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AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-08 01:00:00

Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared towards isolating users through one-to-one relationships with AI chatbots. “It feels like it fuels the loneliness epidemic, instead of making it more fun and giving users the opportunity to make their lives better,” Kamberi told TechCrunch. The future of AI companions, he says, is about shared experiences that strengthen real-w

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Lyft and May Mobility launch robotaxis in Atlanta

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-08 01:00:00

Riders in Atlanta can now hail a May Mobility robotaxi on the Lyft app, marking the first commercial deployment in the two companies’ partnership. The small fleet of autonomous vehicles is Lyft’s latest attempt to carve out a presence in the robotaxi market. Lyft’s Atlanta launch signals an effort to carve out a piece of the robotaxi market. But it has a lot of catching up to do if it hopes to close the gap with rival Uber. Earlier this year, Bank of America analysts downgraded the stock to “Un

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RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-08 01:07:26

In the wake of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the AI industry is coming to terms with its training data problem. There are as many as 40 other pending cases that seek damages for unlicensed data — including one that takes Midjourney to court for creating images of Superman. Without some kind of licensing system, AI companies could face an avalanche of copyright lawsuits that some worry will set the industry back permanently. Now, a group of technologists and web publishers has

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The Download: AI’s energy future

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-08 05:10:00

In May, MIT Technology Review published an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query. Our reporters and editors traced where AI’s carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed, as AI barrels towards billions of daily users. We’ve just produced a short video to accompany that investigation. You can read the original full story here, and check out—and share— the full video on YouTube here. AI is changing the grid. Could it help more

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Microsoft fixes app install issues caused by August Windows updates

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 05:02:35

Microsoft has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all Windows versions. This issue is caused by a security patch that mitigates a Windows Installer privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-50173), which can enable authenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. To address the CVE-2025-50173 security flaw, Microsoft has implemented new User Account

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-08 05:44:30

Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it’s removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages — located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile — to better focus on real-time engagement. The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, “based on a roll

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Uber will add Blade’s helicopters to its platform as early as 2026

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-08 05:00:00

Uber users living near New York City or Southern Europe may have a new travel option to pick from in 2026: helicopters. Electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation announced Wednesday that Blade Air Mobility helicopters will be on the Uber app starting “as soon as next year.” While Joby is not saying specifically where the Blade helicopters will be available to start, the company told TechCrunch they will likely pop up on the “most popular routes” like to and from airports. The news comes just one

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Spotify finally rolls out Lossless audio — here’s how to turn it on

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 14:36:50

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s long-awaited lossless audio tier is now gradually rolling out to Premium subscribers. The feature, simply called Lossless, streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. It is recommended to stream lossless music on Wi-Fi using either wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier in February 2021, but the feature never arrived — until now. Literally years after the first announcement, Spotify is

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US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing

wired.com Vas Panagiotopoulos 2025-10-08 14:00:00

The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security. In 2024, 20 new US-based spyware investors were identified, bringing the total number of American backers of this technology to 31. This growth has largely outpaced other major investing countries such as Israel, Italy, and the

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Tinder evolves some features into dating ‘modes’

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-08 14:46:17

In a bid to retain users and increase engagement, Tinder is overhauling some of its existing features into new, redesigned “modes,” in addition revamping its home screen. The app is getting two new modes, Double Date and College Mode — essentially extensions of existing features — alongside a “For You” mode on the home screen that presents the classic Tinder experience. The company said it will add more dating modes that will lean into interests, dating intentions, and different ways to connect

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The iPhone Air's top wireless charging speed is 20W

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:18:05

The announcement of the iPhone Air surprised exactly nobody during today's Apple "Awe dropping" event. As we finally get officiall details about this lightweight smartphone model, one of the biggest questions is about the battery. Thin devices mean thinner batteries, so we've been curious to see how the iPhone Air will stack up. One thing we now know is that it's less beefy than standard smartphones when it comes to wireless charging. According to the tech specs provided by Apple on its website

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6 sudo tricks every Linux user needs to know - plus 1 just for fun

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-08 15:00:16

MoleQL/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Sudo is a powerful but imperfect Linux tool. These tips can help make using sudo easier and safer. Always use caution when monkeying with sudo. I started using Linux prior to the advent of sudo. Back then, any time I needed to run admin tasks, I had to first su to the root user, run the task, and then exit the root user. Because root was enabled, some users would s

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Robinhood embraces copy trading after warning competitors about regulatory risks

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-08 12:17:09

What a difference a changing regulatory environment makes. Roughly nine months after suggesting that a young copy trading platform could only operate because it flew “under the radar” of regulators, Robinhood has announced its own entry into the space with “Robinhood Social,” a new feature that will allow users to follow and manually replicate the trades of prominent investors. The move represents a striking about-face for the online brokerage, which has historically been cautious about featur

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Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:22:54

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging People do or do not use debuggers for a variety of reasons. For one thing, they are hard to setup in many codebases. Second, you can’t use them when your application is running on remote environments (such as kuberenetes). So, anecdotally, I have seen way more people using Print/ log.Debug compared to a debugger. Which is a shame, because while debug logging is convenient at times, debuggers can do some things which you can’t easil

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Coursera Will Soon Have AI Personas to Help You Practice for a Job Interview

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 11:53:23

Generative AI is changing the way we learn. Tools like NotebookLM or chatbots make it easier to absorb information… or cheat. Global online learning platform Coursera is taking action by adding new features to help students master skills while deterring cheating. I've taken several Coursera courses and revisited them in recent months, only to see new sections dedicated to working with AI in the context of the course subject. This makes sense not only for the courses themselves, but also for the

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The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-10-08 08:00:00

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just talking movies. Since launching the service, Disney has used the name recognition of Star Wars and Marvel to launch scores of TV shows, from The Mandalorian to Loki. In the list below, we’ve collected the ones we think are the best to watch, from those franchises

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Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

wired.com Wired Staff 2025-10-08 16:30:00

With original reporting and sharp analysis, WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast covers today’s biggest stories in tech. We demystify companies like Palantir, trends like vibe coding, and figures like Sam Altman; we break down our essential coverage of DOGE and ICE; we guide listeners through breakthrough innovations like generative AI and sweeping policy changes like the Trump administration’s tariffs. On September 9, at 7 pm PDT, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley’s first live show of

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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear

news.ycombinator.com August 2025-10-08 14:55:16

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose. But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 15:44:00

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a fun, timely theme. Once you figure out the topic, the answers come easily. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crosswor

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From mixers to pitch-offs — your brand event belongs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-08 21:40:47

Last year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Side Events drew hundreds of founders, investors, and operators after hours — from intimate roundtables to lively happy hours to full-on pitch competitions. Each event unlocked new opportunities for the hosts: investor deal flow, talent connections, and brand exposure with the startup community. This year, you can do the same. As a Side Event host during “Disrupt Week” (October 25–31), you’ll tap into an audience of 10,000+ attendees, plus the broader Bay Area tec

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Immunotherapy drug eliminates aggressive cancers in clinical trial

news.ycombinator.com August 2025-10-09 00:55:16

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose. But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 01:45:42

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10, #822

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 05:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. There's a "tut" and a "tut-tut" in there -- which is pretty hilarious -- but they land in different categories. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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All of the iPhone 17 models compared

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-09 04:26:24

Aisha is a consumer news reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining the publication in 2021, she was a telecom reporter at MobileSyrup. Aisha holds an honours bachelor’s degree from University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from Western University. You can contact or verify outreach from Aisha by emailing [email protected] or via encrypted message at aisha_malik.01 on Signal.

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Apple’s creator-centric iPhone 17 Pro will make the vlogging camera obsolete

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-09 05:18:25

Apple unveiled its new line of iPhones on Tuesday, and the iPhone 17 Pro is making a direct appeal to content creators. The iPhone camera has long checked all the boxes for anything that a casual user might need, making a digital camera obsolete for most consumers. But for millions of content creators — an industry encompassing an estimated 200 million potential customers — it has remained necessary to buy handheld video cameras from companies like Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, and Fujifilm. S

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What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood

news.ycombinator.com Alex Mayyasi 2025-10-09 12:32:41

Here's what happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood Joe Raedle/Getty Images This comes from the Planet Money newsletter. Subscribe now to get more insights into how our economy works delivered to your inbox each week. Daniel Erb became a corporate landlord kind of by accident. It started in 2020, when he received his first bonus as an investment banker. It was more money than he was used to. He wanted to invest in real estate, so he called his cousin, a research analyst at

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Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Daniel 2025-10-09 13:04:49

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!) including four new scripts, many new characters and symbols, and a handful of emoji. You can use download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but they’re not quite ready to keyboard smash (it will take some time before many of these reach our devices) let’s take

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Astronomers Just Found a Record-Breaking Space Explosion That Makes No Sense

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-09 13:05:45

If you’ve been following Gizmodo’s astrophysics coverage, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: Scientists study a cosmic phenomenon and start to get a handle on it—then something shows up that completely upends their understanding. The latest example? It’s explosive. Literally. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe. Generally, GRBs last from milliseconds to several minutes. Scientists believe they emerge when massive stars explode in supernovas or get ripped apa

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SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:43:02

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

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Apple unveils AirPods Pro 3: new design, better battery life, heart rate monitor

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-09 17:07:17

Today during its ‘Awe dropping’ event, Apple unveiled the next generation of its highly successful AirPods Pro line. Here’s everything you should know about AirPods Pro 3. Apple announces AirPods Pro 3 with pre-orders starting today, shipping September 19 Today as the first announcement during its big iPhone 17 event, Apple introduced the next generation of AirPods Pro: AirPods Pro 3. AirPods Pro 3 include new features like: New design with smaller earbuds with smaller earbuds Improved spat

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Latest Tech News

AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

Lyft and May Mobility launch robotaxis in Atlanta

RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

The Download: AI’s energy future

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

Uber will add Blade’s helicopters to its platform as early as 2026

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Coursera Will Soon Have AI Personas to Help You Practice for a Job Interview

The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (September 2025)

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10

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SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

Apple unveils AirPods Pro 3: new design, better battery life, heart rate monitor

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