Insight Partners deletes investment post about Delve amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations
The controversy surrounding Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of forging certificates for customers, appears to have spurred the company’s investor Insight Partners to remove an article describing a $32 million investment in the startup. The accusations were detailed last week in a post on Substack by an anonymous whistleblower known as “Deep Delver,” […]
Emile Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he will never forgive the Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick.
Emile Michael, a senior technology official at the Pentagon, is back in the spotlight over the government’s ongoing battle with Anthropic, and a newly released podcast interview provides the most in-depth look yet at his thoughts on the controversy, as well as unapologetically settling old scores from his Uber days. The interview, released Monday and […]
Someone has released an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones.
Last week, cybersecurity researchers discovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users using an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now, someone has leaked a new version of DarkSword and published it on code-sharing site GitHub. Researchers warn that this could allow hackers to easily use the tool to target iPhone users running older versions of the […]
Chemistry student develops clear polish that turns fingernails into touchscreen stylus
University students realized that people with long fingernails and calloused fingertips had trouble operating smartphones, so they created a prototype of an abrasive that turns fingernails into touchscreen stylus. Manasi Desai, a student at Centenary University in Louisiana with an interest in cosmetic chemistry, launched the project with her research advisor, Joshua Lawrence, an associate […]
Bernie Sanders’ AI “gotcha” video failed, but the meme is great
In a new viral video, Sen. Bernie Sanders tried to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter users can make them less tools of discovery themselves and more like mirrors of users’ own beliefs. We have seen this […]
Bipartisan bill seeks to ban sports betting on Calci and Polymarkets
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) introduced a bill Monday that would prohibit prediction market platforms Calci and Polymarket from allowing users to bet on sporting events or play casino-style games. The bipartisan bill would not apply to FanDuel and DraftKings, which are subject to state-by-state gambling laws rather than federal law. […]
North Korean hackers exploit VS Code autorun tasks to deploy StoatWaffle malware
The North Korean threat actor behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, is believed to be from the malware family tracked as StoatWaffle, which is distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. Using VS Code’s “tasks.json” to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic employed by threat actors since December […]
DoorDash introduces relief money for drivers as gasoline prices soar due to Iran-US war
DoorDash is stepping in to help drivers in the U.S. and Canada, as the ongoing war between Iran and the U.S. is contributing to a significant spike in gas prices. The company on Monday announced the rollout of a temporary program aimed at easing the financial burden on dashers who rely on private vehicles to […]
Russia’s rocket heading to the ISS suffers from a major problem with its antenna, triggering a remote-controlled astronaut backup plan
A Russian unmanned rocket carrying vital supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) suffered a serious “malfunction” after liftoff, and the cargo plane will no longer be able to autonomously dock to the station, NASA has warned. As a result, the cosmonauts (Russian cosmonauts) may have to use a “backup system” to remotely dock the […]
Startup Gimlet Labs solves AI inference bottlenecks in a surprisingly elegant way
Zayn Asghar, an adjunct professor at Stanford University and successful founder, has raised $80 million in Series A for a startup that cleverly solves the bottleneck problem of AI inference. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. A company called Gimlet Labs has developed the first and only “multi-silicon inference cloud,” software that allows AI […]