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Amnesty International on Friday released technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist. The investigation, which builds on a December 2024 report, found evidence that authorities in Serbia used the Cellebrite UFED system to bypass the lock screen on an Android device.  The privacy rights organization said its forensic analysis showed that the exploit chain targeted core Linux USB drivers – a class of vulnerabilities that could affect over a billion Android devices. Amnesty International said the newly discovered attack leveraged a zero‐day exploit against the Android USB kernel drivers,…

Total funding in the FinTech sector this week reached $793.7m, ending a multi-week streak of sizable funding rounds. Over the past month, each week has seen the FinTech sector secure more than $1bn in funding. For instance, nearly $2bn was raised in the sector last week.However, despite there being 23 FinTech companies to raise capital this week, most of the deals were under $15m. Only six companies raised more than this sum.The lion share of the capital raised this week came from just one deal – NinjaOne’s $500m Series C round. The funding round, which was led by ICONIQ Growth and…

Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now can also generate advanced visualizations, like heatmaps, that they can insert as static images over cells in spreadsheets. While the company announced the update last month, Google said on Friday that it’s now available to all Workspace business users. To get started, you need to click the Gemini icon on the top right-hand side…

The charitable giving of the country’s biggest donors is on the rise—but hasn’t kept pace with the growth in their fortunes. By Forbes Wealth Team, Kerry A. Dolan, Matt Durot, Phoebe Liu, Giacomo Tognini, Chase Peterson-Withorn, Maneet Ahuja and Chris Helman Buoyed by two consecutive years of stellar returns in the U.S. stock market, America’s top philanthropists are richer than ever—but not all of their giving has kept pace with their fatter fortunes. Altogether, the lifetime giving of the nation’s top 25 philanthropists through December 30, 2024 rose to $241 billion–$30 billion more than last year’s total, according to Forbes’…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure “antisemitic theories” would not be taught.The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian “who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to settler-colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality,” according to screenshots published by the New York Post, which first reported the job announcement.Following the coverage, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, ordered the City…

The Outdoorsy Group has announced the expansion of its InsurTech platform Roamly into Canada, marking a key step in its international growth strategy.As part of this move, Roamly has also completed the acquisition of Canadian Access and has opened a new headquarters in Toronto. Alongside this expansion, the company has entered into an enterprise partnership with Aviva.Rich Sanders has been appointed as president of Roamly. Sanders highlighted the importance of this expansion, stating that establishing a Toronto headquarters was a natural progression following Roamly’s rapid growth in Canada.Roamly’s enterprise platform offers insurance companies access to a cutting-edge solution designed to…

Sapiens International Corporation has introduced the latest version of its automated underwriting and new business case management platform, designed specifically for life and annuities insurers.Known as Sapiens UnderwritingPro v14, the new release represents the most advanced iteration of the award-winning platform, incorporating cutting-edge automation and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.The new version brings both functional upgrades and technical advancements aimed at boosting operational efficiency and improving communication across underwriting processes. Developed in collaboration with feedback from Sapiens’ user community, UnderwritingPro v14 reflects insurers’ evolving needs in an increasingly digital environment.Among the key enhancements in the release are advanced AI-powered features, including…

Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser’s new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that appears to give the browser maker the rights to whatever data you input or upload. The company says the new terms aren’t a change in how Mozilla uses data, but are rather meant to formalize its relationship with the user by clearly stating what users are agreeing to when they use Firefox. On Wednesday, the browser maker introduced a new Terms of Use and updated Privacy Notice for Firefox, saying it wanted to offer…

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Optifye.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup, sparked massive social media backlash this week after its demo went viral. The video, which shows how the company’s AI-powered cameras track factory workers in real-time, quickly caught fire online, with criticism flooding in on X and Hacker News. In the clip, a supervisor calls out an underperforming worker, sparking a wider conversation about surveillance, workers’ rights, and the growing role of AI in the workplace. Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony Ha are breaking down the week’s biggest stories, including the Optifye.ai controversy, the wider concerns about AI…