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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Ethereum is Not a World Computer, and Swarm is Much More Than Just a Hard Drive to Give Feedback, Get Rewarded: Win Sony Headphones or an iPad for Helping Shape HackerNoon’s Future, let’s dive right in. By @wasteofserver [ 6 Min read ] Getting unwanted emails from a specific sender and can’t resist checking the trash? This guide will help you remove them for…

Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information, more firings expected Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2025 Meta fired about 20 employees because they had leaked “confidential information outside the company,” with more firings expected. Meta fired about 20 employees for leaking confidential information outside the company, with more firings expected. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold told The Verge exclusively. “We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees being terminated for sharing confidential information outside…

Before your phone gets lost or stolen, put some basic steps in place. You’ll want to act quickly, so preparation is everything. With the right measures, you can find it, recover it, or even erase it if needed. These steps can get you set up so you can do exactly that. Ways to protect your smartphone from loss or theft Lock your phone. Locking your phone is one of the most basic smartphone security measures you can take. Trouble is, few of us do it. Our recent global research showed that only 56% of adults said that they protect their…

Here at PYMNTS we cover the Connected Economy as well as banking and payments. You can call it the smart economy or the digital economy. However, as Karen Webster wrote when she introduced the concept and our research methodology for defining it, “that connected economy will be the result of the full force of the Internet of Things (IoT) in action. Just about every device will be connected to the internet and capable of enabling a transaction – between every possible permutation of machines, people and businesses. In this new connected economy, we will find ourselves living in a world where…

The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion in new funding from investors including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. Reportedly valuing the startup at $19 billion post-money, the new financing brings CoreWeave’s total raised to $5 billion in debt and equity – a remarkable figure for a less-than-a-decade-old company. It’s not just CoreWeave. Lambda Labs, which also offers an array of cloud-hosted GPU instances, in early April secured a “special purpose financing vehicle” of up to $500 million…

Microsoft has confirmed that the Skype video call and messaging service will be shut down in May, 14 years after replacing the Windows Live Messenger. A reader contacted BleepingComputer, and shared that according to strings found in preview versions of Skype for Windows, the company will ask users to switch to Teams Free, with all their contacts, call logs, and messages automatically migrated once they log into their accounts. If they do not want to switch to Teams, they can export their data, including chat history and images shared in messages. “Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available.…

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“How protected am I online?” Customers often ask us some version of this question. It’s a good question, and in the past, there was no direct answer — only recommendations. For example, we recommended online protection that goes beyond antivirus to include identity and privacy protection. We also promoted safety best practices like using multi-factor authentication. We wondered if there was a simpler and easier way to give people the best protection advice. We followed that up by asking our customers what was important to them about online protection. We found that 74% of you have concerns about keeping private online. Another 57% said that they want more control of their personal info online. And more broadly, 47% said they wish…

Auto-color: New Linux backdoor malware targeting the US and Asia. Learn about its advanced evasion, persistence, and detection methods. A newly discovered Linux malware, dubbed Auto-color, is targeting educational institutions and government entities in North America and Asia, employing advanced stealth techniques to avoid detection and removal. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 identified this malware. Their investigation reveals that this malware was active between November and December 2024. Auto-color distinguishes itself by using innocuous file names, such as common words like “door” or “egg,” to disguise its initial executable. “Although the file sizes are always the same, the…