Employees at various companies are increasingly taking sensitive computer code with them as they quit their jobs, the Financial Times (FT) reported. As pandemic restrictions ease, high numbers of people have been quitting their jobs, according to FT. Research from the cyber security group Code42...
Venture capital funds have gone in big on crypto, with Bloomberg writing that they’ve spent $17 billion this year already. Bloomberg notes that this amount is not only more than any other year — it’s also more than any other year on record combined. Much...
Flying taxi developer Joby Aviation is getting some help from the blank-check company helmed by LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, the Financial Times (FT) reported. A merger would value Joby Aviation at $5.7 billion. Tech entrepreneur Mark Pincus, who founded the video game maker Zynga, is...
A new rule from the United Nations will require connected cars sold in Japan, South Korea and the European Union, among other places, to be protected against cyberattacks, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Last month, 53 countries, not including the United States, signed a...
Bitcoin transaction fees are simmering back down to ordinary levels after a heavy wave of them in early May, reports suggest. The transaction fees are now around 80 BTC paid to miners on Tuesday (May 26). Earlier in the month, they had hit a high...
The People’s Bank of China said that China’s cryptocurrency, the digital yuan, will not need a currency basket to keep its value, according to a Monday (Dec. 23) report by Coindesk. Changchun Mu, head of the PBOC digital currency research subsidiary, shared the news at...
Metro Bank has launched an app called MCash for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to pick up and drop off cash as needed, according to reports on Monday (Dec. 16). The timeframe for the pickups can be from 24 hours to a week ahead of...
Amazon has announced that it’s going to hire 200,000 temp workers for the holiday season, according to Bloomberg. The workers will handle tasks like packaging, working the warehouses and making deliveries. The number of workers is double the amount Amazon hired last year, and it...
Apple has reached a rare milestone for a second time. The company’s stock went up 3 percent during Wednesday’s (Sept. 11) trading and gave the company a capitalization of $1.01 trillion, according to CNBC. The company’s stock ended the day at $223.59 a share. Apple...
