How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked
More and more hackers are targeting regular people with the goal of breaking into their bank accounts, stealing their crypto, or simply stalking them. These types of attacks are still relatively rare, so there's no need for alarm. But it's important to know what you can do to protect yourse
Emergence Capital closes on $1B fund to back B2B companies
Emergence Capital has closed its $1 billion seventh fund, it reported on Tuesday
It’s the firm’s first raise in nearly four years. In May 2021, the San Mateo, California-based venture firm rounded up nearly a billion dollars in capital commitments across two funds.
Earth AI's algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world's largest copper deposits in more than a decade.
Now, another startup, Earth AI, exclusively told technewss about its own discovery: promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of A
Instagram partners with schools to prioritize reports of online bullying and student safety
Instagram on Tuesday announced a new school partnership program aimed at expediting the handling of moderation reports submitted by verified school accounts.
The program is currently available to all middle and high schools in the U.S. It allows schools to report posts or student accounts that may
ChatGPT’s image-generation feature gets an upgrade
During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major upgrade to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year.
ChatGPT can now leverage the company’s GPT-4o model to natively create and modify images and photos. GPT-4o has long underpinned the AI-pow
Apple announces WWDC 2025 takes place June 9-13
Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will kick off on June 9 and run through June 13. The tech giant’s event is where it offers a look at its upcoming versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, as well as new tools for its developers.
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23andMe files for bankruptcy: How to delete your data
DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection on March 16, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic data of the company's 15 million customers.
The company has said that “data privacy will be an important consideration in any potential transaction.” Howe
Google unveils a next-gen family of AI reasoning models
On Tuesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI reasoning models that pauses to “think” before answering a question.
To kick off the new family of models, Google is launching Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a multimodal, reasoning AI model that the company claims is its most in
Quora's Poe launches its most affordable subscription plan for $5/month
Poe, Quora’s chatbot app, launched one of its most affordable subscription options on Tuesday, priced at just $5 per month.
In addition, the company introduced its highest-priced plan at $250 per month, designed for users who need to send a large volume of messages on Poe.
A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people
Don't call it a Bluesky conference.
Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or ATProto — the technology that powers Bluesky's growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, e
Discord made its gaming overlay a lot more user-friendly
Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up.
The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end.
In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, b
Once a target of Musk’s ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress
When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune.
“Karma is real,” Musk said.
But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing
Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid
As the year of the AI agent takes shape, a new trend is emerging: startups offering the picks and shovels that help employers build a workforce of bots.
Manny Medina, best known as the founder and former CEO of the $4.4 billion valued sales automation company Outreach, just launched one such start
Apple Music is integrating with music tools to allow DJs to create mixes using its catalog
Apple said today it is opening its catalog to let users build mix sets by integrating the platform with a number of tools. These tools include Algoriddim’s djay Pro software, hardware platforms AlphaTheta, Serato, inMusic's Engine DJ, Denon DJ, Numark, and RANE DJ.
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