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In February, the recent EDTECH GIANT POWERSCHOOL hack can be one of the biggest violations of the year. PowerSchool provided K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support about 60 million students in North America as a whole, and confirmed violations in early January. California -based companies, which Bain Capital acquired by Bain Capital for $ 5.6 billion, can be more accessible to the school information system, PowerSchool SIS, using a compromised information that hackers violate customer support portals. I said. , Attendance and registration. “On December 28, 2024, we have noticed a potential cyber security case including unauthorized…

In many cases, multiple apps are used for memos, schedule management, and to-dos. But why not combine them into one app? It is the spirit behind HERO, an all -in -one productive application with AI assistant (of course!). The iOS app was developed by former meta employees Brad Kowork and Seun W. Lee. Both met while KOWALK was a product manager and Lee was working on the Facebook story where Lee was an engineer. Kowalk has also worked on a new AI experience at the company until 2022. “When I started working in a meta and started working on a…

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its growth stems from several policy changes at X, including a heavily criticized change to the block feature and…

French Startup Riot achieved $ 10 million in 2024, and raised a $ 30 million series B round. Originally, we focused on educating employees on the risk of cyber security, but the company hopes that the employees will go further to minimize the attack surface. The Lane Capital on the left leads today's round, where existing investor Y combinator, Base10, and FundersClub are again participating. Riot's has reached the north of $ 170 million, following the Series B round, as TechCrunch learned. RIOT originally started with a fake fishing campaign. Employees regularly receive emails that look like an actual email.…

Openai has announced a new AI “Agent” designed to make detailed and complex research, using Chatgpt, a chat bot platform equipped with AI. Appropriately, it is called deep -search. Openai is a blog post published on Sunday, and these new features are designed for those who “focus on finance, science, policies, engineering, etc., for those who conduct intensive knowledge work, and are thoroughly and accurate. You need a reliable research. ” The company also added that it may be useful for those who create a “purchase that requires a cautious survey of cars, appliances, and furniture”. Basically, Chatgpt Deep Research…

According to Bloomberg Mark German, Apple provides new ways to invite people to ICLOUD users to parties, meetings and other events. German says the company is named a snowstorm and may be released this week as soon as possible. There are not many details about how it actually works, but it is said that the snowstorm is linked to iCloud, which is also the beginning of a wider improvement of Apple's calendar app. The feature release seems to be launched on Monday and connect users to iOS 18.3, the latest update of Apple's iPhone software, which opt into Apple Intelligence.…

Google's X “Moonshot Factory” announced the latest graduates this week. Inheritance agriculture is a data -based startup that aims to improve the cultivation method of crops and machine learning. As mentioned in the announcement posted by the company on Tuesday, plants are very efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar power, carbon negative, and self -organized machinery, supplying sunlight and water,” says Herable. However, agriculture is very nervous about the earth and its resources, accounting for about 25 % of the artificial greenhouse emissions. The largest consumer of the groundwater planet, it may lead to soil erosion and water pollution…

Shaane, a Chinese first fashion platform, has restarted in India in India, almost five years after being banned in the diplomatic tension between New Delhi and Beijing, through a partnership with a local Konglomarit Reliance Retail Chain. The new SHEIN INDIA FAST FASHION app developed and released by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail is one of the largest Asia's largest retail markets in Asia, prior to the listings scheduled by Chinese companies this year. It shows the return. The revival of the application is under strict conditions that reirance can completely control the operation and data. Under the recent partnership structure…

U.S. members have been recognized for “full access” to the US Treasury's payment system, which is used by the representatives of Ilon Musk every year to distribute $ trillions of Americans every year, and has access to the mask system. He says he warned that it brought a “national security risk.” Senator Ron Widen, a member of the Democratic Party of Oregon and a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, in the Blueski post on Saturday, the government's financial secretary Scott Bessentation, the government's efficiency, the government's efficiency. He said he had traveled to a mask team known as…