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Since the Windows 11 update started to roll out earlier in the week, some people have been commenting on performance impacts with certain hardware / software configurations. AMD has confirmed issues are present with some of its processors and posted a support article addressing Windows 11 performance variation in certain applications on compatible AMD processors….

If you enjoy the satisfaction of putting custom PCs together, but the current market situation is getting in the way, you will be able to indulge in this constructive hobby virtually (for free) thanks to the latest Epic Games Store giveaway. This is a bit of a bargain, as the game/sim is still selling on…

Strap me to a chair and slide something thin and sharp beneath my fingernails, and I’d confess that Far Cry 6 is a slightly better game than Far Cry 5. I wouldn’t be entirely sure why, however, because the two games are virtually identical. Far Cry 6 still an absurdly large open-world shooter about capturing…

SteelSeries is one of the biggest names in PC gaming, particularly with regard to eSports peripherals. Now it is set to become part of the GN Group, a provider of intelligent hearing, audio and video collaboration solutions. The CEO of SteelSeries has welcomed the acquisition, saying the deal will accelerate its growth, and assured fans…

Samsung achieved an industry-first by shipping EUV DRAM in 2020. Today, it has begun mass production of the industry’s smallest 14nm EUV DRAM. The importance of this latest innovation is that Samsung DDR5 DRAM becomes the densest available (five layer EUV), which is claimed to enable “greater performance and capacity.” Senior VP and head of…

Price: £39.99 Developer: Milestone Publisher: Milestone Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch Version Reviewed: PC I’m bonnet-over-boot in love with Hot: Wheels Unleashed, one of the most exciting, imaginative, and hands-down fun arcade racers I’ve played in years. Milestone’s game cherry-picks all the best bits from Trackmania, Burnout, and Micro Machines,…

Black versions of the Noctua NH-12A CPU cooler, and the NF-12×25 fans are now available. These ‘chromax.black’ products have been on Noctua’s roadmap for quite some time but, eagerly anticipated as they are, have only just been released to retail. On the delay, Noctua commented that changing a product colour isn’t as trivial as it…

At the end of July we saw AMD launch its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, “designed to deliver the ultimate high-framerate, high-fidelity and highly responsive 1080p gaming experience.” It has now followed up with the widely leaked and predicted Radeon RX 6600 graphics card to “provide visually stunning, high-refresh rate 1080p gaming experiences to…

Watch Andy go to town on the MSI MPG Velox 100R chassis in the video above. Key time stamps: 00:33 – Specs 02:36 – Benchmarks 08:45 – Features and Build Quality 28:35 – Conclusion MSI has been in the PC component business as long as we can remember, and although it’s been making motherboards since…

Price: £21.99 Developer: ACE Team Publisher: Good Shepherd Entertainment Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One Version Reviewed: PC The Eternal Cylinder is without doubt without a doubt the weirdest game I’ve played this year. It’s a game in which you play a sentient trunk which is hunted by giant mouths and hybrid car people, all while…

Alienware is celebrating its 25th birthday. There will be a special Twitch stream later today (2pm US central time, 8pm UK time) but we already have a good idea of the headlining product from the event thanks to a press release about a new flagship desktop from the Dell-owned gaming brand. The new desktop PC…

It looks like Corsair is readying a next gen range of All-in-One CPU liquid coolers just in time for the launch of Intel’s Alder Lake processors for desktop PCs. Leak-centric tech site VideoCardz has plenty of detailed images of these new AiO CPU coolers, from various angles. Some of the leaked promotional pictures even show…

At the Unleashed event in Cupertino on Monday, Apple’s highly anticipated new computer SoCs were introduced. Built on an advanced 5nm process and featuring up to 57 billion transistors, the new chips, the Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs, will initially launch as the processing options for the revamped MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook…

Price: £7.49 Developer: Rebel Act Studio/SNEG Publisher: SNEG Platform: PC Originally release in 2001, Severance: Blade of Darkness was an innovative hack ‘n’ slash RPG notable for its advanced dynamic lighting engine and brutal, challenging combat. It’s always been one of my favourite games, but after a poor commercial reception upon launch, the game has…

Out of the blue, Aorus has revealed its concept for a next-generation gaming PC, Project Cielo. It certainly looks different, with its triangular stacking structure, and it is claimed to be modular too. But is it really “the future of gaming”? As a concept PC, one can forgive Gigabyte / Aorus for being a little…

Price: £49.99 Developer: Turtle Rock Studio Publisher: Warner Bros Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One Initially I was aghast at the confusing mess Back4Blood laid in front of me. It’s a game stacked with so many bells and whistles that it wouldn’t look out of place in Rio’s Carnaval. The whole thing…

Manufacturer: SilentiumPC UK price (as reviewed): £TBC (inc. VAT) US price (as reviewed): $TBC (exc. tax) SilentiumPC wasn’t a company I was familiar with or possibly even aware of at all before this review. A creature of habit I’ll often filter by manufacturer for ones I’m familiar with or have used before. That can be…

There has been increasing activity on the DDR5 memory front as we edge closer to the release of the first consumer desktop PC platforms that support it. Back in May, Bit-Tech reported on Corsair teasing its upcoming DDR5-6400 RAM sticks, but G.Skill has just cast those into the shade with its announcement of DDR5-6600 CL36-36-36-76…

EA/DICE ran a Battlefield 2042 beta program earlier this month, and they have now processed the results and feedback to come to some meaningful conclusions and a reasonable path forward. The beta provided access to Battlefield’s massive-scale 128 player battles, competing in large team and smaller squad play, across a large map set in French…

MonsterLabo has launched an updated version of its signature case, The Beast. bit-tech reported on a quite recent iteration of The Beast, back in March, when it was kitted out with an AMD Ryzen 3800X and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and demonstrated running the demanding Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. With passive cooling only, playing…

With Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SOTTR) now somewhat long in the tooth, it seems to be the case that Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics are going to get out of bed with Denuvo. As Bit-Tech has reported previously, Denuvo Anti-Tamper tech comes at a price, and while it might be attractive at game launch…

Prime Computer of Switzerland has launched the PrimeStation Pulsar PC. So far, so ordinary, but the Pulsar is one of the most powerful fanless mini-PCs on the market, and is claimed to be 100 per cent climate-neutral. The machine, described as a ‘workstation’ by the designers, uses its aluminium case as the heatsink, and within…

Price: £16.79 Developer: Daniel Mullins Games Publisher: Devolver Digital Platform: PC It’s rare that a game grabs your attention from the starting menu, but then again, Inscryption is a rare game in so many regards. Boot up Inscryption for the first time, and after sitting through a faux-loading screen, your right index finger will be…

The megapixel race shows no signs of slowing down. After Oppo and Vivo both packed two 200MP cameras on their latest Ultra flagships, Oppo now appears ready to push the hardware envelope even further. According to leaker Digital Chat Station, the company may equip the upcoming Find X10 Pro Max with three 200MP sensors across…

What just happened? A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to rescind its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling that the government violated the AI company’s First Amendment rights. The decision found the designation was not supported by evidence of a genuine national-security threat and instead stemmed from Anthropic’s objections to Pentagon…

Key takeaways AI-exposed companies are heavily investing in CapEx to build the infrastructure capable of sustaining current and future AI demand Bears see similarities with the dot-com bubble: too many startups, stretched valuations, and execution risk Bulls argue that AI is more about infrastructure, rather than software, with long-term pricing power and stickier usage The…

Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta – who represented one of the leading states in the Meta lawsuit – said he was “looking to ensure” TikTok adopted similar measures to Meta. In agreeing on Wednesday to make various changes to end the states’ lawsuit, Meta said they would only be truly effective “if all our…

With roughly 85% of the AI chip market, Nvidia’s share has only one way to go. But a smaller slice of a much larger market could still mean more sales, says Umesh Padval, a Managing Partner at Seligman Ventures. “If the deal goes through, I think it’s a brilliant chess move.” Nvidia has thrown its…

As the UAE marks Emirati Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “We Emerge Stronger and Better”, the occasion offers an opportunity to reflect on the growing role of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Across the country, Emirati women are increasingly contributing to advanced industries, from artificial intelligence (AI) and aerospace to…

Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users. Without more straightforward approaches from…

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware. The potentially…

Intel launched its first six Alder Lake-S processors on Wednesday evening. The SKUs forming the initial roaster of 12th gen Intel Core processors can be found detailed below in a table. Briefly, they are the Intel Core i9-12900K/KF, the Intel Core i7-12700K/KF, and the Intel Core i5-12600K/KF. From the suffixes, seasoned Bit-Tech-ies will know these…

Robot vacuums can clean floors on their own, but there is still plenty of maintenance involved. Brushes collect hair, dustbins need emptying, and mops need to be washed and dried between cleaning sessions. Roborock’s new Qrevo 2 Pro is built in a way to reduce some of that work. The robot vacuum offers 25,000Pa of…

