African payments company Paystack has reduced its operations outside of Africa, trimming its workforce in Europe and Dubai. This decision comes as part of a streamlining effort, particularly […]
Samsung says hackers accessed customer data during year-long breach
Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems. In a statement to TechCrunch, Samsung spokesperson Chelsea Simpson, […]
Candela’s electric hydrofoiling ferry takes flight
The future is going to be electric, but in the air and on the water that transition is proving more difficult than on land. Candela has taken a […]
EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X
A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banned by laws they had a hand in passing is the subject of a new […]
Persona 5 Publisher Raises Salaries Amid Industry-Wide Layoffs
Developer-publisher Atlus is reportedly raising the annual salaries of its Japanese staff by 15 percent, a move that is the total opposite of what’s been happening across the U.S. labor market (and the games industry specifically) for months now.
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Martian’s tool automatically switches between LLMs to reduce costs
Shriyash Upadhyay and Etan Ginsberg, AI researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, are of the opinion that many large AI companies are sacrificing basic research in pursuit of […]
US says Royal ransomware gang plans ‘Blacksuit’ rebrand
The U.S. government says Royal, one of the most active ransomware gangs in recent years, is preparing to rebrand or spinoff with a new name, Blacksuit. In an […]
Inito, a startup that helps women quickly track fertility hormones at home, raises $6M
Inito, a YC alum that helps women track fertility hormones quickly at home, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Fireside Ventures. The startup’s fertility […]
Here are this year’s top 40 startups at Station F
Every year, hundreds of (very) early stage startups choose to participate in one of the startup programs of Station F, an iconic startup campus based in Paris. And […]
SPAC delays $350M merger with stratospheric balloon startup World View – again
The special-purpose acquisition company poised to take stratospheric balloon startup World View public is now under official deadline as shareholders voted to again push back the date by […]