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Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio
Switzerland-based Proton, the privacy-focused firm behind end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) webmail ProtonMail and other apps, has acquired...
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Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market
In 2023, higher egg prices provided an opportunity for alternative protein companies to show they could...
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Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open...
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Meta confirms that Llama 3 is coming in the next month
At an event in London on Tuesday, Meta confirmed that it plans an initial release of...
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Wordpress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper
WordPress.com owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper, the company behind the iMessage-on-Android solution that was referenced by...
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Magnets are switching up the (mechanical) keyboard game
The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches. Mechanical keyboards quickly went from a...
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Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would
When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I...
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Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service...
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Climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080
There are a lot of ways to describe what’s happening to the Earth’s climate: Global warming....
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Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism
Microsoft has introduced new versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription services that exclude its...
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Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after...
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Uber Eats courier's fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had...
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AI eye-tracking to determine whether child has autism
One in 36 children in the U.S. has autism, according to the CDC. Research shows that...
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Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
Tools that allow government hackers to break into iPhones and Android phones, popular software like the...
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Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV
Tesla is reportedly abandoning its plan to build a lower-cost EV thought to cost around $25,000,...
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Anthropic details "many-shot jailbreaking" to evade LLM safety guardrails
How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are...
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YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble
Springtime means rain, the return of flowers and, of course, Y Combinator’s first demo day of...
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Fisker's Ocean SUV investigated for doors that won't open
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a third investigation into EV startup Fisker’s Ocean...
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Reverse Searches: The sneaky way police tap tech companies for your data
U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of...
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Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet
Tucked inside Canoo’s 2023 earnings report is a nugget regarding the use of CEO Tony Aquila’s...
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Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas
The modern world is dependent on a vast network for extracting, processing, transporting and ultimately consuming...
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Why AWS, Google and Oracle Are Backing the Valkey Redis Fork
The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis...
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Marissa Mayer's Startup
When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, California, expectations were sky...
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X confirms plans for NSFW Communities
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 1 day A day after researchers surfaced X’s plans to test NSFW...