Symbiotic Security helps developers find bugs as they code

Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideal

Apple’s new widget puts Election Day updates on your Lock Screen and Home Screen

It’s Election Day in the U.S., which means you’re likely glued to the latest news about which presidential candidate is currently in the lead. To help with this, Apple has released a Live Activities widget within its Apple News app that will offer real-time election updates directly on

Oil giant BP is killing 18 hydrogen projects, chilling the nascent industry

Tucked inside a 32-page earnings report, oil and gas giant BP revealed it was killing 18 early-stage hydrogen projects, a move that could have a chilling effect on the nascent hydrogen industry. The decision, along with the sale of the company's U.S. onshore wind-power operations, will save BP

Elon Musk's false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X

The world's richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine in support of a presidential candidate. What could go wrong? An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinforma

Anticipating post-election drama, Meta extends political ad ban past Election Day

Meta announced Tuesday that it is extending its restriction on political ads until later in the week, though it did not specify which day the ban would be lifted.  When asked for more information, a Meta spokesperson pointed technewss to the announcement about the company working to “prote

Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025

Google has confirmed plans to require all Google Cloud customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process that kicks off this month with prompts and “helpful reminders” embedded inside the Google Cloud console, before a gradual enforcement period starting in the new year. Th

How a box on a roof helped Transaera land $8.2 million in funding

Transaera co-founder and CEO Sorin Grama may not have expected his startup to end up on the roof of a warehouse, but he's happy to have landed there. Over the summer, the company installed a massive ventilation system, known as a dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS), which dehumidifies fresh ai

Canadian authorities say they arrested hacker linked to Snowflake data breaches

A hacker suspected of involvement in a series of massive Snowflake-related hacks has been arrested in Canada, according to local authorities. Ian McLeod, a spokesperson for the Canadian Department of Justice, told technewss in an email that, “following a request by the United States, Alexander

Printful and Printify ink a merger deal

Two veteran European companies in the world of on-demand printing are merging, and you may have not even realized they were separate companies to begin with. Printful and Printify, both startups with Latvian roots providing custom printing services, are coming together as a single company. They ar

DeepRoute raises $100M in push to beat Tesla's FSD in China

DeepRoute.ai, a Shenzhen-based autonomous driving technology startup, raised $100 million from Great Wall Motor. The startup aims to get its automated driving systems into as many vehicles in China before Tesla takes off next year, according to a Reuters report. DeepRoute did not publicly disclose

AI startups will need ‘quality of revenue’ to raise in 2025, seed VCs warn

Fundraising in 2025 will continue to be a “tale of two cities,” VC Renata Quintini, co-founder of early-stage VC Renegade Partners, said onstage at technewss Disrupt last week. “Some companies, really having the promise of going after big markets growing fast, [will be] receiving a lot of f

Flash, founded by ex-Flipkart exec, launches in the US to help shoppers juggle multiple online orders 

Flash, the payment management service that tracks all your online purchases, announced Tuesday its entry into the U.S. market, giving American customers the ability to manage all of their spending in one place while also earning rewards, such as gift cards and cash back.  The U.S. is home to

Can Pictionary and Minecraft test AI models’ ingenuity?

Most AI benchmarks don’t tell us much. They ask questions that can be solved with rote memorization, or cover topics that aren’t relevant to the majority of users. So some AI enthusiasts are turning to games as a way to test AIs’ problem-solving skills. Paul Cal

AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down

“Move cautiously and red-team things” is sadly not as catchy as “move fast and break things.” But three AI safety advocates made it clear to startup founders that going too fast can lead to ethical issues in the long run. “We are at an inflection point where there are