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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-22 13:07:57

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. 23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to buy back the company after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. On Friday, 23andMe and TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit public benefit corporation run by Wojcicki, announced in a press release that TTAM would be buying “substantially all of the Company’s assets” for $305 million. As of l

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Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-22 17:54:45

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025. Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has regained control over the embattled genetic testing company after her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, outbid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , the company announced Friday. TTAM will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets for $305 million, including its Personal Genome Service and Re

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23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 17:45:34

In a surprise twist, 23andMe founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to regain control of the DNA company's assets, according to a press release from 23andMe. In May, a company called Regeneron bought 23andMe for $256 million in a bankruptcy auction, but Wojcicki's nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, was able to reopen bidding with an "unsolicited offer" of $305 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. A bankruptcy judge agreed to reopen bidding on 23andMe under the condition that Regenero

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Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 01:36:00

Corinne Hazel, a WVU environmental microbiology major from Delaware, Ohio, has discovered a new species of fungus that may treat a variety of medical conditions. (WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic

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As Trump Comes for Your Social Media, It’s Time You Consider What’s Worth Sharing

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-22 18:11:22

Agents of the Trump administration are increasingly using social media posts to crack down on immigrants, tourists, and even some U.S. citizens. Last month, a leaked document showed the State Department had crafted a new standard for reviewing the social media accounts of any foreign students planning to attend or even visit Harvard University. Legal immigrants may have benefits denied based on social media activity, and people expressing opinions or acting contrary to Trump are being detained a

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The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 01:23:15

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search. You can now search semantically, based on the animation's content. In other words, it's much more likely to bring up the topic or scene you're looking for by describing it. In GifCities' old version,

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Computing’s Top 30: Sukanya Meher

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-09-23 09:00:50

Sukanya S. Meher loves a good intersection. Especially the one between theory and application, which she first seriously explored in the realm of superconductor electronics. Today, Meher works in electronic design automation (EDA), bringing with her a unique perspective on circuit design, modeling, simulation, and tool development. This EDA work is also giving her the chance to explore a new intersection: that between technology design and customer success. As an AMS staff engineer at Synopsys

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Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-23 09:04:43

A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky’s social network has grown to over 36.5 million users, while the technology it’s built upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto for short) — is being used to develop dozens more applications designed to work together as part of an open social web. The developers behind many of these apps attended the first conferenc

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Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-24 05:37:06

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is causing users to experience errors with some Microsoft 365 authentication features. As the company revealed earlier today in an incident alert published in the admin center, users may experience errors during self-service password resets, while admins may be unable to add multi-factor authentication (MFA) sign-in methods to some users. Redmond says this incident is caused by a recent change aiming to improve MFA sign-in functionality. Sinc

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Pixel Camera update may have killed this handy sharing feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:30:05

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Google has pushed out a new Pixel Camera update to the Play Store. The update seems to remove the Social Share shortcut, which was introduced back in 2019. This menu pops up for a few seconds after taking a photo, allowing you to quickly share your snap via a selection of apps. Google introduced a Social Share shortcut to the Pixel Camera app back in 2019’s Pixel 4 series. This sharing menu would pop up immediately after taking a photo on your Pixel ph

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Victoria’s Secret restores critical systems after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-24 14:56:16

Victoria's Secret has restored all critical systems impacted by a May 24 security incident that forced it to shut down corporate systems and the e-commerce website. The company operates around 1,380 retail stores in nearly 70 countries and has reported net sales of $1.353 billion for the first quarter of 2025, with a forecasted net sales range of up to $6.3 billion for the year. In a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that all restored criti

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PCIe 7.0 is coming, but not soon, and not for you

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-24 12:22:06

The PCIe 7.0 specification has now been released, while many of us are still waiting for PCIe 6.0 to materialize in consumer products. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced on Wednesday that PCIe 7.0 is now available to members of its organization, delivering a theoretical maximum bandwidth speed of 512GB per second in both directions, across a x16 connection. “PCIe technology has served as the high-bandwidth, low-latency IO interconnect of choice for over two decades and we are pl

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Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring a President / CRO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 20:00:00

Roundtable is a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. Roundtable seeks to research and build real-world Turing Tests, and to productize these developments in bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous authentication. You’ll be joining Roundtable’s C-suite alongside CEO Mayank Agrawal and CTO Mathew Hardy. The primary job will be to design, manage, and execute the commercial muscle of the company. You should be prepared to spend your time do

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Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-25 01:33:28

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. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions of viewers wa

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After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-25 01:13:38

In Brief Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 20th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the firm’s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund X. This follows the $825 million Fund IX raised in 2023 and the $600 million Fund XIII raised in 2021. Felicis, a seed and Series A firm, is known for backing a long string of successes, including Ayden, Bonobos, Ring, Shopify, and Twitch, among others. Since being founded in 2006, Felicis has backed over 50 unicorns and had

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Bluesky backlash misses the point

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-25 05:27:19

Bluesky is missing an opportunity to explain to people that its network is more than just its own Bluesky social app. In recent weeks, a number of headlines and posts have surfaced questioning whether Bluesky’s growth is declining, if the network has become too much of a left-leaning echo chamber, or if its users lack a sense of humor, among other charges. Investor Mark Cuban, who even financially backed Skylight, a video app built on Bluesky’s underlying protocol, AT Proto, complained this we

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Do Whole Body Vibration Plates Actually Promote Weight Loss? We Asked Fitness Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 06:15:00

