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Signal downloads spike in the U.S. and Yemen amid government scandal

Signal downloads spike in the U.S. and Yemen amid government scandal

​The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, communicated the plans for an attack on the Yemeni Houthis via a potentially unauthorized group chat on Signal. However, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added […]  

New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification

New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification

​Meta, X, and Snap are celebrating a new Utah law that will require Apple and Google to take responsibility for verifying users’ ages on their app stores and obtain parental consent for minors. The tech giants have been battling to determine which party should be responsible for age verification on the app stores. Companies like […]  

Ebay backs WunderGraph to build an open-source GraphQL federation

​A fledgling open-source startup that’s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay. WunderGraph, as the company is called, today said it has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding to “scale its open source GraphQL federation.” Investors include eBay’s VC arm […]  

Unlocking young people’s potential through big data

Unlocking young people’s potential through big data

​[[{“value”:” Unlocking young people’s potential through big data Published: Providing experiential learning programmes for today’s ‘data-native’ generation, STEM Fellowship, in Canada, is empowering young people to use computational thinking and develop science communication skills. Founder Dr Alexandre (Sacha) Noukhovitch explains how the charity’s programmes are enabling young people to engage with real-world datasets and develop their potential as scientists and…

NHS vendor Advanced to pay £3M fine following 2022 ransomware attack

​NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing basic security measures before it suffered a ransomware attack in 2022, the U.K.’s data protection regulator has confirmed.  It’s half the fine that the Information Commissioner’s Office had initially sought in August 2024, when the data watchdog said it […]