The sixth beta of the Haiku OS is here, now with more choice of web browsers and a working hardware-accelerated hypervisor. Haiku OS beta 6 came out just a week after the project’s 25th birthday. We have been trying it on several different machines around the Irish...

Their research found surprising atomic behavior that could reshape models of the early universe's evolution.

BREAKING Nvidia has agreed to buy AI developer platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, tightening its grip on the ecosystem surrounding open models. Following weeks of industry chatter, Nvidia confirmed Thursday it had entered into a definitive agreement to buy the...

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New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using generative artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday.The one-year moratorium — part of a broader...

It has been a wild week for GoPro’s stock. Over the past five days alone, shares in GoPro, Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO) are up more than 183%. And that’s before today’s current 10% boost in premarket trading.  First, the company’s share price was boosted after it was revealed...

TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo carousel comments, and Live Photo comments. With the additions, the...

Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to...

In her 2015 memoir My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem talks about the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston as a “before or after” in her life. Today, the countless people who looked up to Steinem mark their own before and after, a world with and, sadly,...

In the movie Elysium, set in the year 2154, Matt Damon plays Max Da Costa, a criminal lowlife trying his damndest to leave Earth. Up above, the wealthy elite live on a ring-shaped space station, where disease and poverty have been eradicated. Most of the population,...

An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campaign spanning 46 countries. Around 45% of observed activity was associated with the United...

Cybercriminals have reeled in password hashes and corresponding salts belonging to users of popular fishing app Fishbrain, opening the door to cracking attempts. Fishbrain AB, which says its eponymous app serves more than 20 million anglers, disclosed the August 19...

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

Under the Paris Agreement, countries pledged to make an effort to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in order to avoid intense impacts of climate change. But that level of warming is now “widely assessed as unavoidable,” according to a new...

The controversial AI beautification feature can run on older cards through mods, too.

The Austin-based company will invest in agentic runtime security capabilities to secure AI coding agents. The post HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million for AI Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.

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The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks. The post AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.

In what some are dubbing the "Uber rapture," the ride-hailing pioneer has abruptly quit Nigeria and Uganda. Far from drivers and their cars ascending to some surge-priced afterlife, users reported the service shutting down while rides were still underway. "A friend of...

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