The Nuclear Company raises $46M to develop massive reactor sites
The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to…
Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets
Design company Figma today announced multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool. With this…
Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you
Amazon is starting to test a new AI shopping agent, a feature it calls “Buy for Me,” with a subset users, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. If…
Update Firefox now! Extensions and streaming sites could break otherwise
If you use Firefox, you should check which version you currently have installed. On Friday, March 14, certain extensions and streaming services may stop working on older versions of Firefox.…
Hackers are hijacking WordPress sites to push Windows and Mac malware
Hackers are exploiting outdated versions of WordPress and plugins to alter thousands of websites in an attempt to trick visitors to download and install malware, security researchers have found. The…
Indian government websites are still redirecting users to scam sites
Some Indian government websites continue to allow the planting of scammy links on their official domains — months after TechCrunch reported the issue last year. TechCrunch found more than 90…
AI is burying company web sites in search results, but Otterly.AI thinks it can help
Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results. Many queries no longer lead to click-throughs, and even when…
Police Around U.S. Beefing Up Security at Polling Sites on Election Day
As the 2024 Presidential Election shapes up to be one of the most important in the country’s history, law enforcement agencies are planning extra measures to ensure the security of…
Researchers link Polyfill supply chain attack to huge network of copycat gambling sites
One of the biggest digital supply chain attacks of the year was launched by a little-known company that redirected large numbers of internet users to a network of copycat gambling…
Hackers infect thousands of WordPress sites with malware plugins
Ostensibly a blogging platform, WordPress has quietly become one of the foundational pillars of the modern web, used as the basic format for millions of websites run by single users…