How Safe Are School Records? Not Very, Says Student Security Researcher

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How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher: Zack Whittaker


If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, they’re not. Eighteen-year-old Bill Demirkapi, a recent high school g…

How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world’s next music unicorn: Eric Peckham


You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour. Combining a technology platform to better track ownership rights and royalties of songs with a new approach to representing musici…

Adobe's Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise: Ron Miller


As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and we are going to be discussing that very topic with Amit Ahuja, Adobe’s vice pr…

Biotech researchers venture into the wild to start their own business: Jorge Conde


Much of Silicon Valley mythology is centered on the founder-as-hero narrative. But historically, scientific founders leading the charge for bio companies have been far less common. Developing new drugs is slow, risky, and expensive. Big clinical failures are …

Car2go hikes hourly rental rates by as much as a third: Devin Coldewey


By-the-minute car rental service Car2go is raising its rates for short trips under the guise of variable pricing, the company announced to its users today. As we've seen with other variably priced services like delivery and ride hailing, in practice this mean…

Apple starts selling Mophie’s take on AirPower: Brian Heater


There’s no shortage of AirPower knockoffs on the market. Many have been in the works since Apple took the wraps off its in-house version, positioned as more affordable alternatives. Since the company unceremoniously pulled the plug on the project, however, th…

Reports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media: Jonathan Shieber


The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies. The White House has prepared an executive order called “Protecting Americans From Online Censorship” that would give the Feder…

Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data: Zack Whittaker


How safe are your secrets? If you used Amazon’s Elastic Block Storage, you might want to check your settings. New research just presented at the Def Con security conference reveals how companies, startups, and governments are inadvertently leaking their own f…

Daily Crunch: Uber reports big losses and slowing growth: Anthony Ha


The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Uber lost more than $5B last quarter Uber reported earnings for t…

Why AI needs more social workers, with Columbia University's Desmond Patton: Greg Epstein


Sometimes it does seem the entire tech industry could use someone to talk to, like a good therapist or social worker. That might sound like an insult, but I mean it mostly earnestly: I am a chaplain who has spent 15 years talking with students, faculty, and o…


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