Cutting corners: Every blank area is a potential advertising space, whether it’s on the side of a building or the back of a MacBook. People already inadvertently use that area, as is clear from the rows of laptop lids covered in stickers you’d spot at any cafe – a fair few of them featuring big-name…

Key Takeaways: Introducing Moltbook, an AI-only social network: Launched in January 2026, the Reddit-like platform lets autonomous agents post, comment, and interact while humans observe. Agents share more than jokes and code: Posts range from bug fixes and workflows to leaked credentials and even an AI-created religion. A major security flaw exposed sensitive data: An…

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough to override them. The letter warns, external cyber-attacks which use AI will become both more widespread and more sophisticated in…

Government debt-service costs rising relative to government revenue to unacceptably squeeze out spending.  The supply of government debt becoming too large relative to demand for it, causing long-term interest rates to rise faster than short-term rates. The government treasury shortening the maturity of its debt sales to reduce the supply of bond sales. The currency…

On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends – experts, parliamentarians, IT leaders and suppliers – for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades. What’s changed the most for you since then? One of the fascinations of technology is…

“It’s kind of this one magic box that eliminates a lot of the infrastructure and also provides one control location that eliminates a lot of the interoperability challenges that you may see in a traditional data center, where various components within the data center are trying to regulate the same thing,” said Srdjan Lukic, a…

Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said the two men were arrested…

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If you were hoping to squeeze Grand Theft Auto VI into a quiet weekend, Rockstar may have other plans. The next entry in one of gaming’s biggest franchises could be a seriously long commitment, with its main story and optional activities reportedly pushing some playthroughs beyond the 80-hour mark. According to a New York Times…

Ripple effect: The Trump administration has repeatedly swung back and forth between threatening to institute sweeping tech tariffs to reinvigorate stateside manufacturing and softening its stance after clashing with reality. Reports claim that new rounds of negotiations between US officials and tech industry lobbyists might restart the cycle once more, adding to already steep recent…

Image source: recovery.com Key takeaways: Biohacking has gone mainstream: What began with fitness trackers and sleep apps now includes hardware implants, with 67% of Americans in a recent survey identifying as biohackers. Grinder biohacking goes beyond tracking: Grinders implant magnets, NFC and RFID chips, and other devices directly into their bodies to enhance human capabilities….

More than 80 performers have signed the letter, with Derry Girls actress Siobhán McSweeney saying she was “deeply worried” that the government was lagging behind. “There is a way to work alongside AI and to use it as a tool that benefits us rather than rendering us obsolete,” she said. “Our audiences want that human…

Lana Condor, Wile E. Coyote, and Will Forte —Courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment If you’re still not convinced that creativity and originality are under siege, particularly in the movie business, look no further than the tangled tale of how the wholly joyous Coyote vs. Acme very nearly didn’t make it to a theater near you. As…

Nearly half of those that use artificial intelligence (AI) to support their investment activity “mistakenly” believe the information it generates is regulated. Investors using investment tips from general purpose AI are not protected against losses that result in bad advice. This figure, according to research of 18 to 40-year-olds from UK financial services regulator…

Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make smartphones usable in such situations. Apple deployed it on the iPhone a couple of years ago, and now Google’s own…

Sovereignty has mattered since the invention of the nation state—defined by borders, laws, and taxes that apply within and without. While many have tried to define it, the core idea remains: nations or jurisdictions seek to stay in control, usually to the benefit of those within their borders. Digital sovereignty is a relatively new concept,…

A man and his sidekicks time travel through an infinite number of universes, arriving to unknown circumstances where futuristic drama inevitably lays in wait. Am I talking about Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max, or legendary BBC series Doctor Who? At face value, they clearly could be one and the same. But…

Two weeks before Tucker Carlson got canned, I hung out with Abughazaleh and five of her Media Matters colleagues in their Navy Yard office overlooking the Anacostia River to watch them watch Fox News’s evening lineup. The space is massive, with open seating and large conference rooms — and very few employees. (Most of the team…

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for…

Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals. Now Meta Platforms, the parent company of the world’s most popular social networks, faces another big moment of reckoning. On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10…

Rockstar has also uploaded the game’s extended look video on YouTube. Rockstar Games You may want to start meticulously planning your weekends and after-school or work activities from November 19 onwards if you’re a GTA fan. According to a new piece by Christopher Byrd on The New York Times, Grand Theft Auto VI is…

Music fans get a full slammin’ ’90s playlist to work through, packed with the hits that defined the decade. And if you want to kill some time, there’s a stack of dope old-school games waiting for you—they had me at Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. There’s nothing in it to be sold or marketed to…

