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Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on Novembe…
Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated N…
Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies
Not that anyone's terribly surprised.
Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.
Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off
The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming mo…
Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving
Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would us…
Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses
Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overv…
Sony revives the Walkman with a $5,899 gold-plated flagship
Sony has revived the Walkman with three digital music players priced from $1,899 to $5,899, the flagship built around a gold-plated oxygen-free copper chassis. No European price o…
Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. [...]
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only
If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part…
Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
Muse Spark Open is "the most capable US open-weight model to date," the company says.
Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket
Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.
SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US
SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record
Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in Stockholm that CoreWeave’s cost of capital is decreasing and that Nvidia does not need to backstop the company. On the same day CoreWeave’s five-yea…
GuliKit TT Max review: The granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers
This is the Switch 2 gamepad for big hands.
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to i…
Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other act…
Microsoft says it made Windows 11 zippier, especially on PCs with less RAM
The whole RAM price thing is partly Microsoft's fault so it's the least it can do.
Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The act…
CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real estate underwriting with AI agents
CarbonAI has raised $12M led by Cowboy Ventures for AI agents that handle underwriting, due diligence and post-close monitoring on commercial real estate loans. The EU AI Act trea…
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, …
E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers
E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be…
Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his ballroom
We knew that a number of big tech firms were helping to fund the construction of Trump's ballroom, but we didn't know just how much they were giving to the cause. Now the Washingt…
Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.