[[{“value”:” Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Meet Spoor, the startup using AI to help wind farms mitigate that risk. Spoor is a software that uses machine […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
How much should political parties know about you?
[[{“value”:” How much should political parties know about you? Published: With so much of our lives shared online these days, it is often easy to get hold of someone’s personal data. Political parties can use this information to target voters with specific messages tailored to each person’s interests. At the University of Victoria in Canada, Professor Colin Bennett, Dr Smith…
Cannabis industry and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
[[{“value”:” The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. That’s what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa and Mastercard’s territory […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design concerns
[[{“value”:” Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), started applying last August. The development could be significant as the formal […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries
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Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
[[{“value”:” Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. SIEM is the business of using real-time data gleaned from servers, network devices, and applications to flag abnormal activity […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Temu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaints
[[{“value”:” Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently reported blasting past 75 million monthly users. Penalties for confirmed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
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FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
[[{“value”:” The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ personal information and data stolen from […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
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