T-Mobile confirmed hackers gained access to the telecom giant’s systems in an announcement published Monday. Joseph Cox, reporting at Motherboard: The move comes after Motherboard reported that T-Mobile was investigating a post on an underground forum …
Mastercard To Become First Payments Network To Phase Out Magnetic Stripe
Mastercard, writing in a blog post: In the early age of modern credit cards, they had to write down account information for each card-carrying customer by hand. Later, they used flatbed imprinting machines to record the card information on carbon paper…
Nokia’s Smartphone: 25 Years Since it Changed the World
The Nokia 9000 Communicator — “the office in your back pocket” — was a smartphone even before the word was invented. It has been 25 years since it revolutionized the market. DW: Nokia presented its 9000 Communicator at the CeBIT 1996 computer fair in…
How International Scam Artists Pulled off an Epic Theft of Covid Benefits
Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid, officials say. From a report: In June, the FBI got a warrant to hunt through the Google accounts of Abedemi Rufa…
How Google Bought Android — According To Folks in the Room
Chet Haase, who worked at several Silicon Valley tech companies and in 2010 joined the Android engineering team at Google and watched Android rise from the bottom of the smartphone field to where it is today, writes in a new book: The final part of the…
Pearson To Pay $1 Million Fine for Misleading Investors About 2018 Data Breach
Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student rec…
Walmart Seeks Crypto Expert To Oversee Digital Currency Push
Walmart is looking to hire a cryptocurrency expert to develop a blockchain strategy, joining a growing number of major corporations exploring the viability of digital currencies such as Bitcoin. From a report: The position will be responsible for “deve…
Intel Enters the PC Gaming GPU Battle With Arc
Dave Knott writes: Intel is branding its upcoming consumer GPUs as Intel Arc. This new Arc brand will cover both the hardware and software powering Intel’s high-end discrete GPUs, as well as multiple hardware generations. The first of those, known prev…
Amazon Encourages Teachers To Use Social Media To Obtain Classroom Supplies
theodp writes: By purchasing items from hundreds of teachers’ Wish Lists this back-to-school season,” Amazon explained in a Monday corporate post, “Amazon is working to ensure teachers can fill their classrooms with the items they need, from essential …
Beijing Tightens Grip on ByteDance by Quietly Taking Stake, China Board Seat
For months, China has sought to bring its bustling internet sector to heel with an intensifying series of antitrust crackdowns and data security probes. In one example that hasn’t been previously reported, the Chinese government in April quietly took a…