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Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?

Days after it was knocked offline by a sweeping, years-in-the-making law enforcement operation, the notorious Russia-based LockBit ransomware group has returned to the dark web with a new leak site complete with a number of new victims. In a verbose, … Continue reading

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Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader

A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading … Continue reading

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Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the … Continue reading

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy is tapping fresh $221M round, filing reveals

The company draws heavily on drilling techniques pioneered by the oil and gas industry. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Doublepoint launches its WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Pixel Watch 2

Admittedly Apple iWatch uses have had it since October last year, but as of today at Mobile World Congress, the Doublepoint startup has launched the updated version of its popular WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Android smartwatches. Launched at CES … Continue reading

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UiPath finds firmer financial footing with pivot to general automation and AI

UiPath was a startup darling with a $35B valuation, but the public markets proved rougher until the company diversified its product line. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Samsung centers sleep with its first smart ring

After a brief tease at the end of its big Galaxy S24 event earlier this month, Samsung officially debuted the Galaxy Ring this morning at MWC. The earlier announcement offered little more than an image and confirmation that the hardware … Continue reading

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MWC 2024: Everything announced so far

The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical image diversity issue within weeks

Google is hopeful it will soon be able to ‘unpause’ the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini, to depict people, per DeepMind founder, Demis Hassabis. The capability to respond to prompts for images of humans should be back … Continue reading

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Why some VCs are pulling back from Europe, Google’s AI push, and who is the CEO of Byju’s?

Today we talked about how Google wants to bring AI to its mobile ecosystem, why investing in Europe is easier said than done, and the big earnings week ahead. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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