The Facebook group Meta wants to replace around five percent of its employees this year. The idea is that employees with low performance ratings will have to leave the company more quickly.

According to a media report, the Chinese government is considering selling Tiktok 's US business to tech billionaire Elon Musk.

The British government is planning far-reaching measures in the fight against ransomware attacks. A new draft law stipulates that public institutions and operators of critical infrastructure will no longer be allowed to make ransom payments to cyber criminals in future.

CrowdStrike warns of a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting potential applicants. The attackers are disguising an XMRig cryptominer as a supposed CRM application for the application process.

In the final days of Joe Biden's term of office, the US government announces export restrictions for AI. However, Donald Trump would have to implement them - and could set his own priorities.

French IT service provider Atos continues to face questions surrounding the suspected ransomware incident by the Space Bears group. While the company continues to deny any direct attack on its own systems, there are growing indications that a ransom was paid for compromised data.

The US communications authority FCC has introduced a new security certificate for networked consumer devices. The "U.S. Cyber Trust Mark" is intended to show consumers at a glance whether an IoT device meets basic security standards.

Nvidia wants to bring an AI supercomputer to desktops. Company boss Jensen Huang presented the compact device called "Project Digits" at the start of the CES technology trade fair in Las Vegas.