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This is the second cyberattack targeting the school device management service Mobile Guardian this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ A person claiming to be a student in Singapore publicly posted documentation showing lax security in a widely popular school mobile device management service called Mobile Guardian, weeks before…

Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki just passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. She was 56. Wrote Troper on Facebook earlier Friday night, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan…

CrowdStrike tried to go back to business as usual at one of the world’s largest annual cybersecurity conferences, weeks after its massive global IT crash. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas,…

The U.K. government has indicated it may seek stronger powers to regulate tech platforms following days of violent disorder across England and Northern Ireland fueled by the spread of online disinformation. On Friday Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed there will be a review of the Online Safety Act (OSA). The legislation, which was passed by…

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week we are looking at AI founders who are playing musical chairs, a massive defense tech investment, and more issues at Techstars. Let’s get into it. Most…

Jon DiMaggio used sockpuppet accounts, then his own identity, to infiltrate LockBit and gain the trust of its alleged admin, Dmitry Khoroshev. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Earlier this year, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies took control of the dark web site of the notorious ransomware gang…

WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is officially gearing up for a U.S. public debut, over a year after China started easing its effective ban of foreign IPOs.  WeRide registered 1 billion American Depository Receipts (ADRs) at a maximum price of $0.05, with the aggregate offering coming in at $50 million, per a Friday filing…

Substack is opening up to more users with its recent announcement that anyone can now publish content on its platform without setting up a publication. With the change, Substack is likely looking to attract more types of writers and content creators, not just people who are interested in creating regularly distributed long-form written pieces. While…

When digging into the data to determine how large the exodus everyone on Threads is talking about actually is, we oddly came up short. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Over on Threads, the talk of an X “exodus” is blowing up. Anecdotally, at least, people report seeing an influx…

Researchers found flaws that could allow anyone to spy on the owners of Ecovacs home robots by hijacking their cameras and microphones. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the…