A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server. This action put the personal information of most…
Eyebot, a startup offering a 90-second vision test kiosk that delivers doctor-verified glasses prescriptions, has secured $20 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based startup, founded in 2021, streamlines how people access vision care by eliminating traditional obstacles such as…
IBM and AMD are partnering to develop next-generation computing architectures that integrate IBM’s quantum systems with AMD’s AI-specialized chips. This move could position both the tech giant and the chipmaker as key infrastructure players as they look to regain ground…
Apple has announced it will hold its iPhone 17 event on Tuesday, September 9, mirroring the timing of last year’s event. The company has begun sending out invitations for the gathering, which will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater…
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Two years ago, Apple announced its Watch Series 9 as its first carbon-neutral product. The company stated that the manufacturing, use, and disposal of the new model did not contribute to global warming from cradle to grave. Now, a German…
A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators. These curators post and repost…
A security researcher has discovered over a thousand publicly exposed hobby servers run by Tesla vehicle owners. These servers are spilling sensitive data about their vehicles, including detailed location histories. Seyfullah Kiliç, founder of the cybersecurity company SwordSec, stated he…
Before his death by suicide, 16-year-old Adam Raine spent months consulting ChatGPT about his plans to end his life. His parents are now filing the first known wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI. Many consumer-facing AI chatbots are programmed with safety…
Fixing climate change is no small task, as carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs can attest. This New York-based startup has developed technology to measure methane released by rice paddies. They use this technology to train hundreds of thousands of…
