Twilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product

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The customer data platform provides a central place to collect first party information about customers, but simply having a pile of data is not the point. Companies want to put it to work to improve customer experience and more precisely target certain groups, based on this information they have stockpiled. More and more companies are … Read more

Hackers exploit WinRAR zero-day bug to steal funds from broker accounts

Cybercriminals are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR, the venerable shareware archiving tool for Windows, to target traders and steal funds. Cybersecurity company Group-IB discovered the vulnerability, which affects the processing of the ZIP file format by WinRAR, in June. The zero-day flaw — meaning the vendor had no time, or zero days, to fix … Read more

Crypto lender Maple Finance raises $5M to enter Asia amid regulatory clarity

Maple Finance, an on-chain, institutional credit marketplace that’s aspiring to fill a gap left behind by the collapses of crypto lending heavyweights like BlockFi and Celcius, has its sight set on Asia as financial hubs like Hong Kong and Singapore provide more regulatory clarity around digital assets. Maple, which falls under the so-called decentralized finance … Read more

Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction films just made Netflix movie history, but it might not last

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Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction film series has made Netflix movie history – but it’s a record that might not stand the test of time.Revealed in the latest update of its Top 10 charts, Netflix confirmed the action movie franchise is the first of its kind to have two entries appear in its most popular English language … Read more