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This photo illustration created Jan. 7, 2025, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo.Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty ImagesMeta is seeking to stop the promotion of a new memoir by a former staffer that paints the social media company in an unflattering light, including allegations of sexual harassment by the company’s policy chief. An emergency arbitrator ruled Wednesday that Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting “Careless People,” her book that was released Tuesday by Flatiron Books, an imprint of publisher Macmillan Books.Flatiron Books said in a statement on Thursday that the…

SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough crew members to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after their nine-month stay. The mission, known as Crew-10, will see SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft dock with the International Space Station (ISS) late Saturday. The new astronauts will overlap with the existing crew for a few days before Williams and Wilmore (along with two others) return to our planet. That could happen as soon as March 19, weather permitting. SpaceX crew launches to the ISS have become…

A series of ongoing, targeted cyber campaigns by Blind Eagle (APT-C-36), one of Latin America’s most dangerous threat actors primarily targeting Colombia’s justice system, government institutions, and private organizations were recently unveiled by Check Point Research (CPR). The group has demonstrated remarkable adaptability, incorporating new attack techniques just six days after Microsoft patched CVE-2024-43451, showing how attackers can turn security updates into weapons against their targets. This rapid adaptation highlights the growing sophistication of cyber threats and the need for proactive defenses to counter them. CPR’s investigation uncovered more than 9,000 infections in just one week, a staggering number that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials are warning Americans not to respond to a surge of scam road toll collection texts.The texts impersonating state road toll collection agencies attempt to get phone users to reveal financial information, such as credit or debit cards or bank accounts.They’re so-called smishing scams — a form of phishing that relies on SMS texts to trick people into sending money or share sensitive information.Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she received one purporting to be from the statewide GeauxPass toll system.“It is a SCAM,” Murrill posted on Facebook this week. “If you ever receive a text…

In the future, autonomous drones could be used to shuttle inventory between large warehouses. A drone might fly into a semi-dark structure the size of several football fields, zipping along hundreds of identical aisles before docking at the precise spot where its shipment is needed.Most of today’s drones would likely struggle to complete this task, since drones typically navigate outdoors using GPS, which doesn’t work in indoor environments. For indoor navigation, some drones employ computer vision or lidar, but both techniques are unreliable in dark environments or rooms with plain walls or repetitive features.MIT researchers have introduced a new approach…

According to on-chain data shared by analyst Ali Martinez, this sudden burst of selling pressure amongst miners comes just as Dogecoin price is under pressure, hovering around $0.17 at press time. Due to its low transaction fees, meme-driven appeal, Elon Musk has fervently supported Dogecoin. In April 2021, he referred to the meme coin as the “people’s crypto” and even included it in payments linked to Tesla and SpaceX. According to CryptoQuant metrics, the miner offloading fits within the larger context of a general downtrend in Dogecoin’s price. DOGE has dropped sharply from mid-February highs of more than $0.30, and…

An attendant holds 1-kilogram gold bars on Feb. 17, 2025.Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesGold prices crossed $3,000 an ounce for the first time, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs against major trading partners roil financial markets and push investors to safe-haven assets to protect against elevated inflation and a possible recession.Gold futures closed Friday at a new record of $3,001.1 an ounce, having gained 13.6% so far this year. The latest move has come as the U.S. stock market lost $5 trillion in three weeks as Trump’s trade war stirs turmoil, confusion and uncertainty.Some 52% of global fund managers told Bank of…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk’s X for its similar service.On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps.”As X’s algorithm and program information…

Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here! This week we’re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo’s expansion into Silicon Valley; Intel’s new CEO; TikTok’s new suitor; and why DeepSeek isn’t taking VC money. Let’s get to it! Environmental impact: The FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general, and the Treasury Department requested that Citibank freeze accounts of several nonprofits and state government agencies. The accounts were frozen in February, but the new documents make public details that had previously been…

In a significant cybersecurity breach discovered in mid-2024, a sophisticated threat actor deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers. The intrusion represents an alarming development in the targeting of critical network infrastructure by nation-state actors, with potential implications for telecommunications and national security worldwide. The affected Juniper MX routers were running end-of-life hardware and software, making them particularly vulnerable to such sophisticated attacks. Analysts at Google’s Mandiant identified several TINYSHELL-based backdoors operating on the compromised routers and attributed these attacks to a China-nexus espionage group designated as UNC3886. The group is known for its advanced capabilities and focus…