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Defense technology continues to get a lot of attention from investors, and today, one of the bigger startups in the space is announcing more funding. Shield AI — which develops platforms and planes for autonomous flying systems, targeting the U.S. military and its allies as customers — has raised $60 million in funding, money that […]

Shield AI raises another $60M at a $2.3B valuation for its military autonomous flying tech by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey issued a warning on the social network’s state and prospects, saying it meets none of the standards he hoped to achieve and that harassment of its staff is shortsighted and dangerous. It’s time to move on, as he’s said before, and to that end he’s funding new efforts in “open internet […]

Jack Dorsey warns against attacks on Twitter staff and dedicates $1M a year to Signal by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

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