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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

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Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at

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Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and o

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Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

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Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

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Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.

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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

Score: 275 | Comments: 174

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Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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Sun Clock

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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

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Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

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Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

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WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plug-in support, and professional website-building tools.

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AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

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A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Score: 671 | Comments: 118

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