Thomas Ricker

The airline says the Monday attack stole personal data of six million customers via a third-party service platform:

Customers that never received their expensive e-bike due to the company’s bankruptcy are being offered a discount on the resurrected company’s new — and seemingly much improved — S6 series, reducing the price to €2,298. Now that the new VanMoof is once again producing spare parts for its expanding network of European service partners, co-CEO Eliott Wertheimer told Bike Europe that he wanted “to help those who were let down by the old company and get them riding.”

When I first saw the Robotaxi wordmark, I assumed someone had already vandalized the car like a Waymo caught in a protest. The creative experts consulted by Fast Company are even more critical of the cyberdork aesthetic:

Another batch of Jeff Bezos’ Kuiper broadband satellites are now operating in low Earth orbit as Amazon prepares to light up its high-speed low-latency Starlink competitor later this year. It comes almost two months after Kuiper’s inaugural launch of 27 satellites on April 28th.

A 2023 breach of genetic testing company 23andMe that leaked sensitive data for millions of customers already led to a $30 million settlement and, eventually, bankruptcy for the company once valued at $6 billion. Now the UK is layering on a fine of just over $3 million for failing to protect the genetic data of 155,592 UK residents. It comes just days after co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki said she was buying back the company’s assets for $305 million.

It’s essentially an Edge 540 in a smaller tougher body that’s tuned for mountain bikers. That means super fast (5Hz) and accurate GPS for navigating your downhill bombs, timing gates to measure splits in real-time, new mounts, and plenty more. DesFit has a preview of Garmin’s new ruggedized $399 bike computer.

Ek’s investment company Prima Materia dumped its first €100 million in Helsing, the German defense tech group with roots in AI software, back in 2021. Now it’s leading a €600 million round to capitalize on the shift to drone warfare. Per the Financial Times: