Voyager Technologies has filed its confidential paperwork to go public, according to multiple media reports. The defense and space company has raised over $215 million from investors like Afterburner Capital and Balerion Space Ventures, according to PitchBook. The Denver-based company will likely be valued between $2 billion and $3 billion, and Morgan Stanley and Latham & Watkins are expected to lead the IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

The company, founded in 2019, has a wide set of offerings, from propulsion technologies for defense purposes to building in-space infrastructure. Voyager has also forged powerful partnerships in the industry, linking up with Palantir to integrate Palantir’s AI into Voyager’s offerings. 

Our Samsung Galaxy Unpacked live coverage may have wrapped up, but we’re still feeling the excitement of seeing the new Samsung Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, S25 Ultra, and all-new S25 Edge revealed unto the world.

The new flagship Galaxy lineup brings with it a handful of upgrades for each of the three models, with increased RAM, new AI tools, and the blazing-fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

Though they mobilized in a few instances in support of Trump ahead of the 2024 election, it was, overall, fairly lackluster, especially compared to 2020. This drove speculation that the gang was on its last legs.

Then, on Monday, as Trump was taking the oath of office, more than 100 uniformed Proud Boys marched through the streets of Washington, DC, led by their south-Florida chapter.

It was a striking scene—one that seemed intended to send a clear message: “We’re back.”

Ever since January 6, 2021, DC has been perceived by the far right as a no-go zone for Trump supporters of all stripes. But on Monday the Proud Boys chanted “Whose streets—our streets.” They received a hero’s welcome by other Trump supporters in the crowd, as seen on video recorded by freelance journalist Ford Fischer.

On Tuesday, as bureaucratic snafus delayed the release of about a dozen January 6-ers from the DC jail, protesters gathered outside. Among them were at least four uniformed Proud Boys. Though three of them had their faces covered, they milled around with what appeared to be zero concern about stigma from others present. Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes, whose 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy was commuted by Trump, also appeared outside the jail—having walked free from a federal prison in Maryland the previous night.

One of the Proud Boys present spoke at the impromptu rally outside of the jail, identifying himself as “Harry Fox.” (This was the same name that other Proud Boys had given to reporters on Inauguration Day.)

“Donald Trump is back, baby. He is back, and he is stronger than ever,” he said over the microphone. “I’m so proud of what the American citizens did that day,” he added, referring to January 6, “for standing up finally after decades of being abused and oppressed by an authoritarian regime.”

He ended his speech with the Proud Boys slogan: “I am a Western chauvinist, and I will not apologize for creating the modern world.” The crowd cheered.

Tarrio, in his phone call to Jones on Tuesday, made it clear that he views the role of the Proud Boys as being no different to what it was four years ago—he sees them as the foot soldiers and the muscle of the GOP. “I think the future of the club will be what it’s always been,” said Tarrio. “A group of men that love America, get around and drink beer, and protect Trump supporters from being assaulted … We will defend ourselves and Trump supporters from being assaulted for their political views.”

He suggested that he feels vindicated by Trump’s election victory and decision to pardon almost everyone involved in the January 6 riot. “We went through hell, and I’m gonna tell you: It was worth it,” Tarrio told Jones. “What we stood for and what those guys stood for is what we’ve been fighting for, is what we saw yesterday on the inauguration stage … I can’t tell you it’s been easy. But I will tell you it’s been worth it.”

CNN is developing a new streaming service — and it sounds a lot like the one it shut down nearly three years ago. In an internal memo shared with The Verge, CNN CEO Mark Thompson says the service will give viewers the ability “to stream news programming from us on any device they choose” as part of a broader restructuring plan.

CNN jumped on the streaming bandwagon in 2022 with the launch of CNN Plus, a short-lived service that shut down after just one month. Thompson doesn’t say whether the new service will mirror the content on its linear channel, or if it will stick to original programming, similar to CNN Plus.

“It’s early days but we’ve already established that there’s immense demand for it not just in America but across much of the world,” Thompson wrote. “We’ll have more to say about this new digital product in the coming months, including content plans and how we will work with our existing and future distribution partners to bring this to market.”

Along with the new streaming service, Thompson’s memo also said Alex MacCallum, CNN’s executive vice president for digital products and services, will announce the company’s “first lifestyle-oriented digital product” and a “major pivot to digital video.”

As part of these changes, CNN will lay off six percent of jobs, making up around 200 employees. Thompson says the company “doesn’t expect total headcount to fall much this year” because of a $70 million investment from CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, The Hollywood Reporter says.

Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become the de facto password manager for small and midsize businesses, with ambitions to serve enterprise customers in the long run.

The Passbolt team, led by its France-born CEO Kevin Muller, argues that most organizations are not served well by what he argues are more consumer-oriented tools like Bitwarden or 1Password. “You look at Bitwarden, for example, or even 1Password, what they are doing is they have, at one end, a simple password management for the workforce, and then they built a secret manager — or they purchased a secret manager — for the DevOps teams, and then they build something else for authentication,” Muller said. “So it’s quite fragmented. And one of the problems is that these tools, most of the time, cannot talk to each other. They are very much standalone.”

