Author: The Tech Guy

Florida-based public safety communications solutions provider BK Technologies Corp (BKTI:NYSE American) revealed on Monday that its IT systems were hacked recently. The company said in a regulatory filing that it detected an intrusion on September 20. An investigation was launched and action was taken to remove the attacker from its systems. The incident resulted in some “minor disruptions” to non-critical systems and operations were not affected, the SEC was told. However, the company’s investigation revealed that the hackers accessed and stole non-public information from compromised systems. Files containing the information of current and former employees may have been exfiltrated.  The…

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies and uses it to train hundreds of thousands of farmers in climate-friendly practices. It’s the sort of high-touch endeavor that venture capitalists typically avoid. So how has Mitti managed to raise funding from its investors? In short: partnerships. Mitti has started working with The Nature Conservancy on a partnership to promote regenerative, no-burn agriculture, the startup exclusively told TechCrunch, the latest in a string of deals that…