Nearly 70 IT security and privacy academics have added to the clamour of alarm over the damage the UK’s Online Safety Bill could wreak to, er, online safety unless it’s amended to ensure it does not undermine strong encryption. Writing in an open letter, 68 UK-affiliated security and privacy researchers have warned the draft legislation […]
Security researchers latest to blast UK’s Online Safety Bill as encryption risk by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Kentucky now requires that electric vehicle charging companies include Tesla’s charging plug if they want to secure federal funds from a state program to electrify highways, Reuters reports. The plan went into effect Friday, making Kentucky the first state to officially mandate Tesla’s charging technology. Texas and Washington have also shared plans that would require […]
Kentucky is the latest state to mandate Tesla’s charging plug by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
While the prospect of new factories and more jobs is good news for Mexico, the country and its Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) peers can harbor higher hopes when it comes to deep tech, a new report posits.
Deep tech in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to skyrocket by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Unless you’ve been on an extended digital detox this year, you can’t have missed how a certain flavor of AI hype has been accelerating down the tracks like a runaway train. But far from the viral buzz swirling around developments in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Konux, a Munch-based deep tech AI scale-up, […]
Konux gears up to scale its AI + IoT play for optimizing the railways by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Reddit has had a tumultuous month after announcing changes to its data API. In the last month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network had fights with developers and moderators, and the platform saw a large number of subreddits going dark and later protesting in different ways. Given that the API […]
Reddit braces for life after API changes by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
UK-based early-stage media technology venture capital firm GMG Ventures has rebranded to Mercuri. It has also raised £50 million ($81.35 million) for its second fund led by British Business Bank, through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme, to back startups using artificial intelligence to reinvent traditional media models. Other investors in the latest fund include The […]
UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon has begun rolling out its custom electric delivery vans from Rivian in Europe, the e-commerce giant said Monday. This will be Rivian’s first commercial shipment of vans outside the United States. The first tranche of 300 vans will be seen on streets in Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf in the coming weeks. Amazon already has […]
Rivian delivers first electric vans to Amazon in Europe by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch