More top reads Microsoft says Russian hackers targeted others: One week after revealing it was a victim of a hack carried out by Russian government spies, Microsoft writes in a blog post that it wasn't the only one. And it's being a good friend and notifying those other organizations. Robotics as a service: Chef Robotics is ready to whip up some commercial business after raising $14.75 million in an equity/debt combo. Automation in the kitchen can be a costly endeavor for restaurants where profit margins are often low. However, Chef Robotics wants to focus on food assembly instead of cooking. Inside Apple's EU changes: Apple dropped some iOS changes yesterday related to the European Union's Digital Markets Act. Now it's piloting a program for "contingent pricing" for developers to make the App Store more appealing. Also, we wouldn't be TechCrunch if we didn't take a closer look at what all of this means. When the name of the song is on the tip of your tongue: The Shazam app now has a feature that lets you identify music you hear on a TikTok or YouTube video while wearing headphones. This is something that was available, but not a feature you could do while wearing headphones. Three UK councils still down following cyberattack: The councils for Canterbury, Dover and Thanet — all based in the U.K. county of Kent — say their council tax payments and online forms are still disrupted one week after confirming a cyberattack had knocked some systems offline. What did they say?: Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts as part of changes in iOS 17.4. It's only in four languages currently. If you're like me and miss portions of your true crime stories because you're deep in story-writing mode, at least you can better find where you left off. Pitch Deck Teardown: Over on TechCrunch+, Haje Jan Kamps dissects Doola's $1 million strategic investment deck and tells us how the business-in-a-box startup did. |