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British Library confirms customer data was stolen by hackers, with outage expected to last ‘months’

November 29, 2023

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a notice sent to customers this week, which TechCrunch has seen, the British Library said that its customer relation management (CRM) databases were […]

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Pinterest begins testing a ‘body type ranges’ tool to make searches more inclusive

November 29, 2023

Pinterest is today expanding on its efforts to make its product more inclusive with respect to body type diversity with the test of a new consumer-facing tool that allows users to filter select searches by different body types. The feature, which will work with women’s fashion and wedding ideas at launch, builds on Pinterest’s new […]

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GM to slash spending at Cruise by ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

November 29, 2023

GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra reiterated Wednesday plans for Cruise to be more “deliberate” when operations eventually resume at the troubled self-driving vehicle subsidiary. For GM, that will include slashing spending at Cruise “by hundreds of millions of dollars” in 2024, an action that is expected to result in widespread layoffs at the San […]

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Relativity Space CEO: Building a backlog isn’t “worthless,” it’s the path to product market fit

November 29, 2023

Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis is hitting back against recent comments from fellow aerospace exec Peter Beck, who called launch contracts for un-flown rockets “basically worthless” earlier this month. In sharp contrast, Ellis argued in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch that building a backlog is the only way to validate product market fit. “Deciding not […]

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DuploCloud lands $32M infusion to make provisioning cloud apps easier

November 29, 2023

It’s only appropriate that, during AWS’ biggest week of the year, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup closed a sizeable funding round. DuploCloud, which sells a set of tools to make provisioning apps to public clouds like Google Cloud, Azure and the aforementioned AWS easier, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B financing […]

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Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills

November 29, 2023

Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told TechCrunch. “At a high level Acctual is just a better way to manage invoices and bills in crypto,” Bana said. “It’s like a true accounts […]

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