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Microsoft's ongoing outage leaves business customers unable to access their email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The tech giant said in a post on X around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by “parts of our service infrastructure in North America that are not handling traffic as expected.” Microsoft did not provide specific details about the cause of the outage, but said it was “working to restore our infrastructure to a healthy state for recovery.” Microsoft said on its status page that the outage will affect its Exchange Online email service, searching for files in…
Going forward, it will be even more difficult to fake or manipulate Ring camera video footage. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned device maker introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature that allows anyone to determine if a video has been altered in any way. The company says this could be useful when it comes across shared videos, such as videos sent by neighbors or videos purporting to show some type of incident. While you might not be able to immediately tell if some part of your TikTok video was generated by AI (like a rabbit jumping on a trampoline), you'll…
Jenny Liu, former CEO of Dogpound, a luxury gym frequented by celebrities, said she wanted to start her own venture fund for two reasons. As an example, she surrounded herself with wellness founders who love testing new products and building communities at local gyms. Second, Liu also found that many of these founders, especially women and minorities, struggle to get their ideas funded due to limited access to founder networks. To fill this gap, she launched Crush It Ventures, an early stage fund focused on wellness. The company wants to help businesses across the wellness space, including mental health, fitness…
Ireland is considering new legislation that would give law enforcement more surveillance powers, including allowing the use of spyware. The Irish Government this week announced the introduction of the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill. The bill would regulate the use of so-called lawful interception, an industry term for surveillance technology that includes spyware made by companies such as Intellexa, NSO Group and Paragon Solutions. Jim O'Callaghan, Ireland's Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Immigration, said: “There is an urgent need for a new legal framework for lawful interception that can be used to combat serious crime and security threats.”…
Under Armor, the clothing and fitness data company, said it is investigating claims of a data breach after cybercriminals posted millions of customer records on a hacker forum. The seller told TechCrunch that the data was obtained in a data breach in November, which the Everest ransomware group claimed responsibility for in a post on the dark web leak site at the time. News of the data theft became even more public this week after breach notification site Have I Been Pwned obtained a copy of the stolen data and notified 72 million individuals via email that their information had…
In the world of AI infrastructure, a pattern is emerging of popular open source tools turning into venture-backed startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The latest example is RadixArk, the for-profit company behind SGLang, a popular tool that allows AI models to run faster and cheaper. RadixArk was recently valued at about $400 million in a funding round led by Accel, according to two people familiar with the matter, a remarkable amount for a startup that was only announced last August. TechCrunch was unable to confirm the size of the funding. The news comes as part of the team…
U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline announced Wednesday that it will begin operations in Houston and Phoenix early this year as part of its expansion with $600 million in new investment. The round, which valued the company at $7.6 billion, will be used to expand into at least four U.S. states in 2026, the company said. Several existing and new investors participated in the funding round, including Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global. Founded in 2014, Zipline has developed a unique drone delivery ecosystem that includes logistics software, takeoff and landing…
Aliisa Rosenthal, OpenAI's first sales leader, has found a new career in venture capital. She joins Acrew Capital as a general partner, working alongside founding partner Lauren Kolodny and the firm's other partners, Rosenthal and Kolodny told TechCrunch. Rosenthal left OpenAI about eight months ago after a three-year sprint at the AI Lab where he launched products such as DALL·E, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Sora. “I had no intention of joining a VC fund initially,” she told TechCrunch. “I was meeting with a lot of AI startups.” But after growing OpenAI's enterprise sales team from two people to several hundred…
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It all started with sales. Cam Badger started his career in a pharmaceutical company. He expected structure and guidance on the job, but instead found “piecemeal training, inconsistent coaching, and no real way to scale learning in a meaningful way,” he told TechCrunch. He worked as a sales representative for four years, then as a sales trainer, and then at a medical start-up, where he met Bhrugu Giri. The two lamented how abysmal the number of sales representatives at life sciences companies, including pharmaceutical companies and medical device startups. The two decided to solve this problem and launched PraxisPro, a…