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In today’s fast-paced business world, most entrepreneurs tend to follow the same stepped path, focusing on mainstream industries such as technology, e-commerce, and finance. These sectors offer incredible opportunities, but we are tired of the intense competition. However, some of the most successful businesses have come from unconventional markets. Other companies are industries or niches that they overlook or reject as being too dangerous. Consider the rise of niche businesses, including a surge in fraudulent spouse tracker options. This reduced the need to hire expensive private investigators by providing a modest and affordable solution. Similarly, companies that monetize urban agriculture…
The UK government confirmed an increase in visa fees as part of its spring statement on March 26th. The announcement was presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister of Parliament. Ukinbound, the UK’s only trade association representing the inbound tourism sector, commented on the announcement. “We’re looking forward to seeing you in the future,” said Joss Croft OBE, CEO of Ukinbound. “It is very unfortunate that the Prime Minister has announced an increase in visa costs that opposes the government’s welcome ambition to increase international visitors to 50m by 2030. Inbound tourism could help realize the government’s growth targets, but…
Cybersecurity Startup Island raised $250 million in the Series E round, pushing its valuation to $4.8 billion. This has risen sharply for just five months now, more than four times the valuation of $1.5 billion in October 2023. The news comes a week after Google Parent Alphabet announced its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz. This is the biggest deal in the company’s history, and is cybersecurity (a clear signal that cloud and browser-based solutions are the best in mind, especially for investors and corporate buyers). The island’s latest round continued to support its Sequoia capital, Insight Partners,…
The UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan is urging a “strong position” from FIFA to help women from the nation return to international football.Afghanistan’s national women’s football team has gained support from the UN Special Rapporteur to urge athletes around the world to strengthen solidarity in combating exclusion from World Cup qualifying competitions since the 2021 Taliban acquisition. Many players on the team fled the country at the time because they feared persecution. The FIFA rules require recognition by the national federation, and women’s teams were unable to compete internationally as the Taliban-controlled Afghan football federation banned women from playing. The…
Amazon continues to inject AI into its shopping tools and encourages its customers to make more purchases. On Wednesday, the company announced a new feature called “interests,” which aims to create a more personalized conversation search experience. New features allow customers to enter tailored prompts in the search bar to reflect their interests, preferences and even their budget. For example, users may request “model building kits and accessories for hobby engineers” or “brewing tools and gadgets for coffee lovers.” Interest utilizes large-scale language models (LLM) to transform everyday language into queries that traditional search engines can understand, bringing more relevant…
Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok, is built by his AI company Xai – officially landed in telegrams. This gives you access to a messaging platform with over 1 billion active users each month. The move, announced in March 2025, marks Grok’s most ambitious expansion, taking it directly into Telegram users’ hands beyond X (formerly Twitter). Telegram adds Grok AI to allow 1B+ users to access masks For Telegram Premium subscribers, Grok is now part of the package. There are no extra charges. The same ironic and sharp assistant mask fans already know well. Telegram recently hit a billion user marks, as…
March 26, 2025Ravi LakshmananWindows Security/Vulnerabilities A threat actor known as Encrypthub has leveraged recently patched security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows as zero-days, offering a wide range of malware families, including backdoors and information steels such as Rhadamanthys and Stealc. “In this attack, threat actors manipulate .MSC files and multilingual user interface paths (MUIPATH) to download and run malicious payloads, maintain persistence from infected systems and steal susceptibility data.” The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-26633 (CVSS score: 7.0), which Microsoft describes as an inappropriate neutralization vulnerability in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), allowing attackers to bypass security features locally. It was…
March 26, 2025Hacker NewsRansomware/Endpoint Security A Russian-speaking hacking group called RedCurl has been linked for the first time to a ransomware campaign that marks the departure of a merchant of threat actors. Activities observed by Romanian cybersecurity company BitDefender include the unprecedented development of ransomware stocks, called QWCrypt. Redcurl, also known as Earth Capre and Redwolf, has a history of coordinating corporate spy attacks targeting a variety of entities in Canada, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, the UK and the US. It has been known to be active since at least November 2018. The attack chain documented by Group-IB in…
The sudden success of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in January surprised technology leaders, causing over $1 trillion in the US technology market crash. Now, Washington policymakers are aiming to slow China’s momentum in other emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing. On Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce added more than 80 companies to its blacklist exports. The move marks the first major blacklist expansion under the Trump administration, highlighting a new push to block access to Beijing’s high-performance computing and next-generation technology. The move comes more than a week after Openai CEO Sam Altman urged the US…
Google said it fixed a vulnerability in the Chrome browser for Windows that a malicious hacker used to infiltrate the victim’s computer. In a brief note on Tuesday, Google said it had fixed a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-2783. This was discovered earlier this month by researchers at security company Kaspersky. Google said it is aware of reports that bug exploitation is “existing in the wild.” The bug is called zero day because the vendor (in this case Google) was not given time to fix the bug before it was exploited. According to Kaspersky, the bug was exploited as part of…