June 18, 2025

Puzzle Corner

Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the July/August 2025 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by guest editor Ed Faulkner ’03. Send problems, solutions (by August 1), and comments to puzzlecorner@technologyreview.com. Editor emeritus Allan Gottlieb ’67 launched Puzzle Corner in 1966. Find back issues through 2022 at cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb/tr and more recent back issues at technologyreview.com/puzzle-corner.

August 2023

Endor Labs, which helps companies secure their open source packages, raises $70M

August 3, 2023
Endor Labs, which offers a platform developers can use to manage and secure their open source dependencies, today closed a $70 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32 and a number of angel investors. The new financing — quite large for a Series A, […]

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ is now streaming on Peacock

August 3, 2023
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially available to stream on Peacock—wahoo! Not only will Peacock subscribers be able to enjoy this absolute treasure of a video game adaptation, but they will also get bonus content, including behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast of A-list voice actors, a “Peaches” lyrical video and an immersive video featuring […]

Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades

August 3, 2023
A group of researchers said they have found a way to hack the hardware underpinning Tesla’s infotainment system, allowing them to get what normally would be paid upgrades — such as heated rear seats — for free. By doing this, the researchers essentially found a way to jailbreak the car. This may also give owners […]

Datasaur lets you build a model automatically from a set of labels

August 3, 2023
Long before people were talking about ChatGPT and generative AI, companies like Datasaur were dealing with the nuts and bolts of building machine learning models, helping label things to train the model. As AI has taken off, this kind of capability has become even more important. In order to bring model building to more companies […]

3 Tech Growth Stocks to Watch This Month

August 3, 2023
As technological advancements continue to revolutionize industries worldwide, the technology sector is anticipated to witness substantial growth in the foreseeable future. Given this backdrop, tech stocks Uber Technologies (UBER), Concentrix…

Russia-backed hackers used Microsoft Teams to breach government agencies

August 3, 2023
Russian state-sponsored hackers posed as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams to compromise dozens of global organizations, including government agencies. Microsoft security researchers said on Wednesday that the “highly targeted” social engineering campaign was carried out by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked by Microsoft as “Midnight Blizzard,” but more commonly known as APT29 or […]

The Download: handling extreme heat, and replicating superconductor results

August 3, 2023
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. How hot is too hot for the human body? There’s no other way to say it: it’s hot. Temperatures this summer have yet again broken records, and around the world, climate change is…