Najib Balala told critics to "go to hell" after they blamed him for the deaths of 10 rhinos.
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A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns - New York Times
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A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns
New York Times Gun control proponents and state officials are racing the clock to try to block blueprints to make guns from 3-D printers from going online Wednesday. The varied efforts, in courthouses and legislatures, are aimed at Defense Distributed, a Texas-based ... Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration To Block 3D-Printed Guns States sue Trump administration to block 3D printed guns States Sue Trump Administration To Block Release Of 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints |
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Koch Donor Network Won't Back GOP Candidate in North Dakota Race
Wall Street Journal COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The conservative donor network founded by the billionaire Koch brothers won't support a GOP contender in a close congressional midterm race, saying he doesn't follow Koch ideology on spending and tariffs. Network leaders ... The Koch Network Finally Has GOP-Controlled Government. They're Not Satisfied. Feeling 'Taken For Granted,' Koch-Led Donors Turn From GOP Koch network of donors snubs Republican candidate in critical Senate race in North Dakota |
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Tractable is applying AI to accident and disaster appraisal
“Happy to spend 10 minutes on our vision and the journey we’re on, but then, really, 15 minutes on what we’ve got today, what it is we’ve achieved, what it is our AI does,” says Tractable co-founder and CEO Alexandre Dalyac when I video called him a couple of weeks ago. “You can probably speed up all of that,” I quip back.
The resulting conversation, lasting well over an hour, spanned all of the above and more, including what is required to build a successful AI business and why he and his team think they can help prevent another “AI winter.”
Founded in 2014 by Dalyac, Adrien Cohen and Razvan Ranca after going through company builder Entrepreneur First, London-based Tractable is applying artificial intelligence to accident and disaster recovery. Specifically, through the use of deep learning to automate visual damage appraisal, and therefore help speed up insurance payouts and access to other types of financial aid.
Our AI has already been trained on tens of millions of these cases, so that’s a perfect case of us already having distilled thousands of people’s work experience Alexandre Dalyac
Those things, he says, broadly break down into cars, homes and crops, roughly equating to $1 trillion in damage each year. But, perhaps more importantly, livelihoods get impacted.
“If a car gets damaged, mobility is reduced. If a home gets damaged, shelter is reduced. And if crops get damaged, food is reduced. Across all of those accidents and disasters, we’re talking hundreds of millions of lives affected.”
It is here where a little lateral (and non-artificial) thinking is required. Accident and disaster recovery starts with visual damage appraisal: look at the damage, say how much it’s going to cost, unlock the funds and rebuild. The problem (and Tractable’s opportunity) is that having an appraiser look at a car, house or field can take days to weeks depending on availability — and therefore so can accessing funds to start rebuilding — whereas the claim is that computer vision and AI technology can potentially do the same job in minutes.
“When you assess, that is basically a very powerful but very narrow visual task, which is, look at the damage, how much is it gonna cost? Today, as you can imagine, these kind of assessments are manual. And they take days to weeks. And so you instantly know that with AI that can be 10 times faster,” says Dalyac.
“In some sense this is a perfect class of AI tasks, because it’s very heavy on image classification. And image classification is a task where AI can surpass human performance as of this decade. If you have instant appraisal, that means faster recovery. Hence the mission.”
Dalyac says that part of Tractable’s secret sauce is in the many millions of proprietary labels the company has produced. This has been aided by its patented “interactive machine learning technology,” which allows it to label images faster and cheaper than typical labeling services.
The team’s focus to date has been to train its AI to understand car damage, technology it has already deployed in six countries, seeing the startup work primarily with insurers.
Related to this I’m shown a simple demo of Tractable’s car damage appraisal tool. Dalyac opens a folder of car images on his laptop and uploads them to the software. Within seconds, the AI has seemingly identified the different parts of the car and determined which parts can be repaired and which parts need to be entirely written-off and therefore replaced fully. Each has an AI-generated estimated cost.
It all happens within a matter of minutes, although I have no way of knowing how difficult the pre-determined and fully controlled task is. It’s also unclear how an AI can possibly do the full job of a human assessor based on a limited set of 2D images alone, and without the ability to peek under the hood or undertake further investigations.
“We’re trying to figure out how much damage there is to a vehicle based on photos,” explains Dalyac. “There’s some really tough correlations to pick out, which are: based on the photos of the outside, what’s the internal damage? When you’re a human you are going to have seen and torn down maybe about a thousand to two thousand cars in your whole life of 20 or 30 years of doing that. Our AI has already been trained on tens of millions of these cases, so that’s a perfect case of us already having distilled thousands of people’s work experience. That allows us to get hold of some very challenging correlations that humans just can’t do.”
You need to find real-world use cases that will make a difference, where you can surpass human performance Alexandre Dalyac
What is abundantly clear is Dalyac’s commitment to developing AI technology with real-world use that is commercially viable. If that doesn’t happen, he believes it won’t just be Tractable that will suffer, but the continued belief and investment in AI as a whole. Here, of course, he’s talking about the prospect of another so-called “AI winter,” citing a recent Crunchbase report that says funding for artificial intelligence companies in the U.S. has levelled off and even started to decline at seed stage.
“If you’re trying to make the $15 billion that has been invested into AI not fuck up and lead to something successful that will prevent an AI winter that will lead to continuous improvement, you need a really good return on that asset class. And for that you need those businesses to be successful.
“To make an AI company successful, really successful — not just an acqui-hire, not just an IP exit but a real commercial success that’s going to prevent an AI winter — you need to find real-world use cases that will make a difference, where you can surpass human performance, where you can change the way things work,” he says.
The reference to acqui-hire or IP exit takes on more meaning when you consider that Tractable was in the same cohort at Entrepreneur First as Magic Pony Technology, the AI startup acquired by Twitter for up to $150 million for its image enhancing technology. And most recently, the team behind Bloomsbury AI, another EF company, was acqui-hired by Facebook for $20-30 million.
To ensure that Tractable can continue its mission of applying AI to accident and disaster recovery — and presumably not sell too early — the startup has closed $20 million in Series B investment in a round led by U.S. venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners. Existing investors, including Ignition Partners, Zetta Venture Partners, Acequia Capital and Plug and Play Ventures, also participated. The new capital is to be spent on accelerating growth, expanding its research and development and entering new markets.
(The Series B also included an additional $5 million in secondary funding, seeing some investors at least partially exit. I understand Tractable’s founders sold a relatively small number of shares as they were permitted to take money off the table. Dalyac declined to comment.)
As we wrap up our call, I note that all of Tractable’s main investors, not including EF, are from the U.S. — something Dalyac says was a deliberate decision after he discovered the gulf between European and U.S. valuations.
“That’s a shame, isn’t it?” I say with my European tech ecosystem hat on.
“It isn’t; it’s enormous exports for the U.K.,” says the Tractable CEO who is French-born but raised in the U.K. “We have, as of today, the vast majority of our headcount in London. The entire product team is in London. The entire R&D team is in London. But most of the revenue comes from the United States. We are making AI an export industry of the U.K.”
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Only one week left to apply for Startup Battlefield Latin America
Startups in Latin America, your time is running out. You have just one week to apply for the inaugural TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America on November 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil. The application page can be found here, and the deadline to fill out an application is Monday, August 6 at 5 p.m. PST.
Just last week we were in Buenos Aires and Santiago to speak with startups, VCs and accelerators about Startup Battlefield. Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premier startup competition, which over the past 12 years has placed 750 companies on stage to pitch top VCs and TechCrunch editors. Those founders have gone on to raise more than $8 billion and produce more than 100 exits. Startup Battlefield Latin America aims to add 15 great founders from Latin America to those elite ranks.
Here’s how Startup Battlefield Latin America works. TechCrunch editors with years of pitch-off experience review all eligible applications (more on eligibility in a moment) and select 15 finalists.
Finalists receive free pitch coaching and will be prepped and raring to go for the main event, which takes place in front of a live audience at São Paulo’s Tomie Ohtake Institute. During three preliminary rounds, five startups per round will each have six minutes to pitch and present their demo before a panel of top VC judges. The judges have six minutes following each pitch for a rigorous Q&A.
Five of the 15 startups will move on to the finals and pitch again to a new set of judges and, out of that final cohort of five, the judges will pick one startup to be the first TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America champion.
The winning founders receive a $25,000 non-equity cash prize and a trip for two to the next TechCrunch Disrupt, where they can exhibit free of charge in the Startup Alley. While there, they might even qualify to participate in the Startup Battlefield.
And then there’s the media coverage — and it’s not just for the winning team. All Battlefield participants benefit from the broad exposure that comes with competing in Startup Battlefield. In addition to the potential interest of the media outlets and investors sitting in the audience, we video all the Startup Battlefield sessions and post them on TechCrunch.com. That’s pretty awesome exposure.
Now, let’s get down to eligibility. All founders must meet these basic requirements:
- Have an early-stage company in “launch” stage
- Be headquartered in one of these countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, (Central America) Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, (Caribbean — including dependencies and constituent entities), Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
- Have a fully working product/beta reasonably close to, or in, production
- Have received limited press or publicity to date
- Have no known intellectual property conflicts
- Apply by August 6, 2018, at 5 p.m. PST
Now that you know the drill, what’s stopping you from taking your shot? Startup Battlefield Latin America goes down on November 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil, but you must apply by August 6, 2018, at 5 p.m. PST. We want to see you there, so apply right now!
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EA launches premium subscription with latest Battlefield and Fifa
Video game company EA is slowly switching its business model to recurring subscriptions. The company just launched Origin Access Premier for $15 per month or $100 per year. This subscription is only available on PC.
This isn’t EA’s first subscription. The company first launched EA Access on the Xbox One. For $5 per month or $30 per year, you can download a play old EA games as part of your subscription.
EA Access doesn’t include the most recent games. But you can play the latest Fifa, Madden and Battlefield games a few months after their initial releases. Usually, EA Access games don’t include any DLC or extra content.
In addition to full games, EA Access lets you try new EA games for 10 hours. You also get 10 percent off on EA digital purchases.
In 2016, EA launched a similar service on PC for the same price. In addition to a collection of EA games, the company partnered with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and other game companies. You can find indie hits, such as The Witness, Oxenfree and Trine 2.
And now, EA is launching a more expensive subscription tier. With Origin Access Premier, you get new EA titles a few days before launch day. For instance, you’ll be able to download and play Madden NFL 19, Fifa 19, Battlefield V and Anthem when they launch in the coming months.
Subscribers won’t have to pay for DLCs, or at least not as many. Games included in the subscription are deluxe editions (Fifa Ultimate Edition, Battlefield V Deluxe, etc.).
In order to convince people to subscribe right away, EA is adding deluxe editions of Battlefront II, Fifa 18, Unravel Two, Fe or The Sims 4 right away.
Other companies have launched subscription services, such as Microsoft with the Xbox Game Pass and Sony’s PlayStation Now. This is an interesting shift as game companies are getting ready for cloud computing.
While many people still buy games on DVDs and play on gaming consoles, the industry is slowly going to switch to cloud gaming. You will launch a game on a server in a data center near you and stream the video feed to the device in front of you.
It doesn’t make as much sense to own a game if you don’t even run it on your console in your living room. By creating recurring subscriptions and putting together gaming libraries, companies can increase recurring revenue.tt
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WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
WhatsApp has added a much-requested new feature after it began to allow users to make group voice and video calls.
It’s been just over three years since the company, which is owned by Facebook, introduced voice calls and later a video option one year later. Today, WhatsApp counts over 1.5 billion monthly users and it says they make over two billion minutes of calls via its service each day.
Starting this week, callers can now add friends by hitting the “add participant” button which appears in the top right corner of their screen. The maximum number of participants is four and, impressively, WhatsApp said the calls are end-to-end encrypted.
That’s not an easy thing to do. Telegram, a self-professed secure messaging app, hasn’t even gotten around to encrypting its group messaging chats, let alone group calls.
On the encryption side, WhatsApp has long worked with WhisperSystems to cover all messages and calls on its platform from prying eyes and ears. That said, the relationship between the two become a little more complicated this year when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton donated $50 million of his wealth — accumulated from Facebook’s acquisition of his company in 2014 — to the Signal Foundation, which is associated with WhisperSystems.
Acton quit Facebook last year — this year he encouraged people to delete the social network for its data and privacy screw-ups — while his fellow WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum joined him in departing in May of this year.
Like Acton, Koum was apparently irked by scandals such as Cambridge Analytica, although his on record explanation for quitting was to “do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee.” Each to their own…
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Nintendo’s profit jumps 88% as it nears 20 million Switch sales
Nintendo released its latest earnings report today and the headline is that the company has now sold nearly 20 million Switch consoles. The actual number is 19.67 million as of the end of June, so add July sales and the 20 million milestone is likely to have already been hit. Either way, it has easily surpassed its predecessor, the much-maligned Wii U.
Overall, the business recorded a 30.5 billion JPY ($275 million) operating profit, up 88 percent year-on-year, as revenue grew 9 percent to reach 168 billion JPY, or $1.5 billion.
The Japanese firm sold 1.88 million Switches in the most recent quarter, which is actually down from 1.97 million one year ago, although this quarter tends to be a slow one ahead of the holiday season. That slip was made up for on the software side as sales of Switch games jumped from 8.1 million last year to 17.96 million in the most recent quarter.
Nintendo has a bunch of new titles incoming — including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and two Pokémon titles — while its Nintendo Switch Online service is due to launch in September so there’s plenty more to come. That said, Nintendo has some work to do if it is to hit its target of 20 million Switch sales during the current financial year.
Elsewhere, Nintendo said it sold 1.26 million of the NES Classic Edition when it was relaunched in June, while it sold 1.39 million Labo kits for the Switch.
The companies mobile gaming business continues to do well, grossing nine billion JPY, $81 million, in the quarter. That’s likely to spike when the company introduces Mario Kart Tour (huzzah!) and new title Dragalia Lost for mobile before March 2019. Although Nintendo suggested that the pipeline for new mobile games will slow once these two new arrivals are released.
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Dareen Tatour: Israeli Arab poet sentenced for incitement
Dareen Tatour said her poem was mistranslated and misinterpreted by the Israeli authorities.
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Colombia shoot-out kills eight in area hit by rebel feud
The gun battle happened in a billiard hall in an area where two rival rebel groups vie for control.
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Spider 'devours' native Irish lizard
The Irish lizard was found mummified by the spider's silk in a County Dublin garden.
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India death penalty: Does it actually deter rape?
Some evidence from neighbouring countries would suggest otherwise.
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Bob Woodward's New Book Will Detail 'Harrowing Life' Inside Trump White House - New York Times
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Bob Woodward's New Book Will Detail 'Harrowing Life' Inside Trump White House
New York Times Bob Woodward, the indefatigable Washington Post journalist who has chronicled several presidential administrations in best-selling books, has his latest subject: Donald J. Trump. Simon & Schuster plans to publish “Fear: Trump in the White House,” on ... |
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4 people, including child, fatally shot in Queens, New York City, police says - CBS News
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4 people, including child, fatally shot in Queens, New York City, police says
CBS News Last Updated Jul 31, 2018 12:32 AM EDT. NEW YORK -- Dozens of NYPD officers swarmed an apartment building in the New York City borough of Queens after four people, including a young boy, were shot and killed, CBS New York reports Monday. |
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ICE union asks Portland mayor for police protection - OregonLive.com
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ICE union asks Portland mayor for police protection
OregonLive.com The union that represents employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday called on Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to immediately provide law enforcement services to ICE employees. Attorney Sean Riddell, legal representative for the National ... |
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Malaysia civil aviation chief resigns over MH370 lapses - Reuters
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Malaysia civil aviation chief resigns over MH370 lapses
Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The chief of Malaysia's civil aviation authority resigned on Tuesday after an investigation report on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 showed lapses by the air traffic control center in Kuala Lumpur. Director General ... |
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Four People, Including a 5-Year-Old Boy, Are Shot and Killed in Queens - New York Times
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Four People, Including a 5-Year-Old Boy, Are Shot and Killed in Queens
New York Times The police at an apartment building in Queens where where four people, including a child, were fatally shot on Monday night. The authorities were investigating the killings as a murder-suicide.CreditUli Seit for The New York Times. By Benjamin Mueller ... 4 people, including child, fatally shot in Queens, New York City, police says |
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Zimbabwe election: Mnangagwa and Chamisa both upbeat
Both sides suggest they are confident of a win but observers say the race is too close to call.
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Paul Manafort, Trump ex-campaign chief, to begin trial
Paul Manafort will face 18 charges relating to bank fraud when he attends court on Tuesday.
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The flooded Cambodian villagers who refuse to move on
The BBC hears from residents holding out in village flooded by a controversial dam project in Cambodia.
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The tech helping drive the Tour de France
BBC Click joined Team Dimension Data at the Tour de France to see how tech could influence the race.
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Miss Helen, shark stolen in a pram, recovering in US aquarium
The thieves abducted the shark from a Texas aquarium by disguising it as a baby in a pram.
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Paul Manafort trial, California wildfires, MLB trade deadline: 5 things you need to know Tuesday - USA TODAY
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Paul Manafort trial, California wildfires, MLB trade deadline: 5 things you need to know Tuesday
USA TODAY The stakes are high as jury selection begins Tuesday in former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort's trial. Facing 18 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion charges in Virginia, Manafort could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. The trial ... Prosecutors advise witnesses in Manafort trial: Avoid the T-word (Trump) Why Mueller needs a win in the Manafort trial Here are six things you need to know about Paul Manafort's trial |
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California, Trump, CBS: Your Monday Evening Briefing - New York Times
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California, Trump, CBS: Your Monday Evening Briefing
New York Times (Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good evening. Here's the latest. Image. CreditBob Strong/Reuters. 1. In Northern California, the death toll from the Carr Fire rose to six, and seven people are missing. The fire is only 20 ... Leslie Moonves Promoted CBS' “Zero Tolerance Policy” Toward Harassment CBS board leaves CEO Leslie Moonves in place as it launches sexual misconduct investigation Stephen Colbert Says Leslie Moonves is "My Guy," But Stresses Accountability |
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The case of San Antonio's stolen shark is solved, a suspect is under arrest and 'Miss Helen' is back home - CNN
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The case of San Antonio's stolen shark is solved, a suspect is under arrest and 'Miss Helen' is back home
CNN (CNN) What began with a quick grab-and-go theft Saturday at the San Antonio Aquarium -- the suspect leaving a trail of water drops as he hurried away with his dripping prize of a small but very much alive shark -- ended Monday with the safe return of ... |
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'He loved what he was doing': Firefighter who died in California blaze captained elite team - USA TODAY
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'He loved what he was doing': Firefighter who died in California blaze captained elite team
USA TODAY Brian Hughes, a firefighter who died Sunday battling the Ferguson Fire near Yosemite National Park in California, captained an elite team of experienced firefighters called the Arrowhead Hotshots. His colleagues remembered Hughes, 33, as a fearless man ... |
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Dixons Carphone now says ~8.8M more customers affected by 2017 breach
A Dixons Carphone data breach that was disclosed earlier this summer was worse than initially reported. The company is now saying that personal data of 10 million customers could also have been accessed when its systems were hacked.
The European electronics and telecoms retailer believes its systems were accessed by unknown and unauthorized person/s in 2017, although it only disclosed the breach in June, after discovering it during a review of its security systems.
Last month it said 5.9M payment cards and 1.2M customer records had been accessed. But with its investigation into the breach “nearing completion”, it now says approximately 10M records containing personal data (but no financial information) may have been accessed last year — in addition to the 5.9M compromised payment cards it disclosed last month.
“While there is now evidence that some of this data may have left our systems, these records do not contain payment card or bank account details and there is no evidence that any fraud has resulted. We are continuing to keep the relevant authorities updated,” the company said in a statement.
In terms of what personal data the 10M records contained, a Dixons Carphone spokeswoman told us: “This continues to relate to personal data, and the types of data that may have been accessed are, for example, name, address or email address.”
The company says it’s taking the precaution of contacting all its customers — to apologize and advise them of “protective steps to minimize the risk of fraud”.
It adds it has no evidence that the unauthorized access is continuing, having taken steps to secure its systems when the breach was discovered last month, saying: “We continue to make improvements and investments at pace to our security environment through enhanced controls, monitoring and testing.”
Commenting in a statement, Dixons Carphone CEO, Alex Baldock, added: “Since our data security review uncovered last year’s breach, we’ve been working around the clock to put it right. That’s included closing off the unauthorised access, adding new security measures and launching an immediate investigation, which has allowed us to build a fuller understanding of the incident that we’re updating on today.
“Again, we’re disappointed in having fallen short here, and very sorry for any distress we’ve caused our customers. I want to assure them that we remain fully committed to making their personal data safe with us.”
Back in 2015, Carphone Warehouse, a mobile division of Dixons Carphone, also suffered a hack which affected around 3M people. And in January the company was fined £400k by the ICO as a consequence of that earlier breach.
Since then new European Union regulations (GDPR) have come into force which greatly raise the maximum penalties which regulators can impose for serious data breaches.
Last month, following Dixon’s disclosure of the latest breach, the UK’s data watchdog, the ICO, told us it was liaising with the National Cyber Security Centre, the Financial Conduct Authority and other relevant agencies to ascertain the details and impact on customers.
Of the 5.9M payment cards which Dixons disclosed last month as having been compromised, it said the vast majority had been protected by chip and PIN technology. But around 105,000 lacked the security tech so Dixons said at the time could therefore have been compromised.
It’s the additional 1.2M records containing non-financial personal data — such as name, address or email address — that have been revised upwards now, to ~10M records, which constitutes almost half the Group’s customer base in the UK and Ireland.
The spokeswoman told us the Group has approximately 22M customers in the region.
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Calmer winds bring hope in battle against deadly California blaze
Some 36,000 firefighters struggling against one of the most destructive wildfires in California history hoped calmer winds on Tuesday would allow them to make more progress carving buffers to contain the blaze.
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Mystery of MH370 only grows after final report into disappearance - New York Post
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Mystery of MH370 only grows after final report into disappearance
New York Post One of the world's greatest aviation mysteries just got more mysterious. In the four years since Malaysia Airlines Flt. MH370 vanished, conspiracy theories about why it went off course and where it ended up have run wild in the imaginations of amateur ... |
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In a new book, Bob Woodward plans to reveal the 'harrowing life' inside Donald Trump's White House - Washington Post
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In a new book, Bob Woodward plans to reveal the 'harrowing life' inside Donald Trump's White House
Washington Post In the worldwide capital of leaks and anonymous dishing that is Washington, secrets can be almost impossible to keep. But somehow over the past 19 months, the fact that America's most famous investigative journalist was quietly chipping away at a book ... Bob Woodward's new book puts readers 'face to face with Trump' Bob Woodward's New Book Will Chronicle Trump's 'Harrowing' Presidency Bob Woodward to detail 'harrowing life' inside Trump White House in new book |
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US spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles - Washington Post
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US spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles
Washington Post U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is constructing new missiles at a factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, according to officials familiar with the ... North Korea Reportedly Building More ICBMs WaPo: New indicators show North Korea potentially working on missiles North Korea 'working on new missiles', US officials say |
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Pompeo sets conditions for Iran meeting after Trump says he'll meet without preconditions - The Hill
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Pompeo sets conditions for Iran meeting after Trump says he'll meet without preconditions
The Hill Secretary of State Mike Pompeo · Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump admin urges troops in Afghanistan to withdraw from some areas: report Twelve times Trump surprised the Pentagon Trump officials urge patience on North Korea MORE listed specific ... Trump says he's willing to meet Iran's president without precondition Trump's willingness to meet with Iran is diplomatic over-confidence, Dem says Donald Trump Is Falling in Love With Summits |
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Trump smokescreen fogs up what is fact or fiction - CNN
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Trump smokescreen fogs up what is fact or fiction
CNN (CNN) As the second disorientating summer of President Donald Trump's presidency unfolds, it's becoming hard to work out what is real, what is smoke and what is pure fantasy. But for Trump, that is the point as he faces imminent and medium-term legal ... Late Night Hosts Dig Into Rudy Giuliani For Saying “Collusion Is Not A Crime” Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani: 'Collusion is not a crime' Republicans think if Trump does it, it's not a crime [Opinion] |
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A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns - New York Times
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A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns
New York Times Gun control proponents and state officials are racing the clock to try to block blueprints to make guns from 3-D printers from going online Wednesday. The varied efforts, in courthouses and legislatures, are aimed at Defense Distributed, a Texas-based ... Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration To Block 3D-Printed Guns States sue Trump administration to block 3D printed guns 3D-printed guns: 9 states sue Trump administration for an emergency ban |
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The case of San Antonio's stolen shark is solved, a suspect is under arrest and 'Miss Helen' is back home - CNN
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The case of San Antonio's stolen shark is solved, a suspect is under arrest and 'Miss Helen' is back home
CNN (CNN) What began with a quick grab-and-go theft Saturday at the San Antonio Aquarium -- the suspect leaving a trail of water drops as he hurried away with his dripping prize of a small but very much alive shark -- ended Monday with the safe return of ... Young horn shark stolen from Texas aquarium is safely returned Police: Thieves Stole Shark by Disguising It as Baby Thieves snatch shark from San Antonio Aquarium, wheel it out in a baby carriage |
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Trump administration considers tax cut for the wealthy - Washington Post
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Trump administration considers tax cut for the wealthy
Washington Post The Treasury Department is considering a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans through a change that would not need approval from Congress, officials said, a move that would follow a package of tax cuts last year that also benefited the super-rich. The ... Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich Trump weighs big tax cut for rich: report Trump Wants To Give the Wealthy Another Tax Cut, With No Vote In Congress |
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New Zealand sexist road sign changed by seven-year-old girl
Zoe Carew wrote a letter saying "Line Men" was "wrong and unfair" to women.
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48 hours left to score early-bird tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2018
Chaucer wrote that “time and tide wait for no man.” With apologies to the “father” of English literature, we say that time and money wait for no entrepreneur. The deadline for saving big money on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2018, which takes place on November 29-30, comes to an abrupt halt on Wednesday August 1 at 11:59 p.m. CEST — in just 48 hours.
Right now, early-bird pricing tiers start at €595 including VAT. That’s a sweet deal because, depending on the tier you choose, early-bird pricing can save you up to €700. When time runs out, you pay more money. Don’t get sucked out with the tide. Buy your passes today.
Disrupt Berlin 2018 offers two program- and value-packed days for startup founders, investors, marketers, tech-heads, designers and innovators. We’re busy lining up an incredible group of speakers — including founders, VCs, tech titans and rising stars — who will step onto the Disrupt stage and hold forth on the most pressing and interesting tech and investment issues of the day. Here are just a few exciting examples from our lineup:
- Anne Boden, the founder and CEO of Starling Bank
- The four partners from VC firm Accel — Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Luciana Lixandru and Harry Nelis
- Aline Sara, founder of NaTakallam
We’re still accepting speaker nominations. If you have a fantastic candidate, by all means, send us your recommendation.
What incredible early-stage startup pitch competition helped launch more than 750 companies that have gone on to collectively raise $8 billion and produce 100 exits? Yeah, OK so it’s an easy answer. Startup Battlefield — with $50,000 cash and the chance for massive global media and investment exposure — is one of the most exciting elements of every Disrupt. Don’t just come and watch. Sign up to compete!
Our Disrupt Berlin exhibition hall — Startup Alley — always features hundreds of the best early-stage startups, and this year is no exception. Exhibiting in the Alley is a magnificent way to place your startup in front of media outlets, investors, accelerators, incubators, solo founders and developers. It’s prime networking territory.
Whether you’re a founder or an investor, you want to be as efficient about that networking as possible in your two days at Disrupt. CrunchMatch, our free, business match-making service, simplifies networking and saves you time. Last year, CrunchMatch generated a total of 888 meetings — and 97 percent of participants said they’d use the service again.
Disrupt Berlin 2018 takes place on November 29-30, and your chance to buy early-bird passes — and save up to €700 in the process — ends on Wednesday August 1 at 11:59 pm. CEST. Don’t make us quote Chaucer again. Buy your tickets now.
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