June 18, 2025

The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence

After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout their Massachusetts home—to “watch what we were doing,” she says, while he went to work. She’d turn them off; he’d get angry. By the time their third child turned seven, Gioia and her husband had divorced, but he still found…

Elon Musk says Twitter is ‘aiming’ to roll out encrypted DMs this month

March 6, 2023

Amongst a ton of product changes to make Twitter a more attractive platform, Elon Musk has mentioned multiple times his desire to make direct messages better and more secure. So much so that he wants DMs to “superset Signal” — the encrypted messaging app. Over the weekend, Musk said that the end-to-end encrypted DM feature […]

Elon Musk says Twitter is ‘aiming’ to roll out encrypted DMs this month by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: how to log off, and the future of energy

March 6, 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. How to log off As soon as I wake up, I grab my phone to check any messages that have arrived overnight and thumb through news alerts before scrolling quickly through Twitter and…

Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang

March 6, 2023

An international law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of suspected core members of the prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware operation. German and Ukrainian police, working with law enforcement partners including Europol and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said they took action last month against the notorious group blamed for numerous large-scale attacks since […]

Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU

March 6, 2023

It’s taken rather longer than a month for Meta-owned WhatsApp to commit to address complaints swirling around how it imposes terms of service on users but the European Commission has just announced that the messaging platform has agreed to improve how it communicates to users and presents future ToS updates. Early in 2021, WhatsApp triggered […]

WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day

March 6, 2023

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Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch