Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA
With a victim’s phone number, an attacker would go to the centralized accounts center, enter the phone number of the victim, link that number to their own Facebook account, and then brute force the two-factor SMS code. This was the key step, because there was no upper limit to the amount of attempts someone could […]
Instagram’s text update Notes feature is expanding to Europe and Japan
Users can post Notes by navigating to the top of their inbox, then selecting the followers they follow back or others from their existing “Close Friends” list. They can then type out the note itself, after which it will appear at the top of friends’ inboxes for 24 hours. If a user responds to a […]
If, and only if, McDonald’s had an appetite for acquisitions
Here’s what I got into on today’s Equity Monday: If, and only if, McDonald’s had an appetite for acquisitions by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch source
Pornpen.ai – an AI-powered image generator for erotica and porn – Mezha.Media
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Board changes could signal Salesforce’s willingness to appease activist investors
According to people familiar with the situation, that Wall Street Journal story is accurate. Perhaps it’s not surprising that Mason Morfit, CEO and chief investment officer of ValueAct Capital, is one of the three new members. He joins Arnold Donald, former president and CEO at Carnival Corporation and Mastercard CFO Sachin Mehra. Patrick Gadson, a […]
Raylo raises $136M to build out its gadget lease-and-reuse ‘fintech’ platform
The London-based company currently operates in the U.K. selling monthly subscriptions for phones, tablets and laptops, and it plans to use the funding both to expand that list to a wider range of gadgets like e-bikes, as well as to continue investing in its tech, which includes an AI-based platform to assess risk for each […]
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It’s time to cast your votes for TC Early Stage Audience Choice
Choosing the finalists wasn’t easy, but we’re excited to announce that Audience Choice voting opens today, January 30, and runs through February 17. We selected a total of 20 contenders in two categories for your voting pleasure — 10 roundtable discussions and 10 breakout sessions. Go read the abstracts and vote for the presentations you […]
Google created an A.I. tool that transforms hums and text into actual music: ‘This is bigger than ChatGPT to me’ – Fortune
The rapid rise of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has left many wondering what else will be changed by generative A.I. tools. If a Google research paper released this week is anything to go by, songwriting will be—and perhaps the music industry. The paper describes a tool called MusicLM that “can transform whistled and hummed […]
Crypto security startup Hypernative raises $9M to help prevent web3 cyber attacks
The funding round was led by boldstart ventures and IBI tech fund, with strategic investments from Blockdaemon, Alchemy, Borderless, CMT Digital, Nexo and angel investors. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO. The co-founders collectively have backgrounds in cloud infrastructure, building large-scale distributed systems and security, and have worked […]