IT総合 The Internet Archive slammed by DDoS attack and data breach
The Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack...
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IT総合 IT総合 The Boring Company’s Las Vegas loop is attracting riders, and trespassers
The Boring Company’s 2.4-mile underground Loop in Las Vegas is proving anything but boring for management, with at least...
IT総合 Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager steps down in move described as temporary
Michael Gronager, co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis, has taken a personal leave of absence from the company. The blockch...
IT総合 Klarna is about to oust another board member
Klarna, the Stockholm-based buy-now-pay-later outfit that’s barreling toward an IPO, isn’t done shaking up its board. Ac...
IT総合 23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves
Customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a New York Times story that ...
IT総合 The ‘Mozart of Math’ isn’t worried about AI replacing math nerds — ever
Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’...
IT総合 OpenAI also secured a massive credit line
In addition to OpenAI’s new $6.6 billion megaround of funding at a post-money valuation of $157 billion, the outfit has ...
IT総合 StrictlyVC comes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
StrictlyVC is hosting its first event inside TechCrunch, and if you’re an investor keen to mingle with your peers, you w...
IT総合 TechCrunch reimagined: welcome to our new design
Sometimes, you have to start from scratch to make something amazing. Sometimes, you already have most of the ingredients...
IT総合 The complete agenda for the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Get ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, our signature event for startups of all stages, taking place at Moscone West in S...
IT総合 Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton K...
IT総合 The VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to ‘listen to agitators’
VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of ...
IT総合 A Russian warlord said he’s taking Cybertrucks into Ukraine; some experts think that’s unwise
In August, a Russian warlord posted a video on Telegram, showing a pair of Cybertrucks patrolling a road in Chechnya, ar...
IT総合 Hone Capital, a Silicon Valley firm, is being probed by the FBI
According to the FT, the FBI is now poking around nine-year-old Hone Capital, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded...
IT総合 John Mulaney skewers San Francisco tech crowd at Dreamforce
Attendees of the giant, annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco love being the butt of the joke. Last year, Seth M...
IT総合 Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech...
IT総合 Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what ...
IT総合 23andMe sees independent board directors quit en masse
23andMe, the personal genomics company, went public in early 2021 via a merger with a blank check company that valued it...
IT総合 Al Gore roasts corporations and politicians, comparing their climate crisis promises to ‘New Year’s resolutions’
Al Gore has enjoyed a very successful career, including as a U.S. senator, U.S. Vice President, U.S. presidential nomine...
IT総合 BlackRock and Microsoft are reportedly planning a $30B AI-focused megafund
Investment powerhouse BlackRock is set to launch a massive AI-focused investment fund, exceeding $30 billion, in collabo...
IT総合 Insight Partners is closing in on a whopping $10B+ new fund
Insight Partners is reportedly on the cusp of on more than $10 billion in capital commitments for its 13th fund, per the...
IT総合 This is how bad China’s startup scene looks now
In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead,” noting the pac...
IT総合 Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying
OpenWeb, a New York startup whose tools help publishers engage users, has a unique problem. Its co-founding CEO reported...
IT総合 Seattle Cybertruck became fleeting tourist destination
You could argue whether Cybertruck owners crave attention, but attention they receive, often by critics poking fun at th...
IT総合 Google is working on AI that can hear signs of sickness
Given everything you’ve already heard about AI, you may not be surprised to learn that Google is among other outfits beg...
IT総合 Wait, what? Pavel Durov says he has fathered more than 100 children
Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging platform Telegram, has been in the headlines since his arrest at a private air...
IT総合 The VC quietly nabbing prized SF property is planning a ‘Y Combinator for restaurants’
Neil Mehta, the VC behind the acquisition of a string of properties on San Francisco’s tony Fillmore Street, made ...
IT総合 Ben Horowitz Declares War on Michael Moritz
A social media spat between billionaire tech investors is raising questions about the journalistic independence of three...
IT総合 Thiel’s Gawker takedown could be coming to a theater near you
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire ...
IT総合 The crypto founder who didn’t save Puerto Rico after all
In Puerto Rico, tax breaks enacted in 2012 aimed to juice the economy by encouraging mainland U.S. citizens to do busine...