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US software giant Ivanti has warned that a zero-day vulnerability in its widely used enterprise VPN appliance has been exploited to infiltrate enterprise customers' networks. Ivanti said Wednesday that the severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0282, could be exploited without authentication to remotely plant malicious code in Ivanti's Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways products. It was announced that there is. Ivanti says its Connect Secure remote access VPN solution is “the most widely adopted SSL VPN by organizations of all sizes in every major industry.” This is the latest security vulnerability to be exploited targeting Ivanti products in recent…
Irish marine robotics startup Xocean, which uses unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to provide ocean data to the energy and hydrographic industries, has raised €115 million ($119 million) with the aim of further expanding its reach. ) was procured. Founded in 2017, Xocean has built a fleet of remotely controlled USVs that can remain offshore for long periods of time. The vessel is equipped with sensors that capture datasets such as high-resolution depth, bathymetry, subsurface sediment layers and geological structure data, and satellites are used to control the USV and transmit data to land. . The company has a number of…
The year has only just begun, but Apple may already be in “sherlocking” mode creating a new app for iOS called Invites. There are no details yet on what the app will be, but it could be a competitor to Evite and Partiful. Apple may be creating a new way to share invitations for both in-person and online events, according to 9to5Mac's findings in the iOS 18.3 Beta 2 code. Reports suggest that the app will be integrated with iCloud and the web version may also be hosted on iCloud.com. Apple already lets you send invitations for meetings and other…
Gaming startups, especially those developing casual mobile games, are currently very popular in Turkey, and today another startup announced a major round after just nine months of being founded. Grand Games, the publisher behind Magic Sort and Car Match, has raised $30 million in funding. This funding will be used to repeat the pattern we set to create the first two titles. That means we plan to hire more people and set up in smaller clusters. Take responsibility for your own game development Bekir Batuhan Çelebi (AKA Batu), CEO and co-founder of Grand Games, says his company uses AI technology…
Defiant is a new early-stage VC firm focused on B2B SaaS and Fintech that has come out of stealth today. Joseph Pizzolato (pictured right) and Cam Rayle (pictured left), the duo who met when they were 6 years old and lead the company, have already secured $30 million and have raised $70 million in initial funding. are planning. Defiant, based in London and Lisbon, plans to invest in early-stage startups at the “late-seed” or Series A stage. But unlike many new early-stage VC firms, Defiant is more willing to lead or co-lead funding rounds. The goal is to spend between…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for the chatbot Grok, which was previously only available to X users. The app is currently live in multiple countries including the US, Australia, and India, has access to real-time data from the web and X, and offers generative AI features like text rewriting, long paragraph summaries, and quick Q&A. I will. You can also generate images from text prompts. “Grok is an AI-powered assistant designed for maximum authenticity, usefulness, and curiosity. Get answers to all your questions, create impressive images, upload photos, and more. and gain a deeper…
Elon Musk, like other AI experts, says there is little real-world data left to train AI models. “We're basically depleting the human reservoir of knowledge right now… in AI training,” Musk said in a livestreamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. spoke. “That's basically what happened last year.” Musk, who owns the AI company xAI, echoed a theme touched on by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Satskeva in a December speech at the machine learning conference NeurIPS. Sutskever said the AI industry has reached what he calls “peak data,” predicting that the lack of training…
The White House this week announced a new label for internet-connected devices, the US Cyber Trust Mark, aimed at helping consumers make more informed decisions about the cybersecurity of the products they bring into their homes. ' was announced. To earn the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, administered by the Federal Communications Commission, companies must test their products against cybersecurity standards set by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology through compliance testing by an accredited laboratory. Targeted products range from baby monitors to smart home security devices. The US Cyber Trust mark was created after approximately two years of…
It's 2025, and companies still don't know what AI can do for them. That's the impression I got from this year's CES, which featured AI-powered kitchen appliances, cribs, and other products that don't actually require AI. See also: Spicerr is an “intelligent” touchscreen spice dispenser that learns your preferences and recommends unique recipes as you cook. In the first place, there are some doubts about Spicer's usefulness. Spicerr does not shatter, requires its own capsules that cost $15-20, and is not refillable. That aside, did people really want salt and pepper shakers that suggested meals in the first place? Elsewhere…
CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features announcements from tech giants like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements making the rounds on the show floor. We've rounded up the weirdest, silliest, and most eyebrow-raising products from CES 2025. A robot cat that cools down your coffee Image credit: Yukai Engineering Yukai Engineering's new adorable gadget is “Nékojita FuFu,” a tiny cat robot that can attach to mugs and bowls and blow air at human-like intervals to cool coffee or soup. According to the company, the product was created in…