As a former naval architect and a current marketing consultant to startups, I found that the same principle that lets a 13-person crew navigate the world’s largest container ship to a port halfway around the world without breaking down also applies to startups working towards aggressive growth goals.

There’s no question things will break along the startup journey, just as surely as they do on a ship crossing the globe. However, if the onboard systems are simple, those issues won’t leave the startup drifting helplessly in the middle of the ocean.

The report also found that WeChat, owned by Chinese firm Tencent, blocked more words as the outbreak grew.

WeChat was found to have censored 132 keyword combinations between 1 - 31 January. As the outbreak continued, WeChat censored 384 new keywords between 1 - 15 February.

The censorship is particularly damaging because WeChat is such a central part of many people's lives in China - it is, in effect, WhatsApp, Facebook, Apple Pay and more, rolled into one.

Microsoft has spent the last year begging Windows 7 users to move to a better place. In this case, it appears that the abandoned OS's mewling has gone unheeded by the operators at c2c's Thorpe Bay station, leaving it no choice but to yell at passersby that it is out of support – will somebody just please upgrade it already?

Facebook announced the “Download Your Information” feature allowing users to download all the information that the company have on them since the creation of the account.

To put it simply, this tool is not what Facebook claims. The list of advertisers is incomplete and changes over time.

ack of information and difficulties in exercising rights, renforces an opaque environment where people are unaware of how their data is gathered, shared and used to profile and target them.

Disney has decided to remove a kissing scene from its $200million live-action adaptation of Mulan after their Chinese executives thought it was inappropriate for their audiences, it has been revealed.

The upcoming remake has sparked a series of controversies before its scheduled release in March this year.

Many called for a boycott after the leading actress, Liu Yifei, voiced support for authorities’ crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Secretive startup Clearview AI distributes an apparently very powerful facial recognition tool that matches anyone against an enormous database of photos—it claims more than 3 billion—scraped from basically every major US platform on the Internet.

Apparently "security professionals" includes retailers such as Best Buy, Kohl's, Walmart, and Macy's, with Macy's on the actual paying customers list.

Nor is Clearview's spread limited to the US market: users affiliated with Interpol and a sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates both used the app, and accounts were found in several other nations, including Saudi Arabia and Australia.

As time goes on, it is becoming increasingly clear that Microsoft is trying to make local accounts a thing of the past and push all new Windows 10 users to a Microsoft account.

A Local Account is one that is tied to the computer, cannot be used to login to other computers, is not integrated into Windows 10 cloud services such as OneDrive and the Microsoft Store, and does not require an email address.

For those affected, the only way to create a local account during setup is to ... disconnect the computer from the Internet.

Yes, that's right, Microsoft now makes you disconnect the computer from the Internet to create a local account during setup!

On January 23 this year, ISC received a report of a breakdown with .net domains. When it investigated, it discovered crucial A and AAAA records, which glue .net domain names to their IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses, were missing.

ISC quickly figured out – within five minutes, according to its timeline – that the issue lay with internet nodes it operates in partnership with Cloudflare, and escalated the issue to the web infrastructure business.

As one veteran internet engineer, Bill Woodcock, noted on Twitter: “What happens when critical functions of the public Internet are co-opted for private benefit? Transparency and accountability are lost, infrastructural spending cut, things break.”

Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll out the change across the United States in the coming weeks.

DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making, potentially making it more difficult for Internet service providers or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit.

Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.

Nearly 60% of the 554 customer reviews left on the US site have given the device a rating of either one or two stars.

"Robots and automated systems have hiccups along the way, it's something we need to get used to."