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The number of workplaces offering fertility and reproductive healthcare benefits are on the rise. Doing so can help companies become more competitive employers and bolster diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, for example by attracting more women and LGBTQ+ people. Based in London, Fertifa wants to enable more companies in Europe to offer reproductive benefits to […]

Fertifa enables companies to offer fertility and reproductive health benefits by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Protecting training data and models must be the top priority; it’s no longer sufficient to encrypt fields in databases or rows on a form.

How confidential computing could secure generative AI adoption by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. As if the pessimism around crypto weren’t enough, the industry is facing yet another quarter of hackers and scammers looking to make a quick buck.

Say goodbye to Q2 and the crypto hacks, scams and rug pulls that came with it by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Sometimes baseball feels like a game of inches. Clubs often compete for seemingly small advantages to get a leg up. Over the last couple of decades, that’s meant investments in both advanced analytics and cutting-edge technologies. Sometimes both at the same time. While baseball fans themselves can be highly critical of changes to the 180+-year-old […]

Major League Baseball embraces 3D motion tracking to scout players by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Electrify America has become the latest company to align itself with Tesla’s EV charging standard. The company, which was created as part of a settlement of the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal, said Thursday it will add Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector to Electrify America and Electrify Canada’s fast charging networks by 2025.  Electrify […]

VW subsidiary Electrify America to add Tesla connectors to EV charging network by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

In our tech-driven world, the right to privacy — once the cornerstone of democracy — is disappearing at an alarming rate. But not everyone is keen on having Big Tech companies and nation-states surveilling every digital communication. This may be one reason why Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app, has been downloaded more than 100 […]

Signal talks privacy, encryption, AI and more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023’s Security Stage by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Between the robots and an AI-powered workflow, GeologicAI’s new business model is looking far more scalable than its old approach.

Batteries beat oil and gas as AI startup pivots to critical minerals exploration by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

After a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every student the chance to hack into any other student’s account, according to emails obtained by TechCrunch. Last week, Oak Park and River Forest (OPRF) High School in Illinois told parents that during a cybersecurity audit, “due […]

High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’ by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

Should enormous companies of the world be run more like countries? Or should countries be run more like companies?

When companies have more influence than countries by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch