Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million.
Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft's education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.
Binit is bringing AI to trash (techcrunch.com)
Early attempts at making dedicated hardware to house artificial intelligence smarts have been criticized as, well, a bit rubbish. But here’s an AI gadget-in-the-making that’s all about rubbish, literally: Finnish startup Binit is applying large language models’ (LLMs) image processing capabilities to tracking household...
X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (techcrunch.com)
X will now allow users to post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such.
Chinese e-commerce marketplace Temu faces stricter EU rules as a 'very large online platform' (techcrunch.com)
Temu is to face Europe's strictest rules after being designated as a "very large online platform" under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries (techcrunch.com)
Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its delivery drones longer distances.
With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance (techcrunch.com)
The European Union has taken the wraps off the structure of the new AI Office, the ecosystem-building and oversight body that's being established under
OpenAI's new safety committee is made up of all insiders (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has formed a new safety committee. But the committee, which will be charged with overseeing the company's AI safety efforts, is made up of all insiders.
Spyware maker pcTattletale says it's 'out of business' and shuts down after data breach (techcrunch.com)
The spyware maker's founder, Bryan Fleming, said pcTattletale is "out of business and completely done," following a data breach.
Spyware maker pcTattletale says it's 'out of business' and shuts down after data breach (techcrunch.com)
The spyware maker's founder, Bryan Fleming, said pcTattletale is "out of business and completely done," following a data breach.
Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced (techcrunch.com)
pcTattletale's website was briefly defaced and contained links containing files from the spyware maker's servers, before going offline.
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia (techcrunch.com)
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach (techcrunch.com)
FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed (techcrunch.com)
Under the envisioned framework, both candidate and issue ads would be required to include an on-air and filed disclosure that AI-generated content was used.
EXCLUSIVE: Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers (techcrunch.com)
The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a remote access app, which is leaking screenshots of guest information to the internet.
Google is launching a new Android feature to drive users back into their installed apps (techcrunch.com)
Google says the new SDK would help Google expand on its core mission of connecting the right audience to the right content at the right time.
Two students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free (techcrunch.com)
Laundry services giant CSC ServiceWorks ignored requests to fix a security bug.
Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo (techcrunch.com)
After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too much like its own.
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread (techcrunch.com)
Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and use wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install.