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U.S. officials said Tuesday that a Chinese-backed hacker group called Salt Typhoon continues to attack the networks of the nation's largest phone and internet providers, weeks after a long-running hacking campaign first came to light. announced that it had invaded some parts of the country. Cybersecurity agency CISA said in a call with reporters that the affected telecom companies are still working to eliminate the hackers, in part because the hackers' objectives are unclear. News first broke in October that Salt Typhoon was lurking deep within the networks of AT&T, Verizon, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) and others. T-Mobile was targeted, but…

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning as he walked to the New York Hilton Midtown to attend the company's annual investor conference. He was shot and died. According to emerging media reports, Thompson was shot from about 20 feet away by a masked man who appeared to be waiting for him, before fleeing on a bicycle. Law enforcement continued to search the area in the aftermath of the shooting. Police are offering $10,000 to anyone with information about the shooting, according to the New York Times. Mr. Thompson, 50, was appointed CEO of United Healthcare,…

TikTok is rolling out new ways for creators to raise money for charities and causes they're passionate about. The company has partnered with Goodstack, a fintech company that manages charitable giving, to allow creators to support organizations from a verified database of nonprofit partners like the American Red Cross and Save the Children. TikTok is also introducing features that allow creators to personalize their fundraising efforts. Creators can now add a custom title, description, background image, and goal amount to their fundraising pages. We also have a dedicated space for you to share why you're passionate about what we do…

DeepMind, Google's AI research organization, has unveiled a model that can generate an “infinite” variety of playable 3D worlds. The model, called Genie 2, is the successor to DeepMind's Genie, released earlier this year, which allows users to create interactive, real-time scenes from a single image and text description (such as “cute humanoid robot in the forest”). Can be generated. In this respect, it's similar to models being developed by Fei-Fei Li's company World Labs and Israeli startup Descart. DeepMind claims that Genie 2 can generate “a wide variety of rich 3D worlds,” including worlds where users can use the…

Email startup Superhuman has launched a built-in calendar availability sharing feature. This allows users to share available slots and quickly schedule meetings. Rahul Bohra, the company's CEO, said the company is considering enhancing its calendar offering and possibly releasing a standalone app as well. Sharing free time in your calendar is not a special feature as Calendly, Cal.com, Vimcal, Notion Calendar, and Clockwise have offered this feature for some time. But despite these tools, Superhuman says it typically takes an average of three emails to schedule a meeting. That's why the startup decided to build a schedule sharing tool. If…

Ransomware hackers continue their attack on National Health Service trusts across the UK by breaching multiple hospitals, leaking sensitive patient data and disrupting emergency services. Inc Ransom, the prolific Russia-linked ransomware group that claimed responsibility for the attack on Scotland's NHS earlier this year, claims to have compromised Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust, one of Europe's largest children's hospitals. are. In a post on its dark web leak site, Inc Ransom claims to have stolen patient records, donor reports, and procurement data from Alder Hey from 2018 to 2024. A sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch includes…

Revel further expands its electric vehicle charging empire in New York City. The company announced Wednesday that it has broken ground on installing 24 EV fast chargers at John F. Kennedy International Airport. This installation will double the airport's existing EV charging capacity. This is the second time Level has partnered with the New York Port Authority, which acts as the city's port landlord and regulator, to install fast chargers. The companies are also building 48 fast-charging ports near LaGuardia Airport. Both airport projects are scheduled to be completed in 2025. Revel and the Port Authority of New York plan…

Spotify's annual Wrapped feature, which provides listeners with a fun, personalized overview of their listening habits, has gained immense popularity over the years. As a result, many companies are seizing the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences that provide users with a summary of their habits, preferences, and interactions over the past year. Here are some platforms and websites that mimic the Spotify Wrapped concept. amazon music Amazon Music has a new Spotify Wrapped knockoff this year called “2024 Delivered,” which provides users with an overview of their listening statistics, including top artists, songs, and even podcasts. Notably, the platform…

Security firm iVerify said leaders of large companies were among several people whose iPhones were recently targeted by Pegasus spyware. Journalists, human rights defenders, lawmakers, and political officials are frequently subject to state surveillance, and reports of spyware infiltrating business leaders' phones are rare but not unheard of. The findings are another warning that spyware, typically used by governments under the guise of preventing serious crime and terrorism, could also be used for commercial espionage. In a call with TechCrunch this week, iVerify CEO Rocky Cole declined to say who was targeted, but said the spyware targeted companies that he…

There are many metrics to track the adoption of open source components, such as GitHub stars and downloads, but they don't give a complete picture of how they're used in production codebases. . Census of Free and Open Source Software III: Application Library leverages over 12 million data points from software composition analysis (SCA) and application security tools such as Black Duck, FOSSA, Snyk, and Sonatype deployed in over 10,000 deployments. Based on. companies. This wide-ranging report highlights the shift toward memory-safe programming that has seen rapid adoption of Rust. It also points out the continued reliance on Python 2…