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The UK Retail Conglomerate Co-op Group said it has shut down some of its IT systems, citing attempts at cyberattacks. Cooperative spokesman Mark Carrington said the company “hackers have experienced a recent attempt” to infiltrate parts of its systems and has taken “active steps” to keep those systems safe. The spokesman said the company's back office and call centre functionality has faced some confusion as a result. It is not clear whether the attempted intrusion was successful. The cooperative, one of the UK's largest food retailers with over 5 million members, said its stores are operating normally and at this…
Eight years after joining the benchmark as the company's first female general partner, Saratabell announced at X that he is moving into a more limited role in the renowned venture company. In her new position as a venture partner, Tabel will continue to invest and work on the board of existing companies, but she will have time to explore “the AI tools of the edge” and look back in the direction of AI, she writes. Tavel joined the benchmark in 2017 after spending a year and a half as a partner at Greylock and three years as a product manager…
Last month, Brett Adcock, founder of Robotics Startup's Figure AI, claimed in an X post that his company is “currently the most popular private stock in the secondary market.” However, the company sent out a halt and assumed letter to at least two brokers operating the secondary market, those brokers told TechCrunch. These people said the AI suspension and assumption letter demanded that the company's stock be stopped marketing. Both brokers said they received the letter for the first time after Bloomberg reported in mid-February that it was seeking a $1.5 billion round at a $39.5 billion valuation. A spokesperson…
As part of its first quarter revenue release, Snap said it is a plan to dispose of a simplified version of its app. This news comes seven months after Snapchat begins testing versions of the redesigned app without a snapshot or story tab. This new version has integrated the app's navigation bar around three icons: Chat, Camera, Snapchat's Tiktok rival and Spotlight. Instead of continuing to test the simplified version, social networks are now starting to experiment with a “sleek 5-tab interface” that keeps existing tabs in all apps and makes spotlights easier to access. “We learned a lot from…
Google Play's App Marketplace has lost its app. From its launch in 2024 until now, the Android App Marketplace has moved from around 1.8 million from around 3.4 million apps worldwide, according to a new analysis from App Intelligence Provider Appfigures. This is about a 47% decrease, representing a significant purging of apps available worldwide by Android users. The decline is not part of some larger global trends, the company noted. During the same period, Apple's iOS App Store hosted 1.6 million apps, to just 1.64 million apps, for example. For example, a slight increase. For Google, a reduction in…
Google announced on Tuesday that its digital ID will appear in more states and services with Google Wallet. The company also shares that wallets have got a way to personally verify age, and that the app has expanded to 50 more countries. Residents of Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico and West Virginia can immediately store US government-issued digital IDs in Google Wallets. Additionally, people in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and New Mexico will be able to use their mobile IDs in their DMVs. Please note that as the actual ID deadline for May 7, 2025, Google can use an ID pass created…
Google's AI-based note-taking and research assistant NoteBooklm offers audio overview functionality in 76 new languages. The audio summary, launched last year, allows users to generate podcasts using AI virtual hosts based on documents they share with NotebookLM, such as course metering and legal briefs. The idea behind this feature is to provide an alternative way to digest and understand the information in documents that users have uploaded to the app. This extension allows more people to use audio overviews in their preferred language. Google has noted that audio overviews have been generated in the account's preferred language so far. Currently,…
Indian courts have ordered the nation to block proton mail, a encrypted email provider. On Tuesday, the Karnataka High Court directed the Indian government to block Proton Mail, a popular email service known for its enhanced security, following a legal complaint filed by New Delhi-based M Moser Design Associates. Local businesses alleged that employees received emails containing indecent and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail. During a Tuesday hearing streamed on YouTube, Judge M Nagaprasanna ordered the Indian government to “block Proton Mail with observations made in the course of the order in mind.” In a complaint filed in January,…
Spotify reported Tuesday that its premium subscriber base rose 5 million in the first quarter, up 12% year-on-year. This brings the total to 268 million, marking the second highest total in the first quarter since 2020 and the highest purity of paid submarines. Spotify also reported a record quarterly operating profit of 509 million euros, or about $528 million. However, this was below the guidance of 548 million euros ($625 million). Total revenues rose 15% year-on-year to 4.2 billion euros ($4.8 billion). Additionally, the music streaming giant has a total of 678 million active users (MAUS) and 423 million ad-supported…
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