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Waymo is expanding its Robotaxi service area by an additional 80 square miles in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley, the company announced Tuesday. Waymo’s commercial service area now covers more than 250 square miles of California, pushing unmanned Jaguar I-Pace vehicles into new pockets in the three-populated metro area. The expansion will be over a week after several Waymo Robotaxis were burned and destroyed during the Los Angeles protests over the Trump administration’s immigration attacks. The Scorched Waymo Robotaxis (pictures that symbolized these protests) urged the company to pull back services in Los…
Sword Health is a startup at AI Health Tech, known for helping you manage pain through digital tools, and raised $40 million to expand your mental health footprint and accelerate your expansion plan. The new round, which would give the company a $4 billion valuation, was led by General Catalyst. Other investors include Khosla Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Lince Capital, Oxy Capital, Armilar, Indico Capital and Shilling. According to Pitchbook, Sword had raised more than $450 million as of September last year. The company says the funds will be used to strengthen acquisitions, support international growth and build AI models that…
A month after the House passed a version of the settlement bill, Senate Republicans released their views on the budget bill Monday night. The Senate Treasury Committee’s language takes the sledgehammer into part of the Renewable-Friendly Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to restrain others. Solar, wind and hydrogen are the brunt of impact. On the other side of the ledger, geothermal, nuclear, hydroelectric power, and long-term energy storage appear relatively unharmed. The carbon capture has now come somewhere in the middle. Senate Republicans are moving quickly to end the solar tax credits for residents, signing to charge people for them just…
Social networks have strengthened terms of use for scrapers and bots that crave websites to train AI models. A few days after X, owned by Elon Musk, updated its term and explicitly banned AI model training, today’s decentralized social network Mastodon has updated its own rules banning all kinds of model training. “We explicitly prohibit user data scraping for fraudulent purposes, such as archival models or large-scale language model (LLM) training. We want to make it clear that LLM for mastodon users’ data is not permitted.” A new terminology that will be applied to social networks starting July 1st is…
Sheridian, Wyoming, June 17, 2025, Chain Wire R0AR has launched a Decentralized Finance (DEFI) platform that combines token staking, liquidity delivery, and NFT-based rewards into a single user interface. A platform designed to support long-term engagement streamlines participation while incorporating embedded security measures and time-based reward models. Streamlined Staking and Liquidity Solutions The R0AR platform allows users to interact with three key mechanisms: Token Staking: Users can wager 1R0R tokens over a defined period and earn time-weighted rewards based on the lockup period. Liquidity Provision: Participants contribute to the ETH/$1R0R liquidity pool and receive rewards calculated through a dynamic time-based…
Helsing, a German-based AI defense technology startup, has secured fresh funding of 600 million euros ($693.6 million), making it one of the biggest rounds for businesses in the sector. The round is led by Prima Materia, co-founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, who chairs Helsing. Shakil Khan, a longtime EK collaborator and early Spotify backer, is also the co-founder of Prima Materia. Existing investors – Lightspeed venture partners, Axel, multiple, general catalysts, Swedish defense giant Saab has repeatedly supported them. The new capital comes from BDT & MSD partners. The company has not shared an updated rating and the round…
Food distribution giant United Natural Food (UNFI) said it is making “great progress” in recovering from cyberattacks that occurred almost two weeks ago as North American grocery stores rely on distributors continue to report food shortages. In its Sunday update, UNFI said it is restoring the electronic ordering system that customers use to place orders for grocery stores and supermarkets. The company, which offers more than 30,000 stores across the US and Canada with fresh ingredients and other products, was hit by a cyber attack on June 5th, and the company disclosed it a few days later. UNFI has yet…
The UK Data Protection Watchdog has fined 23andMe £2.31 million ($3.1 million) for its failure to protect the individual and genetic data of UK residents prior to the 2023 data breach. The Information Committee (ICO) said Tuesday it fined the genetic testing company for “there were no additional verification procedures for users to access and download raw genetic data” during the cyberattack. In 2023, hackers stole personal data on more than 6.9 million users in a campaign over a month by using stolen credentials to access thousands of accounts. 23AndMe did not require users to use multifactor authentication. The ICO…
The British Association of Specialist Congress Organizers (ABPCO) has announced that the association’s director, Heather Rishman, will retire early at the end of 2025. Lishman will officially resign in December following the annual ABPCO Excellence Awards held at Manchester Central, Manchester. Lishman’s tenure has led ABPCO to grow and evolve into one of the most respected voices in the UK’s events industry. Lishman said: She added: “It was an honor to work with such passionate experts and support the growth and recognition of our industry.” Under the leadership of Rishman, the association has overcome challenges, achieved unprecedented milestones, reaching its…
June 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Email Security Cybersecurity researchers are using malware families such as HoldingHands Rat and Gh0stringe to warn of new phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese users. The activity is part of a broader campaign that provided the Winos 4.0 malware framework in early January this year by sending phishing messages that impersonate Taiwan’s National Tax Agency, Fortinet Fortiguard Labs said in a report shared with Hacker News. The cybersecurity company said it had identified additional malware samples through continuous monitoring and observed the same threat actors delivering GH0STCRINGE and malware stocks based on holding rats, using malware layer PDF documents…