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Certification platform Certiverse raised an $11 million Series A led by Cherryrock Capital, it announced this week. The company was founded by Ruben Garcia, Pablo Meyer, and Federico Lopez in 2023. It lets organizations develop certification exams at, its founders say, far less cost than traditional methods.  Certifications are an age-old method to gain technical skills to boost job prospects, as well as gain mastery over a particular subject.  The company says it works with a range of companies, from the technology nonprofit The Linux Foundation to the software company HashiCorp.  CEO Garcia is not new to the certification industry.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s use of a popular messaging app to discuss sensitive military plans — with a journalist on the text chain — is raising questions about security and the importance of safeguarding the nation’s secrets. It’s also highlighting the differences between classified and public information, and demonstrating that even encrypted apps like Signal can lead to embarrassing leaks if the humans doing the texting don’t follow basic security tips. What’s the difference between ‘classified’ and ‘top secret’?President Donald Trump’s administration says no classified material was leaked when senior officials used Signal to discuss upcoming attack plans…

SOPA Images / Getty Images GameStop shares tumbled in intraday trading Thursday, a day after the video game retailer said it was planning to issue $1.3 billion in convertible bonds for general corporate purposes, including buying Bitcoin. The company, which earlier this week updated its corporate investment policy to include buying the token, said it is offering the convertible bonds to investors in a private sale. GameStop shares fell around 15% in intraday trading Thursday. GameStop (GME) shares tumbled in intraday trading Thursday, a day after the video game retailer said it was planning to issue $1.3 billion in convertible…

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesShares of AppLovin sank 20% on Thursday, their steepest drop on record, as another short-selling firm raised concerns about the company’s digital ad technology and claimed that it’s violating app store rules.AppLovin tumbled $65.92 to close at $261.70. The stock soared more than 700% last year, the biggest gain among U.S. tech companies, due to enthusiasm surrounding AppLovin’s artificial intelligence technology and the growth it was spurring in its ad business. But Muddy Waters Research on Thursday became the third short-selling firm to publish a report meant to raise significant investor skepticism. The stock…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet memes or personal photos into the distinct style of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. But the trend also highlighted ethical concerns about artificial intelligence tools trained on copyrighted creative works and what that means for the future livelihoods of human artists. Miyazaki, 84, known for his hand-drawn approach and whimsical storytelling, has expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation.Janu Lingeswaran wasn’t thinking much about that when…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted founder of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has been moved from the federal jail in New York City to a transit facility in Oklahoma City, reported the Wall Street Journal on March 27. A transit facility is used to house inmates who are being moved across the country. Commonly known as SBF, the FTX founder has been housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was here that journalist Tucker Carlson interviewed SBF on March 6. It is this unsanctioned jail video interview, conducted remotely, that seems to have triggered the decision of…

Before RJ Scaringe founded Rivian in 2009, he had micromobility on his mind. More than a decade later, his musings took root in a small skunkworks program inside Rivian that set out to answer one question: Could the company’s technology be condensed down into something smaller and more affordable than its electric vans, trucks, and SUVs? The answer was yes. But what they also discovered, Scaringe told TechCrunch, was that the skunkworks program was a bigger idea than could naturally exist within Rivian. That skunkworks — now a team of about 70 people hailing from Apple, Google, Specialized, Tesla, REI Co-Op, and…

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – Shares of GameStop fell more than 15% on Thursday after the company’s plan to finance its bitcoin pivot raised questions about the timing of its move and its strategy to turn around its struggling retail business. The video game retailer’s shares also gave up all their gains from a day earlier and were on track for their biggest one-day fall since last June, after the company said it was offering $1.3 billion in 0% 2030 convertible bonds to amass the cryptocurrency. The company’s announcement that it would buy bitcoin to hold as a treasury…

In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Meta logo on October 28, 2021 in Paris, France.Chesnot | Getty ImagesMeta on Thursday debuted the Facebook Friends tab, a new feature that’s part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch to revive the original spirit of his social networking app, or “OG Facebook” as he called it.”The new Friends tab is a throwback to OG Facebook when you only saw friends’ status updates,”  Zuckerberg said in a post about the feature. “More OG Facebook coming soon “The Facebook Friends tab is designed…

Google said it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for Windows that malicious hackers have used to break into victims’ computers. In a brief note on Tuesday, Google said that it fixed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, that was discovered by researchers at security firm Kaspersky earlier this month.  Google said it was aware of reports that an exploit for the bug “exists in the wild.” The bug is referred to as a zero-day because the vendor — in this case, Google — was given no time to fix the bug before it was exploited. According to Kaspersky,…