AXS, a digital marketplace operated by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), is the second largest presenter of live events in the world after Live Nation Entertainment (i.e. Ticketmaster). Paris Martineau of The Outline reports that the company forces customers to download a predatory app which goes on to snatch up a range of personally identifiable data…

Purchase of threat detection firm closely follows company’s acquisition of security training platform Ataata. …read more Source:: DarkReading

When French students return to school in September they’ll have to leave one of their most prized possessions at home — their smartphone. From a report: French lawmakers on Monday passed legislation banning students as old as 15 from bringing smartphones and tablets to school or having them turned off at least, according to the…

A dual-sim-supporting model has been rumored for the fall, and now code to support the capability has appeared in iOS 12 developer beta 5. …read more Source:: CNet

5G takes another tentative step to actually being a thing Nokia and T-Mobile have inked a $3.5bn deal to take the US telco into the bright new world of 5G communications.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Regular blind-spot monitors might have trouble seeing behind a connected trailer. …read more Source:: CNet

Tom Hardy’s alien partner really wants to eat some thugs. …read more Source:: CNet

More fun under that same great folding hardtop. …read more Source:: CNet

HP said it has launched the first-ever bug bounty program for printers, with rewards of up to $10,000 for discovered vulnerabilities. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Here’s a disk-bound query: What’s inside the box? Startup Yellowbrick Data has built a turnkey, hyperconverged, all-flash box that it has claimed can replace up to seven disk-based data warehouse racks with less than half a rack and speeds disk-bound query executions.… …read more Source:: TheRegister