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“We would not say that every single phishing message we observed was definitively caused by a direct compromise of the hotel’s own internal systems,” the researcher says. Phishing messages could have been sent using information from other data breaches or systems not linked to the travel industry. “The common factor is that criminals are weaponizing real reservation context and pushing travelers into a fake verification or payment flow,” Corrons says.Corrons says Norton has been unable to fully unpick who may be behind the attacks but says investigations are ongoing. Those sending some of the phishing messages appear to be using…
Overheated iPads, Lifeguards, and Changing Tides: The Unexpected Challenges of a Cannes Beach Takeover Activations from Canva, Pinterest, and Stagwell’s Sport Beach have all become staples of Cannes Lions.Pinterest, Canva, Sport Beach The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has gone through many iterations in its more than 70-year history, transforming from a celebration of the slow, strange, creative advertising films that won in the early years, to an event that rewards…
Cloud infrastructure has long been designed around humans who search, click, scroll, and stream in a steady and predictable fashion. AI agents behave differently. They can unleash a swell of activity, spinning up multiple sub-agents that query hundreds of databases, search documents, and call APIs in seconds and then disappear as quickly as they arrived. Under that premise, Amazon is redesigning a core piece of its cloud infrastructure. On Thursday, AWS launched its next generation of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database — essentially a system for storing and retrieving information at scale — that’s designed specifically…
As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground. The reason: The Trump administration slashed its funding last year, in part due to conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19.Established in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network was conducting research into viruses that emerge from wildlife and spill over to people, including the family of viruses that Ebola belongs to. The network operated 10 sites…
Change is coming to 60 Minutes: CBS News announced the appointment of Nick Bilton as executive producer of the long-running newsmagazine show.The author of two New York Times bestsellers, Bilton was previously a columnist for The New York Times and a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. He is also a filmmaker, having written, directed, and produced Fake Famous, a 2021 documentary about a social experiment in which three regular people faked fame to become social media influencers.As a result of the appointment, CBS News announced that Tanya Simon, who had been serving as executive producer of the show, would be…
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter, will announce pricing and start taking non-refundable preorders for its low-cost electric vehicle on June 24, ahead of the first deliveries late this year. The company sent out emails to prospective buyers on Thursday that encouraged them to make a $50 reservation now ahead of the $300 preorders starting next month, in order to get a “delivery window before non-reservers.” Slate had previously said it would announce pricing in June. An FAQ section of the preorder page that went live Thursday shows the company…
Meta announced new upcoming subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp this week. Instagram isn’t going behind a paywall, no. Rather, users will now be able to pay $4 a month for extra features, like seeing who rewatched your story post or pinning more posts to the top of your profile. Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus ($4 a month), and WhatsApp Plus ($3 a month) will roll out globally sometime this summer.These “Plus” plans are an attempt by Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to diversify how it makes money from users. Meta is also doing what Meta does best with…
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers pretend to be the app’s support team and warn the target that their backed-up chats and media are “at risk of permanent loss due to a sync issue.” To avoid that, the message said, the target needs to share the recovery key that is used to access their online backups in the chat with the hackers. …
If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job?This is the pitch being made by Zhou Yong, the 40-year-old founder and chief technology officer of LinkerBot, one of China’s leading manufacturers of dexterous humanoid hands. The startup’s hardware comes complete with five fingers and at least 11 joints and is sold for as little as $600 in China. LinkerBot’s hands can play piano, thread needles, tighten screws, and assemble electronics. In three to five years, Zhou predicts, the price for one…
It’s no secret that pre-AI era startups are generally getting little love from investors now. Ariel Katz, co-founder and CEO of a nine-year-old healthcare data platform H1, argues that not all SaaS companies should be painted with the same broad brush. “If you’re a workflow SaaS company, you could vibe code that,” he told TechCrunch. What AI cannot easily replicate, according to Katz, is a company that is a data provider at its core. That’s a self-serving viewpoint — H1’s entire business is built on selling detailed information about doctors to pharma companies, hospital systems, and health insurers — but…
Over time, the tech industry has developed and deployed variations on the fat-tree architecture. But the design has room for improvement. It’s generally reliable but also rigid and inefficient, and it requires complex cabling. As in, actual physical cables.If you’ve ever been in a data center or an office building’s server room, you’ve likely seen nests of colorful cables spilling out of metal racks. Cabling is one of the greatest costs in networking, Rehder says, and Amazon’s global data centers are currently connected with 20 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables. That’s roughly the distance it would take to travel from…
How do you make a brand that’s perceived as “uncool” a cultural moment? Terence Reilly, recently elevated from CMO to Chief Brand Officer of Crocs, opens his playbook in this episode of Marketing Vanguard. He reveals how he transformed a meme product into a global phenomenon, why embracing risk and “failing fast” is essential to breaking culture, and the strategies behind building authentic brand narratives in an age of AI and collaboration fatigue. What you’ll learn: How to flip negative brand perception into a competitive advantage by leaning into criticism Why the “drive it like you stole it” philosophy for scaling wins…
Insurance tech Corgi on Thursday announced a $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three weeks after announcing a $160 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation and four months after its $108 million Series A. The company offers insurance, working specifically with startups in areas like tech, cyber, and general liability; it counts Deel and Artisan among its customers. Even in the current go-go dealmaking environment, that sequencing is remarkable. While startups raising back-to-back rounds at steep step-ups have become almost routine, a company whose valuation doubles in three weeks is unusual enough…
For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone.A newly disclosed letter shows the warnings went unheeded: US Central Command now confirms it has received “multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil US personnel in theater”—the first official acknowledgment that the data-broker economy is being used to hunt American forces in the Middle East.The targeting was first reported…
On May 25, Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric vehicle. A liftback sedan designed by Jony Ive, priced at $640,000, powered by quad motors producing 1,113 horsepower. The company had spent five years developing it. CEO Benedetto Vigna called it a “very, very important day.” The market disagreed. Ferrari shares fell sharply. One analyst called it “the furthest deviation from the brand’s ethos we’ve ever seen.” On social media, the consensus was swift: it looks like a vacuum cleaner.Markets don’t typically crater over design choices. They crater when they smell the potential for brand damage. Not because Ferrari made an…
Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster. It was a coup for both companies, giving xAI some much-needed revenue and helping Anthropic catch up in the never-ending race for compute. But this morning on X, Elon Musk downplayed exactly how much SpaceX had committed to the deal. “SpaceX has not committed to leasing Colossus for years, although it’s possible that may be what happens,” he said, replying to a user. “This is a 180 day lease with 90 day notice mutual cancellation…