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Oracle fixed a zero-day vulnerability in one of the flagship business software products that hacking groups are currently abusing personal information about corporate executives. In a short post updated over the weekend, Oracle's chief executive Rob Duhart said the tech giant released a new patch to fix the vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, urging customers to install the update as soon as possible. The Security Advisory said that bugs officially tracked as CVE-2025-61882 can be “exploited on the network without the need for a username and password.” The advisory provides some so-called metrics of compromise to help Oracle customers identify…
Sheena Jindal is from Boston. She grew up there, attended MIT and worked for the Boston Consulting Group for several years. She started a startup and worked for a startup before becoming an investor in Bessemer and Comcast Ventures (CV). Last year, her world collided when she decided to launch Sugar Free Capital, a company focused on investing in MIT's technology founders. She arrested LPS, including the family offices of heavy, tech executives from companies such as Nvidia and Citadel, and announced the closure of Sugar Free's first $32 million fund on Monday. One premise of the fund is in…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joins TechCrunch's 2025 disruption phase to share what one of the world's biggest tech companies navigates the AI revolution and shares what it means for the innovation startup and the future. From landmark partnerships with Openai to rebuilding businesses and consumer products with AI, Scott will pull back the curtains where Microsoft sees its biggest opportunity. This is not a session you will miss. It leaps towards one of the biggest debates about AI from an enterprise perspective. Sign up now to save up to $444 with your pass or up to 30% with your group…
TechCrunch's exhibition table is the 2025 exhibition table taking place in Western Moscon in San Francisco from October 27-29, one of the most in-demand opportunities of the year and is quickly disappearing. We expanded the floor just two weeks ago and added tables due to overwhelming demand, but are already close to selling out. Once these final spots are gone, there is no more room to expand. This is the chance to place the startup directly in front of over 10,000 founders, investors, decision makers and press. Everything is under one roof. Don't wait until your competitors are already there.…
Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon and everywhere he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change so he tried to build it. “We wanted to build an AI care partner who would stand with clinicians and care for managers so that individual providers like me could be empowered to provide the care they devoted to our lives,” he told TechCrunch. Dr. Kelly worked with Waleed Mussa, who worked at a former startup, to establish Heidi Health in 2021. The company began launching its products in early 2024. In just 18 months, the company said it had returned…
Korea is world-renowned for hosting global technology brands such as Hyundai, LG and Samsung as a leader in fiery high-speed internet, nearby broadband coverage and digital innovation. However, this highly successful set the country a major target for hackers and revealed how vulnerable cybersecurity defenses are. The country is shaking from a series of prominent hacks that have impacted credit card companies, telecoms, tech startups, government agencies and affect the vast range of Koreans. In both cases, ministries and regulators seemed to scramble in parallel, sometimes postpone each other rather than move in unison. Critics argue that South Korea's cyber…
New Pitchbook data shows that AI is dramatically dominating startup investments. 2025 will be the first year in which AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested. According to Bloomberg, Pitchbook reports that the VC has poured $192.7 billion into the industry so far, of its total $366.8 billion. In the most recent quarter, AI accounted for 62.7% of funds invested by US VCs and 53.2% of funds invested by global companies. Most of that money will be named for marquees like Anthropic, which announced the $13 billion Series F in September. Meanwhile, the number of startups…
Earlier this year, Anker, a Chinese company that manufactures Euphoric security cameras, provided the money to users in exchange for packaging and video of theft of the car. The popular internet-connected security camera maker said paying customers $2 per video to train their AI systems will help them better detect thieves stealing cars and packages. “We are looking for videos of both real and stage events to ensure sufficient data. “You can also create events by pretending to be a burglar and donate those events,” the website reads. “You can complete this quickly. Maybe it's efficient and easy as you…
The Social Event Planning app has firmly replaced Partiful, known as the “Hot People Facebook Events,” as its go-to platform for sending party invitations. However, what has in common with Facebook is that it collects tsunamis of user data, which has helped keep that data safe. In particular, the host can create online invitations with the biggest retro atmosphere, allowing guests to make RSVP an event, making it easier for them to order salads on the touchscreen. Partiful Teem is user-friendly and trendy, and aims to drive apps to #9 on the iOS App Store lifestyle chart. Google called Partiful…
Welcome to YC Arena. This is a game suite that gives you a vague sense of what it's like to be a partner in YC, rather than a top secret fight club for the founders of Y Combinator. YC Partner Simulator Game for YC Arena, created by students in Berlin, is released along with the year of the year with published pitch videos from companies that applied to YC. Click Accept or Reject, then check if you made the same selection as YC. Image credit: Ycarena It's much more difficult than it looks. It is estimated that YC will accept…