Cancer care platform startup Jasper Health has laid off a significant portion of its staff, TechCrunch has learned. According to LinkedIn posts by affected employees, the engineering and product design departments were the targets of the layoffs. TechCrunch was unable to independently verify the exact number of layoffs, but an industry insider with knowledge of … Read more
Entertainment giant Live Nation has confirmed that its ticketing subsidiary Ticketmaster has been hacked. Live Nation confirmed the data breach in a legal filing with government regulators after markets closed on Friday. Live Nation said in a statement that it had discovered “unauthorized activity in a third-party cloud database environment containing company data.” The company … Read more
An autonomous pod. A solid-state battery-powered sports car. An electric pickup truck. A convertible grand tourer EV with up to 600 miles of range. A “fully connected mobility device” for young urban innovators to be built by Foxconn and priced under $30,000. The next Popemobile. Over the past eight years, famed vehicle designer Henrik Fisker … Read more
Late Friday afternoon, a window typically reserved for companies to disclose damaging information, artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face said its security team had detected “unauthorized access” earlier this week to Spaces, the platform Hugging Face uses to create, share and host artificial intelligence models. Hugging Face said in a blog post that the breach was … Read more
Last week, an unknown hacker broke into the servers of pcTattletale, a US stalkerware maker. The hacker then stole and leaked the company’s internal data. They also defaced pcTattletale’s official website with the intention of embarrassing the company. “This took a total of 15 minutes, starting with reading the TechCrunch article,” the hacker wrote in … Read more
An international police alliance, organized by the EU’s justice and police agencies, has unveiled an ongoing operation against malware droppers in what Europol calls the “largest operation” of its kind. The ongoing program, dubbed Operation Endgame, targets malware delivery “droppers” and “loaders” and seeks to disrupt large-scale malware deployments. From May 27 to May 29, … Read more
U.S. senators from both parties have sent inquiries to government agencies about efforts to combat the use of cryptocurrencies in the illegal fentanyl market. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and William Cassidy (R-LA) have sent a letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration that reads: [We] Seek the latest … Read more
Ubisoft, the publisher of the Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy adventure games and the recent XDefiant crossover shooter, will host its Ubisoft Forward livestream in June, where major video game companies will showcase their wares and plans for the coming year. Ubisoft Forward 2024 will air at 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST … Read more
When someone says a product is “new and improved,” it’s best not to take it too seriously. But with Mill’s redesigned food waste bin, you can believe it. As before, the bin takes a wide variety of food waste (only a few things, like oyster shells, are off-limits) and grinds and dries it into a … Read more
Google was also embarrassed by its AI overview. Over the past week, the tech giant’s AI search feature was shoddy and had completely wrong information, prompting a series of parodies and mockery. On Thursday, the company issued an apology. Google, a company synonymous with searching the web and its brand focused on “organizing the world’s … Read more