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Some stories emerge and die in a matter of days. Others require us to stay tuned for more, and this week brought us several of these. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups.…

The North Korean hackers’ attack started by tricking a victim into visiting a web domain under the hackers’ control. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ A North Korean hacking group earlier in August exploited a previously unknown bug in Chrome-based browsers to target organizations with the goal of stealing cryptocurrency,…

LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models, has released a new dataset that it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned of known links to suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM).” The new dataset, Re-LAION-5B, is actually a re-release of an old dataset, LAION-5B —…

By Rotation has a partnership with Airbnb to let those who’ve booked an Airbnb receive a complimentary outfit rental. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Eshita Kabra always knew she wanted to work with Airbnb. When she first came up with the idea for her company By Rotation a few…

Apple moved to terminate the Appstun developer account after multiple rejections of its app that Apple says violates its App Store guidelines. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Apple is standing by its decision to terminate the Apple Developer Account of Appstun, a mobile app company created by one of…

Redfin is responding to a new startup that is hoping to upend the way people search for and buy homes by offering a flat-fee service. On August 29, TechCrunch reported that a startup called Landian had emerged from stealth to offer homebuyers a way to tour and make offers on homes through a flat-fee service,…

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed. Carta, best known for its cap table management software, sits on a stockpile of…

A top court in Brazil ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the X platform on Friday after a months-long legal battle with Elon Musk’s social media company over content moderation, according to Bloomberg.   The court added that anyone using VPN to access the X platform would be subject to daily fines of 50,000 reais…

Many tech companies are expanding their reach into the web3 market, integrating blockchain and web3 technologies into their products and services. In the latest development, South Korean internet giant Naver is launching its first digital asset wallet, Naver Pay Wallet, for the Korean market. It is partnering with Chiliz, a blockchain provider for sports and…

Intuitive Machines, the venture-backed startup that went public last year, will send a moon lander to the lunar south pole in 2027 as part of a $116.9 million contract awarded by NASA on Thursday.  This is NASA’s tenth award under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program; of these, four have gone to Intuitive Machines.…