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Why you can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
Uber’s plan to turn billion-dollar losses into profits isn’t crazy

Enlarge / Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in December 2019. (credit: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
Uber announced on Thursday that it lost $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. As I said last quarter, this wasn’t a surprise. After
The feds just blessed a custom self-driving vehicle for the first time

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday officially signed off on a new self-driving vehicle from the delivery startup Nuro. It’s a historic move; Nuro says it’s the first time
SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO for Starlink broadband division
SpaceX is likely to spin out its Starlink …
Google Play apps with 470k installs can log in to your Facebook and Google accounts
Researchers on Thursday documented two new malware campaigns targeting Android users.
The first involved nine apps that had been downloaded from Google Play more than 470,000 times. With names such …
Malicious warez hosted on Bitbucket get more than 500,000 downloads
An ongoing attack has so far delivered a cocktail of malicious wares to more than 500,000 machines on the Internet by abusing Bitbucket, the …
Google Fiber kills TV service, focuses on broadband and YouTube TV
Flaws in WhatsApp’s desktop app allowed remote access to files
Facebook has issued a security advisory for a flaw in WhatsApp …