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The Swedish government said Russian government-linked hackers attempted to disrupt the operations at one of the country’s thermal power plants last year. Sweden said that, while the hackers were unsuccessful, hybrid attacks that extend beyond cyberspace are becoming more dangerous. Sweden’s minister of civil defense, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, said during a press conference on Wednesday that the attempted attack happened in early 2025 and attributed the incident to hackers with “connections to Russian intelligence and security services.” “Pro-Russian groups that once carried out denial-of-service attacks are now attempting destructive cyber attacks against organizations in Europe,” said Bohlin, as quoted by Bloomberg.…
It was much easier to tell when Shark was using its AI feature and when it found spots. The UV Reveal uses the LEDs on the vacuum’s sides to show you when it’s scanning the floor with its ultraviolet light to find spots and stains, then it waits until it finishes its initial clean to analyze the footage and identify where it wants to return. The vacuum then heads back out, literally announcing from the base station: “I’ve detected stains. I’m going back out to viciously attack them.” It’s both amusing and informative, and then you can watch the Shark…
Advertisers can now target Expedia Group’s audiences on a swath of publishers and platforms following a deal between the travel website and adtech platform Magnite.The partnership lets brands and agencies use Expedia’s about 200 petabytes of first-party data to target audiences across streaming TV, online video, display, and audio. In 2024, Expedia formally launched its travel media network, Expedia Group Advertising, expanding its ad business to include offsite ads on the open web for the first time.Expedia Group, which also owns Hotels.com and Vrbo, made $758 million from advertising and media in 2025, up 19% year over year.Ad Tech Industry…
Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in-person payments. The move deepens its rivalry with Stripe across the payments stack, and enables the startup to directly aim at Square and Adyen on one of the last major battlegrounds in financial technology. Airwallex is launching a point-of-sale product that it says does something its rivals’ offerings don’t: Allow businesses to accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform, without onboarding local vendors in every market. “When a business expands into a new market, they typically have to onboard a…
Since your mattress also plays a role in supporting the rest of your body, it has to complement your pillow. For example, Schneider says that a firmer mattress will likely require a more supportive, higher-loft pillow, whereas a softer mattress will require a lower-loft pillow.As a mattress tester, I agree. When it comes to firm mattresses, your body weight is evenly distributed as there isn’t much “sinking in” to be had. To keep your neck in the same plane as the rest of your spine, a higher, firmer pillow helps maintain that alignment. If you have a softer bed, you’re…
DeepL, a translation company best known for its text tools, released a voice-to-voice translation suite today that covers use cases like meetings, mobile and web conversations, and group conversations for frontline workers through custom apps. The company is also releasing an API that lets outside developers and businesses build on top of DeepL’s tech for customized use cases, such as call centers. “After spending so many years in text translation, voice was a natural step for us,” DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski told TechCrunch in an interview. “We have come a long way when it comes to text translation and document…
Emergent, an Indian startup known for its vibe-coding platform, has launched Wingman, a messaging-first autonomous AI agent, as it expands into a growing category of software that runs in the background to complete tasks — popularized by tools like OpenClaw and Claude from Anthropic. The Bengaluru-based startup initially gained attention for its vibe-coding platform, which competes with tools like Cursor and Replit and lets users without technical backgrounds build full-stack applications via natural-language prompts. With Wingman, Emergent is now pushing beyond creation into execution, aiming to let AI agents handle routine tasks across tools and workflows. “The obvious next step…
Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies. The venture firm told Bloomberg that $4 billion will go to its late-stage Leaders Fund, for which it hopes to cut at least 20 checks, averaging $200 million each. Accel is looking to invest in companies building AI-powered technology, with a focus on software, hardware, robotics, defense tech, and data center infrastructure. Accel limited partners also poured in $650 million, which will go to a “sidecar” fund, Bloomberg reported, allowing the firm to increase its investments in certain companies. Accel has backed more than…
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing a native Gemini app for Mac, catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have had Mac apps for quite some time. “Now, you can bring up Gemini from anywhere on your Mac with a quick shortcut (Option + Space) to get help instantly, without ever switching tabs,” Google explained in its blog post. “Whether you’re drafting a market report and need to verify a date or building a budget in a spreadsheet and need the right formula, you can get an answer and get right back to work.” When using the…
Upgrading your home office can feel like going down a rabbit hole. A simple search for a basic new desk can quickly turn into hours down the drain and endless tabs open on your computer, with every option starting to blur together. Uplift has a loyal following for its super customizable desks, smart (and creative—under-desk hammock, anyone?) accessories, and a solid build quality that makes long workdays more manageable.We’ve explored the perks of a standing desk, and the takeaway is pretty clear: even if it won’t magically fix everything, the right standing desk setup can make all the difference in…
After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: People who felt harmed by coverage had little recourse to fight back. His solution is software. D’Souza says his latest startup, Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism. And for the price of $2,000, anyone can pay to challenge a story, triggering a public investigation into its claims. (D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.) Objection…
Since its launch in 2021, Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform that transforms students’ notes into interactive study materials, has attracted more than 13 million users across over 120 countries. This is a significant jump from the more than 300,000 users the platform had when TechCrunch last covered it in 2023. And, as user adoption increases, investor interest is following suit. The company recently secured $22 million in Series A funding, according to its announcement on Tuesday. The funding will go toward expanding Gizmo’s engineering and AI teams, as well as expanding its presence in the U.S. college market. The company,…
The Energy Information Agency (EIA) told two U.S. Senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use, according to Wired. The development comes a month after Sens. Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter asking the EIA to gather data on data centers. The request was an effort to push the agency to cover an industry that is consuming ever-increasing amounts of energy. The nationwide survey will be mandatory, Wired reports. The agency has not yet set a date for when it will implement the new questionnaire. The EIA announced in March that…
LinkedIn’s Blake Lawit, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week that the company’s data shows a decline in hiring of around 20% since 2022. However, he pushed back at the idea that AI was to blame. “At LinkedIn… we have an economic graph which is over a billion members. We’ve got companies, jobs, skills. It’s really an amazing real-time view of what’s happening in the labor market. And we’ve looked — because everyone wants to know the answer to this question: Is…
Justin Diego doesn’t typically avoid the spotlight.He’s a celebrity news influencer with 617,000 combined followers across YouTube and Instagram. So when he created a secret account on X in 2024 to keep track of his favorite OnlyFans creators, he appreciated the anonymity it provided him outside of his main accounts.Diego primarily used the burner account to bookmark and like solo content and masturbation videos, and never posted. But when he logged in to X over the weekend, he was notified that the account had been suspended.Beginning this month, X has escalated its efforts to crack down on automated accounts. The…
A federal jury found Wednesday that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly — a verdict that could lead to the breakup of the entertainment giant and its ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster, and bring relief to concertgoers who are sick of dynamic pricing and inexplicable service fees. The ruling came as internal Slack messages surfaced during the trial showing Live Nation employees joking about taking advantage of customers — including one conversation about parking prices that prosecutors argued revealed the company’s true attitude toward its customers. The verdict is the latest development in a web of litigation that began…