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Okta says 366 corporate customers, or about 2.5% of its customer base, were impacted by a security breach that allowed hackers to access the company’s internal network. The authentication giant…

Okta says hundreds of companies impacted by security breach

Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced today that his office filed a lawsuit against Grubhub for “misleading District residents and taking advantage of local restaurants to boost its own…

Lawsuit prompts Grubhub to add disclosures about hidden fees

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Apple execs on developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the other pros

The seeds of the Mac Studio were planted 5 years ago next month when, in a rare candid admission of misstep, Apple said it was pushing the reset button on the Mac Pro. Having painted itself into a “thermal corner,” Apple realized that it had to burn down the architecture…

Apple execs on developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the other pros

Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. The startup is behind the NFT project Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC), which only launched in…

Bored Apes NFT project gets official ‘ApeCoin’ token

Sometimes you just want to tweet your reactions to the “Love is Blind” reunion without bothering your 4,333 closest friends, who probably follow you because they work in tech, and…

Twitter’s spin on the close friends story might be on its way soon

Facebook attempted a return to its roots as a college-focused social network with the fall 2020 launch of Campus, a private section within Facebook that was only open to those…

Facebook is shutting down its college student-only social network, Campus

Yesterday, Mercury, which describes itself as a bank for startups, restricted several accounts linked to African tech startups, TechCrunch has learned.  The number of companies involved with this restriction is…

Mercury restricted a number of accounts linked to African startups and didn’t exactly say why

As major social platforms grapple with an influx of misinformation around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reddit is having its own reckoning. On Tuesday, Reddit added the subreddit r/Russia to…

Reddit quarantines r/Russia due to ‘high volume’ of misinformation

Nvidia has confirmed that hackers stole sensitive data from its networks, including employee credentials and proprietary company information, during last week’s cyberattack and are now “leaking it online,” a spokesperson…

Nvidia says hackers are leaking company data after cyberattack attack

Google today announced Chrome OS Flex, an early preview of a new initiative that aims to bring Chrome OS to virtually any PC (and older Intel-based Macs). Built on top…

Google wants to bring Chrome OS to your PC or Mac

Google today announced a couple of updates to Chrome that bring, among other things, a new way to resume your past searches in the browser. This new feature, dubbed “Journeys,”…

Google brings a smarter search history page to Chrome

Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called “CryptoSnoos,” released…

Reddit tests allowing users to set any NFT as their profile picture, similar to Twitter

2021 will be remembered as the year that ransomware gangs turned their attention to critical infrastructure, targeting companies built around manufacturing, energy distribution and food production. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware…

Are embedded devices the next ransomware target?

Tado, the German smart home startup that specializes in thermostats and more recently moved into flexible “time of use” energy tariffs based on loadshifting technology, is today announcing the next…

Tado, the German smart home energy startup, plans to go public via a SPAC at a €450M valuation

The Nigerian government has lifted the suspension of Twitter operations more than six months after it first declared a crackdown on the social media giant in the country. Kashifu Inuwa…

Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter, says the social media giant has met conditions

Biometrics, and specifically facial recognition, have seen a surge of usage in the last several years, first as a tool to help organizations verify identities digitally against rising waves of…

iProov snaps up $70M for its facial verification technology, already in use by Homeland Security, the NHS and others

Threat intelligence giant Recorded Future announced Tuesday that it has acquired SecurityTrails, an internet inventory startup that collects and banks current and historical domain and IP address data, for $65…

Recorded Future acquires internet inventory startup SecurityTrails for $65M

OnlyFans founder and CEO Tim Stokely is stepping down, Bloomberg reports. His successor is Ami Gan, the company’s former head of communications and marketing. This move comes after a tenuous…

OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely steps down, appoints spokesperson as CEO

Starting today, Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos. This feature will make videos more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Auto captions will be available on web, iOS…

Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible

Japanese tech giant Panasonic has confirmed a data breach after hackers gained access to its internal network. Panasonic said in a press release dated November 26 that its network was…

Panasonic confirms data breach after hackers access internal network

Apple has launched a lawsuit against NSO Group, the maker of the nation-state spyware Pegasus, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the spyware maker from using any Apple product or…

Apple files lawsuit against NSO Group over Pegasus spyware

Web hosting giant GoDaddy has reported a data breach, and warns that data on 1.2 million customers may have been accessed. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,…

GoDaddy says data breach exposed over a million user accounts

Google Labs is back, but this time around, it’s not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products. Instead, it’s the internal name given to a new team at…

Google reorg moves AR, VR, Starline and Area 120 into new ‘Labs’ team

A federal judge has ruled that Apple can’t push back the deadline to update App Store policies, as previously ordered in the court’s decision on California’s Epic Games v. Apple…

Apple ordered to comply with court’s decision over in-app payments in Epic Games case

The U.K.’s Labour Party has confirmed a cyberattack on a third-party company has led to the compromise of members’ data. In an email sent to all party members and posted…

UK Labour Party blames breach of members’ data on third-party cyberattack

An awesome strategic comms pro should be your first marketing investment. Without clear, concise and compelling messaging, your business loses the majority of its impact.

Hiring is just the first step when building an early-stage comms team

Following moves by major tech platforms to better protect minors using their platforms, Snapchat is preparing to introduce its own set of “family engagement” tools in the coming months. Snap…

Snapchat to introduce family safety tools to protect minors using its app

An “ongoing” cyberattack against the Japanese technology giant Olympus was caused by a Russian ransomware group sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to two people with knowledge of the incident.…

Olympus US hack tied to sanctioned Russian ransomware group

Byteboard, a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google…

Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding

Russian authorities have arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the co-founder and chief executive of Group-IB — one of the biggest cybersecurity companies in the country — on charges of treason.…

Russian authorities arrest cybersecurity giant Group-IB’s CEO on treason charges