Muller previously founded e-learning platform Click on French and ran a web development consultancy in India. He founded Passbolt in 2017, together with Remy Bertot and Cédric Alfonsi, after previously prototyping the opens source community edition for a few years.

The service is based, in part, on Keepass, the popular open source password manager, but as Muller stressed, KeePass was never built for them. KeePass itself is already widely popular with technical teams, but it essentially creates a single static file where credentials are securely stored, he noted. This can easily be shared among team members, but because of that, there is no way to easily control who has access to it and there is no way to audit access (or revoke it), among other things.

“What we wanted was more collaboration, more security, and more control,” Muller said. “With control I mean: How do we install it behind our firewall on a server that we manage? How do we have it interoperable? How do we share passwords, secrets, and all types of credentials granularly?”

Over the course of the last few years, the team added features like native desktop apps, password expiry and rotations, a tool for getting two-factor authentication codes, and role-based access controls for using Passbolt’s own user interface. One of the next features on the horizon is support for managing passkeys.

In the long run, the Passbolt team would also like to challenge the more enterprise-centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) services like CyberArk, Muller told me.

Today, Passbolt offers a free community edition that users can self-host, as well as a self-hosted Pro edition ($49/month for 10 seats) with additional features like LDAP provisioning, single-sign-on support, activity logs, and more. Like so many other open source projects, Passbolt also offers a hosted solution (starting at $54 per month for 10 seats.

About 38,000 teams use the free version, with 2,000 paying for Passbolt’s services. The majority of users (75%) opt to self-host.

As Muller stressed, the code is regularly audited, and Passbolt is SOC2 Type II certified.

Passbolt, which is based in Luxembourg and currently has about 30 employees, actually reached profitability in the summer of 2024. But the team still decided to raise in order to capitalize on the current growth and to keep up with feature requests from its users.

The company’s Series A round was led by Netherlands-based Airbridge Equity Partners. Existing investors Expon Capital’s Digital Tech Fund, ScaleFund, Seeder, Dedicated, Bondi Capital, Carricha Capital, and LBAN also participated, along with angel investors like Christophe Bianco (co-founder of Excellium Services) and Xavier Buck (co-founder of Datacenter Luxembourg).

“Legacy password managers like KeePass or Bitwarden and Privileged Access Management solutions such as CyberArk fall short for today’s cross-functional, distributed and agile teams,” said Rick van Boekel, managing partner at Airbridge Equity Partners. “Passbolt’s organic traction across various industries confirms the demand for a more collaborative, enterprise-grade solution, and their impressive SaaS metrics prove that Passbolt users are delighted with the solution offered.”

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• Severance star Tramell Tillman has teased what’s in store for Seth Milchick in season 2
• This season’s premiere revealed that Milchick had been installed as the Severed Floor’s new boss
• Tramell says his character “doesn’t know if he’s ready” to fill predecessor Harmony Cobel’s boots

Severance actor Tramell Tillman has teased what we can expect to see as part of Seth Milchick’s season 2 arc.

Speaking to me around one month before Severance season 2‘s debut on January 17, Tillman hinted that the Apple show’s next chapter will be a high-stakes affair for his character.

Major spoilers immediately follow for Severance season 1’s finale and this season’s premiere. Turn back now if you’re not caught up.

In the first episode of the hit Apple TV Plus series’ sophomore outing, it was revealed that Milchick had been promoted by Lumon Industries in the supposed five-month gap between season 1’s ending and this season’s opening entry. Indeed, after Harmony Cobel was ousted as Severed Floor manager last season, Milchick has been installed as her replacement, so he’s now overseeing the division that Mark and other members of the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) team work in. You can remind yourself what else happened in this season’s first installment via our Severance season 2 episode 1 recap.

In the first 48 hours of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, he has taken action on virtually every single culture war topic that has excited his base for the last 12 months, including the signing of dozens of executive orders targeting immigrants, gender expression, the environment, and DEI policies.

Trump has also pardoned or commuted the sentence of every single person that took part in the violent insurrection on the Capitol in 2021. Meanwhile, his close ally Elon Musk has invigorated an even more extreme wing of Trump’s supporters, by making a Nazi-like salute on stage—twice—in front of thousands of people in DC and millions watching on TV.

Trump’s actions have generated a lot of excitement among the far-right in the US. They’ve also been hailed as a blueprint by an adoring fanbase of far-right lawmakers, extremist influencers, and white supremacist groups across the globe. And those people and organizations now believe that Trump’s actions should not only be copied, but taken to the next level.

“It is more than just a political success,” Martin Sellner, the far-right activist and leader of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, wrote on his Telegram channel. “It is a metapolitical victory: the end of wokeness and trans ideology, stopping illegal immigration and many other ideas have been normalized in society.”

