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When you’re looking for a startup idea that could slow climate change, you might become an expert at home energy assessments. At least, that’s what happened to the founders of Kelvin, a French startup that is using computer vision and machine learning to make it easier to audit homes for energy efficiency. Clémentine Lalande, Pierre Joly and Guillaume Sempé started looking at home energy efficiency audits because renovations are going to have a massive impact on reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a "significant volume of data" from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data with cloud storage giant Snowflake. Incident response firm Mandiant, which is working with Snowflake to investigate the recent spate of data thefts, said in a blog post Monday that the two firms have notified around 165 customers that their data may have been stolen. The cloud data giant has more than 9,800 corporate customers, like healthcare organizations, retail giants and some of the world's largest tech companies, which use Snowflake for data analytics.
For Tesla, boardroom drama will be on full display on Thursday, when the EV maker will announce the results from shareholder votes on a number of key issues — most importantly, the status of CEO Elon Musk’s compensation. While Wall Street expects Musk to secure his pay package, it won't come without a battle.
Privacy watchdogs in the U.K. and Canada have launched a joint investigation into the data breach at 23andMe last year. On Monday, the U.K,'s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced their investigation into the genetic testing company, saying the organizations will leverage “the combined resources and expertise of their two offices.” Last year, 23andMe disclosed a security incident that affected the genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million users, or roughly half of its overall user base.
Get caught up on this morning’s news: Hunter Biden’s trial nears end, Celtics win NBA Finals Game 2 and more in today’s edition of The Yodel newsletter
Early price data shows Chevy lowered MSRPs on two 2025 Blazer EV trims, but also removed standard equipment. Like-for-like, the 2025 costs a little more.
Apple will kick off its weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024) event today with the customary keynote at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The presentation will focus on the company’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS. You can watch the stream over on Apple’s events page.