Aesar Tonkin on Safeguarding Sensitive Info in E-Commerce
Consumers are prioritizing the best deals and chasing the sales before they end. However, the chase comes with risk – the faster consumers move towards the deals, the less attention they pay to security and verifying a website’s authenticity. This means, as an online business, this is the perfect time
Read moreHow a creator of React is rethinking IDEs
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel
Read moreIndonesia blocks Google Pixel sales after ban on iPhone 16
Indonesia has banned sales of Google Pixel smartphones for failing to meet domestic content requirements, days after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16 in Southeast Asia’s largest phone market. The Indonesian Ministry of Industry said Google’s phones cannot be traded until they comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones sold
Read moreElon Musk skipped a hearing in Philly about his super PAC’s payouts to voters
A Philadelphia judge ordered X CEO Elon Musk to appear in a hearing Thursday morning over his super PAC’s plan to award $1 million a day to voters in key battleground states. But Musk skipped his courthouse appointment after the same judge granted a request to transfer the case from
Read moreTechCrunch Space: Disrupt 2024 wrap-up
Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is a wrap, and I’m more than thrilled by the amazing space industry programming we had on offer this year. We covered everything from building a dual-use business to orbital re-entry, we caught up with Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck, and
Read moreAmazon CEO Andy Jassy hints at an ‘agentic’ Alexa
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user’s behalf. “I think that the next generation of these assistants and generative AI applications will be better at not just answering questions and summarizing, indexing,
Read moreUS drone maker Skydio faces battery squeeze after Chinese sanctions
America’s supply chain vulnerabilities were on full display Thursday after drone manufacturer Skydio told customers it was facing a battery squeeze after being hit with sanctions from China. “This is an attempt to eliminate the leading American drone company and deepen the world’s dependence on Chinese drone suppliers,” Skydio CEO
Read moreDecart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
Decart, an Israeli AI company that emerged from stealth today with $21 million in funding from Sequoia and Oren Zeev, has released what it’s claiming is the first playable “open-world” AI model. Called Oasis, the model, which is available for download, powers a demo on Decart’s site: a Minecraft-like game
Read moreBBG Ventures raises new $60 million fund to support diverse founders
BBG Ventures raised a new $60 million fund to support founders from “diverse backgrounds,” including gender, race, age, and class, Business Insider reported. The firm is known for backing exclusively women founders, and this new fund is a slight departure from that focus but comes as funding to diverse founders continues
Read moreFemale Founders Fund returns its Fund I
After 10 years, the Female Founders Fund has returned its $5.85 million Fund I, according to Fortune. The news makes FFF one of the few diverse-focused funds to fully return a fund in a move that may boost the image of investing in women founders across Silicon Valley. Any further
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