A message to you, Rudy. Or a call. Or maybe an email? Customer engagement outfit Twilio has confirmed its intent to snap up email marketing platform SendGrid in a deal worth around $2bn in stock.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Samsung, Huawei, and Apple are the top three smartphone makers and to continue the trend of these companies having smartphone companions, Huawei announced a new smartwatch and fitness band to meet the needs of active users. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Based on the dual-NPU Kirin 980 chipset, the Mate 20 series looks set to consolidate Huawei’s strengths in on-device AI, photography and battery life. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Deloitte estimates cybercrime costs to reach $6 trillion annually — but companies still lag in preparedness. …read more Source:: Threatpost

It isn’t a unique idea, but we liked [Eric Wiemers’s] take on the classic animated skull for Halloween. In addition to showing you the code and the wiring, the video spends some time discussing what the audio looks like and what has to happen to get it into a format suitable for the Arduino. You…

As more states take cybersecurity and privacy issues into their own hands, experts worry that big tech will push for preemption. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Nixing 139k phishing sites is pretty good going to be fair Despite companies “hanging up” when GCHQ rings them to say they’ve been hacked (true story), “the UK has avoided a category 1 [infosec incident]”, according to National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin.… …read more Source:: Register

Now you know who’s behind the curtain. …read more Source:: CNet

Business communications service Slack, which has more than three million paying customers, offers a bouquet of features that has made it popular (so popular that is worth as much as $9 billion), but it lacks a crucial feature that some of its rivals don’t: end-to-end encryption. It’s a feature that numerous users have asked Slack…

The “Blush” finish is exclusive to China. …read more Source:: CNet