US tech execs have dumped $3.6 billion in company stock this month

May25
by on May 25, 2020 at 3:13 pm
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Stock markets are floundering in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and while many are stuck assessing its long-term effects — loads of tech executives have dumped their shares for major profit. In fact, insiders at US tech companies — from fintech to cloud services — collectively unloaded at least $3.6 billion worth of company shares in May, with top executives from big players like Facebook, General Electric, Cloudflare, and Activision all selling small fortunes worth of stock. [Read: Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19] To digest the loin-thumping wealth recently generated by stock sales, Hard Fork built the visualisation…

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Pardon the Intrusion #18: Marcus Hutchins, the ransomware hero

May25
by on May 25, 2020 at 2:51 am
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Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Two contrasting developments unfolded in the US and Germany last week. While the US Senate voted to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act, allowing law enforcement to collect Americans’ browsing and internet search records without a warrant, Germany’s constitutional court ruled that the country’s intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), can no longer spy on the world’s internet traffic without any restrictions. The bill takes aim at Section 215, a sweeping surveillance law in the…

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Coding is a language — and that’s why kids can learn it faster than you

May23
by on May 23, 2020 at 6:30 pm
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Across the world, the conversion of information into a digital format – also called “digitalization” – has increased productivity in the public and private sectors. As a result, virtually every country in the world is working towards a digital economy. As this new economy evolves, special skills like computer programming are needed. This is like a language of numbers, known as code, which allows people to write instructions that are executed by computers. The goal is to create something: from a web page to an image, to a piece of software. Early coding languages emerged in the 1940s. These were…

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