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California’s finance department confirms breach as LockBit claims data theft

California’s Department of Finance has confirmed it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after the prolific LockBit ransomware group claims to have…

2 years ago

Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns

Image-generating AI models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can — and do — replicate aspects of images from their…

2 years ago

A quick guide to all the checkmarks and badges on Twitter

Elon Musk-led Twitter is shaking up its verification system. Instead of one checkmark, now there are multicolored checkmarks to denote…

2 years ago

Sana raises $34M for its AI-based knowledge management and learning platform for workplaces

Artificial intelligence is touching every aspect of how we engage with information (and much more) these days. Today, a startup…

2 years ago

TheyDo fires the starting gun on the race to own the customer journey

It doesn’t matter what kind of web site it is, the ‘customer journey’ has always been important, otherwise you lose…

2 years ago

Digip digitizes the process of applying for trademarks

For businesses, protecting trademarks is often a lengthy and expensive process, especially if they have multiple brands. Digip digitizes much…

2 years ago

Beamery, the all-in-one talent management platform, becomes a unicorn

HR organizations are faced with a widening skills gap, economic headwinds and changing expectations around work. It’s no surprise, then,…

2 years ago

Twitter disperses the Trust & Safety Council after key members resigned

Twitter today dispersed the Trust & Safety Council, which was an advisory group consisting of roughly 100 independent researchers and…

2 years ago

As China relaxes zero-COVID, tech firms assume a larger role in fighting the virus

China’s abrupt easing of its zero-COVID policy last week has led to a spike in cases and rising fears of…

2 years ago

Ex-Rocket Lab engineer raises $21M for Partly to make buying car parts easier

Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment. New Zealand-based Partly wants to…

2 years ago