The celebrity nude ‘hack’ back in 2014 focused attention on the risks involved in having intimate photographs stored on your phone – and especially on cloud servers like iCloud. While our suspicions were correct that it wasn’t a hack at all, it did illustrate that poor security can put photos at risk.A new app aims to automatically scan your iPhone for nudes, moving them to a protected vault in the app and then deleting them from both the camera roll and iCloud …The Verge wryly notes that the two developers had the same response from most people when they first presented the app.Jessica Chiu and Y.C. Chen, who built the app together with a small team, said they received constant inquiries when promoting the app at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference. “Everyone said, ‘Oh I don’t have nudes — but can you tell me more?’”

Soon after he started working on the assembly line at Tesla, Jorge Ferro said he was taunted for being gay and threatened with violence. “Watch your back,” a supervisor warned after mocking his clothes for being “gay tight”, Ferro said.The harassment didn’t stop after he reported it to a manager, and days after he made a second complaint, Ferro was punished, according to his account. An HR representative took away Ferro’s badge, claiming that he had an “injury” that prevented him from working and saying there’s “no place for handicapped people at Tesla”, he alleged.Tesla repeatedly failed to stop the anti-gay harassment and fired Ferro in retaliation for seeking protection, according to a wrongful termination lawsuit, the latest discrimination scandal to roil Elon Musk’s electric car company.“It’s revolting to me,” said Chris Dolan, Ferro’s attorney. “This is classic ‘blame the victim’.”

Britain’s biggest employers are calling for a commission to examine the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs.Amid predictions of a workplace revolution threatening one in five jobs across the UK, the CBI is urging Theresa May to launch the commission from early 2018. It said companies and trade unions should be involved and the commission should help to set out ways to increase productivity and economic growth as well looking into the impact of AI.The business lobby group said almost half of firms were planning to devote resources to AI, while one in five had already invested in the technology in the past year.

Exclusive: Tech companies to lobby for immigrant ’Dreamers’ to remain in U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters.People march across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the planned dissolution of DACA in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen YangThe Coalition for the American Dream intends to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation this year that would allow these immigrants, often referred to as “Dreamers,” to continue working in the United States, the documents said.Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc, Intel Corp, Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], IBM Corp, Marriott International Inc and other top U.S. companies are listed as members, one of the documents shows.Intel, Uber and Univision Communications Inc [UVN.UL] confirmed their membership, but the other companies did not immediately comment. It is possible that plans to launch the group could change.

More than three years after Chelsea Handler and Netflix teamed up to ”revolutionize the talk show” their quest is coming to an end. Handler tweeted that she has decided not to return after the second season of Chelsea wraps up (later this year), instead focusing on ”becoming a more knowledgeable and engaged citizen” ahead of upcoming elections. That doesn’t mean she’s through with Netflix however, as she says the two will release a documentary where she engages with ”people of different ethnicities, religions and political philosophies.”

Smart lock startup August Home has been acquired by Swedish lock giant Assa Ablo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Founded out of San Francisco in 2013, August creates a home access system that uses smartphones to lock and unlock doors. Before being acquired, it had inked some notable partnerships with property marketplaces like Airbnb and HomeAway to allow guests to access dwellings without a physical key. Google also recently revealed that August’s locks were compatible with Google Assistant.Founded in 1994, Assa Abloy is among the world’s biggest lock manufacturers by revenue, with around $8 billion in sales last year and 47,000 employees. August had raised around $75 million in funding, including a $25 million round just a few months ago, and claimed around 90 employees.