Apple TV+ drops its free offering for ‘Friday Night Baseball,’ expands games to 45+ countries

March 22, 2023

Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced today new updates to its “Friday Night Baseball” offering. The games are now available to Apple TV+ subscribers in 60 countries, up from the original 13. However, the first 12 weeks of games this year will no longer be free for everyone and will require an Apple TV+ […]

Apple TV+ drops its free offering for ‘Friday Night Baseball,’ expands games to 45+ countries by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more

March 22, 2023

GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned company is launching a code-centric chat mode for Copilot that helps developers write and debug their code, as well as […]

GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers

March 22, 2023

Developers building front-end Jamstack web applications often struggle to build identity with traditional API tools. With the approach growing in popularity, the founders of Clerk decided to focus their startup on building a simplified identity tool purpose-built for React applications. The company announced a $15 million Series A led by Madrona today. Colin Sidoti, who […]

Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

New victims come forward after mass-ransomware attack

March 22, 2023

The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked. Canadian financing giant Investissement Québec confirmed to TechCrunch that “some employee personal information” was recently stolen by […]

New victims come forward after mass-ransomware attack by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud

March 22, 2023

Secure web gateways — network security services designed to help organizations enforce IT policies around Internet usage by blocking (or letting through) certain traffic — are one of the most common investments that organizations make in their cybersecurity profiles. But as a product that’s been around for decades, there remains a lot of room for […]

Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Google’s Bard experiment, and Ernie Bot’s rehabilitation

March 22, 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. Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT—and it wants you to make it better Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Unlike Bing Chat,…