Booking.com confirmed Monday that hackers may have accessed customers’ personal data, including names, emails, physical addresses, phone numbers, and booking details. The global travel and hotel reservation giant notified customers this past week of the breach, according to several online posts. “We’re writing to inform you that unauthorized third parties may have been able to…
Hackers have reportedly stolen data from at least a dozen companies following a breach at business monitoring software maker Anodot, leaving its customers exposed to extortion and at risk of having their data published online. Bleeping Computer, among the first to report the Anodot breach, and BBC News both reported that the ShinyHunters hacking group…
While many startups founded prior to the emergence of ChatGPT are struggling to position themselves for the AI era, Vercel, a 10-year-old dev tool and website hosting platform, is benefiting from the explosion of AI-generated apps and agents. “When I started this company, only tens of millions of people could deploy,” Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch…
Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup Slate Auto has raised another $650 million as the company prepares to put its first affordable pickup trucks into production by the end of 2026. The carmaker said Monday that the Series C funding round was led by TWG Global, a firm run by Guggenheim Partners chief executive (and Los…
Jack Wallen and Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Ubuntu 26.04 might be the fastest release yet. With a new kernel and GNOME 50, this raccoon can run. This is also the first Wayland-only release. Ubuntu 26.04, aka Resolute Raccoon, is just a few days…
Roblox is introducing new account types designed to give kids and younger teens age-appropriate access to chat and games, the company announced on Monday. The move comes as Roblox implemented mandatory age checks in January for all users who want to access chats. The same age-check technology will be used to assign users to these new…
Veger X5 5000mAh MagSafe wallet ZDNET’s key takeaways The Veger X5 is available now for $59. It’s a MagSafe charger, wallet, and tracker with Find My in one. It can only hold a few cards at a time. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I am an unapologetic MagSafe fanatic. If it has…
Video calls are exhausting. You’re juggling screen sharing, managing participants, and dealing with spotty connections. The last thing you need is headache-inducing software. Zoom became very popular during the pandemic, but it’s not your only option for video conferencing. Google Meet integrates seamlessly with your calendar. Microsoft Teams works better for enterprises. Platforms like Whereby…
For all the hype about data centers in space, there just aren’t very many GPUs up there. As that starts to change, the near-term business of orbital compute is starting to take shape. The largest compute cluster currently in orbit was launched by Canada’s Kepler Communications in January, and boasts about 40 Nvidia Orin edge…
Jack Wallen and Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways KDE Linux is a distribution that highlights KDE Plasma. This distribution gives you Plasma exactly how it should be. KDE Linux is still in alpha stage, so it’s not yet suitable for daily use. Over the past few…