HBO’s ‘Succession’ Season 4 premieres on March 26

January 26, 2023

Today, HBO announced that the fourth season of the Emmy-winning drama series “Succession” will premiere on Sunday, March 26. It will debut at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and will stream on HBO Max. “Succession” focuses on the Roy family and their media empire, Waystar Royco. Throughout the show, Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox), […]

HBO’s ‘Succession’ Season 4 premieres on March 26 by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Renaissance Fusion raises $16.4 million to build nuclear fusion technology in Europe

January 26, 2023

Meet Renaissance Fusion, a Grenoble-based startup that has been working on nuclear fusion for the past couple of years. The company recently raised $16.4 million (€15 million) in funding in a seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital. Several European investors also participated in the round, such as HCVC, Positron Ventures and Norssken. “We are proud […]

Renaissance Fusion raises $16.4 million to build nuclear fusion technology in Europe by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Mirantis acquires Shipa

January 26, 2023

Container management platform Mirantis, which you may remember from its OpenStack days and from acquiring Docker Enterprise in 2019, today announced that it has acquired Shipa, a startup that builds tools to help developers develop, deploy and manage cloud-native applications. Shipa previously raised a $3.75 million seed round in 2020, co-led by Engineering Capital and […]

Mirantis acquires Shipa by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

NEA now manages over $25 billion in assets – oh, and it’s looking beyond venture

January 26, 2023

New Enterprise Associates, known by the acronym NEA, has closed a new pair of early-stage and growth-stage funds, both hovering a little over $3 billion to a total of $6.2 billion. The two-fund structure is a first that begets another first for the 45-year old firm: TechCrunch has learned that NEA has filed to be […]

NEA now manages over $25 billion in assets – oh, and it’s looking beyond venture by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

US announces it seized Hive ransomware gang’s leak sites and decryption keys

January 26, 2023

The infrastructure behind Hive, one of the most prolific ransomware operations, has been seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe. Hive saw its dark web portal seized as part of a coordinated law enforcement action carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Secret Service and several European government […]

US announces it seized Hive ransomware gang’s leak sites and decryption keys by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok expands its DM settings to let users choose who can message them

January 26, 2023

TikTok has quietly expanded its direct messaging settings to give users a choice of who they want to receive messages from. The options are now: everyone, suggested friends, mutual followers, people you’ve sent messages to, or no one. Prior to this change, only people users had identified as friends or were recommended could send a […]

TikTok expands its DM settings to let users choose who can message them by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Peacock tops 20M subscribers in Q4 as losses widen

January 26, 2023

Comcast-owned streaming service Peacock had its best quarterly result since its 2020 launch, adding five million paying subscribers in its fourth quarter of 2022 to bring the total to 20 million, up from the over 15 million subs in the previous quarter. In Q1 2021, Peacock had 9 million paid users. Peacock gets much of […]

Peacock tops 20M subscribers in Q4 as losses widen by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch