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Smart ring maker Oura raises $900M from Fidelity

TechCrunchTechnology1 hours ago
Oura is raising new funding of $900 million as its valuation reaches nearly $11 billion

Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub

TechCrunchTechnology1 hours ago
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.

British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

The registerSecurity1 hours ago
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…

Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told

BBC TechnologyTechnology1 hours ago
Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved

BBC TechnologyTechnology3 hours ago
Vodafone said its Monday outage, which knocked broadband and mobile data users offline for several hours, was caused by a "non-malicious software issue".

Optimized predictive maintenance for streaming data in industrial IoT networks using deep reinforcement learning and ensemble techniques | Nature

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JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter

Science dailyScience3 hours ago
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark matter annihilation. These colossal, luminous hydrogen-and-helium spheres may explain both the exis...

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries

TechCrunchTechnology4 hours ago
Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru.

Scientists build artificial neurons that work like real ones

Science dailyScience6 hours ago
UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with biological cells and drastically improved energy efficiency. The discovery could lead to bio-inspir...

Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm

BBC TechnologyTechnology9 hours ago
The move, which is aimed to protect supplies of technology, could raise tensions between the EU and China.

Why AI is being trained in rural India

BBC TechnologyTechnology13 hours ago
Smaller Indian towns are becoming centres for training and correcting artificial intelligence models.

Goldman Sachs is acquiring Industry Ventures for up to $965M as alternative VC exits surge

TechCrunchTechnology13 hours ago
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billion in assets under management, CNBC was first to report on Monday. The deal underscores the growing importance of secondary markets and buyouts as traditional venture exits remain s...

Grindr’s owners may take it private after a financial squeeze

TechCrunchTechnology14 hours ago
Grindr's majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a personal financial crisis, according to a report from Semafor.

Oura is winning young women and losing gym rats, and it’s fine with that

TechCrunchTechnology15 hours ago
Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.

Popular hair-loss pill linked to depression and suicide

Science dailyScience19 hours ago
Finasteride, a common hair-loss drug, has long been tied to depression and suicide, but regulators ignored the warnings. Prof. Mayer Brezis’s review exposes global data showing psychiatric harm and a pattern of inaction by Merck and the FDA. Despite its cosmetic use, the drug’s effects on brain ...

This 250-year-old equation just got a quantum makeover

Science dailyScience19 hours ago
A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible while remaining consistent with new data — they derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule fro...

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year

The registerSecurity20 hours ago
'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…

🍔🧠 100X Faster: How Netflix's ML Workflow Engine Works

HungryMinds.devProgramming20 hours ago
PLUS: Spotify System Design 🎵, Gradient Descent Deep Dive 🧮, Reactive Python ⚡

Slate Auto’s electric truck: See it first at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunchTechnology21 hours ago
Slate Auto CEO Chris Barman drives her new electric truck — literally — onto the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Don’t miss this world-first EV reveal and conversation about the future of mobility. Register now to save up to $624 and an extra 15% to 30% on group passes before rates i...

Your skin could warn of hidden mental health trouble

Science dailyScience21 hours ago
People experiencing their first psychotic episode who also have skin conditions such as rashes or itching are at greater risk of depression and suicidal thoughts, according to new research presented at the ECNP meeting. Scientists found that 25% of these patients experienced suicidal ideation, compa...

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots

TechCrunchTechnology21 hours ago
SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

The time is now: Only 5 days remain to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunchTechnology21 hours ago
If you’ve been thinking about joining 10,000+ startup and VC leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco on October 27–29, the time to act is now. Lock in your place on the Expo floor, where ideas, capital, and connections collide. Deadline is October 17 or until all 7 tables a...

Final flash sale: Save up to $624 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 pass — ends October 17

TechCrunchTechnology22 hours ago
The final countdown to Disrupt 2025! Save up to $624 on your pass before prices rise Friday, October 17 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators for 200+ sessions, 250+ leaders, 300+ showcasing startups, and Startup Battlefield 200. Register now to save — plus 30% off grou...

90% of science is lost. This new AI just found it

Science dailyScience23 hours ago
Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets reusable, verifiable, and citable. By uniting curation, compliance, peer review, and interactive vis...

Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Salesforce announces an upgraded version of its Agentforce platform designed to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents.

Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled “EagleEye,” a helmeted computing system that seeks to turn soldiers into AI-augmented warfighters.

This experimental “super vaccine” stopped cancer cold in the lab

Science dailyScience1 days ago
UMass Amherst researchers have developed a groundbreaking nanoparticle-based cancer vaccine that prevented melanoma, pancreatic, and triple-negative breast cancers in mice—with up to 88% remaining tumor-free. The vaccine triggers a multi-pathway immune response, producing powerful T-cell activatio...

Decades-old photosynthesis mystery finally solved

Science dailyScience1 days ago
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Caltech have finally solved a decades-old mystery about how photosynthesis really begins. They discovered why energy inside plants flows down only one of two possible routes — a design that lets nature move sunlight with astonishing precis...

New research reveals how ADHD sparks extraordinary creativity

Science dailyScience1 days ago
Researchers have discovered that ADHD’s hallmark mind wandering might actually boost creativity. People who deliberately let their thoughts drift scored higher on creative tests in two large studies. The findings hint that mindful management of mental drift could turn ADHD’s challenges into crea...

Weekly Career Discussion Thread (13 Oct 2025)

Reddit EngineeringEngineering1 days ago
# Intro Welcome to the weekly career discussion thread, where you can talk about all career & professional topics. Topics may include: * Professional career guidance & questions; e.g. job hunting advice, job offers comparisons, how to network * Educational guidance & questions; e.g. what...

Strava eyes IPO as Gen Z trades dating apps for running clubs

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Strava CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list "at some point," eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The company, backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, and Jackson Square Ventures, was last valued at $2.2 billion in May.

Ancient humans in Italy butchered elephants and made tools from their bones

Science dailyScience1 days ago
Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone implements, many showing impact marks from butchery. The findings reveal a consistent prehistoric strateg...

California’s next big one could be faster and far more destructive

Science dailyScience1 days ago
Supershear earthquakes, moving faster than seismic waves, could cause catastrophic shaking across California. USC researchers warn that many faults capable of magnitude 7 quakes might produce these explosive ruptures. Current construction standards don’t account for their directional force. Strong...

The ZoraSafe app wants to protect older people online and will present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
ZoraSafe is designed to protect some of the least protected internet users out there: your parents and grandparents.

Elon Musk vs. the regulators

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” 

Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

Dating app Cerca will show how Gen Z really dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunchTechnology1 days ago
Cerca is a dating app that sets users up with mutual friends.

The Moon’s south pole hides a 4-billion-year-old secret

Science dailyScience1 days ago
A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven terrain. Researchers found that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed from a glancing northern strike, revealing deep materials from the Moon’s interior. This discovery shed...

An interstellar visitor lights up the Red Planet’s sky

Science dailyScience1 days ago
ESA’s Mars orbiters have observed comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever discovered. The faint, distant object revealed a glowing coma as it was heated by the Sun. Researchers are still studying the data to understand its makeup and origins. This rare event also foreshadows future ...

Archaeologists uncover lost land bridge that may rewrite human history

Science dailyScience1 days ago
New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across 10 sites, indicating the region was a crucial migration corridor during the Ice Age. The findings...

New simulation reveals how Earth’s magnetic field first sparked to life

Science dailyScience2 days ago
Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects of viscosity in their simulation, they revealed a self-sustaining dynamo that mirrors today’s mechanism. The results illuminate Earth’s early history, life’s origins,...

Closest alien civilization could be 33,000 light years away

Science dailyScience2 days ago
Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is essential — for either outcome reshapes our understan...

Quantum simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on laptops

Science dailyScience2 days ago
A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer. By expanding the truncated Wigner approximation, they’ve created an accessible, efficient way to model real-world quantum behavior. Their method translates dense equations ...

Dolphins may be getting Alzheimer’s from toxic ocean blooms

Science dailyScience2 days ago
Dolphins washing up on Florida’s shores may be victims of the same kind of brain degeneration seen in humans with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers discovered that cyanobacterial toxins—worsened by climate change and nutrient pollution—accumulate in marine food chains, damaging dolphin brains...

Windows 10 users urged to prepare for Microsoft pulling support

BBC TechnologyTechnology2 days ago
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, which could make users vulnerable - here's how to get Windows 11.

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta

TechCrunchTechnology2 days ago
AI researcher Andrew Tulloch reportedly announced his departure to employees in a message on Friday.

Apple says goodbye to the Clips app

TechCrunchTechnology2 days ago
Apple appears to be winding down support of Clips, with the company removing Clips from the App Store and saying it will no longer be making any updates.

Ready or not, enterprises are betting on AI

TechCrunchTechnology2 days ago
This has been a big week for AI companies signing enterprise deals, with Zendesk unveiling new AI agents that are supposed to be able to resolve 80% of customer service issues, Anthropic and IBM announcing a strategic partnership, and Deloitte also announcing a deal with Anthropic.

Scientists unearth a 112-million-year-old time capsule filled with ancient insects

Science dailyScience2 days ago
Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent Gondwana. The amber, found in the Hollín Formation, preserved a diverse range of insect species and plan...

A million-sun-mass mystery object found lurking in deep space

Science dailyScience2 days ago
Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a million times the Sun’s weight, could be a small clump of dark matter or a dormant dwarf galaxy. Th...