Though it’s since been swallowed up with headlines about his son, President Donald Trump at the start of the week promised a new Cyber Détente with Russia to create a new “impenetrable Cyber Security unit”. In a Tweet following a meeting with President Putin, Trump promised this new unit would ensure that “election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..” He was quickly rounded on for his comments before backtracking on the idea entirely. “The fact that President Putin and I discussed a cybersecurity unit doesn't mean I think it can happen. It can't,” he Tweeted the next day. Read the rest of this week’s tech news roundup here. |