This founder just landed funding for a second go at the same problem: affordable custom home design
Nick Donahue’s parents were in the business of building houses, which means he spent his childhood hearing about the U.S. construction indu...
Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green
The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending the last six years ru...
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that it’s adding four ...
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly been restricted to ...
France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack
France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, ac...
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles’ license plates and th...
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library and plans to release it through torrents. ...
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation
Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the tooth fairy. After making a personalized tooth fairy video ...
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that ...
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the ass...