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Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked

The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.

Artemis II is NASA’s last moon mission without Silicon Valley 

Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II

Gateway Capital, the Milwaukee-based venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, can now begin investment operations for its $25M Fund II.

OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show

TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.

Flipboard’s new ‘social websites’ help publishers and creators tap into the open social web

Flipboard's social websites consolidate profiles and posts from Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and RSS feeds into a single, shared destination.

ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music-generation app

ElevenMusic lets users create and remix songs using text prompts. The new app suggests ElevenLabs wants to be more than just a voice model company.

NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science

NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the most earthly possible conflict while in outer space: his Outlook wasn't working.

Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations

Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apache 2.0 licence is a significant shift from previous Gemma releases. Google has released Gemma 4, the latest […]This story continues at The Next Web

Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — and that license change may matter more than benchmarks

For the past two years, enterprises evaluating open-weight models have faced an awkward trade-off. Google's Gemma line consistently delivered strong performance, but its custom license — with usage restrictions and terms Google could update at will — pushed many teams toward Mistral or Alibaba's Qwen instead. Legal review added friction. Compliance teams flagged edge cases. And capable as Gemma 3 was, "open" with asterisks isn't the same as open.Gemma 4 eliminates that f

Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web

An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password.

Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.

Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google

Microsoft on Thursday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion software giant intends to compete directly with OpenAI, Google, and other frontier labs on model development, not just distribution.The trio of models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — are available immediately through Micr

United’s mobile app now shows TSA wait times at select airports

The TSA wait times feature is one of many new additions to the United app, including automatic rebooking assistance and real-time time weather radar maps.

Tesla’s cheaper vehicles aren’t helping its declining sales

The company's deliveries in the first quarter were just 6% higher than last year, and Tesla now faces a third straight year of falling sales.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems leans on magnets for near-term revenue

Realta Fusion is buying magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, providing a revenue stop gap.

Elon Musk's SpaceX set to go public in $1 trillion share listing

The company’s public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.

"She Needs a Hearse": Mom Accused of Killing Daughter To “Protect Her” From Elon Musk

Tyiece Oninski called deputies on March 20 to report that she’d “murdered” her 14-year-old daughter the night before to ...

Fact Check: How nightclub Elon Musk ran out of his college house helped him pay rent

According to the story, Musk and his University of Pennsylvania roommate charged $5 for admission to the makeshift nightclub.

Amazon in talks to buy $9bn satellite group Globalstar in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink

Apple invested $1.5bn in Globalstar in 2024, taking a 20 per cent stake in the company. As part of the agreement, Globalstar ...