October 18, 2024

Oropouche virus is spreading. Here’s what we know.

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. There have been plenty of reports of potentially concerning viruses this last year. Covid is still causing thousands of deaths, and bird flu appears set to make the…

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Twitter’s verification chaos is now a security problem

October 31, 2022

Cybercriminals are already capitalizing on Twitter’s ongoing verification chaos by sending phishing emails designed to steal the passwords of unwitting users. The phishing email campaign, seen by TechCrunch, attempts to lure Twitter users into posting their username and password on an attacker’s website disguised as a Twitter help form. The email is sent from a […]

Twitter’s verification chaos is now a security problem by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Manufacturing firm Bright Machines raises $132M after unfulfilled SPAC deal

October 31, 2022

In May of last year, Bright Machines announced plans to embrace the SPAC craze with a merger deal that valued the Bay Area-based manufacturing firm at $1.6 billion. As the temperatures for the phenomenon cooled, however, so too did its plans. The plug was pulled last December, a little over a month before it was […]

Manufacturing firm Bright Machines raises $132M after unfulfilled SPAC deal by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

‘Simply decarbonizing’ isn’t enough: Third Nature targets $35M fund

October 31, 2022

With a glitzy vision of tackling some of “the biggest planetary challenges,” Third Nature is out to raise $35 million for its first VC fund, TechCrunch has learned. Third Nature has secured at least $2.8 million so far, per a regulatory filing. It joins a wave of relatively new, environmentally focused funds that are driving […]

‘Simply decarbonizing’ isn’t enough: Third Nature targets $35M fund by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: befriending crows, and Twitter under Musk

October 31, 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. How to befriend a crow The crows play hide-and-seek with Nicole Steinke after her older kids head to school. She feeds a family of the birds from her apartment balcony in Alexandria, Virginia,…

Arnica raises $7M to improve software supply chain security

October 31, 2022

Everybody wants to talk about software supply chain risks these days, whether that’s security teams, developers or government officials. It’s no surprise then, that VCs, despite the current economic climate, continue to fund startups in this space, too. One of the newest members in this club is Arnica, a startup that takes a somewhat broader […]

Arnica raises $7M to improve software supply chain security by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch