Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers
The AI chatbot has been trained on Amazon's product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As, and other public information found around the web. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHuawei’s IP Service Partner of the Year: Africa Connect 2024
In2IT Technologies, a prominent global IT services and consulting firm focused on providing IT Consultancy, Application Development and Maintenance, Technology Infrastructure Services, Programme and Project Management as well as Future Edge Services announces that it has been awarded the IP Services Partner of the Year by Huawei at the Africa
Read moreAT&T breach leaked call and text records from ‘nearly all’ wireless customers
Illustration: The Verge AT&T revealed Friday morning that a cybersecurity attack had exposed call records and texts from “nearly all” of the carrier’s cellular customers (including people on mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, that use AT&T’s network, like Cricket, Boost Mobile, and Consumer Cellular). The breach contains data from
Read moreMore bad news for Elon Musk after X user’s legal challenge to shadowban prevails
If X continues to violate Europe's data protection rules, the company is on the hook for fines of up to €4,000 per day. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreA startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers
The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started out to fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, they stumbled on a way to help the whole business. Now, the company has closed a €40 million Series B financing
Read moreWhy Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems
Fusion power may still be a few years away, but one startup is laying the groundwork for what it hopes will become a bustling sector of the economy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBoston VCs are pleased that HubSpot will remain an independent company
For months, rumors persisted that Google, and perhaps others, were interested in buying HubSpot, a Boston-based CRM and marketing software company. HubSpot’s market cap ballooned as the rumors persisted, eventually reaching over $30 billion. But this week, Bloomberg might have finally put an end to the madness when it reported
Read moreCapCut will stop offering free cloud storage from August 5
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August 5. In the past few days, users have received notifications about Capcut changing its terms for the free tier. Until now, the company used to have 1 GB of free cloud storage —
Read moreWorried about your password getting leaked? How to stay safe?
A massive security breach, RockYou2024, has leaked nearly 10 billion unique passwords from decades of data breaches, potentially allowing future attacks. The database, “rockyou2024.txt,” contains 1.5 billion new passwords, surpassing the previous record set in 2021. Kaspersky’s experts have issued practical guidance to help users protect themselves in the aftermath
Read moreEurope confirms first clutch of DSA grievances on Elon Musk’s X
The platform formerly known as Twitter has earned the dubious honor of being the first very large online platform (VLOP) to face a preliminary finding of breaching the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the bloc’s governance and content moderation rulebook. Penalties for confirmed breaches of the regime can reach
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