February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]

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November 2022

OpsHelm emerges from stealth to automatically correct your security blunders

November 17, 2022

There are so many preventable cybersecurity incidents each year if only you were aware of the problem. It could be the classic exposed Amazon S3 bucket or a firewall vulnerability. These are what many security experts might call rookie mistakes, but which hit companies all the time because of the sheer complexity tracking security along […]

OpsHelm emerges from stealth to automatically correct your security blunders by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping

November 17, 2022

Google announced today that it’s introducing a slew of new Maps, Search and Shopping features. The company revealed majority of the new features during its Search On event in September and is now starting to roll them out to users. Search Starting today, users will be able to use Search to find their favorite dish […]

Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Mozilla looks to its next chapter

November 17, 2022

Mozilla today released its annual “State of Mozilla” report and for the most part, the news here is positive. Mozilla Corporation, the for-profit side of the overall Mozilla organization, generated $585 million from its search partnerships, subscriptions and ad revenue in 2021 — up 25% from the year before. And while Mozilla continues to mostly […]

Mozilla looks to its next chapter by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names

November 17, 2022

We’ve all been faced with a name that’s difficult to pronounce. But not everyone considers the consequences of their mispronunciations. In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. Studies have […]

Namecoach raises cash to teach users how to correctly pronounce names by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Terzo lands $16M to extract key data from contracts

November 17, 2022

Contract governance is the steps taken to make sure agreed-upon terms between a company and its suppliers are met. It’s an essential part of doing business, and the consequences for getting it wrong can be steep. McKinsey estimates that poor contract governance can cost organizations up to 9% of their total revenue, which equates to […]

Terzo lands $16M to extract key data from contracts by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt

November 17, 2022

Jon Zimmerman — the co-founder of ReadySpaces, a warehouse storage provider for small businesses — was working in the self-storage market when he had the idea for a product with the flexibility of self-storage but the capabilities of a traditional warehouse, aimed primarily at enterprise customers. His partner, Kevin Petrovic, had a different company that […]

ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: cattle’s deadly tick-borne disease, and molten salt batteries

November 17, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the US In the spring of 2021, Cynthia and John Grano, who own a cattle operation in Culpeper County, Virginia, started noticing some of their…

PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives

November 17, 2022

Fake news, and the identification and eradication of it, has long been thought of as the purview of social media platforms, where a lot of that tends to be shared. Today, one of the more ambitious tech startups in the field of fighting fake news is getting acquired — not by a social media platform, […]

PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch