February 4, 2025

Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer

Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to TechCrunch on Tuesday that, “Paragon licenses its technology to a select group of global democracies — principally, the United States and its allies.” […]

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

January 5, 2023

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists. Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. It soon broadened its focus, introducing products to help developers build components of […]

MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack

January 5, 2023

CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company’s systems. The San Francisco-headquartered DevOps company said in an advisory published late Wednesday it is currently investigating the security incident — its most recent in recent years. “We wanted to make you aware […]

CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Why 2023 is a breakout year for batteries

January 5, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. If you stop to think about it for long enough, batteries start to sound a little bit like magic. Seriously, tiny chemical factories that we carry around to store energy and release it…

France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach

January 5, 2023

A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has announced it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5M) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) ad identifiers on their devices in breach of local data protection law. The sanction decision was issued on […]

France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue

January 5, 2023

Amazon has announced that it will be “eliminating” more than 18,000 roles at the company, extending a previously-announced round of layoffs that was set to impact some 10,000 workers. The announcement is significant in terms of the number of people impacted, though it represents just 1.2% of Amazon’s 1.5 million global headcount. In a memo […]

Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

What’s next for mRNA vaccines

January 5, 2023
Cast your mind back to 2020, if you can bear it. As the year progressed, so did the impact of covid-19. We were warned that wearing face coverings, disinfecting everything we touched, and keeping away from other people were some of the only ways we could protect ourselves from the potentially fatal disease. Thankfully, a…