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Sean Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, is once again drawing unwanted attention to his high-profile venture firm after falsely accusing a Palestinian student of involvement in the Dec. 13 Brown University shooting and subsequent killing of an MIT professor. In a since-deleted post to X, Maguire noted that Brown was “actively erasing his online presence” and speculated that it “seems very likely” that the student was the perpetrator. In fact, authorities identified the gunman as 48-year-old Portuguese Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was later found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire. Brown officials said they removed the…

Resolve AI, a startup developing Autonomous Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), a tool to automatically maintain software systems, has raised a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to three people familiar with the deal. The maximum valuation for the new round is $1 billion, the people said. However, the company's actual blend valuation was lower due to the multiple transient structure. In this setup, investors bought some shares at a $1 billion valuation, but acquired the rest (possibly a larger percentage of the round) at a lower price. This novel investment approach is popular with some of the hottest…

TechCrunch Disrupt's investors didn't hesitate to say they were primarily interested in one thing. That is artificial intelligence. Index's Nina Achadjian, Greylock's Jerry Chen, and Felicis' Peter Deng all spoke about the latest obsessions in venture capital and how startups can stand out in a rapidly crowded market. Achajan told the audience that the environment is changing rapidly and companies are experiencing unprecedented growth. “We spend a tremendous amount of time really evaluating entrepreneurs and how resilient they can be in this moment where things are changing so quickly,” Achajan said. Now, more than ever, founders need to focus on…

Cisco said Wednesday that a group of hackers backed by the Chinese government is exploiting vulnerabilities to target enterprise customers using its most popular products. Cisco has not said how many customers have already been hacked or may be running vulnerable systems. Security researchers now say there are hundreds of Cisco customers who could be hacked. Piotr Kijevsky, CEO of the Shadow Server Foundation, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for hacking activity, told TechCrunch that the scale of the exposure “looks like it's in the hundreds, not thousands or tens of thousands.” Kijewski said the foundation…

Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind hit titles such as PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), has launched an India-focused growth investment fund to strengthen its reach into the world's largest internet user base. The investment vehicle, called the Unicorn Growth Fund, is a collaboration between Crafton, South Korean internet conglomerate Naver, and investor Mirae Asset. Crafton confirmed to TechCrunch that the company aims to deploy up to 60 billion pounds (about $669.3 million) over four years. The fund, managed by Mirae Asset Venture India, was launched in January and is expected to begin operations with an initial size…

Every year, TechCrunch looks back at the cybersecurity horror shows of the past 12 months, from the biggest data breaches to hacks that left weeks of chaos, to see what we can learn. This year's data breaches were unlike anything we've seen before. Let's take a look back at some of the biggest security incidents of 2025. First of all: The US government remained one of the top targets in cyberspace. This year began with a brazen cyber attack on the U.S. Treasury by Chinese hackers, followed by a security flaw in SharePoint that compromised several federal agencies, including the…

DXS International, a UK-based company that provides healthcare technology to the UK National Health Service (NHS), disclosed the cyberattack in a statement on Thursday. In a filing to the London Stock Exchange, the company said it had experienced a “security incident impacting its office servers” that was discovered on December 14. The company said it was working with the NHS to “immediately” stop the breach and had hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate “the nature and scope of the incident”. “The impact on the company's services has been minimal, and the company's front-line clinical services continue to operate unaffected,” the…

In an industry where most people reinvent themselves before they've finished their breakfast scones, TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event series has become something of a rarity: a classic. This evening provides an opportunity to step back from the cycle of vague headlines and hype and sit down with the people who are actually driving change and understand what's really going on behind the scenes. These are designed from the beginning as cocktail parties with killer content. We always want it to be an intimate gathering where conversation flows freely and speakers can let their guard down in a way that large, formal…

Cisco announced Wednesday that hackers have exploited critical vulnerabilities in some of its most popular products, allowing them to take complete control of affected devices. What's worse, there are no patches available at this time. Cisco said in a security advisory that it discovered a hacking campaign on December 10 that targeted Cisco AsyncOS software, specifically the physical and virtual appliances Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, and Web Manager. The advisory says affected devices have a feature called “Spam Quarantine” enabled and can be accessed from the internet. Cisco pointed out that this feature is not enabled by…

The hacker group Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, which includes members of the gang known as the ShinyHunters, claims to have stolen the personal information of premium members of porn site Pornhub and is attempting to extort the site. On Friday, Pornhub acknowledged that it was among several companies affected by a previous breach at widely used web and mobile analytics provider Mixpanel that exposed unspecified “analytics events” for some Pornhub Premium users. On Monday, Bleeping Computer reported that it had seen a sample of stolen Pornhub data. This included personal information related to PornHub Premium members, such as registered email addresses…