Mt. Gox: all the news on Bitcoin’s original biggest bankruptcy scandal
One of the strangest stories in crypto still isn’t over. Mt. Gox was once Bitcoin’s biggest exchange. Then, in 2014, the exchange shut down its website and announced that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customers’ Bitcoins had been lost to a series of hackings that went unnoticed over
Read moreFeds charge two men for the $400 million Bitcoin hack that took down Mt. Gox
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US federal government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the series of hacks that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014. In a press release on Friday, the Department of Justice announced it’s unsealing a 2019 indictment charging
Read moreWhat’s being built in generative AI today?
If you look past the financial headlines, what are today’s AI startups building? News coverage of the AI boom has been hectic and mainly covered a few categories: Financial, big tech, concern and hype, and startup activity. The financial side is simple: Investors are working to put capital into companies
Read moreHear how Chronosphere is reinventing cloud observability on TechCrunch Live
Chronosphere aims to provide engineers with actionable insights derived from the company’s data. According to the company, this leads to lower spend and provides a better return on investment. Join this TechCrunch Live event on June 21 at 12 pm PDT to hear how Chronosphere is competing as companies look
Read moreMeta previews generative AI tools coming to WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, plus internal AI tools
Meta this week showcased its work on new generative AI technologies for its consumer products including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, as well as those being used internally at the company. At an all-hands meeting, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced several AI technologies in various stages of development, including AI chatbots
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: CulturePulse’s $1M seed deck
Sentiment analysis, which means generalizing a feeling expressed by people in, say, online reviews, has been around for a hot minute. It’s a powerful feedback and quantitative analysis tool with wide-ranging political, commercial and social applications. Slovakian company CulturePulse recently raised just short of a million dollars to move the
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In what could be the understatement of the year, 2023 has not been kind to tech workers. Tens of thousands have been laid off, and while we can’t do much to change that reality, there is something we can do to help. Apply for a free Expo+ Pass to TechCrunch
Read moreSequoia does to itself what the Biden administration wants to do with Google
Mary Ann and Alex are back, and once again this week they tapped the TechCrunch roster for expert input. This week the Equity crew were thrilled to welcome Jacquie back to the show! All the cool kids are filling out the Equity listener survey. We want to hear from you! It was
Read morePutting the ‘Pro’ in Apple Vision Pro and other TC news
At WWDC this week, Apple revealed its new Vision Pro headset, a platform it described as the advent of spatial computing. The company clearly put a lot of work into building Vision Pro, and VisionOS, the software that powers it, but is it as revolutionary as Apple marketing would have
Read moreAnother huge US medical data breach confirmed after Fortra mass-hack
Hackers stole another half a million people’s personal and health information during a ransomware attack on a technology vendor earlier this year. Intellihartx, a Tennessee-based company that handles patient payment balances and collections, said in a notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office that 489,830 patients had information stolen
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