How to protect your cell phone number from SIM swap attacks
These carrier security settings can prevent your phone number from being hijacked or stolen.
Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.
European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones
With a fundraising target of €25 million, Darkstar’s goal is to help startups bring battle-tested products to military customers both in Ukraine and throughout Europe.
Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more
Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian this year, was raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital.
LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say
AI infrastructure startup LangChain is raising a new round at about $1 billion valuation led by IVP.
Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue
Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk’s xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.
Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month
Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, is stepping down from his role later this month.
US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers
Accused hacker and Chinese national Xu Zewei was arrested in Italy at the request of U.S. prosecutors.
GenAI as a shopping assistant set to explode during Prime Day sales
A new report estimates that AI will be a larger-than-ever part of the online shopping process during Amazon’s Prime Day sale, which began Tuesday morning. Amazon’s annual sale, which this year spans four days (July
SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation
SpaceX is in talks to raise fresh capital at a $400 billion valuation.