Cloud EKM is designed to separate data at rest from encryption keys stored in a third-party management system. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Airbnb will be breathing a sigh of relief today: Europe’s top court has judged it to be an online platform which merely connects people looking for short term accommodation, rather than a full-blown estate agent. From a report: The ruling may make it harder for the ‘home sharing’ platform to be forced to comply with…

This may be our first look at Samsung’s answer to the Motorola Razr. …read more Source:: CNet

And you thought politics was winding down for Christmas The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suffered a data breach after allegedly having 143 party email accounts accessed amid demands made by blackmailers, the High Court in London has been told (PDF).… …read more Source:: Register

When Isaac Asmiov was writing I, Robot, the field of robotics was still in its infancy. As he notes in The Complete Robot, as the field began to mature, it started showing signs of conforming to the popular ideas held by science fiction writers about what robotics ought to be. Notions of humanoid robots, the…

If history has taught us anything, it’s that hackers can (and will) compromise passwords. Innovation in authentication technology is poised to change that in the coming year. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Xperi and TiVo said Thursday that they have entered a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock entertainment technology deal with an enterprise value of approximately $3 billion. From a report: Xperi sells audio, imaging and computing technology products. TiVo had previously planned to split into two companies, one focused on products and the other…

The ad is reportedly about Facebook’s Groups feature. …read more Source:: CNet

From video edits over 5G to securely storing your driver’s license, here’s what you have to look forward to on phones using Qualcomm’s high-end Snapdragon 865 chip. …read more Source:: CNet

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever…