How to cancel Disney+ and avoid the price hike
Many subscribers are fed up with Disney+ and its price hikes. The streaming service announced last week that it will increase the price of its ad-free plan on October 12, raising the tier by about 20% from $10.99 to $13.99 per month. The ad-free option cost $7.99/month a year ago;
Read MoreCheckout.com cuts ties with Binance, which is mulling legal action in response
Credit cards payments processor Checkout.com, is no longer servicing Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, a spokesperson from the exchange told TechCrunch. “There is no impact on our services and users can continue to use on-and off-ramps as usual,” the Binance spokesperson added. The London-based Checkout.com, which was valued at
Read MoreCuba ransomware gang looking for unpatched Veeam installations: Report
The Cuba ransomware gang has tweaked its attack strategy to go after IT environments that haven’t patched a recently discovered vulnerability in Veeam Software’s backup solutions. Usually the gang exploits the three-year old Windows Server Netlogon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) known as Zerologon, BlackBerry said in a report Thursday. However, an analysis
Read MoreFounders Fund, Index Ventures, Canvas Ventures join TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield judges
Just one more month until 20 of the world’s top early-stage startups take to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco to vie for an equity-free, $100,000 prize. They’ll face tough scrutiny from our judges, and today investors from Founders Fund, Index Ventures and Canvas Ventures join
Read MorePhishing campaign tries to evade defences with QR codes
Threat actors are still using QR codes in phishing campaigns to trick employees into downloading malware or revealing their credentials. The latest campaign included targeting an unnamed major U.S. energy company, according to research released this week by Cofense. Other top industries that have received these phishing messages include manufacturing,
Read MorePitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck
I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s only fair that I offered to evaluate its pitch deck, too. The founders saw the irony in that and offered its pitch deck as a sacrifice to the teardown gods. We’re looking
Read MoreSearching for a TweetDeck alternative is a frustrating task
We knew this was coming. Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) finally made XPro (formerly TweetDeck) a subscriber-only product. It was a great tool for journalists, researchers and social media consultants to keep track of different timelines, lists, trends and keywords at the same time. The sad part is that it’s
Read MoreFintech Forward: Bidvest Opts for AI Fraud Detecting Capabilities
In an interview with Bidvest’s Chief Information Officer Nomonde White-Ndlovu, the bank groups initiative in driving digital transformation was explored in greater depth. Nomonde reveals Bidvest’s aim to integrate state-of-art technologies to enhance the customer experience through improving security for digital onboarding and simplify the overall banking experience. The interview
Read MoreCycling into the Future: Technology’s Role in Achieving Optimal Results
Sports celebrate hard work, persistence, perseverance, and skill, while technology plays a pivotal role in elevating athletes beyond human limits through innovation and evolving sports engineering. This rings especially true in professional cycling, where split-second tactics, teamwork, technique, and speed decide victories. Dell Technologies proudly renews its partnership with Q36.5
Read MoreIt’s official: LK-99 isn’t a room-temperature superconductor
If there was any hope remaining that LK-99 might be a room-temperature superconductor, it’s pretty much dead now. In fact, it’s worse than that. Pure samples of the substance show that it is an insulator — the opposite of a superconductor. The glimmers of hope that kept the story in
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