Plex urges users to change their password after a data breach
Streaming Giant Plex is urging customers to change their passwords after revealing a data breach in one of their user databases. In a post Monday, the company said it is aware of security incidents related to theft of PLEX customer account information, including username, email address, scramble password and unspecified authentication data. It is unclear […]
Minute Media, backed by BlackRock, wins Indian AI startups extracting sports highlights
Startup Media, backed by BlackRock and Goldman’s Sachs, which own properties such as Sports Illustrated, The Players’ Tribune, 90 Minutes, announced on Monday that it has acquired an Indian AI startup that allows broadcasters to extract highlights and create content from sports footage. Videoverse’s clients include the Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League (Cricket) […]
Netskope tracks Rubrik as a rare cybersecurity IPO, both backed by Lightspeed
Cybersecurity is a large sector, but startups in the category are more likely to be acquired than they are publicly available. Even Wiz, who had held the title of the fastest growing startup for a while, gave up his IPO ambitions when he agreed to sell to Google earlier this year. Over the past few […]
Sam Altman says the bots are making social media feel “fake”
X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday. The bots made it impossible to determine whether social media posts were actually written by humans, he posted. The realization came when I was reading (and sharing) several posts from R/ClaudeCode SubredDit, which praised Openai Codex. Openai launched a software programming service in […]
Deep fission of nuclear startups is revealed in strange spacks
The deep nuclear fission of nuclear power generation announced Monday that it was revealed in a reverse merger, winning the company $30 million. No, not 2021. The startup proposes building a small, cylindrical nuclear power plant and lowering it into a 30-inch diameter hole drilled into the Earth a mile. By filling the reactor, the […]
Bluesky adds private bookmarks | TechCrunch
Social networking startup Bluesky rolls out one of the most demanding features for users. No, it’s not an edit button. – Bookmarks. The company announced a new addition on Monday, called Saved Posts. This feature provides access to the new bookmark icon below each post, next to your heart. Saved posts can be viewed at […]
Spacedot raises $1.5 million seed rounds to provide insight into orbital threats
The world of corporate space has exhausted Bianca Cephalo and found it easy to literally launch your own space company and launch objects into orbit. Cephalo is the founder of Space Dots, which was launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team create a software platform called Sky-I for space technology manufacturers […]
Cognitive AI ignores turbulence and valuates $10.2 billion with a $400 million salary increase
Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin, raised $400 million and then scored a $10.2 billion valuation, and recorded a jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year, Bloomberg reports. The Founders Fund, a Peter Thiel Backed VC, led the latest round of Cognition with participation from existing investors such as […]
How to Watch Apple Announce iPhone 17
Apple is holding an “Awe Dropping” hardware event tomorrow at 10am. The company plans to announce the iPhone 17 lineup. This includes updates to Slimmer versions, Apple Watch and Airpods. The keynote speech will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino. Viewers can tune it to a live stream here or watch it on Apple’s […]
YouTube’s first exclusive NFL broadcast attracts over 17 million viewers
YouTube announced on Monday that the NFL game’s first exclusive global broadcast broke the company’s record, achieving the most parallel viewers of live streams on the platform. It has over 17.3 million viewers from over 230 countries and territories around the world, in line with the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los […]