President Joe Biden signed an executive order today banning government agencies from using commercial spyware deemed to present a national security risk to the United States. The order imposes a ban on agencies using such commercial tools “when they determine, based on credible information, that such use poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the ...

Twitter Inc. is attempting to identify the person who leaked parts of its proprietary source code after it was discovered to have been shared on GitHub for at least three months. The news that the source code had been leaked came after Twitter filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice with GitHub on Friday, demanding ...

WebAssembly startup Dylibso Inc. today announced that it has raised $6.6 million in new funding to help teams take WebAssembly to production. WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and a virtual machine that brings high performance to web browser applications, enabling developers to build high-speed web apps in whatever language they choose. Founded in 2022, Dylibso is the ...

Twitter Inc. today announced that it will revoke “legacy” verified badges in April as it made its Twitter Blue paid verification service available globally. Twitter Blue initially launched in November 2021 but underwent a shakeup a year later under the ownership of Elon Musk. Musk shifted what was originally meant to be a service offering ...

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew met with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today and the five hours of questioning went as well as expected in that most, if not all, participants had already made their minds up on the future of the highly popular service. Chew faced a range of questions ...

Graphic design tool startup Canva Pty. Ltd. is enhancing its artificial intelligence capabilities with the launch of a new suite of brand management features and AI design tools. The new tools are built to help teams and organizations of all shapes and sizes to communicate visually and produce content at large scale. Founded in 2012, Canva’s customer base ...

Multinational agricultural giant Dole plc has disclosed that those behind a ransomware attack that shut down production facilities in the U.S. last month accessed employee information. First reported today by Bleeping Computer, the disclosure was made in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Dole said in the filing that it was “the victim of a sophisticated ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down hard on cryptocurrency companies, warning about pending action Coinbase Global Inc. and taking action against those behind several tokens and their celebrity endorsers. Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., was issued with a Wells notice, a warning that the SEC had identified potential violations ...

LiquidStack Holding B.V., a startup providing liquid immersion cooling for data centers, today announced that it has received funding from Trane Technologies PLC to support the adoption of its solutions and significantly reduce data center carbon footprint, water consumption, electronic waste and environmental impact. Trane is a manufacturing company focused on sustainable heating, ventilation and air ...

Butlr Technologies Inc., which styles itself an “artificial intelligence of things” startup, today announced that it has raised additional funding from Qualcomm Ventures LLC and launched the next generation of its Heatic wireless sensors. Founded in 2019 as a spinoff from the MIT Media Lab, Butlr offers a people monitoring platform that uses body heat to detect occupancy, ...