Flipboard launches Surf, a new app for browsing the open social web
Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company’s original app allowed users to collect content from blogs, news websites, and traditional social media services like Facebook and Twitter in order to create curated magazines,
Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over security failings that led to medical data breach of over 100 million Americans
The U.S. state of Nebraska has sued the health tech giant Change Healthcare over a series of alleged security failings that resulted in a historical data breach exposing the sensitive health information of at least 100 million Americans.
In a complaint filed this week, Nebraska’s attorney
Ram delays electric truck launch to 2026, bets on extended-range Ramcharger
Stellantis is tapping the brakes on the all-electric Ram 1500 REV truck and will push its launch into 2026, the company said Wednesday, citing slowing industry demand for half-ton battery electric pickups. The automaker had originally planned to begin selling the electric truck to customers in the
EU privacy body weighs in on some tricky GenAI lawfulness questions
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion on Wednesday that explores how AI developers might use personal data to develop and deploy AI models, such as large language models (LLMs), without falling foul of the bloc’s privacy laws. The Board plays a key steering role in th
Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo lands massive data center power deal, with caveats
Nuclear startup Oklo has signed a massive deal with data center operator Switch, but caveats abound.
The new agreement would see Oklo building enough small modular reactors (SMR) by 2044 to generate 12 gigawatts of electricity for Switch's data centers, which today serve a wide range of compan
YouTube says it will start cracking down on videos with clickbait titles in India
A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down,” to bait the user into watching the video, which has non-related content.
YouTube said Wednesday that it is now cracking down on such videos — es
Access bets people will pay thousands of dollars a year for guaranteed restaurant reservations
Once, not long ago, booking a table at a hot new restaurant didn’t entail a midnight dash to Resy. Truly, we didn’t know how good we had it then. Hours-long lines out the door are now the norm, not the exception, in major cities from New York to Los Angeles.
One reason is that restaura
Felix Capital's Julien Codorniou to join 20VC as general partner
Just a few weeks after 20VC announced its third investment vehicle, technewss has learned from multiple sources that the relatively new VC firm based in London is gaining a new general partner. Julien Codorniou is leaving Felix Capital, where he has been a founding advisor since 2015 and a partner
Aave protocol developer secures $31 million for Lens, a high-performance blockchain for consumer apps
Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. With Lens, Avara is building a decentralized L2 network that could serve as the infrastructure for social and consumer apps.
This funding announcement comes a few weeks after Lens
WeTransfer's free plan now has a monthly limit of 10 transfers
File transfer service WeTransfer is now limiting users to 10 transfers per month with its free plan. The company is already applying the new limit to users, as per a support page.
At the same time, WeTransfer is adding some perks to the free plan, including increasing the overall file transfer lim
AI is burying company websites in search results, but Otterly.AI thinks it can help
Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results. Many queries no longer lead to click-throughs, and even when users click, it is hard for companies to get more context on searches made within apps like ChatGPT or Perplexity.
The answ
Threads is testing a post-scheduling feature
Meta's social network Threads is experimenting with a feature that will let you schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said.
Users who will get to test this feature won't be able to schedule replies. “We want to balance giving people more control to plan their Threads posts while st
‘It’s dumb to IPO this year’: Databricks CEO explains why he’s waiting to go public
Databricks just closed one of the largest funding rounds ever, raising a staggering $10 billion in fresh capital. Naturally, technology investors were quick to ask what this means for the company’s highly anticipated IPO. During an event in San Francisco on Tuesday night, Databricks CEO Ali G
The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case
A U.S. court ruled in August that Google has a search monopoly, and while Google appeals, the Justice Department is figuring out what kind of potential penalties to impose — like breaking off Chrome.
As part of this process, the DOJ wants to call on a specific witness, according to a recen