After the Ukrainian army captured one of Russia’s Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles, they decided to do a teardown of it. Their findings show a remarkable amount of jerry-rigged installations using off the shelf components, including the use of a Canon DSLR camera as the main image capturing sensor. Petapixel notes Read more…
Developer burnout is helping to drive an exodus of software developer talent from organizations, as part of a larger trend known as the Great Resignation, according to a report released on April 13 by MuleSoft, which is a division of Salesforce. The MuleSoft report was based on research conducted by Read more…
Apple’s controversial App Tracking Transparency feature available in iOS 14.5 is expected to have a significant impact on Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and YouTube in 2022. According to a report by Lotame, big tech platforms’ revenue could drop by almost $16 billion. For those who don’t remember, ATT requires that applications Read more…
“Cryptocurrency has changed the game of cybercrime,” argues Vice’s Christian Devolu, in a new episode of their video series CRYPTOLAND. “Hackers and cybergangs have been locking down the data of large corporations, police departments, and even hospitals, and demanding ransom — and guess what they’re asking for? Cryptocurrency!” In short, Read more…
In a Twitter thread earlier today, Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth teased a web version of Horizon Worlds, the company’s virtual reality platform that’s an integral part of their plan for creating a “metaverse.” Boz was responding to criticism from MacRumors’ Sami Fathi, who pointed out the hypocrisy of Meta Read more…
In early March, days after Russia invaded Ukraine and began cracking down on dissent at home, Konstantin Siniushin, a venture capitalist in Riga, Latvia, helped charter two planes out of Russia to help people flee. Both planes departed from Moscow, carrying tech workers from the Russian capital as well as Read more…
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41 billion, just days after rejecting a seat on the social media company’s board. Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosedin a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last Read more…