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Social
X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit
2 hours ago
code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they’re ranked.
Security
Yieldstreet says some of its customers were affected by the Evolve Bank data breach
2 hours ago
Evolve, a popular financial institution for fintech startups, announced that a cyberattack affected “the data and personal information of some Evolve retail bank customers and financial technology partners’ customers.”
Fintech
Evolve hack fallout continues, fintech M&A heats up and Plaid talks enterprise push
3 hours ago
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the Evolve Bank hack, three notable acquisitions, Plaid’s enterprise customer growth and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
What You Need to Raise a Series A Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
4 hours ago
Raising a Series A round in today’s competitive market can be a daunting task. To equip seed-stage founders with the insights and strategies needed for success, TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will…
Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates, which are mostly available for Snapchat+ subscribers, allow users to do things…
Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a…
“Fediverse” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? The word comes from “federation” and “universe”…
Featured Article
News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web scraping and unethical summarization, is a thin one. Perplexity AI is a startup that combines a search engine…
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Apps
Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app
5 hours ago
The Make Design feature is available within Figma’s software and will generate UI (user interface) layouts and components from text prompts.
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Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly outdated computing systems: consider that the Perseverance rover runs on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running on iMacs in the late 1990s. …
Climate
Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste
7 hours ago
The amount of waste produced by the construction industry adds up to more than a third of the overall waste produced each year in the European Union. And it’s no…
Fundraising
As the AI boom gobbles up power, Phaidra is helping companies manage datacenter power more efficiently
7 hours ago
Electricity demand is booming on account of AI. In a May 2024 report, Goldman Sachs predicted that data centers will use 8% of the U.S.’s total power supply by 2030, up from…
Venture
Industry Ventures raises a $900M fund for investing in small, early-stage VCs and their breakout startups
7 hours ago
The venture fundraising trend in 2024 is fairly clear by now: Large, established VC firms are continuing to attract capital from limited partners, while smaller, newer funds are finding it…
Venture
Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands
7 hours ago
Samyr Laine and Ayanna Alexander-Laine now put their grit and determination to work for founders wanting to launch and scale consumer brands.
BoldHue’s device essentially scans your face and dispenses a customized foundation formula that matches your skin tone.
Unacademy is slashing another 250 jobs in latest round of cuts as Indian edtech sector continues to struggle.Q
Apps
Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18
11 hours ago
Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few weeks with extended support for…
Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own…
Fintech
Senators urge owners, partners and VC backers of fintech Synapse to restore customers’ access to their money
21 hours ago
A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the…
