Category Archives: Tech News

BidenCash, a dark web site dealing in stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2M+ cards revealing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: BidenCash, a dark web site dealing in stolen credit and debit [...]

04
Mar
Coinbase buys One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves only institutional clients such as pension funds; One River was valued at $186M in 2021 (Erik Schatzker/Bloomberg)

Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg: Coinbase buys One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves [...]

03
Mar
CRM startup Attio, which claims better performance than Salesforce and its rivals, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Redpoint and crossed $1M ARR in December 2022 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: CRM startup Attio, which claims better performance than Salesforce and its [...]

02
Mar
The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok and other apps; committee Democrats opposed the bill (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters: The House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to give [...]

01
Mar
Google rolls out fall detection to all Pixel Watch users, four months after its launch, saying the feature "has been extensively tested" to avoid false alarms (Florence Ion/Gizmodo)

Florence Ion / Gizmodo: Google rolls out fall detection to all Pixel Watch users, four [...]

28
Feb
Meta plans to roll out the NCMEC's Take It Down tool on Facebook and Instagram, letting minors anonymously attach a hash to intimate content, to stop sextortion (Samantha Murphy Kelly/CNN)

Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: Meta plans to roll out the NCMEC’s Take It Down [...]

27
Feb
Some AI companies are hiring "prompt engineers", who create and refine text prompts for AI systems to understand their faults and coax optimal results (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and [...]

26
Feb
How thieves are watching iPhone owners publicly tap their passcodes to lock victims out of accounts, access data, and loot financial apps after stealing devices (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How thieves are watching iPhone owners publicly tap their passcodes to lock [...]

25
Feb
Memo: Ericsson plans to lay off 8,500 of its 105K+ employees, or 8% of its staff; in December, the company said it would cut costs by ~$880M by the end of 2023 (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: Memo: Ericsson plans to lay off 8,500 of its 105K+ employees, [...]

24
Feb
Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by third-party cheating clients, created a honeypot to catch them, and banned over 40,000 accounts (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by third-party cheating [...]

23
Feb