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General Catalyst is linking up with Venture Highway to make a deeper push into India, where it plans to invest over $500 million in coming years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Malicious hacking is getting increasingly sophisticated, and that’s leading to a very clear trend in security technology. To keep people and organizations safe, security also has to continue advancing its own complexity.  Security startup PQShield has gotten an early start on that concept with a focus on “post-quantum” cryptography: software and hardware solutions that, in…

Hero, a new fintech startup based in Paris, is announcing an €11.3 million all-equity funding round led by Valar Ventures ($12.2 million at today’s exchange rate). For the past couple of years, the company has been quietly building an ambitious banking product for small companies that can essentially replace everything you’d expect from a traditional…

The software company is facing a hefty legal challenge from the U.S. government after a series of complaints from consumers…

A researcher has found a bug that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, making phishing attempts look credible and more likely to trick their targets.  As of this writing, the bug has not been patched. To demonstrate the bug, the researcher sent an email to TechCrunch that looked like it was sent from…

At the Augmented World Expo on Tuesday, Snap teased an early version of its real-time, on-device image diffusion model that can generate vivid AR experiences. The company also unveiled generative AI tools for AR creators. Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy said onstage that the model is small enough to run on a smartphone and…

Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. Fisker was outsourcing the manufacturing of its first EV to highly respected automotive supplier Magna, after all. The startup’s November 2022 start-of-production target was aggressive, but not…

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice. The agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and was looking into whether TikTok violated a law that prohibits “unfair and deceptive”…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinFrameless is one of the best known of the recent number of immersive art exhibitions in London over the last couple of years – and rightly so, mixing classic artwork with state-of-the-art animated visuals – if you get a chance to experience it, you should. Since the beginning of…

Share to FacebookShare to LinkedinStephen de Vries is Co-Founder & CEO of IriusRisk. getty Legislators are taking the fight to cybercrime. The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy published in March 2023, which proposed introducing liability for software providers, will completely change the way software is developed and taken to market. The legislation would give the…