Karo is a to-do app that lets you assign tasks to your friends and family

You can build a reminder and task management system for yourself, and use a service that works for your team. But it might not be easy to get your family members or friends to use the same task management app. iOS app Karo (which means “do it” in Hindi) aims to solve the problem even if

Elon Musk’s X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data

Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC

Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder’s arrest

Telegram has updated its website to explicitly allow users to report private chats to its moderators, the company said in its FAQ page, as it updated some of its other privacy features following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last month over “crimes committed by third partiesR

‘Stop harassing Starlink,’ SpaceX president tells Brazilian judge

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell made a public plea to one of Brazil's top judicial figures on Thursday, asking him to “please stop harassing Starlink” amid the ongoing battle in the country against Elon Musk's social media business X.  Musk has been engaged in a months-long dispu

Osom is shutting down on Friday, as it had ‘no customers for a mobile phone’

Launching a phone company is a remarkably difficult — some even say foolish — thing to do. OSOM Products, a phone startup that rose from the smoldering ashes of Essential in 2020, is closing shop. Android Authority was first to report the news, after gaining access to an internal announcement f

Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash

Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash (after subtracting the value of shares Salesforce already owns). Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company r

US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia's military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed U.S. government agency in Maryland and computers belonging to 26 NATO countries, among other victims.  The DOJ announced the i

Lyft restructures its micromobility business and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to US vehicles 

Welcome back to technewss Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click technewss Mobility! Short week, shorter newsletter. For all the U.S.-based readers, I hope you had an enjoyable Labor Day.  Be

Microsoft gives deepfake porn victims a tool to scrub images from Bing search

The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a major step to give revenge porn victims a tool to stop its Bing search engine from returning these images. Microsoft a

Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services

Vay, a startup that has put a teleoperated twist to car-sharing in Berlin and Las Vegas, is expanding into commercial and business-to-business services buoyed by recent deals with French automaker Peugeot and Belgium-based Poppy. Vay isn’t a traditional ride-hailing or car-sharing startup, n

Drip Capital, a fintech that provides working capital to SMBs, picks up $113M

For over two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day, working capital needs of his family business, the sesame seed exporter Dhaval Agri. It was an arrangement that basically worked: The company grew to have a 13% share of the country’s total exports, making

Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature begins US rollout

First announced at Google’s I/O developer conference this May, Google Photos’ AI-powered search feature, “Ask Photos,” is rolling out to users starting Thursday. The feature, which allows users to ask the AI to find photos using more complex queries, will initially be availa

Endolith is using ‘Olympic-caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage

Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. But by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency expects copper supplies to fall 20% short of demand. One

All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers

At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of shifting everything left, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “toil-oriented task” like writing unit tests, managing dependencies and keeping docu