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Earlier on Friday (July 4th), a major storm dropped about a foot of water in Texas Hill Country in just a few hours. In 45 minutes, the water ran down the slopes of the area, towards the Guadalupe River, rising over 26 feet (8 meters) and beating the bank. In Kerr County, a flood of water wiped out people, homes and infrastructure, killing more than 100 people as of July 8th.So, what is the cause of such a catastrophic flood?Firstly, there is a flash flooding trend in the area. In fact, Texas is killing the United States due to floods.…

I don’t think the team at Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based AI video generation startup, can encourage a way to make a movie. So on Tuesday, the company released its “3D-Aware” model to the public, pledging a “hybrid” approach that provides more control for filmmakers than other standard text-to-video models. Moonvalley first launched the Marey model in beta in March and is now releasing it as a monthly credit-based subscription. Users can pay $14.99 for 100 units, $34.99 for 250 credits, and $149.99 for 1,000 credits. Users can generate clips up to 5 seconds long. This is in line with industry…

Carl Pei is a crude brand for high-tech enthusiasts, where OnePlus, an electronics maker, offers affordable phones that produce multiple devices, including flagship phones that challenge Samsung and Apple. He runs a similar playbook with Nothing, a five-year-old venture hardware startup that just launched its most ambitious device (3) earlier this month. The $799 priced phone is intended to compete with Samsung and Apple devices. OnePlus focused on providing valuable specifications and experience in its early days, but none of them focused on design and software as differentiators that stand out from other mobile phones. Startups generate eye-catching devices with…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged supply chain attacks targeting Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions called Ethcode, which are installed just over 6,000 times. The compromise occurred via a GitHub Pull request opened on June 17, 2025 by a user named Airez299. First released by 7 Finny in 2022, Ethcode is a VS code extension used to deploy and run Solidity Smart Contract on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based blockchains. EVM is a distributed calculation engine designed to run smart contracts on the Ethereum Network. According to the supply chain security company, the GitHub project received its last non-malicious update on…

Slate Auto, which came out of stealth mode earlier this year, has raised $700 million so far with amazing, and surprisingly affordable customizable electric trucks. But it quietly raised a $100 million Series A round in 2023 long before the EV startup broke the cover. And Jeff Bezos was involved in that round, but as TechCrunch originally reported, he was not alone. Regulatory filings filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that as many as 16 investors are involved. Slauson & Co is a Los Angeles venture company that was launched five years ago. is one of the few…

According to new research from UCL and the University of Cambridge, “Space Ice” contains small crystals, and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously thought. Space ice is different from ice in the form of crystals on Earth, and for decades, scientists have assumed it is structureless, meaning at cold temperatures there is not enough energy to form crystals when frozen. The new study investigated low-density amorphous ice, the most common ice form in the universe. It exists as something that exists in comets, ice moons, and dust clouds where stars and planets form. They found…

The competition to deliver fusion energy – almost endless clean power supplies – is accelerating, with the UK taking a strategic move to lead the fare. The UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA) has announced an International Fellowship Scheme, a new initiative that brings together global scientific talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of fusion energy. By partnering with world-leading institutions and supporting postdoctoral researchers through joint fellowships, UKAEA is creating a pipeline of international expertise that shapes the future of fusion energy and ensures that the UK remains at the forefront of this critical field. This initiative is…

Frontier, a organization backed by Stripe, Google and Meta, announced Tuesday that it will pay startup arbor energy to remove 116,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. With the agreement, Arbor will help build the first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana, discarding biomass and generating electricity for the data center. At the same time, the resulting CO2 is isolated and shipped via a pipeline to be buried underground. “We can sell it as two products,” Arbor co-founder and CEO Brad Hartwig told TechCrunch. “We sell carbon-free base load energy and net [carbon] removal. ” Twofer…

From the roles of underprivileged administrators to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers have slipped through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how the five retail violations unfolded and what they revealed… In recent months, major retailers such as Adidas, the North Face, Dior, Secrets of Victoria, Cartier, Marks & Spencer, and Copp have all been violated. These attacks were not sophisticated malware or zero-day exploits. They used identity-driven, underprivileged access, unsupervised service accounts, and used the human layer through tactics such as social engineering. The attacker did not have to break in. They’ve logged in. They often moved SaaS…

Cybersecurity researchers have been calling attention to malware campaigns targeting the security flaws of the TBK Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and four faith routers, ropeing the devices into a new botnet called the Rondodox. Vulnerabilities in question include CVE-2024-3721, a moderately radical command injection vulnerability affecting TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 DVRS, and CVE-2024-12856, an operating system (OS) command injection bug affecting 4-fest router models F3X24 and F3X36.Many of these devices are installed in critical environments such as retail stores, warehouses, and small offices, and have not been monitored for many years. It makes them an ideal target – it’s easy…