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The United States accuses the Iranian government of running a hacking group that hacked Stryker

The United States accuses the Iranian government of running a hacking group that hacked Stryker

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,department of justice,FBI,hacktivist,Handala,iran,Iran War,Stryker ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The US Department of Justice has accused the Iranian government of being behind the Handala Group, which last week claimed responsibility for the devastating cyberattack against US medical technology giant Stryker. In a press release published on Thursday, the Justice Ministry said that Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security is running Hanzala. The Justice Department described the group as a fake activist persona that the Iranian ministry used to carry out “psychological operations” against enemies of the regime, claim responsibility for cyberattacks,…
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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to walk away from takeover, jury says

Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to walk away from takeover, jury says

💥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,Elon Musk,Mergers and Acquisitions,Twitter,X 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A California civil jury ruled on Friday that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he later tried to back out of the acquisition. (Twitter ended up suing Musk to force him to make the deal.) “Twitter deal is temporarily on hold awaiting details supporting spam/fake accounts that already represent less than 5%…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is getting into the space data center game

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is getting into the space data center game

🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,TC,Blue Origin,data centers ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Blue Origin, the space group founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has asked the US government for permission to launch a network of more than 50,000 satellites that will serve as a data center in orbit. In a March 19 document filed with the FCC, Blue Origin lawyers described “Project Sunrise” as a network of spacecraft that will perform advanced computation in orbit “to relieve increasing pressure on U.S. communities and natural resources by shifting energy- and water-intensive computing away from ground-based data…
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A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by recording his flight on Strava

A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by recording his flight on Strava

🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,In Brief,Strava 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A French Navy officer went for a run on the deck of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and uploaded his workout to Strava, inadvertently leaking the location of the nuclear-powered warship as it headed to the Middle East. French newspaper Le Monde first reported that this story is not an anomaly, as this popular fitness tracking app has proven to be a privacy nightmare before. By default, accounts on the Social Fitness app are set to public, which will make your route public…
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Microsoft is rolling back some of the Copilot AI hype on Windows

Microsoft is rolling back some of the Copilot AI hype on Windows

💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,Microsoft,Windows,windows 11 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft on Friday announced a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which specifically includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant, Copilot. The company said it will reduce Copilot AI integrations in some apps, ranging from Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and its Snipping Tool. Under the heading “Integrating AI where it matters most,” Pavan Davuluri, executive vice president of Windows and devices, wrote on the company blog that Microsoft is becoming more intentional…
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Amid the legal turmoil, Kalshi was temporarily banned in Nevada

Amid the legal turmoil, Kalshi was temporarily banned in Nevada

✨ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Fintech,Government & Policy,Kalshi,Nevada,prediction markets 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Kalshi is not having a very good week. On Tuesday, Arizona's attorney general filed a 20-count criminal complaint against the online prediction market, accusing it of running an illegal gambling business in the state. Now, another southwestern state has made a big move for the company: A judge in Nevada has temporarily banned the service from operating in the state as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by state regulators. The state of Nevada, on behalf of the Gaming Control Board, filed…
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Pinterest’s CEO is calling on governments to ban social media for users under the age of 16

Pinterest’s CEO is calling on governments to ban social media for users under the age of 16

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,government,law,Pinterest,social media 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Pinterest CEO Bill Ready called on governments to ban social media for users under the age of 16 in a new op-ed for Time magazine. He is now one of the few top CEOs to have called for such a restriction, as countries around the world begin to implement or consider ways to limit children's time online, and how to verify their exact ages. Reddy writes that children today are “living the largest social experiment in history,” given “unlimited access to social media platforms.”…
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Why can’t scientists laugh?

Why can’t scientists laugh?

🔥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Biotech & Health,laughter,scientists,study ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A recent survey of more than 500 scientific conference presentations over a two-year period was published to determine whether scientists were funny, which is funny in itself, if not the most productive use of time. The results were about what you might expect: two-thirds of attempts at humor garnered either polite chuckles or complete silence, and only 9% succeeded well enough to elicit laughter from most attendees. Also unsurprisingly, the biggest laughs came from technical hiccups, such as slide malfunctions and microphones being…
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WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,AI agents,Publishing,WordPress,wordpress.com 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing artificial intelligence agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to craft, edit, and publish content on customer websites, as well as manage comments, update and fix metadata, and organize content using tags and categories. All of this is controlled through an interface where the website owner explains what he wants to do using natural language commands. Thanks to these new…
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AI startups are feeding into the enterprise industry and the returns are good so far

AI startups are feeding into the enterprise industry and the returns are good so far

🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,AI,Carta 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Well, the data is out. Amnesty International Startups counted That's 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies in Carta last year — a record annual share. However, we knew that to some extent. Last year, investors were voracious in allocating capital to AI startups, to the point where 10% of startups accounted for half of the funding. These startups include Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, which raised billions of dollars last year at sky-high valuations. In fact, they are still rising at…
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