July 8, 2025

Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

Fusion energy holds the potential to shift a geopolitical landscape that is currently configured around fossil fuels. Harnessing fusion will deliver the energy resilience, security, and abundance needed for all modern industrial and service sectors. But these benefits will be controlled by the nation that leads in both developing the complex supply chains required and…

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Mercenary spyware hacked iPhone victims with rogue calendar invites, researchers say

April 11, 2023

Hackers using spyware made by a little known cyber mercenary company used malicious calendar invites to hack the iPhones of journalists, political opposition figures, and an NGO worker, according to two reports. Researchers at Microsoft and the digital rights group Citizen Lab analyzed samples of malware they say was created by QuaDream, an Israeli spyware […]

Mercenary spyware hacked iPhone victims with rogue calendar invites, researchers say by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

Ford to spend $1.3B to transform Canada factory into EV manufacturing hub

April 11, 2023

Ford said Tuesday it will spend $1.34 billion (C$1.8B) to turn its 70-year-old Oakville facility in Canada into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles. The campus, which first opened in 1953, will be renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex. The company said Tuesday it will begin modernizing the 487-acre site in the second […]

Ford to spend $1.3B to transform Canada factory into EV manufacturing hub by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation

April 11, 2023

Clear Street, which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche […]

Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: heat-storing bricks, and using AI to understand history

April 11, 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. The hottest new climate technology is bricks Heavy industries generate about a quarter of worldwide emissions, and alternative power sources can’t consistently generate the amount of heat that factories need to create their…

How AI is helping historians better understand our past

April 11, 2023
It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. In a printer’s workshop, an apprentice labors over the layout of a page that’s destined for an astronomy textbook—a dense line of type and a woodblock illustration of a cherubic head observing shapes moving through the cosmos, representing a lunar eclipse.  Like all aspects of…

Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal, other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills

April 11, 2023

Former Twitter employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde, and ex-CFO Ned Segal, have sued the social network over alleged unpaid legal reimbursements. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, alleged that Twitter has to pay over $1 million to the former executives for legal bills they incurred while at the company to […]

Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal, other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch