US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack
U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief statement, the company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” “Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we
Read moreVarda Space, Rocket Lab nail first-of-its-kind spacecraft landing in Utah
A spacecraft containing pharmaceutical drugs that were grown on orbit has finally returned to Earth today after more than eight months in space. Varda Space Industries’ in-space manufacturing capsule, called Winnebago-1, landed in the Utah desert at around 4:40 p.m. EST. Inside the capsule are crystals of the drug ritonavir,
Read moreLucid Motors will only build 9,000 EVs in 2024 after once predicting it would ship 90,000
Lucid Motors plans to build just 9,000 electric vehicles in 2024, only 500 to 1,000 more than it made in 2023, as it struggles with demand for its luxury sedans. If it sticks to that number, that means Lucid will wind up building around 10% of the 90,000 EVs it
Read moreDiscord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has yet to remove the server where the attacks are facilitated, and Mastodon community leaders have been unable to reach anyone at
Read moreRivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts
Rivian is laying off 10% of its salaried workforce in a bid to cut costs in an increasingly tough market for electric vehicles, putting even more pressure on its future, more affordable EV called the R2. A limited number of non-manufacturing hourly employees will also be cut, founder and CEO
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Read moreIn a reversal, Apple is now demanding 30% of the donations to meditation app Insight Timer’s teachers
The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30% of their income with Apple — its commission on in-app purchases — and for the past 12 months, Apple had
Read moreEnhance Your React Apps with ShadCn Utilities and Components
Learn how to use ShadCn, a versatile library offering a wide range of utilities and components to enhance your React applications. Continue reading Enhance Your React Apps with ShadCn Utilities and Components on SitePoint.
Read moreVaraha helps Indian farmers reduce climate-harming practices like burning crop residue and flooding rice fields
Varaha has attacted investor interest as an end-to-end developer for carbon credits that it generates by working with thousands of smallholder farmers yielding crops on a total land of over 700,000 acres across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Kenya. The voluntary carbon offset market will reach $250 billion by 2050 from
Read moreNodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud
When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making the company money, after all. NodeShift aims to take this concept and expand it well beyond the big clouds —
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