Inheriting the empire Succeeding Steve Jobs is a challenge in itself. Apple enthusiasts and shareholders naturally had high expectations, leaving Tim Cook little room for error. Despite that, Cook cooked, as the kids say. Not only did he launch a wide array of budget-friendly products, but Tim also maintained Apple’s overall image as a premium…

CSA-Printstock/Getty Images In the age of weight loss drugs, Instagram face and an endless scroll of Facetuned bodies, it can be difficult to love how your body looks. But what if you could change the way you think about your body? Psychologist Diana Hill, a specialist in acceptance and commitment therapy, helps her clients practice…

The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram and Facebook that will apply…

HowHow does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Medicare Open Enrollment doesn’t start until Oct. 15. So why am I telling you to worry about this in August? Because by the time Oct. 15 arrives, scammers aren’t starting their work. They’re finishing it. The scam calls you may hear this fall, including fake Medicare card…

Congress today is grilling the chief executives of several big tech companies, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about potential harms from their products on teens. Source link

Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the real one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all — not the Mission Bay stretch of San Francisco that’s earned the nickname “Vest Village” for all the Patagonia-clad VCs roaming around). It’s our first…

AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups. This…

After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover feed. That algorithmic feed can currently surface any post on Bluesky’s network, as posts on the network are public by default….

Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is resigning her position at the end of October, the company announced in a regulatory filing Thursday. The company said McDonough is stepping down to “pursue a new opportunity and relocate to the East Coast to be closer to her family.” Rivian said her resignation is “not the result…

In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures, Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: the states have agreed not to sue Meta under existing child safety laws over its retention and use of children’s data. That permission is being granted for the…

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left…

YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S. can now tag Amazon products in their content and receive a cut of sales. Creators can link Amazon products in their shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams. The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts…

Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspected something was off. It…

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in high-end goods. The items are…

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that it’s responding to the cyberattack on a standalone system that’s…

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent…

Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s health and fitness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes as Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Pokémon Sleep first launched in 2023, turning something…

Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors including a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. Shoppers can visit the Atoire website and buy handbags or even clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers high-end goods. The items are reasonably…

Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant announced two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on reducing apps’ memory usage and optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile…

Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The updates indicate that…

Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months. The two have been charged with more than a dozen hacking, money laundering, and other cybercrime offenses and are expected in court later on Thursday. According…

The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost.  Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to the…

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground. “I had a job that got shut down because a pipe was in the excavation [that] we didn’t know about. Fortunately, we saw it before we impacted it,”…

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas.  Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimeter-tall duck can waddle, pick things up with its beak (up to…

You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop…

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party.  Since then,…

It seems there is no escaping the ad industry. OpenAI said on Thursday that it will start showing ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India. The move comes after the company changed its terms of service earlier this month to indicate that it will show ads to users while they use…

Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out. One of these companies…

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure. The number of affected systems provides new context to the scale of the ongoing cyberattacks targeting water providers in Michigan, Minnesota, and at least five…

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI. Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, arguing that Pacing the Frontier, the open letter published by AI employees pushing for an AI slowdown, would be…

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion —…

Amazon’s smart home division, Ring, said on Wednesday that it is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default setting for video encryption and user control. The company says this standard lets it protect user privacy without relying on end-to-end encryption, which can restrict some features such as…

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world. Perceptron, a startup started by two former Meta research scientists, is one such company. Founded in November 2024, the firm develops frontier vision models that…

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar, a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it means, enabling it to…

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there with it.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis is joined by Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup…

Under the terms of its $18 billion settlement to resolve claims brought by 29 U.S. states over children’s safety, Meta on Wednesday agreed to sweeping changes designed to restrict minors’ access to Instagram and Facebook. The changes include a daily time limit, a restrictive “Night Mode,” autoplay controls, and more. The social media giant says…

Apple announced on Wednesday that its next launch event is taking place on September 9, with a “Surprise and Shine” tagline. The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It’ll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO. Ternus is scheduled…

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblentz, the firm’s co-founder, told TechCrunch — women’s health,…

The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s statement on Wednesday, the seizures of the botnet’s domains deny the operators access to the platforms. The botnet was allegedly used by the Chinese government to…

A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday. This is the latest health tech giant to face a cyberattack in recent weeks. The Massachusetts-based company, which makes medically implanted devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, confirmed in a…

Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let users, not one company, control their own data and audience — is making another big bet on that ecosystem. The company on Wednesday announced it’s acquiring the Portland-based feed-building startup…

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a month after the incident became public, spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises….