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Elon Musk, Twitter’s not-so-benevolent CEO, today announced the launch of a new organization, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Ambitious? A little. So how does xAI plan to achieve it? More details will be announced during a Twitter Spaces on Friday, apparently. But xAI’s splash page reveals that the team — 12 […]

Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’ by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open-source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to join the likes of Kubernetes, Prometheus and fellow service mesh Linkerd as a CNCF Graduated […]

Istio graduates by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling out some unpopular features, Tumblr is now trying to “build in public” and be more transparent about the business behind the fandom-driven platform. In a […]

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an integrated operating system for banks. In simpler terms, Cieplinski described CapStack as the “first bank-to-bank marketplace,” giving the institutions the ability to share and have visibility into one another’s portfolios. Cieplinski started CapStack in March with […]

Pipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’ by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Despite declining funding levels and higher rate of attacks, cybersecurity investors remain optimistic. Here’s why.

8 VCs explain why there’s good reason to be optimistic about cybersecurity by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

A year after launch, the marketplace has tens of thousands of customers, has over 400% revenue growth and added new food items like meat and dairy.

Foraged’s wild foods marketplace saw repeat customer rate increase over 1,000% by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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. Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI Bill Gates just joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risks around artificial intelligence. TL;DR? He’s not…

Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s cloud email service to gain access to the email accounts of U.S. government employees, the technology giant has confirmed. The hacking group, tracked as Storm-0558, compromised approximately 25 email accounts, including government agencies, as well as related consumer accounts linked to individuals associated with these organizations, according to […]

Chinese hackers raided US government email accounts by exploiting Microsoft cloud bug by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch