16 h. ago Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users

Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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23 h. ago US teachers’ union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members

PSEA says it "took steps to ensure" its stolen data was deleted, suggesting a ransom demand was paid © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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23 h. ago Hugging Face’s new iOS app taps AI to describe what you’re looking at

AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face’s in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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28 h. ago Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators

Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators  Reuters

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48 h. ago Indian car manufacturers need to prepare for a rise in electric vehicles

Widespread adoption of electric vehicles poses a financial risk to India's leading automotive firms unless they can adapt to the change.

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3 d. ago Google beefs up its UK AI business with Agentspace data residency and more

Google is doubling down on building out its AI business in the U.K., and on Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian appeared alongside customers BT and WPP to spell out some of its plans. The company said it will be expanding UK data residency […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 d. ago Amazon is still hosting stalkerware victims’ data weeks after breach alert

Amazon won't say if it will stop hosting data from three phone surveillance operations that spilled private data on millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 d. ago Amazon is still hosting spyware victims’ data weeks after breach alert

Amazon won't say if it will stop hosting data from three phone surveillance operations that spilled private data on millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 d. ago Geothermal unicorn Fervo Energy may IPO as early as next year

Driving the consideration is the growing concern over power demand growth from data centers, which could double by 2029. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 d. ago Ditto lands $82M to synchronize data from the edge to the cloud

Ditto, a company that’s setting out to bring “resilient” connectivity to edge devices, has raised $82 million in a Series B round of funding at a post-money valuation of $462 million — more than double its Series A valuation from 2023. “Edge,” in the context of Ditto’s industry, refers to a distributed computing model that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 d. ago Geothermal could power nearly all new data centers through 2030

Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide the sort of consistent power that data centers crave. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk

The Trump administration is negotiating the return of more Russian diplomats to the United States. Some are likely to be spies.

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1 week ago FBI says scammers are targeting US executives with fake BianLian ransom notes

The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Apple Appeals UK Demand for Encryption Backdoor to Spy on Users Worldwide

Apple has filed an appeal with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal in an effort to overturn a secret government order requiring the tech giant to create a backdoor for spying on encrypted user data. The post Apple Appeals UK Demand for Encryption Backdoor to Spy on Users Worldwide appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Google releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlife

Google has open-sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps — digital cameras connected to infrared sensors — to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide valuable insights, they generate massive volumes of data that take days to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Investment research data breach exposes 12 million customers

A recent ransomeware attack targeted Zacks, an American investment firm, and a cybercriminal claimed to have stolen records for millions of customers.

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2 w. ago Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AI

Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser’s new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that appears to give the browser maker the rights to whatever data you input or upload. The company says the new terms aren’t a change in how Mozilla uses data, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI

Agreement between MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries aims to deliver power efficiencies for data centers and ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.

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2 w. ago Snowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capital

Snowflake plans to expand its startup accelerator with $200 million in additional commitments, the tech giant that specializes in cloud-based data storage said Thursday. The new injection of capital follows a string of activity by Snowflake over the past several months that illustrates that company’s growth ambitions. The Snowflake Startup Accelerator, formerly known as the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 w. ago Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moon

Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that’s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison’s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers — packed with Lonestar’s clients’ data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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