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Honda is pulling away from a design practice that’s (literally) shaped auto making since the ’30s. The $43 billion company still depends on life-size clay models to evaluate its designs, a tried and true method pioneered by GM designer Harley Earl. But Honda is gradually relying less on the practice, ever since the Coronavirus tore […]

Honda says VR is changing how it designs cars. You might not notice. by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Security researchers say they have evidence that threat actors affiliated with the Cuba ransomware gang used malicious hardware drivers certified by Microsoft during an recent attempted ransomware attack. Drivers — the software that allows operating systems and apps to access and communicate with hardware devices — require highly privileged access to the operating system and […]

Ransomware gang caught using Microsoft-approved drivers to hack targets by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Zeekr, the premium electric car brand under China’s Geely, said Tuesday it has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering. If it goes through, it’ll be the first major Chinese listing in the country in nearly two years, following China’s effective ban of foreign IPOs. Zeekr filed last week with regulators, but didn’t provide […]

Geely’s electric car brand Zeekr files US IPO confidentially by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

After many decades of trying, scientists have reached a milestone in fusion research, finally running a reaction that created more energy than what was put in to start it. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced today that researchers at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved what’s known as net energy gain,…

Ticketmaster has now enraged the passionate fans of two of the world’s biggest acts: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny. Last weekend in Mexico City, the Puerto Rican rapper performed two sold-out shows at the 85,000-seat Azteca Stadium, but over a thousand fans who purchased tickets via Ticketmaster were turned away. Ticketmaster issued a statement saying […]

Mexican regulators are fining Ticketmaster after Bad Bunny concert fiasco by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Paytm will spend up to $127 million to repurchase it shares, the company’s board approved on Tuesday, as the Indian financial services firm looks to calm investors after a tumultuous period that has wiped about 60% value from its shares this year. The Noida-headquartered firm, which went public late last year, made the proposal last […]

India’s Paytm to buy back shares by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

When it turns out a screaming success was no more than smoke and mirrors, it means that a key signal in the tech startup market was actually quite specious.

Ah, so SBF’s FTX was all BS by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Privileged access management (aka PAM) provides the ability to control access to sensitive parts of your technology environment. Rather than giving everyone access to these resources (or conversely, no one), you should be able to apply permissions granularly. But it is challenging without the right tools. Common Fate, an Australian startup from a couple of […]

Common Fate wants to make it easier to manage privileged access for developers by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch