March 6, 20230CommentsUS private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
March 6, 20230CommentsHow buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies having a loose underwriting process for applications (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
March 6, 20230CommentsAn analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam’s Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender (Wired)
March 6, 20230CommentsMicrosoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI’s tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
March 6, 20230CommentsGerman police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 (Associated Press)
March 6, 20230CommentsA look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI’s evolution and safeguard humanity’s future (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
March 6, 20230CommentsThe EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more (Reuters)