Marissa Mayer’s Dazzle raises $8M seed led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green
TL;DR Marissa Mayer has closed an $8 million seed round for Dazzle, a new startup focused on AI personal assistants,…
Founder of Atmos raises $1.65M for Drafted, an AI custom-home design tool
TL;DR Nick Donahue relaunched his custom-home startup as Drafted after shutting Atmos nine months ago. Drafted, five months old, has…
Aflac notifies 22.6M after hackers steal personal and health data
TL;DR Aflac has begun notifying about 22.65 million people after a cyberattack exposed customer personal and health information. Filings with…
Trump administration pauses nearly 6 GW of East Coast offshore wind leases
TL;DR The Interior Department has again suspended leases for five planned East Coast offshore wind projects, citing emerging national security…
Alphabet to Acquire Intersect Power for Direct Clean Energy Access
TL;DR Alphabet will pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus assume Intersect Power’s debt, to acquire the data center and clean…
OpenAI: Agentic AI browsers will likely remain vulnerable to prompt injection
TL;DR OpenAI acknowledges that prompt injection attacks are a persistent risk for agentic AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and says…
Kiki the Tooth Fairy: a digital tracker for today’s tech kids
TL;DR A web-based Tooth Fairy Tracker led by character Kiki sends families a series of video updates when a child…
Uzbekistan’s Nationwide License-Plate Surveillance System Left Publicly Exposed
TL;DR A national license-plate scanning system in Uzbekistan was discovered accessible on the internet without a password, exposing millions of…
Suspected DDoS Disrupts France’s Postal Services and La Banque Postale
TL;DR France’s national postal operator La Poste and its banking arm La Banque Postale were hit by a suspected distributed…