Technology

What should 2023 website builders offer? As generative AI developments reshape the landscape, entrepreneurs and incumbents are asking that question. Do prompts and media-generating models make no-code drag-and-drop interfaces obsolete? What abstraction level won’t offend advanced users? Wix, a longtime web builder, bets that today’s clients don’t want to spend …

Microsoft doesn’t know or want to discuss how China-backed hackers obtained a key to covertly break into hundreds of email inboxes, including those of multiple federal government institutions. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said it was “ongoing investigation” how the hackers obtained a Microsoft signature key and used it …

Honeywell devices used in critical industries have numerous vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to cause physical disruption and possibly endanger lives. Armis, an asset security cybersecurity company, found nine vulnerabilities in Honeywell’s Experion distributed control system (DCS) products. These digital automated industrial control systems control large industrial processes in critical …

Apple released the first iOS 17 public beta. The public beta should be stable, unlike developer betas. iOS 17 will be released this fall. Apple will release summer betas every few weeks. It helps fix bugs and gather user data. Before installing iOS 17, back up your device on iCloud …

Microsoft confirmed that Chinese hackers breached U.S. government employee email accounts using a cloud email service flaw. Microsoft reported that Storm-0558 compromised 25 government agency email accounts and related consumer accounts linked to these organizations. Microsoft calls new or developing hacking groups “Storm.” Microsoft hasn’t named Storm-0558’s government targets. Reported …

Coalition, a San Francisco cybersecurity startup, is buying Jumbo, a mobile app for web privacy. It’s time to finish Jumbo. Jumbo’s app won’t be updated, but the deal’s terms are unknown. The app will close next year, but users can export social media archives or 2FA codes. Coalition isn’t necessarily …

Akamai accelerated its cloud computing goals by acquiring Linode. Today, the company is moving forward. It is expanding its cloud computing services to Paris, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, and Chennai. In these new sites, Akamai will launch premium instances for commercial workloads. Akamai’s object storage service can now store one …

Broadcom’s $61 billion bid for VMware has been approved by the European Commission (EC) if Broadcom meets access and interoperability commitments. When announced in May 2018, the megabucks deal, one of the largest tech acquisitions ever, was bound to draw regulatory scrutiny. In December, Europe announced an in-depth probe for …

Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s new CEO, denies that Instagram Threads’ July 5 launch is hurting Twitter traffic. However, Meta’s 100 million-plus user rival appears to worry the company. On Monday, users reported that Twitter appears to be selectively blocking links to Threads.net’s website in Twitter searches, making it harder to find …

During the pandemic, freight industry digitisation rocketed. Nuvocargo $75 million, Zencargo $66 million, Forto $600 million, and Freightify $14.5 million. All streamline/digitize freight logistics. Freight forwarders and customs brokers had to keep up. Vector.ai, founded in 2017, raised a $15 million A-round led by Bessemer in 2021 to automate these …