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Serbia on Tuesday uses the technology following allegations that Serbia's police and intelligence agency will use Celebrite technology to unlock journalists and activists' phones and then plant spyware. It has been announced that it has stopped stopping. In December 2024, Amnesty International released a report accusing Serbian police of using Cellebrite's forensic tools to hack into local journalists and activists' mobile phones. Once the phone was unlocked, Serbian authorities installed Android Spyware. AndroidSpyware was called Novispy and kept an eye on the two. In a statement, Celebright said: “After reviewing the allegations filed in the Amnes International Report in December…
On Wednesday, Google announced it was updating its “Results About You” tool to help users easily protect and delete personal information from search results. The company says it has improved its sign-up process and simplified requests for removal directly from Google searches. This tool can be used to actively monitor and delete things like physical addresses from phone numbers, email addresses, and search results. With this latest update, users can click on the three dots next to Google search results to view an updated menu where they can send a delete request immediately via the “Delete this Result” option .…
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The Lockscreen platform today announced that it will launch a new, generic, AI-based shopping experience. We propose a variety of costumes for your personalized avatars. The company is partnering with Google to deploy the experience using the company's Gemini model and Vertex AI. Apart from that, the company also received new support from Google, according to people familiar with the issue. This was already an investor. The gaze and Google did not comment on the funding details. Gaze said it has already experimented with a new generation of AI-powered experiences in the US through a new app called Glance AI.…
There is no robust approach to sales enablement. This is the process of providing sales teams with the resources they need to close the deal. Some teams are lacking on the research side. That is, identify and contact potential customers. Others need to help get the deal through the finish line. To satisfy these diverse needs, founders Matt Millen and Srinath Sridhar turned to AI Tech. Their company, Regie.ai, develops sales enablement software designed to combine AI with human-driven outreach. “We first met in 2021 and joined together in a founding paper about building a generative AI content platform for…
Human-driven cybersecurity breaches are still occurring despite employers requesting employees to complete their annual cybersecurity training courses. The problem can be significantly worsened as generative AI increases the size and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Anagram, formerly known as Cipher, is taking a new approach to employee cybersecurity training. The New York-based company has built a platform that includes practical security training for businesses. The training includes bite-sized videos and personalized interactive puzzles to teach employees how to find suspicious emails and communications. These trainings are designed to be more frequent and attractive than the current standards for one long…
Due diligence is a costly business and is not just in the area of investment. Even companies seeking to launch new products or investigate partnerships find and investigate appropriate data, finding and investigating appropriate data, especially when third-party institutions and consultants are involved, to make educated decisions. It takes a few weeks and can be very expensive. A new AI startup called Bridgetown Research says it can speed up the process with an AI agent that can create dents on its cost-based basis and do most of the data collection and research work that leads to due diligence. And as…
Regions like the US and Europe have doubled the reconstruction of industrial muscle after decades of closing factories and outsourced work to countries like China. So, a rapidly growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robotic arms for picking, packing and moving its logistics business, has raised $44 million in funding. The company plans to use the funds for both technology and business development. This includes disruption of initial efforts to sell the robots in non-European customers, particularly North America. Investments are not only remarkable in terms of their size, but also in who is funding and what is happening…
The hackers claim they have published a mountain of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack from GeneA, one of Australia's largest fertility providers. Genea said last week that a cybersecurity incident occurred as patient information could be at risk. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO Tim Yeoh said the company identified the “data obtained from the system as being publicly available from the outside.” This statement came after the termite ransomware gang. This comes after recently praised the attack on supply chain software giant Blue Yonder. A sample of allegedly stolen data seen…