Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference (techcrunch.com)
Google told TechCrunch that Flutter will have new updates to share at I/O this year.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new U.S. non-profit (techcrunch.com)
Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, is among those who have joined the board of directors of Mastodon's new U.S. non-profit, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko
ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union that targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates about individuals.
Apple's iPadOS will have to comply with EU's Digital Markets Act too (techcrunch.com)
The European Union will apply its flagship market fairness and contestability rules to Apple's iPadOS, the Commission announced today -- expanding the The European Union will apply its flagship market fairness and contestability rules to Apple's iPadOS, the Commission announced today.
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)
Boeing's Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6 (techcrunch.com)
If Boeing and NASA are unable to meet the May 6 date, there are additional launch opportunities on May 7, 10 and 11.
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers (techcrunch.com)
Kaiser, one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, said it was notifying 13.4 million members of a data breach earlier in April.
TikTok pulls feature from Lite app in EU over addiction concerns (techcrunch.com)
TikTok suspended a gamification feature in the European Union following an intervention by the bloc.
India's ICICI Bank exposed thousands of credit cards to 'wrong' users (techcrunch.com)
ICICI Bank, one of India's top private banks, exposed sensitive data of thousands of new credit cards to "wrong" customers.
European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for 'lawful access' (techcrunch.com)
Tesla profits drop 55%, company says EV sales 'under pressure' from hybrids (techcrunch.com)
Tesla profits fell 55% in the first quarter as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy cut into the automaker’s bottom line.
Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data (techcrunch.com)
Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo GenZ users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out....
US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks (techcrunch.com)
CISA said Chirp Systems ignored the federal agency and the reporting security researcher.
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' (techcrunch.com)
The health tech giant processes 15 billion health transactions a year, and handles health information for about half of all Americans.
Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
Ghost, an open source rival to Substack's newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse -- or the open social network
Green search engine Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser (techcrunch.com)
Tree planting search engine Ecosia launched a new cross-platform browser today to increase its online footprint.
European police chiefs target E2EE in latest demand for 'lawful access' (techcrunch.com)
The director general of the UK's National Crime Agency has targeted Instagram-owner Meta over its planned expansion of end-to-end encryption to Instagram.
Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries (techcrunch.com)
The new "Answer with AI" feature returns neatly formatted answers for questions like "People who walked on the moon," "List of all actors who played Batman" or "How do descale Nespresso pixie."
Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US spying law that critics say expands government surveillance (techcrunch.com)
House and Senate lawmakers passed a bill reauthorizing the controversial Section 702 powers under FISA, which allows U.S. spy agencies to conduct warrantless searches of Americans' communications.
Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist (techcrunch.com)
The hackers say they have stolen 5.3 million records from the World-Check database, used by companies and banks for screening potential customers.
Tesla has spent $200K advertising on Elon Musk's X so far (techcrunch.com)
Tesla's proxy is out, which means it's time to check in on all the related party transactions between Musk's various companies.
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel (techcrunch.com)
Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees following a prolonged sit-in protest at the company's Sunnyvale and New York offices.