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• Durex India spilled customers’ private order data [147d]
• Apple introduces AI-powered object removal in photos with the latest iOS update [147d]
• NEA quietly reenters the secondaries market [147d]
• One of Bolt’s proposed new backers, the London Fund, has been scrubbing its web page [148d]
• OpenAI reportedly in talks to close a new funding round at $100B+ valuation [148d]
• It’s not just you: Reddit is down [148d]
• Reddit back online after a software update took it down [148d]
• OpenAI’s Converge 2 program has been shrouded in mystery [148d]
• Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ tools and aims to integrate ‘a Community Notes-like’ feature in the future [148d]
• Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds [148d]
• Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ [148d]
• Polestar is getting a new CEO amid EV sales slump [148d]
• Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’ [148d]
• This Week in AI: AI is rapidly being commoditized [148d]
• SEC takes aim at NFT marketplace OpenSea [148d]
• Ex-Twitter CISO Lea Kissner appointed as LinkedIn security chief [148d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [148d]
• Tesla’s Supercharging network is still unavailable to non-Tesla EVs [148d]
• Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress [148d]
• Google says it’s fixed Gemini’s people-generating feature [148d]
• TechCrunch Minute: The company behind Pokémon GO wants to build a 3D map of the world [148d]
• The CEO of Boeing’s satellite maker, Millennium Space, has quietly left the company [148d]
• Apple reportedly cuts 100 jobs working on Books and other services [148d]
• VCs and founders talk finding (and keeping) product-market fit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [148d]
• Born from San Francisco’s AI hackathons, Agency lets you see what your AI agents do [148d]
• Snapchat releases new teen safety resources for educators [148d]
• Pylon lands $17M investment to build a full service B2B customer service platform [148d]
• Polaris Dawn will push the limits of SpaceX’s human spaceflight program — here’s how to watch it launch live [148d]
• Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin [148d]
• Calm’s new Story-like mindfulness exercises offer an alternative to social media [148d]
• Fast-growing neobank Comun has secured $21.5M in new funding just months after its last raise [148d]
• Pryzm is a new kind of defense tech startup: one that helps others win lucrative contracts [148d]
• CoinSwitch sues WazirX to recover trapped funds [148d]
• Brave lays off 27 employees [148d]