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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As Elon Musk struggles to make people give Twitter $8 a month for a blue check, Tumblr had an idea: what if they offered users $8 for not one, but two blue checks? Yes, you can legitimately buy two blue checks for your Tumblr blog. For the low, low price of $7.99. As Tumblr wrote in […]
Tumblr’s only viable business model is shitposting by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Google says it has evidence that a commercial surveillance vendor was exploiting three zero-day security vulnerabilities found in newer Samsung smartphones. The vulnerabilities, discovered in Samsung’s custom-built software, were used together as part of an exploit chain to target Samsung phones running Android. The chained vulnerabilities allow an attacker to gain kernel read and write […]
Google says surveillance vendor targeted Samsung phones with zero-days by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
I rarely update my Twitter display name, except maybe when I am on vacation and want to warn people that if you email me, I will either not see it or I will become very annoyed that you emailed me about NFTs. But I was convinced to add a little emoji to my name by […]
We may all be #RatVerified forever by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week on the podcast, we talked about trouble brewing for bitcoin miners. This week, we had to tear up our plans to cover pretty much anything else and turn our attention to what we think is the biggest story in crypto to unfold this year: the fall from grace […]
Crypto’s crown prince stumbles by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch
Even Healthcare, an Indian “healthcare membership” company, landed new financial support in the form of $15 million to further drive its mission of providing affordable care to communities across India. Even isn’t insurance, but allows members to access primary and preventative care at any of over 100 partnered hospitals. Typically, the way Indians access healthcare […]
Even Healthcare lands additional capital to advance primary care adoption in India by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch
One of the most popular activities at a TechCrunch conference is watching top-notch early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Crypto Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami. Let’s take a look at the judges […]
Galaxy, Gradient and Lux VCs will judge the TC Sessions: Crypto pitch-off by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch
Greetings on a brisk New England morning. I’m finally here on my long threatened trip to Boston. I was planning to be here in early July ahead of our robotics event, but SARS-CoV-2 and its many variants had different ideas. I narrowly avoided another reschedule on my third time around with COVID, but now I’m […]
Dispatches from the conference room by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter’s painstakingly layered infosphere looks to be light-speeding back to chaotic noise under new owner Elon Musk. The billionaire is no fan of meritocratic signals nor, it seems, a friend to genuine information — preferring anyone pay him $8/m to have their account on his microblogging social network badged with a check-mark that looks like […]
Who’ll get the last laugh over Musk toying with Twitter veracity? by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Syneroid raised a $500,000 round to bring something halfway between microchips and dog collars to market. Its deck leaves a few things to be desired.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch