Category: Gaming
-
Fortinet confirms customer data breach
On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data. In a statement posted online, Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number of files” stored on a third-party shared cloud drive belonging to Fortinet, which included data belonging to “less than 0.3%” of its customers. The company said that the incident “did…
-
Faraday Future gives CEO and founder raises and bonuses after delivering 13 cars
Faraday Future is doling out big raises and bonuses to its CEO and its founder, despite having delivered just 13 cars in its 10-year history and recently laying off or furloughing the majority of its workforce. The company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday that CEO Matthias Aydt’s salary is getting bumped from $400,000 up…
-
This startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has $62M to play with
Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn’t have conceived of a time when his idea for a carbon-negative power plant would attract millions in funding. But now, together with Reverion co-founder Felix Fischer, he has a $100 million backlog of orders for his invention…
-
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into…
-
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen…
-
Shopsense AI lets music fans buy dupes inspired by red-carpet looks at the VMAs
At the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Wednesday night, new technology allowed fans to shop their favorite artists’ styles as they appeared on the screen. Though the drama from last night’s event focused on Chappell Roan confronting a rude paparazzi and Sabrina Carpenter‘s onstage kiss with an alien, fans were also raving about the…
-
Cohost, the X rival founded with an anti-Big Tech manifesto, is running out of money and will shut down
Cohost, a would-be X rival launched to the public in June 2022, is shutting down, the company announced via the social network’s staff account earlier this week. The service had operated much like Twitter, offering users the ability to follow others, view posts in a feed, and like and repost content shared by others. However,…
-
Meta is making its AI info label less visible on content edited or modified by AI tools
By making the AI info label harder to find, it might be easier for users to be deceived by content that was edited with AI, especially as editing tools become more and more advanced. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Meta is changing the way it labels content that has…
-
Keith Rabois says Miami is still a great place for startups, even as a16z leaves
Keith Rabois, managing director of Khosla Ventures, was having dinner with a “very successful CEO” in October 2018 when the CEO asked him a question: How many people does it take to create a whole new Silicon Valley? Is it 10,000? 100,000? Rabois didn’t know, but he decided to accept the challenge and set about…
-
Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic private spacewalk while wearing SpaceX-made suits
A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk. The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, kicked off at 6:12 a.m. ET when oxygen started flowing into the astronauts’ spacesuits.…