By Miguel Carlo Ang and Earle Maui Earnshaw We recently saw a malicious spam campaign that has AutoIT-compiled payloads the trojan spy Negasteal or Agent Tesla (detected by Trend Micro as TrojanSpy.Win32.NEGASTEAL.DOCGC), and remote access trojan (RAT) Ave …
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Month: October 2019
Music Companies’ Keys to the Future: Build Up & Expand Out or Die Trying
What does a soda bottler have in common with a record label? Plenty. In both carbonated beverages and music, companies want to be ready for whatever their marketplaces look like in five or 10 years. Over the last few years, music companies have purchased not …
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S&P 500 rises a bit, lifted by tech firms’ earnings – Los Angeles Times
Solid profits and forecasts from several technology companies helped lift the Standard & Poors 500 index to a modest gain Thursday, leaving it within striking distance of its all-time high. The benchmark index wavered between small gains and losses much …
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Tesla short-sellers lost $1.4 billion after the company reported a surprise profit — erasing 70% of their gains for the year (TSLA)
Traders betting against Tesla got crushed Thursday morning after the electric-car manufacturer reported a surprise earnings beat on Wednesday. According to data from financial-analytics provider S3 Partners, Tesla short-sellers absorbed $1.4 …
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A congressperson dared Mark Zuckerberg to spend an hour a day moderating Facebook. If he took the dare, he’d make 65,000 times as much as a typical moderator would in that hour.
At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Representative Katie Porter of California challenged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to walk in the shoes of the social media giant’s content moderators, who monitor posts and videos on Facebook to see which violate the c…
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