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The anonymous social app that thinks it can work in Saudi Arabia
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (553+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Fizz, an anonymous social app that started on college campuses, is going global in more ways than one. Its Global Fizz feed is enabling the…...
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (407+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Who doesn't love a good round of FOMO? From dot-com to Web 2.0, virtual reality to blockchain, the tech industry has had its share of being…...
People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center
4+ hour, 52+ min ago (273+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. As data centers have grown and proliferated, so too has the backlash. A new Harvard/MIT poll found 40% of people supported the building of a…...
The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
14+ hour, 12+ min ago (664+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout....
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (412+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Hims & Hers, the telehealth company that sells weight-loss drugs and sexual health prescriptions, has confirmed a data breach affecting its third-party customer service platform. The…...
Artemis II is NASA’s last Moon mission without Silicon Valley
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (731+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. SpaceX launched its IPO on the same day the U.S. sent astronauts to the Moon for the first time in 54 years. And the timing is appropriate:…...
ElevenLabs releases a new AI-powered music-generation app
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (240+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Voice AI company ElevenLabs has quietly released an iOS app called ElevenMusic that can be used to create music with AI and discover AI-generated music…...
Flipboard's new 'social websites' help publishers and creators tap into the open social web
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (390+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Flipboard on Thursday announced social websites, a new way for creators and publishers to build their own spaces on the web. These social websites are…...
NASA astronauts prove that sending an email really is rocket science
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (485+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Before the Orion spacecraft even launched on Wednesday, NASA's Artemis II moon mission " the first in fifty years " had already weathered a storm of complex…...
Exclusive: Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver's licenses and passports to the open web
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (813+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. A publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server allowed anyone with a web browser to access potentially hundreds of thousands of people's personal data without needing a…...