“So many folks in D.C. don’t actually know what it is,” he remarked.
When Graham put out a call for startup applications, a dozen startups got into YC’s debut class.
Lowe didn’t confirm where that was a strategy on Tan’s part, but he praised Tan for his warmness and his dedication.
After educating the D.C. market, YC aims to leverage its influence, particularly in areas like competition policy.
And if we don’t do that, then it’s pretty easy to see how this plays out,” Lowe said.
“The real cause of the environmental crisis is partially citizens, but not entirely.
The first responsibility falls on the state, the political decision makers and the companies.”The free app, which does not require an account to use, queries you about your lifestyle.
The MyGlimpact app then takes that data and runs it through the company’s cloud-based software, which assesses a person’s impact in each of 16 categories.
If everyone lived like me, we’d require the resources of 2.93 Earths, according to the app.
The idea of an environmental footprint, not just a carbon footprint, has been around for a while.
Some of the files, which TechCrunch has seen, also contain contracts and agreements between Change Healthcare and its partners.
For Change Healthcare, there’s another complication: This is the second group to demand a ransom payment to prevent the release of stolen patient data in as many months.
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, said there was no evidence of a new cyber incident.
What’s more likely is that a dispute between members and affiliates of the ransomware gang left the stolen data in limbo and Change Healthcare exposed to further extortion.
A Russia-based ransomware gang called ALPHV took credit for the Change Healthcare data theft.
Some of the files, which TechCrunch has seen, also contain contracts and agreements between Change Healthcare and its partners.
For Change Healthcare, there’s another complication: This is the second group to demand a ransom payment to prevent the release of stolen patient data in as many months.
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, said there was no evidence of a new cyber incident.
What’s more likely is that a dispute between members and affiliates of the ransomware gang left the stolen data in limbo and Change Healthcare exposed to further extortion.
A Russia-based ransomware gang called ALPHV took credit for the Change Healthcare data theft.
The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches.
On a standard mechanical keyboard switch, you physically close an electrical circuit to register a key press.
Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s.
That’s one thing about board with magnetic switches: they tend to favor proprietary software over open-source solutions like VIA.
The switch is a Khailh Sakura Pink magnetic switch with a 50gf bottom-out force.
Climate change.
The UK will be even better off, gaining 40 outdoor days by the end of the century.
Illinois will lose more than a month of outdoor days by the 2080s as the summers grow unbearably hot.
Nigeria’s summers will grow even hotter and longer, lopping off nearly two months of outdoor days.
Both Nigeria and India would only lose one month of outdoor days, and more northerly regions retain some of their added outdoor days.
The State Department blamed the prolific ransomware group for targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, including healthcare services.
Last month, an affiliate group of the ALPHV/BlackCat gang took credit for a cyberattack and weeks-long outage at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare, which processes around one-in-three U.S. patient medical records.
The affiliate group went public after accusing the main ALPHV/BlackCat gang of swindling the contract hackers out of $22 million in ransom that Change Healthcare allegedly paid to prevent the mass leak of patient records.
Change Healthcare has said since that it ejected the hackers from its network and restored much of its systems.
U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, has not yet confirmed if any patient data was stolen.
Climate-tech VC Satgana has reached a final close of its first fund, which targets to back up to 30 early-stage startups in Africa and Europe.
“I ran it for like five years, and about six years ago I started to really have the awakening to the extent of climate change.
“We are entering the continent to pursue green growth objectives; so deploying renewable energy, low carbon buildings, mobility solutions and so on.
Satgana is among the new funds that are dedicated to the African climate tech sector.
These funds include Africa People + Planet Fund by Novastar Ventures, Equator’s fund and the Catalyst Fund.
If patient data has been stolen, the ramifications for the affected patients will likely be irreversible and life-lasting.
Change Healthcare is one of the world’s largest facilitators of health and medical data and patient records, handling billions of healthcare transactions annually.
The cybersecurity director expressed alarm at the prospect of the hackers potentially publishing the stolen sensitive patient data online.
For those on the front-lines of healthcare cybersecurity, the worst-case scenario is that stolen patient records become public.
Do you work at Change Healthcare, Optum or UnitedHealth and know more about the cyberattack?
American health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare, which continues to disrupt hospitals and pharmacies across the United States.
“Based on our ongoing investigation, there’s no indication that except for the Change Healthcare systems, Optum, UnitedHealthcare and UnitedHealth Group systems have been affected by this issue.”In a post on its dark web leak site on Wednesday, ALPHV/BlackCat took credit for the cyberattack at Change Healthcare.
Change Healthcare merged with U.S. healthcare provider Optum in 2022 as part of a $7.8 billion deal under UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance provider in the United States.
Change Healthcare said it took much of its systems offline to expel the hackers from its systems.
Do you work at Change Healthcare, Optum or UnitedHealth and know more about the cyberattack?