“These extremists think that this is the way to go, that their countries need to take a lesson from what Trump is proposing, and they need to not get weak about it, and not let woke activists get in their way, because everybody knows that the right thing to do is get rid of the immigrants,” Wendy Via, the CEO of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, tells WIRED.

Sellner, who once communicated with the Christchurch massacre shooter, is best known for popularizing the white nationalist concept of “remigration,” the idea to ethnically cleanse western nations of all non-white citizens. That extremist ideology has gained traction among other far-right groups in Europe, including Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Freedom Party of Austria. Trump even promoted “remigration” in September.

Now, Sellner believes that Trump’s return to the Oval Office signals a moment to take his agenda mainstream.

“By pushing further into the realm of the ‘unspeakable’ we move out of the defensive and truly shift the Overton Window to the right for the first time,” Sellner wrote. “Even if you think Trumpism goes far enough, you should support the radical flank.”

Sellner is not alone in Europe. Across the continent, far-right figures praised Trump’s actions on migration and gender, and called for leaders in their own countries to follow suit.

In France, the Generation Identity group, the youth wing of the far-right Identitarian movement, wrote on Telegram: “Remigration in full swing. Identitarianism has won ideologically, it will only take time for this victory to be reflected in the material world.”

In Ireland, Keith Woods, the far-right influencer and ally of US white supremacist Nick Fuentes, shared a clip of Musk’s Nazi-like salute with the caption: “Ok maybe woke really is dead.” Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor, who has aligned himself with Ireland’s far-right community in recent years, was in the Capitol for the inauguration and met with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. McGregor praised Trump’s immigration policies, and wrote on Instagram, “Ireland and its human trafficking racket needs absolute dismantling! It is a breach of our security and our sovereignty. For me it is A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.” (McGregor has recently said that he is considering running for president in Ireland, which is a symbolic role without any real power.)

What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated in the same way, argues Brooke Hopkins, a former tech lead at Waymo. Coval, Hopkins’ new startup, looks to do just that.

“When I left Waymo, I realized a lot of these problems that we had at Waymo were exactly what the rest of the AI industry was facing,” Hopkins (pictured above in the center) told TechCrunch. “But everyone was saying that this is a new paradigm, we’re having to come up with testing practices from first principles and that basically we all have to recreate everything. And I looked at that and said, wait, we’ve spent the last 10 years in self driving figuring out how to do this.”

In 2024, she decided to launch Coval, a platform that builds simulations for AI voice and chat agents that tests and evaluates how they perform tasks in the same way Hopkins tested self-driving cars at Waymo. Coval can run thousands of simulations simultaneously, like having the agent make a restaurant reservation or having the agent respond to a customer service question asked in an indirect way.

Coval’s tech evaluates the agents on a general set of metrics, but companies can also customize what they are looking for and use Coval to continue to evaluate for regressions. Users can also take this data, and the insights they gleam off of it, and bring it to their end-customers either for a demo or as a monitoring tool to show their customers the agent is working as intended.

“One of the biggest blockers to agents being adopted by enterprises is them feeling confident that this isn’t just a demo with smoke and mirrors,” Hopkins said. “Choosing between vendors is a really complicated task for these executives because it’s just very hard to know what you even ask or how do you even prove that these agents are doing what you expect. And so this gives our companies the ability to really show that and demonstrate it.”

Hopkins really formulated the idea behind Coval during the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch before launching the product publicly in October 2024. She said that demand has been strong and has become explosive in the last two months, with customers asking how quickly they can get their agents evaluated.

The San Francisco-based startup is now announcing a $3.3 million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital with participation from Y Combinator and General Catalyst. The startup will use the capital to build out its engineering team and work to achieve product-market fit. Hopkins added that the company will also be working toward enabling its users to evaluate other types of AI agents, like web-based agents, in the future.

Coval comes on the scene while both momentum — and hype — around AI agents appears to be at an all-time high. Enterprise tech leaders like Marc Benioff have been praising (and marketing) the technology by saying Salesforce will deploy more than a billion of its AI agents by next year. OpenAI is rumored to be releasing its take on an AI agent very soon.

There are also numerous startups building in the space, too. There were more than 100 startups building AI agents across Y Combinator’s three 2024 cohorts alone. Some AI agent startups have landed sizable venture funding rounds too. One, /dev/agents, raised a $55 million seed round at a $500 million valuation in November 2024, less than a year after it was founded.

This momentum means it’s likely that there will be more companies looking for help to evaluate their agents too. Hopkins said Coval has a good shot at standing out from the pack because, unlike the inevitable new entrants, Coval has a head start.

“I think where we really stand out is I’ve been working in this space for half a decade and I’ve built these systems over and over,” she said. “We’ve built multiple iterations and we’ve seen how they fail and how they scale and we’re building the same concepts into Coval and all of those learnings.”