With all eyes this week on the CES trade show in Las Vegas, famous for a mind-boggling array of personal gadgets, it’s worth considering something counterintuitive: Venture capitalists like consumer technology a lot less than they used to. From a report: According to PitchBook data compiled for Bloomberg, last year the normal order of funding…

The car-maker is the very first customer of robotics start-up Agility, which produces humanoid bipeds that could replace delivery workers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

How business executives’ best intentions may be negatively affecting security and risk mitigation strategies – and exposing weaknesses in organizational defenses. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Around half of the websites that use WebAssembly, a new web technology, use it for malicious purposes, according to academic research published last year. From a report: WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode language that was created after a joint collaboration between all major browser vendors. It introduces a new binary file format for transmitting code…

The video sharing app has fixed several flaws allowing partial account takeover and information exposure. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Facebook is testing an automated detection system to spot fake reviews. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Customers will be transferred over to Boost Mobile starting in February. …read more Source:: CNet

The beginning of technology was about the shift from batch computing in one place to continuous computing everywhere. That era of paradigm changes may be over, which means the real changes are only beginning, argues columnist Ben Thompson. His conclusion: Today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well…

‘Unsubstantiated’ ad must never be seen again, growls adland watchdog A group of Luddites who think 5G causes everything from cancer to lack to sleep have had an advert promoting their views banned from public display.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Among 59 enhancements and bug fixes, Microsoft brings Jupyter improvements to the Python extension for Visual Studio Code and also has something Java developers. …read more Source:: ZDNet