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Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage

December 6, 2022

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed that it has been hit by ransomware attack that has left a number of its customers without access to email. Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange service started experiencing problems on Friday last week. At the time, Rackspace posted a notice on its status page saying that due to a “security incident,” […]

Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January

December 6, 2022

Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant’s so-called “forced consent” to continue tracking and targeting users […]

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s iOS app is riddled with privacy settings glitches

December 6, 2022

As Elon Musk attempts to operate a major social media platform with a fraction of its staff, Twitter users are reporting that certain key security features on iOS are not working. For some users, it’s impossible to protect your tweets or toggle direct message privacy settings — a pop-up will appear that says “some settings […]

Twitter’s iOS app is riddled with privacy settings glitches by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Kodiak Robotics wins $50M to help US Army build AVs for recon, surveillance

December 6, 2022

Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics won a $49.9 million contract from the the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance. The two year contract, which was awarded by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on behalf of the Army’s Robotic Combat […]

Kodiak Robotics wins $50M to help US Army build AVs for recon, surveillance by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M

December 6, 2022

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the other shifts we’ve seen in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda, one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well […]

Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Uber’s flawed facial recognition, and police drones

December 6, 2022
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. Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts One evening in February last year, a 23-year-old Uber driver named Niradi Srikanth was getting ready to start another shift, ferrying passengers…

NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

December 6, 2022

The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., text, images, audio) based on what they learned while “training” on a specific set of data. AI […]

NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

I met a police drone in VR—and hated it

December 6, 2022
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I’m standing in the parking lot of an apartment building in East London, near where I live. It’s a cloudy day, and nothing seems out of the ordinary.  A small drone descends…