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YC’s letter to founders, Apple’s folding device and the DOJ’s new stance on hackers
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Welcome back to Week in Review, our newsletter where we wrap up many of the top stories to hit TechCrunch over the last seven days.
The big thing this week, based on what people
Delta Air Lines just gave customers something they never believed possible
Home of the helpful algorithm.
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Airlines are, by nature, entirely consistent.
They want free money from the government and they want customers to pay for every
Some tech firms hit the pause button on hiring
Salesforce is apparently the latest firm to hit the brakes on recruitment as reports of hiring freezes and layoffs affecting tech workers ramp up. Twitter, Meta, and Uber are among
Ransomware attack exposes data of 500,000 Chicago students
The Chicago Public Schools has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the data of almost 500,000 students and 60,000 employee after their vendor, Battelle for Kids, suffered a
Boeing’s Starliner finally makes it all the way to the ISS
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has had a rough couple years, but this afternoon it successfully docked with the International Space Station, its first successful mission to
SolarWinds ready to move past breach and help customers manage theirs
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The essential guide to iCloud login
The iCloud login process provides plenty of value without requiring a great deal of thought. Here’s what do need to know about iCloud login and how to get the most from it.
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Cisco urges admins to patch IOS XR zero-day exploited in attacks
Cisco has addressed a zero-day vulnerability in its IOS XR router software that allowed unauthenticated attackers to remotely access Redis instances running in NOSi Docker containers.
The IOS
Daily Crunch: ‘Things don’t look good’: Y Combinator sends founders a 10-point survival strategy
Thursday May 19, 2022, and it’s the last day of our in-person Mobility event. Tomorrow we take the journey to the mean streets of the world wide web, and you can still join us virtually!
Microsoft: This botnet is growing fast and hunting for servers with weak passwords
Microsoft has seen a 254% increase in activity over the past few months from XorDDoS, a roughly eight-year-old network of infected Linux machines that is used for distributed denial
Podcast: Could hardware supply chain issues upend Apple’s WWDC plans?
Not-so-breaking news: Supply chain constraints continue to challenge technology manufacturers, and Apple is no exception. While the wait for some Macs is quite short, others, like the
Conti ransomware shuts down operation, rebrands into smaller units
The notorious Conti ransomware gang has officially shut down their operation, with infrastructure taken offline and team leaders told that the brand is no more.
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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets
Victory Farms, an aquaculture startup and farm for tilapia fish comprising hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages, has raised $5 million in new funding.
The investment was led
Patch these vulnerable VMware products or remove them from your network, CISA warns federal agencies
Companies should immediately patch or remove VMware products affected by newly disclosed critical flaws, warns the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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RIP, macOS Server
When Apple announced recently that it was discontinuing macOS Server, the move didn’t come as a huge surprise. Apple has been deprecating and removing its core services for a while,
