TechCrunchflipped into CybersecurityNowWiz is in talks to buy Lacework for $150-200M; security firm was last valued at $8.3Bverified_publisherTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenConsolidation continues apace in the world of security. Sources tell us that Lacework — a cloud security startup that was valued at $8.3 billion post-money in its last funding round — is in talks to be acquired by another security player, Wiz, for a price of just $150 million – $200 million. Sources …
TechCrunchflipped into CybersecurityNowHackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlistverified_publisherTechCrunch - Zack WhittakerA financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories1 hour agoHow to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhoneverified_publisherTechCrunch - Amanda SilberlingApple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy software — you can get a sophisticated emulator right in the palm of your hand for free on the App Store. No one is more …
TechCrunchflipped into Cybersecurity1 hour agoCape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal dataverified_publisherTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenAT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts impacted — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. Today, a startup called Cape — based out of Washington DC and founded by a former executive from Palantir — is announcing …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories1 hour agoTesla Semi charging corridor project is still alive despite Biden admin funding snubverified_publisherTechCrunch - Sean O'KaneTesla is pushing forward with a plan to build an electric big rig charging corridor stretching from Texas to California, despite being snubbed by a lucrative federal funding program that’s part of Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. But the original scope of the project could still change, …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories2 hours agoMeta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models availableverified_publisherTechCrunch - Kyle WiggersMeta has released the latest entry in its Llama series of open source generative AI models: Llama 3. Or, more accurately, the company has open sourced two models in its new Llama 3 family, with the rest to come at an unspecified future date. Meta describes the new models — Llama 3 8B, which contains …