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AI chipmaker Rebellions gets $22.8M Series A extension from Korean telco company KT

Chain Reaction raises $70M, emerges from stealth to launch chips designed to compute encrypted data

February 23, 2023 Ingrid Lunden 41 ViewsChain Reaction, cryptography, semiconductors 4 min read

As the networking industry explores homomorphic encryption, blockchains and other cryptographic techniques to take data protection and complex computing to the next level, one big roadblock to many of these working effectively and at scale has been the compute power required to run them. Today, one of the startups that believes it can address that […]

Haun Ventures leads Sovereign Labs’ $7.4M seed round to help scale blockchains

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Haun Ventures leads Sovereign Labs’ $7.4M seed round to help scale blockchains

January 30, 2023 Jacquelyn Melinek 55 Viewscrypto, crypto ecosystem, cryptography, funding, Haun Ventures, Startups 2 min read

Sovereign Labs has raised $7.4 million in seed funding led by Haun Ventures to scale blockchains through ZK-rollups.

Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices

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Now that the Ethereum Merge is behind us, what’s next?

September 15, 2022 Jacquelyn Melinek 139 Viewsblockchains, cryptocurrencies, cryptography, EC Blockchain, EC Cryptocurrency, energy, ethereum, mining, Offchain Labs, proof of stake, vitalik buterin 1 min read

Although the Merge was a huge feat, there are plenty more upgrades planned for the Ethereum blockchain down the road.

What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress

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What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress

September 13, 2022 Zack Whittaker 161 Viewschief technology officer, China, computer security, computing, Congress, cryptography, engineer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal government, Federal Trade Commission, mudge, parag agrawal, Peiter Zatko, Richard blumenthal, Software, spy, text messaging, tor, Twitter, U.S. government, United States 5 min read

A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers. These are just some of the allegations when Twitter’s ex-security lead turned whistleblower, Peiter Zatko, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, less than a month after the release of his explosive whistleblower complaint filed with federal regulators. Zatko, […]

Cymulate snaps up $70M to help cybersecurity teams stress test their networks with attack simulations

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Cymulate snaps up $70M to help cybersecurity teams stress test their networks with attack simulations

September 6, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 186 Viewsartificial intelligence, AttackIQ, ceo, computer security, consumer internet, cryptography, Cyberwarfare, cymulate, Dell Technologies Capital, executive, FireEye, food delivery, machine learning, managing partner, national security, New York, palo alto networks, Prevention, Randori, security software, susquehanna growth equity, Tel Aviv, Vertex Ventures 5 min read

The cost of cybercrime has been growing at an alarming rate of 15% per year, projected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. To cope with the challenges that this poses, organizations are turning to a growing range of AI-powered tools to supplement their existing security software and the work of their security teams. Today, a […]

UK mobile and broadband carriers face fines of $117K/day, or 10% of sales, if they fail to follow new cybersecurity rules

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UK mobile and broadband carriers face fines of $117K/day, or 10% of sales, if they fail to follow new cybersecurity rules

August 30, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 183 Viewsarticles, broadband, computer security, cryptography, cybercrime, Cyberwarfare, Ian Levy, national broadband plan, National Cyber Security Centre, national security, regulation, UK government, United Kingdom 3 min read

More than three years in the making, the UK government today announced a new, sweeping set of rules it will be imposing on broadband and mobile carriers to tighten up their network security against cyber attacks — aimed at being “among the strongest in the world” when they are rolled out, said the Department for […]

Plex warns users to reset passwords after data breach

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Plex warns users to reset passwords after data breach

August 24, 2022 Zack Whittaker 180 Viewscomputer security, cryptography, data breach, data security, home media servers, identity management, media platform, Password, password manager, plex, security, social media, Streaming Media 2 min read

Streaming media platform Plex has confirmed a data breach and is warning users to change their passwords. Plex said it discovered the compromise on Tuesday and found the intruder had accessed “a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.” Plex vice-president of engineering Schuyler Ullman told TechCrunch that user account passwords […]

Security-as-code startup Jit comes out of stealth with $38.5M in seed funding

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Ravel emerges from stealth with privacy-first data tools based on scalable homomorphic encryption

August 23, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 162 Viewsadvisors, Airbus Ventures, api, Apple, Bank, computing, cryptography, data protection, data security, Duality, encryption, ENVEIL, Facebook, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, homomorphic encryption, meta, Microsoft, model, online advertising, paris, personal data, Ravel, ravel technology, SQL 4 min read

The world has gotten a lot more serious about privacy and data protection, but in many cases business models that rely on personalization of one kind or another have struggled to keep up. Today, a startup out of Paris called Ravel Technologies is emerging from stealth with an approach it believes could be the missing […]

Safeheron secures $7M to make private keys safer for crypto wallets

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Safeheron secures $7M to make private keys safer for crypto wallets

August 19, 2022 Rita Liao 164 Viewschief technology officer, China, Co-founder, cryptocurrencies, cryptography, decentralization, digital currencies, digital wallet, e-commerce, economy, ethereum, founder, key, money, private key, rokid, Sequoia Capital China, venture capital, venture capital Firms, Wallet, yunqi partners 3 min read

Crypto enthusiasts promise to build a decentralized money system that allows people to freely trade without any intermediary intervention. It’s a rosy picture, but recent events of security vulnerability indicate that the decentralized world might not be working as well as the believers envision yet. That’s why entrepreneurs, infused with venture capital, are racing to […]

Why Twitter anons are sending crypto to celebrities

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Why Twitter anons are sending crypto to celebrities

August 14, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 176 ViewsAlchemy, alex wilhelm, api, Apple, Bain Capital, Chain Reaction, Chain Reaction newsletter, Circle, Co-founder, coinbase, Coinbase Ventures, crypto, cryptocurrencies, cryptography, digital currencies, ethereum, finance, financial technology, india, Infura, initialized capital, Jimmy Fallon, Li Jin, newsletter, non-fungible token, OpenSea, Raj Gokal, shaq, Solana, Spotify, ukraine, United States, vitalik buterin 7 min read

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about a hack that gave new, ironic meaning to the word “trustless.” This week, we’ll get into one of the most polarizing aspects of crypto — privacy. If someone forwarded you this message, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. all mixed up A weekly window […]