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Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

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Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech | TechCrunch

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital ava...

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France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

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France's postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack | TechCrunch

France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

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The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

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Exclusive: Inside Uzbekistan's nationwide license plate surveillance system

The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

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Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

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Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify | TechCrunch

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

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Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up with interactive online experiences […]

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The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation | TechCrunch

Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his...

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OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an 'LLM-based automated attacker.'

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OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecu...

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Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

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Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks | TechCrunch

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

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The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.