustainability intensifies, businesses are stepping up to the challenge, not just out of environmental responsibility but for strategic economic advantage. Solar energy has emerged as a cornerstone of this transformation, offering companies a chance to cut costs, boost profits, and enhance their reputations. Welcome to the solar revolution,…

Macquarie invests A$80 million for stake in broadband operator Brazil TecPar

January 20, 2025

Australian tech investment group Macquarie Capital has agreed to invest A$80 million into Brazilian fixed broadband operator Brazil TecPar to expand its optical fibre network.

Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too

January 20, 2025

After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of that move to introduce a video feed of its…

DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

January 20, 2025

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats…

RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online

January 20, 2025

TikTok may be back, but that hasn’t prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday and lasted a day — a number of other video apps rose through the ranks and now dominate the App Store’s Top Charts. The Chinese app RedNote…

Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025

January 20, 2025

The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions for industry-specific workflows. There are a lot of potential areas for venture capitalists to invest in, but there are clearly a few subsectors they are…

New Relic appoints Simon Lee as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan

January 20, 2025

New Relic, the Intelligent Observability company, has announced the appointment of Simon Lee as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).

Upgrading legacy systems to cloud solutions: Securing the future of defence supply chains

January 20, 2025

GUEST OPINION: Operational efficiency and cybersecurity are critical to defence suppliers in manufacturing. Third-party supply chain participants in the sector, from small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises, play a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem.

Rimini Street ‘honoured by clients and industry’ with Buyer’s Choice, Service and Leadership Awards

January 20, 2025

Company continues to lead the third-party software support and innovation solutions market, focusing on delivering strategic, operational and financial success for its clients COMPANY NEWS: Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced it has been honoured…

Sources: AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M

January 20, 2025

The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats: certain startups continue to struggle and are looking for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has heard from a reliable source that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, is buying Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as…

Top networking trends for 2025: AI, automation, and the future of Data Connectivity

January 20, 2025

GUEST OPINION by Bruce Bennie, Vice President & General Manager, Australia & New Zealand at Juniper Networks: 2024 saw a rapid adoption in AI and sustainable innovation as more businesses looked to better streamline operations, transform customer experiences and optimise energy consumption.

Vectra AI launches scholarship programme to foster the next Generation of talent in AI and cybersecurity

January 20, 2025

The Vectra AI Scholars Programme will empower students to develop creative solutions that harness the power of AI to identify patterns of attacker behaviour across the expanding hybrid attack surface COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the launch of the Vectra AI Scholars Programme, a scholarship…

Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market

January 20, 2025

Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit is accelerating its expansion and expects continued losses as competition intensifies in India’s instant delivery market. Blinkit now aims to reach 2,000 dark stores – small warehouses in residential areas that exclusively service online orders – by December 2025, a year ahead of its previous guidance, after exceeding 1,000 stores…

X is rolling out a dedicated vertical video feed for US users

January 20, 2025

Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed. The company is adding a video tab in the app’s bottom bar for users in the U.S. to let them quickly access video content on the platform.…

How African VC firm Oui Capital returned its first fund with Moniepoint’s unicorn exit

January 20, 2025

At a recent investor meeting, early-stage African investor Oui Capital informed limited partners that it had returned its $4 million debut fund following the sale of some shares in the business banking platform Moniepoint. The African fintech unicorn has so far proven to be a standout investment for five-year-old Oui Capital. When it launched its…

Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos

January 19, 2025

It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok’s services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store. Bluesky said Sunday that it is launching a custom feed for vertical video in its app. Users can see a trending videos section in the explore tab…

How to stream Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day 2025

January 19, 2025

Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office on Monday in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., once again. The event takes place at noon ET and is expected to attract considerable attention from both supporters and opponents. How to stream Trump’s inauguration You can watch the inauguration live with cable or…

How to talk to your teen about online safety: a guide from Snap

January 19, 2025

With students soon returning to school after the summer holidays, many with their own mobile phones for the first time, lots of parents will be navigating new conversations with their teens about how to stay safe online as the new school year begins. Here’s guidance how to broach the topic, from Snapchat’s global head of platform…

Why Australia’s AI future must look beyond data centres

January 19, 2025

The explosive growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, creating machines capable of answering questions or creating multi-media content that will be integral to Australia’s future economy. As AI becomes more embedded in everyday life, the ubiquity of compute power is critical for the technology to truly take off.

