French government open-sources in-house-made end-to-end encryption IM app named Tchap.

Source: French government releases in-house IM app to replace WhatsApp and Telegram use | ZDNet

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/revisiting-the-jobs-artificial-intelligence-will-create/

When my team of graduate students and I sent the first message over the internet on a warm Los Angeles evening in October, 1969, little did we suspect that we were at the start of a worldwide revolution.

Source: Fifty years of the internet | TechCrunch

NSA has released Ghidra software reverse engineering tool for free to help software engineers, especially malware analysts, hunt down security bugs in software and applications.

Source: NSA Releases GHIDRA 9.0 — Free, Powerful Reverse Engineering Tool

Barclays sees as much as a $19 billion upside for Facebook if its secretive cryptocurrency plan works out.

Source: Facebook’s cryptocurrency could be $19B revenue opportunity: Barclays

Microsoft launched the AI Business School today for business executives to implement an AI strategy and address the ways AI changes an organization.

Source: Microsoft launches AI Business School | VentureBeat

In spite of tensions with the US and its allies, Huawei is rapidly building a suite of AI offerings unmatched by any other company on the planet.

Source: China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership – MIT Technology Review