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An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password.

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists thriving exploitation of encrypted communications platforms.

The TSA wait times feature is one of many new additions to the United app, including automatic rebooking assistance and real-time time weather radar maps.

The company's deliveries in the first quarter were just 6% higher than last year, and Tesla now faces a third straight year of falling sales.

Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stop gap.

It is the path of least resistance for a growth-stage company to hire from the familiar Silicon Valley pipelines but if a founder wants a diverse team, that value has to be put into practice from the very first hire.

One way Beehiiv is convincing creators to switch from rivals like Substack and Patreon is by not taking a cut of revenue.

Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far.

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's tool and passing it off as its own.

Passengers in Baidu's robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours.

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digital collage. Think MySpace rather than LinkedIn.

Cameo launched a new TikTok integration that allows U.S. creators to offer personalized videos through the app.

The Meta-owned company said it identified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a fake version of WhatsApp that was actually Italian-made spyware.

The firm says it can can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.

StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.

The company struggled with quality issues when Gravity production started last year, and the new recall shows it's not out of the woods yet.

The glasses will reportedly feature cameras, microphones and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries.

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp.ai is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing childrens online safety, some heavily criticized.

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.

You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.

The fitness tracking startup just closed a $575 million Series G with Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James among its investors. The obvious question looming over a round of this size at this valuation: Is an IPO coming?

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

FedEx recently announced a partnership with Berkshire Gray as the company works with external players to develop its automation tech.

The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.

CareCloud, a major provider of medical records storage, said hackers accessed one of its repositories of patient data earlier in March. It provides technology for more than 45,000 providers covering millions of patients.

DoorDash joins Greenoaks Capital in another $200 million funding round for Also, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million.

With this new app, Roku says subscribers can access Howdy's library of content on the go.

Meta says these glasses are the most comfortable ones it has ever designed, as they're made for all-day comfort.

Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time video intelligence applications.

The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.

It's the fourth airport Waymo is serving, adding to Phoenix Sky Harbor, San Francisco, and San Jose International airports.

Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across apps.

Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.

Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won't be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.

Airbnb is partnering with transportation company Welcome Pickups to let users book a private car service during their trip.

The primary isnt until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty. Agarwal entered the race in March, backed by a roster of prominent tech billionaires largely in response to Khannas public support for a proposed California ballot measure that would impose a []

The collapse of the brand, which was originally venture-backed and that went public in 2021, has been well-documented.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules.

LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.