Nokia to connect TenneT North Sea offshore wind farms with optical network

January 19, 2025

Nokia has been selected by Dutch government owned offshore transmission systems operator TenneT to provide the optical networking technology for eight new 2GW wind energy platforms in the Dutch North Sea.

From recruiting for Palantir to landing a plane on Highway 85: meet defense tech’s wildest power broker

January 19, 2025

Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Cisco unveils solution to secure AI transformation of enterprises

January 19, 2025

Networking hardware giant Cisco has unveiled a solution to protect against security threats during AI transformation within enterprises.

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

January 19, 2025

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath.…

Meta announces a new video editing app called Edits amidst TikTok and CapCut ban

January 19, 2025

Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban. Instagram head Adam Mosseri (pictured above) said on Threads that the app will launch next month on iOS, with an Android version…

Semperis Announces Lightning Intelligence to Provide Easy SaaS Offering for Active Directory and Entra ID Security Posture Assessment

January 19, 2025

New easy-to-deploy online security posture assessment for hybrid AD environments provides unprecedented visibility into security vulnerabilities, reducing cyberattack risk for small and mid-sized organisations and the most complex identity environment

TikTok goes dark in the US

January 19, 2025

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular short-form video app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday evening, and the app also disappeared from the Apple and Google…

Trump says he will delay TikTok ban, suggests a joint venture with US ownership

January 19, 2025

TikTok went dark for users in the US on Saturday night, but it may not be gone for long. President-elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that he will issuing an executive order Monday that will “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a…

Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins

January 19, 2025

As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are at particular risk of having their data stolen. This ranges from their private Slack messages to Social Security numbers and, potentially, bank accounts. The researcher who discovered the…

Manhattan Debuts Postgame Spotlight, a Rich Analytics Tool to Optimise Fulfilment Performance

January 19, 2025

Latest offering provides guidance for improved inventory allocation, enabling retailers to overcome fulfilment constraints, reducecosts and increase overall profitability

AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds

January 19, 2025

Australia’s ‘first independent tech policy’ think tank launched

January 19, 2025

COMPANY NEWS: Australia’s first independent think tank dedicated to technology policy, the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi) has been launched today.

Rapid Circle names new A/NZ leadership to ‘drive innovation’ for Microsoft solutions and AI

January 19, 2025

Tech consultancy and cloud transformation services company Rapid Circle has announced two key leadership appointments to accelerate its regional growth and “continue the impressive trajectory the company has experienced over the past few years”.

Apple lists all apps it removed alongside TikTok in the U.S.

January 19, 2025

Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the U.S. The iPhone maker typically doesn’t publish information for when it blocks apps. Notably, other ByteDance apps, including CapCut, Lemon8 — which surged in the last few months — and…

TikTok goes dark in the US

January 18, 2025

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern. As of Saturday evening, the app was also no longer available in the…

Rivada Space Networks wins deal to expand Vodafone Cook Islands network

January 18, 2025

Vodafone Cook Islands and German satellite network provider Rivada Space Networks have signed an MoU to provide space based telecoms connectivity in the Oceania region and beyond.

u-blox to phase out loss making mobile business and focus on RTLS

January 18, 2025

Switzerland domiciled wireless semiconductors maker u-blox has announced a decision to increase its focus on its real-time locations systems (RTLS) business and phase out its loss making mobile business.

FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns

January 18, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies and generative AI developers — specifically, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic. “The FTC’s report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in,…

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