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Particle, the AI newsreader startup started by ex-Twitter engineers, has launched Radar, a search engine that transcribes and semantically indexes over 130,000 podcasts to surface quotes and highlights. The product grew out of a popular clip-sourcing feature in Particle's news app and is now offered as a standalone API for AI agents and data buyers, including hedge funds and search platforms like Exa.
Pioneer, known for its CarPlay head units, has entered the iPhone accessories market with a new product line designed for in-car use. The collection includes a MagSafe wireless charger, a phone mount, and USB-C charging options, now available for purchase on Amazon.
Julia Collins, who became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company after Zume Pizza hit a $1 billion valuation in 2018, later left to launch Planet FWD, a platform helping brands track and cut their carbon footprint. In an interview, she reflected on her entrepreneurial upbringing, her early career as the first hire at food chain Mexicue, and her approach to leadership across the more than $500 million she has raised in venture capital.
Rockstar Games officially confirmed that recently circulated Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay clips are genuine, describing their unauthorized release as heartbreaking for its team. The company apologized for the long wait for information and said development is nearly complete, though it plans years of post-launch updates. Rockstar will show an extended official look at the game via Netflix on August 27, followed by a YouTube release.
Apple TV announced a new heist thriller titled '12 12 12,' premiering November 13 with its first two episodes, followed by weekly releases through December 25. The series stars Anthony Mackie as a disgraced FBI agent and Jamie Dornan as a career criminal, structured around three timelines—12 months of planning, 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days after—centered on a vault robbery beneath Zurich.
SpaceX is pursuing exemptions from federal environmental rules to speed construction of what would become the largest spaceport in the world. Wildlife advocacy organizations are pushing back, arguing the waivers would bypass protections meant to safeguard sensitive habitats and species near the site.
Most routers include a single WAN port alongside multiple LAN ports, and although the connectors look identical, they perform very different jobs. The WAN port links your router to the internet, while LAN ports connect local devices like PCs, TVs and consoles so they can talk to each other and share that connection.
Android Auto users had been hit by a bug that showed a 'Spotify isn't responding' error message when trying to launch the app, with only exiting or waiting offered as options. Some drivers found workarounds like leaving the Android Auto beta or clearing the app's cache, but the issue kept recurring for others. Google confirmed to Android Authority that a fix started rolling out today.
A security research team investigated repeated crashes in a customer's Go application running on embedded 32-bit ARM Linux systems, which failed with a fatal 'netpoll: eventfd ready for something unexpected' error after long uptimes. Tracing the fault into Go's netpoll_epoll.go code, they found it matched a previously reported but unresolved issue in the Go project's issue tracker involving epoll reporting more than the expected EPOLLIN event.
A Bloomberg report finds recruiters increasingly relying on networking, referrals and live skills tests to sift through job applicants because AI tools have made resumes and cover letters look uniformly polished. London Business School's Zoe McLoughlin says knowing someone at a company before applying has become essential rather than optional. Meanwhile, nearly 84% of entry-level finance candidates surveyed by AmplifyME admit to using AI to prepare applications or interview answers.
NCC Group's July threat advisory reports a 22% month-over-month rise in ransomware activity, with 894 victim organization listings recorded across industrial, consumer services, technology, critical infrastructure, finance and healthcare sectors. The Gentlemen and Quilin topped the list of attributed groups, while the US accounted for 41% of incidents; notably, the month also saw the first fully agentic AI-driven ransomware attack chain and a breach at Ernst & Young claimed by ShinyHunters.
Researchers have devised a method to operate two separate genetic codes at once without needing to re-engineer an organism's entire genome to accommodate the change. The approach was tested outside living cells, so it avoids the laborious process of altering every gene, as previous efforts required when adding new amino acids to bacterial proteins.