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A Barcelona court has determined that Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, co-founders of Spyware Maker NSO Group, and former executives of two affiliate companies Yuval Susekh, can be charged as part of the alleged hacking of Catalan lawyer Andreu Van Den Eynde. Ilidia, a Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit that filed criminal charges, announced its ruling on Monday. In the lower court, Ilidia requested that judges Ravie, Julio and somekh be charged in addition to their company. Initially, the court refused the request. Ilidia appealed, and the High Court ruled that three people can now be charged. “This ruling sets a…

Artificial intelligence is a major trend in cancer treatments, focusing primarily on cancer detection as early as possible. That makes a lot of sense given that cancer is not fatal. However, there is little to ask another basic question. If someone has cancer, do they need aggressive treatments like chemotherapy? That's the problem with Ataraxis, which Ai is trying to solve. The New York-based startup focuses on using AI to accurately predict cancer outcomes in 5-10 years, as well as when patients have cancer. If there is only a small chance that cancer will return, chemotherapy can be avoided entirely…

Artificial intelligence is a major trend in cancer treatments, focusing primarily on cancer detection as early as possible. That makes a lot of sense given that cancer is not fatal. However, there is little to ask another basic question. If someone has cancer, do they need aggressive treatments like chemotherapy? That's the problem with Ataraxis, which Ai is trying to solve. The New York-based startup focuses on using AI to accurately predict what cancer outcomes will look like in 5-10 years, not just when patients have cancer. If there is only a small chance that cancer will return, chemotherapy can…

As part of the iOS 18.4 software update, which is now in its public beta, Apple is introducing an AI-powered summary from the APT Store review. The new feature leverages the company's built-in AI technology, Apple Intelligence, to provide an overall summary based on reviews others have left on the App Store. A review summary is generated by a large-scale language model (LLMS) and highlights important information in short paragraphs, explains Apple's website. Also, the summary is updated weekly for apps and games with enough reviews to generate a summary, but Apple didn't say that threshold. App Store users can…

Former US cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers Wednesday that federal probation therapy employees would have “devastating effects” on U.S. national security. Joyce, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency until his retirement in 2024, provided testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Communist Party of China. “We would like to raise serious concerns that the aggressive threat of reducing US government probation employees will have a catastrophic effect on cybersecurity and national security,” Joyce said. Probation staff are federal employees with government services for less than a year. Since taking office, the Trump administration has sought to…

Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Bolt shared a recent communication with investors, writing that Breslow is “a challenging few years later.” Justin Grooms, who has been interim CEO since March last year, is currently president of Bolt. Grooms, the company's former sales director, took over as CEO after it was reported that Maju Kuruvilla had been removed by the Bolt board of directors. Bolt's outspoken founder, Breslow resigned as CEO in early 2022. Over the years he misunderstood investors, inflated metrics, violated security laws, and finally claimed he was…

Anna Patterson has a renowned career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engines Upstarts Xift and CUIL, as well as Recall.Archive.org, and became an Internet archive. She was Google's vice president of engineering and later launched Gradient Ventures, a seed fund focused on AI. And she's not finished with the building. Patterson told TechCrunch that she had itching to start something new again a few years ago, but she wasn't sure if there was another startup. However, after losing her breast cancer diagnosis and many jobs that year in 2023, she realized she could either go back…

Google is searching for new “AI Mode” experimental features that appear to use popular services such as Perplexity AI and Openai's ChatGPT search. Tech Giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is designed to be complex and designed to allow you to ask multipart questions and follow-ups. AI mode has been deployed to one Google Premium Subscriber starting this week and can be accessed via Google's experimental arm, Search Lab. This feature uses a custom version of Gemini 2.0 and is especially useful for questions that require further investigation and comparison thanks to advanced inference, thinking and multimodal features.…

The Justice Department has released criminal charges against 12 hackers related to the Chinese government, accused of hacking more than 100 American organizations, including the US Treasury, over a decade. All of the individuals charged played a “significant role” in the employment ecosystem of Chinese hackers, a senior DOJ official said in a background call with reporters, including TechCrunch. Officials added that the people who were claimed, including contract hackers and Chinese law enforcement officials, are target organizations in the US and around the world with the aim of “controlling freedom of speech and freedom of religion.” The DOJ also…

“Silicon Valley is not a necessary and sufficient condition for success. It's just one option,” says Ryan Hinkle. It challenges the longstanding belief that the Bay Area is the ultimate startup hub. Hinkle is the managing director of Insight Partners, a huge New York-based venture capital firm, and invests in high-tech around the world. It has $90 billion in assets under management and raised a new $12.5 billion fund. Today, with equity, Julie Boat sits in a hiinkle to unleash the evolving landscape of the startup ecosystem. They are talking about post-pandemic changes only because many founders have moved to…