Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers
Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest asset managers, has confirmed that 77,000 customers had personal information compromised during an August data breach. The Boston, Mass.-based investment firm said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems between August
Read moreVenture studio Diagram expands into climate tech with oversubscribed fund
Eight-year-old Diagram is expanding its startup incubator model into climate. The Montreal-based venture studio, which launches startups in house, raised $80 million CAD ($58 million) for its fourth studio fund, Diagram ClimateTech Fund. The firm said the vehicle surpassed its initial $60 million CAD ($43 million) target, hitting its hard
Read moreGolden ellipse
A golden ellipse is an ellipse whose axes are in golden proportion. That is, the ratio of the major axis length to the minor axis length is the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5)/2. Draw a golden ellipse and its inscribed and circumscribed circles. In other words draw the
Read moreOpenAI Partners Global Media Giant for Advanced AI Solutions
OpenAI has announced a strategic alliance with Hearst, one of the biggest and most diverse global providers of information services and media. This partnership aims to expand the functionality and market reach of both firms’ products by incorporating Hearst’s vast library of newspapers and magazines into OpenAI’s offerings, such as
Read moreMiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research
Advances in DNA sequencing and the vast amounts of genomic data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have created a startup opportunity to build software for biologists so they can more easily analyze this big data and take the next leap. It could help when it comes to developing
Read moreHealth insurtech startup Qantev raises €30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI models
Health and life insurance providers face a rising volume of claims due to chronic disease and aging populations, but their processes lack scalability. AI automation can help, but it takes more tailoring than for other insurance types. Automating property and casualty insurance, for instance, gave rise to public company Guidewire
Read moreAreal coordinates and ellipse area
Barycentric coordinates are sometimes called area coordinates or areal coordinates in the context of triangle geometry. This is because the barycentric coordinates of a point P inside a triangle ABC correspond to areas of the three triangles PBC, PCA and PAB. (This assumes ABC has unit area. Otherwise divide the
Read moreDid that startup founder really work through his wedding?
Thoughtly co-founder Casey Mackrell had a big week. First, he got married. Then, he went viral. At his wedding reception, Mackrell needed to quickly give a colleague access to code that could only be unblocked from his laptop. His fellow co-founder Torrey Leonard seized the moment by taking a photo
Read moreBridgit Mendler’s Northwood makes ground station connection with Planet Labs in key test
Northwood Space, the startup founded by former Disney star Bridgit Mendler, nailed a key test last week when its ground station unit successfully connected with orbiting Planet Labs satellites. Operating from Planet’s ground station in Maddock, North Dakota, the team successfully showed the startup’s novel phased-array antenna system can transmit
Read moreThe Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When visiting The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) on Wednesday afternoon, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up claiming the site had been hacked. After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly. However, as of 5:30PM ET, the popup was gone, but
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