December 2022

Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year. In an updated blog post on its disclosure, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said the intruders took a copy of a backup of customer vault data by […]

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla started out the month of December by offering Model 3 and Model Y buyers in the U.S. a $3,750 credit if they have their vehicle delivered in December 2022. Now with a week left in the month, the electric vehicle maker has upped that discount to $7,500, according to the company’s website. After the […]

Tesla’s $7,500 discount feels desperate, and it’s giving investors the ick by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. And happy holidays! ’Tis the season to be jolly and check your crypto portfolio before buying a few more holiday gifts for your family and friends. It’s also ’tis season for more FTX charges and SBF’s extradition… More has unfolded in the FTX collapse as its co-founder and former CTO […]

‘Tis the season for more FTX charges by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

“I think a lot of the narrative that many investors put out there about investing in more Black founders was mostly just talk.”

3 Black investors talk about what they’re looking for in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Happy holidays from the Ghost of Actuator Past. I’m writing you from the beginning of the month and hopefully not checking my work email or Slack as you’re reading this. I’ll be back in action next week (hopefully the bags under my eyes will have subsided slightly), but until then, I’ve got one more great […]

Notes on robotics research by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Despite already cutting thousands of employees, the layoffs at Twitter continue. According to posts on Twitter and LinkedIn from a former public policy employee, Twitter cut half of its public policy team. TechCrunch asked both the former employee and Twitter for comment but could not immediately confirm the exact magnitude of these cuts. Twitter also […]

Twitter lays off employees in public policy, engineering by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch