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Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-06 02:59:26

Linda Yaccarino, CEO, X/Twitter speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California. Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday announced she is stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk's social media site X after two years in the role. Yaccarino's departure comes one day after Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok repeatedly made antisemitic comments on Tuesday and referenced Hitler in response to posts about the Texas flo

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Increasingly Paranoid OpenAI Has Installed Fingerprint Scanners and Airgapped Systems to Prevent Secrets Escaping

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-06 01:08:23

As the United States embroils itself in a self-inflicted "arms race" with China, tech companies are ratcheting up the paranoia to extreme levels. Take ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, which is reportedly clamping down hard on physical security after it says it was "targeted" by Chinese AI rivals. Per the Financial Times, the company has gone as far as installing fingerprint "biometric access controls" around its offices, as well as electronically-dependent security airlocks, similar to the kind found

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Nvidia beats Apple to a $4T valuation as it rides AI wave

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-06 02:12:05

Nvidia, the US company specializing in high-performance GPU cards, has become the first ever company with a market capitalization of four trillion dollars. It is now the most valuable company in the world, ahead of Apple and Microsoft. It’s a little over a year since the company overtook AAPL thanks to a spectacular rise in value that saw it go from being worth $2T to more than $3T in just four months … Nvidia is best known for its high-end GPU chips used in gaming computers, and until the las

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Samsung's slimmer Galaxy Watch 8 series includes Gemini access

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-06 02:00:01

Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Watch 8 at its Unpacked event today. This is a fairly major redesign with some nifty-looking features. It boasts a smaller profile, with the company claiming it's the slimmest smartwatch it has ever made. It's 8.6mm thick, which makes it around 11 percent slimmer than the Watch 7. It ships with a new test that gauges the levels of antioxidants in the body. This is done by leveraging optical sensors. We gave this feature a try in a hands-on demo and came away fai

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Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a bigger battery and is still thinner than last year's model

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-06 02:00:39

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Z Flip 7, along with the Z Flip 7 FE and the Z Fold 7, during its latest Unpacked event. The Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a 4.1-inch Super AMOLED Flex Window, which is the largest external display on a Z Flip model yet. It's also the slimmest iteration of the Flip so far, measuring only 13.7 mm in thickness when folded, and has a larger battery (4,300mAh) than any of its predecessors. Since the new model comes with the AI features of Android 16, Samsung calls it an "intell

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Treasury sanctions North Korean over IT worker malware scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-06 02:43:11

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned cyber actor Song Kum Hyok for his association with North Korea's hacking group Andariel and for facilitating IT worker schemes that generated revenue for the Pyongyang regime. Considered a sub-cluster of the Lazarus group linked to North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the Andariel state actor is focused mostly on financially-motivated operations like ransomware (Maui, Play) and cryptocurrency heists. Song Kum Hyok has been identified as a

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X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-08-06 02:52:04

Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining the social media platform. In a post to X, Ms. Yaccarino, 61, said, “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me.” She did not provide a reason for her departure. Ms. Yacc

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-06 02:56:05

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years running the company, she announced today. She was appointed its CEO in the year after Elon Musk bought and renamed the company previously known as Twitter — so far, there is no word on who will replace her. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to car

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PR is your scaling power: Learn from Insight Partners’ Nikki Parker at TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-06 02:15:00

PR and marketing are more than just press releases — they’re powerful tools for attracting investors, customers, and top talent. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15, Nikki Parker, EVP of Marketing and Communications at global software investor Insight Partners, will break down the essential PR and marketing strategies every startup needs. From crafting compelling narratives and positioning your company for growth and fundraising to building a brand that stands out in a crowded market, this round

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Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2025-08-06 06:52:47

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value. Nvidia is the wo

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Zoom's AI gets a huge productivity upgrade - here's what it can do now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-06 06:00:14

alexsl/Getty Images Zoom's AI assistant just got another agentic upgrade. The company announced Wednesday that its AI Companion, unveiled close to two years ago, can now connect with 16 third-party apps -- all without forcing the user to leave Zoom. Also: How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing) The AI Companion can now more seamlessly assist sales and customer service professionals, for example, by connecting directly with apps like Salesforce and Zendesk. It can also

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Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-06 06:16:59

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from

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HBO Max comes full circle, and this time your apps will auto-update

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-06 08:56:29

The HBO streaming video app became HBO Max when the company added Warner Bros movies and Turner TV shows. In the worst rebrand since Twitter became X, the company later dropped the unique and valuable HBO part of the name and kept the generic and worthless Max part. Two years later, the company is fixing that. It today becomes HBO Max once more – and this time around, your apps should automatically update … Musk still holds the dumbest rebrand award thanks to throwing away a global household n

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Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-06 10:54:53

A “click to cancel” law was last month passed in California, and now the FTC has ratified a federal rule designed to achieve the same goal. The idea of both is to force companies to make it as easy to cancel an online or app subscription as it is to sign up in the first place. Update: Following a court challenge, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the rule. See update at the end … Both laws were introduced in response to sketchy practices by companies designed to make it as dif

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Sizing up the 5 companies selected for Europe’s launcher challenge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-06 10:48:59

The European Space Agency has selected five launch startups to become eligible for up to 169 million euros ($198 million) in funding to develop alternatives to Arianespace, the continent's incumbent launch service provider. The five companies ESA selected are Isar Aerospace, MaiaSpace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, PLD Space, and Orbex. Only one of these companies, Isar Aerospace, has attempted to launch a rocket into orbit. Isar's Spectrum rocket failed moments after liftoff from Norway on a test f

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BNY Mellon will have custody of Ripple's new stablecoin as institutional interest in crypto swells

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-06 19:41:45

Bank of New York Mellon will be the primary custodian for the Ripple's U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin reserves going forward, the two companies said Wednesday. The partnership should enhance regulatory compliance for Ripple, the issuer of ripple USD (RLUSD), and boost institutional credibility for the company as well as the fast growing stablecoin industry. BNY is the nation's oldest bank and primarily serves institutions and corporations. It also adds to the growing number of traditional insti

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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-06 17:18:06

After migrating several projects from WordPress to Astro, I've become a massive fan of this framework. What is Astro? Astro is a web framework that came out in 2021 and immediately felt different. While most JavaScript frameworks started with building complex applications and then tried to adapt to simpler sites, Astro went the opposite direction. It was built from day one for content-focused websites. The philosophy is refreshingly simple. Astro believes in being content-driven and server-fi

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Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train

news.ycombinator.com Mert Bulan 2025-08-06 19:29:46

Ever since ChatGPT came out, the tech world has jumped on a new hype train—just like it did before with crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse. This time, I think the hype spread even faster because it was so easy to try—just open a website and start typing. ChatGPT quickly became one of the fastest-growing products ever, reaching 100 million users in 2 months. Like past trends, it also brought a lot of debate and strong opinions. I’ve used ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), and I’ve even

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Record-Setting Qubit Performance Marks Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computing

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-06 19:05:09

The promise of so-called “quantum advantage” is simple. By harnessing the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics, quantum computers should be able to—in theory—surpass the computational potential of any classical supercomputer. But before quantum advantage drastically changes information technology as we know it, researchers have yet to address the many hurdles that are preventing quantum computers from entering into the mainstream. That said, quantum computing as a field has evolved drama

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-06 19:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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Surfing on a Matchbox (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 21:05:32

It is one tenth the size of a Palm Pilot and dwarfed by a typical desktop computer, which is 3,000 times larger. The matchbox-sized server was built from standard components by Professor Vaughan Pratt, a computer scientist at Stanford University, California. "It's basically a powerful little computer and we could have set it up for a number of different uses," he said. "But, because most people think of servers as mysterious boxes, located in dark basements, I thought making it into a web serv

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An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-06 19:07:39

Deep inside Alphabet, the parent company of Google, a secretive lab is working on a promise so audacious it sounds like science fiction: to “solve all diseases.” The company, Isomorphic Labs, is now preparing to start its first human clinical trials for cancer drugs designed entirely by artificial intelligence. In a recent interview with Fortune, Colin Murdoch, President of Isomorphic Labs and Chief Business Officer of Google DeepMind, confirmed the company is on the verge of this monumental st

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The Hidden Cost of OpenAI’s Genius

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-06 19:55:27

OpenAI is the undisputed poster child of the AI revolution, the company that forced the world to pay attention with the launch of ChatGPT. But behind the scenes, a desperate and wildly expensive battle is raging, and the cost of keeping the company’s geniuses in-house is becoming astronomical. According to a recent report from The Information, OpenAI revealed to investors that its stock-based compensation for employees surged more than fivefold last year to an astonishing $4.4 billion. That fig

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Apple COO Jeff Williams is retiring this year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-07 02:13:30

Jeff Williams is stepping down from his post as chief operating officer at Apple, the company announced today. Sabih Khan, senior vice president of operations for the company, will take over the COO title later this month. Following Williams' retirement later this year, the design team that he had overseen will report directly to CEO Tim Cook. He also leads the teams for the Apple Watch and the company's Health initiatives, but no details have been shared yet about who will head up those section

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One of Tim Cook’s possible successors is leaving Apple

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-07 10:54:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over for Jeff Williams as chief operating officer later this month. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple said the move is part of a “long-planned succession” that has Williams retiring at the end of this year. Williams, who oversaw the introduction of the iPo

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US government confirms arrest of Chinese national accused of stealing COVID research and mass-hacking email servers

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-07 10:40:42

In Brief The U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the arrest of Chinese national Xu Zewei, an alleged prolific contract hacker who carried out cyberattacks for China. Xu was arrested in Italy at the request of U.S. prosecutors. Xu and another Chinese national Zhang Yu, who remains at large, are accused in a nine-charge indictment of “hacking and stealing crucial COVID-19 research” from U.S. universities during February 2020. The DOJ said Xu worked for a company called Shanghai Powerock Networ

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Why Buy 6 Appliances When This Ninja Blender Does It All, Feels Practically Free on Prime Day

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-07 14:05:27

No one wants to have to fill their kitchen with multiple appliances if they don’t have to. That’s why it’s so easy when you get appliances that can do a variety of things at once. They have a much smaller footprint and they can help you get through the day faster because of it. And if you’re ready to take the plunge with one, namely a blender and food processor that you can get a lot done with, now’s the time to invest. Head to Amazon to get the Ninja Blender & Food Processor Combo for just $16

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SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-07 14:52:07

In Brief SpaceX is looking to raise fresh capital by selling new shares to insiders in a deal that would boost its valuation to around $400 billion, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The company’s strategy is to raise money via a fundraising round and separately hold a tender offer to allow employees to sell some of their shares to a select group of investors, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. SpaceX typically holds tender offers twice per year. SpaceX’s valuation has steadily climbed si

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