Elon Musk’s Boring Company is cranking up its hiring machine
Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup The Boring Company is ramping up hiring about six weeks after landing a $48.7 million commercial contract to build and...
Twitter Racist Who Allegedly Sent Death Threats to Muslim Lawyer Now Facing Federal Charges
After allegedly sending a death threat to a Muslim lawyer on Twitter last year, a North Carolina man is facing federal felony charges of issuing a...
Equinix and Singapore’s GIC will launch a $1 billion joint venture to build hyperscale data centers in Europe
Equinix, one of the world’s largest data center companies, announced that it will form a $1 billion joint venture with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. The...
Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying $460,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers
Lake City, Florida paid out a bitcoin ransom worth $460,000 to hackers who disabled the city’s computer systems with sophisticated ransomware last month, hot on the...
Virginia’s Anti-Revenge Porn Law Now Covers Deepfakes and Other ‘Falsely Created’ Content
A update to Virginia’s law against revenge porn banning the distribution of explicit videos and images that have been deepfaked—i.e., modified using machine learning algorithms to...
Samsung will announce the next Galaxy Note on August 7
It’s official. Samsung just sent out invites for the next Unpacked event. The big show kicks off at 4PM ET August 7, right here in New...
Samsung sets a date for its big Galaxy Note 10 reveal
We still aren’t entirely sure what’s going on with the Galaxy Fold, but we now know when Samsung will show off its next big flagship phone....
Atlan raises $2.5M to stop enterprises from being so bad at managing data
Even as much of the world is digitizing its governance, in small towns and villages of India, data about its citizens is still being largely logged...
Susa Ventures, a young VC firm with some high-flying bets, just closed on $140 million in new capital
Susa Ventures, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based, seed-stage venture firm, has closed on two new funds, a $90 million early-stage fund — its third flagship fund —...
Internet Shutdowns Are Now Just Another Weapon in the Dictator’s Arsenal
Last month, two high-ranking Ethiopian officials were murdered in an attempted coup. The consequences of the murders quickly rippled out into cyberspace, a bloody illustration of...
