February 7, 2025

These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda

Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government.  The payment reports have been…

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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, […]

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…

Here’s how much heat your body can take

August 3, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I think I’m running out of ways to say it: it’s hot.  Saturday’s heat was crushing in New York, with temperatures topping 90 °F (32 °C) and air that was absolutely sticky…

Emtech to advance its regtech and CBDC stack solutions with $4M led by Matrix Partners India

August 3, 2023
Emtech, an African provider of central banking infrastructure, introduced its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Innovation kit last month. The kit caters to fintechs and financial service providers interested in experimenting with solutions and business models based on digital currencies pioneered by central banks. The New York-based business is today announcing a $4 million seed […]

Xpeng’s head of autonomous driving quits, rumored to join Nvidia

August 3, 2023
Xpeng, a prominent Chinese electric vehicle maker and a competitor to Tesla, has announced the resignation of its vice president of autonomous driving, Xinzhou Wu, over personal and family reasons. Wu, formerly a senior director of engineering at Qualcomm where he spent over a decade, was effectively the head of Xpeng’s autonomous driving business and […]

SettleMint’s AI assistant aims to help web3 developers write better smart contracts

August 3, 2023
The way artificial intelligence can write software has already prompted many companies to introduce code-generating products, so it’s no surprise that SettleMint, a low-code blockchain programming tool for enterprises, recently added an AI assistant to its platform. The AI assistant, which arrived about nine months after SettleMint announced its 16 million euro Series A funding […]