Former Google engineer found guilty of stealing 2,000 AI trade secrets from Chinese startup
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 30, 2026Artificial intelligence/economic espionage A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of confidential company documents to build a startup in China has been sentenced in the United States, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Linwei Ding (also known as Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury of seven counts […]
SmarterMail fixes critical uncertified RCE flaw in CVSS 9.3 scores
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 30, 2026Vulnerabilities / Email Security SmarterTools has addressed two additional security flaws in its SmarterMail email software. One of them is a critical security flaw that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-24423 and has a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0. According to the […]
Two Ivanti EPMM zero-day RCE flaws actively exploited, security update released
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 30, 2026Vulnerabilities / Enterprise Security Ivanti has released security updates to address two security flaws that affect Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and were exploited in a zero-day attack. One of them was added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The critical severity […]
How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short
Ethos Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of life insurance sales software, went public on the Nasdaq on Thursday. As one of the first big tech IPOs of the year, the insurtech platform is being watched as a bellwether for the 2026 listing cycle. The company and its selling shareholders raised approximately $200 million in a […]
iPhone had its best quarter ever
Apple had a great first quarter, but what really stood out was iPhone sales. The company reported its best quarter ever for its flagship devices, thanks in part to surging sales in regions such as China and India. “iPhone had its best quarter ever, driven by unprecedented demand, with record highs across all geographic segments,” […]
SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI led by Elon Musk are reportedly in merger talks
Three of Elon Musk’s companies are considering a possible merger: SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla. Negotiations appear to be in the early stages, but at least one company could end up being acquired by SpaceX, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. Two scenarios are considered. According to Bloomberg, citing unnamed insiders, SpaceX and Tesla may […]
Medium gives employees Friday off to join national strike to protest ICE
A hustle culture may be the norm at tech companies in the age of AI, but starting tomorrow, it will stop working on publishing platform Medium. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine has given his employees permission to take time off to participate in tomorrow’s national general strike protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Activists on […]
Halley was not the first to discover the existence of this famous comet. According to new research, monks in the 11th century were the first to do it.
Halley’s Comet is named after the famous astronomer who was the first to describe its movement through space, but new research suggests he wasn’t the first to discover its periodic orbit past Earth. Halley’s Comet is named after the British astronomer Edmund Halley, who in 1705 pieced together the space rock’s orbit using a combination […]
Even after Microsoft launches its own AI chips, Nadella says it won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia and AMD.
Microsoft installed the first of its AI chips in one of its data centers this week, and the company says it plans to deploy more chips in the coming months. The chip, named Maia 200, is designed to be what Microsoft calls an “AI inference powerhouse,” meaning it’s optimized for the compute-intensive task of running […]
Fintech company Marquis blames hacking of firewall provider Sonic Wall for data breach
Fintech company Marquis told customers it plans to seek compensation from its firewall provider for a breach that allowed hackers to steal customers’ personal and financial data. In a memo shared with customers this week seen by TechCrunch, Marquis said he believes the August 2025 ransomware attack occurred because SonicWall, the company’s firewall service provider, […]