Countless weight loss and fitness trends have come and gone over the years, from gimmicky products that provided minimal results to science-backed health tools that genuinely worked. You may remember the vibrating belt machines from the mid-20th century that were promoted as weight loss aids. Trends often cycle back around, so it's relatively unsurprising that vibration plates are re-emerging as the latest fitness trend once again. Some claim they are an excellent alternative workout method with

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The Nothing Phone 3 will be available in the US via Amazon

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 13:45:34

The Nothing Phone 3 is getting an official release for US customers. The handset will be available to purchase from Amazon or directly from the company, according to a report by TechCrunch. Nothing CEO Carl Pei has been teasing this news since April, but now it's official. Canadians will also be able to get in on the retail action, as Nothing has inked a deal with Best Buy to sell the new handset in the region. The phone goes on sale next month. The company has produced eight handsets since fo

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Apple quietly fixed an iPhone zero-day flaw that was used against journalists

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-25 17:55:49

Today, Apple confirmed (via TechCrunch) that a zero-day flaw used to deploy mercenary spyware onto journalists’ iPhones was quietly patched earlier this year, with the iOS 18.3.1 update. The flaw, disclosed today in an updated security advisory, was exploited by Israeli surveillance firm Paragon, to hack into the phones of at least two European journalists. According to Citizen Lab, which investigated the attacks, Apple fixed the issue in iOS 18.3.1, released back in February, but didn’t menti

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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

news.ycombinator.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-26 01:39:57

Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon, new research has confirmed. On Thursday, digital rights group The Citizen Lab published a new report detailing the results of a new forensic investigation into the iPhones of Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and an unnamed “prominent” European journalist. The researchers said both journalists were hacked by the same Paragon customer, based on evidence found on the two journalists’

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Is Now Near-Free With 54% Off, Currently One of Amazon’s Best-Selling Processors

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-26 05:40:19

If you’ve been toying with the idea of building a new PC or upgrading an older system, you’re in luck. You may have already noticed this, but prices on components like processors and GPUs have been steadily falling, and now’s the time to buy. Not sure where to start or what to buy first? We’ve got you covered, especially thanks to this deal that Amazon has offered up that can sweeten your gaming setup significantly, even if you’re more of an internet browser than a gamer. See at Amazon Head on

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These Are the Best TV Shows on Apple TV Plus That'll Scratch Your Sci-Fi Itch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 05:14:28

You'd be mistaken if you think Severance is the only must-watch sci-fi TV show on Apple TV Plus. Apple's original entertainment platform has steadily churned out top-notch genre titles for years. Finally, audiences are discovering what you and I have known for a while. The problem with Apple TV Plus is that its library is packed with high-quality programs, and it can be confusing to determine which one to click play on first. But that won't discourage you. How do I know? You could've gone to Ne

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GitLab patches high severity account takeover, missing auth issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-26 13:26:00

GitLab has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the company's DevSecOps platform, including ones enabling attackers to take over accounts and inject malicious jobs in future pipelines. The company released GitLab Community and Enterprise versions 18.0.2, 17.11.4, and 17.10.8 to address these security flaws and urged all admins to upgrade immediately. "These versions contain important bug and security fixes, and we strongly recommend that all self-managed GitLab inst

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Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 11:57:20

Live Events The majority of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users. Gilmar Mendes on Wednesday became the sixth of the court's 11 justices to vote to open a path for companies like Meta, X and Microsoft to be sued and pay fines for content published by their users. Voting is ongoing but a simple majority is all that is needed for the measure to pass.The ruling will come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warn

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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-26 13:00:00

Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon, new research has confirmed. On Thursday, digital rights group The Citizen Lab published a new report detailing the results of a new forensic investigation into the iPhones of Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and an unnamed “prominent” European journalist. The researchers said both journalists were hacked by the same Paragon customer, based on evidence found on the two journalists’

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Small retailers on 'vacation from hell' as they seek clarity on Trump's China tariffs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-26 12:11:00

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A UPS seasonal worker delivers packages on Cyber Monday in New York on Nov. 27, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Matt Kubancik, a small business owner in Louisville, Kentucky, cast his ballot for Donald Trump in November, he was hoping that the Republican nominee's return to the White House would provide a spark to the economy and lead to reduced prices for gas and groceries. Instead, the first half-year

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RFK Jr. announces 8 appointees to CDC vaccine panel—they’re not good

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 14:44:50

Anti-vaccine advocate and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media Wednesday to announce the names of eight people he is appointing to a critical federal vaccine advisory committee—which is currently empty after Kennedy abruptly fired all 17 previous members Monday. In the past, the vetting process for appointing new members to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) could take years. But Kennedy has taken j

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YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-25 15:56:00

Why it matters: Don't be surprised to see more controversial videos on YouTube. Much like Meta, the platform has relaxed its moderation policies, allowing content that violates the usual rules if it is deemed to be in the "public interest." The Google-owned site has provided moderators with new guidelines and training on how to deal with inflammatory content that breaks YouTube's code of conduct, writes The New York Times. Reviewers have been told not to remove anything considered to be in the

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The cloud is not enough: Cisco embraces the shift toward Hybrid AI workloads

techspot.com Bob O'Donnell 2025-09-26 01:09:00

Bottom line: At this year's Cisco Live event in San Diego, one thing became apparent: the opportunity to run modern applications like GenAI and autonomous agents is no longer limited to the cloud. Cisco was ready to highlight several new products and services specifically targeted at major cloud computing providers and large ISPs. They also noted that interest in expanding the capabilities of on-premises data centers is not only still alive, but it's being reinvigorated by the rapid transition t

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How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?

techspot.com Unknown 2025-09-26 20:01:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: 75W What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? When installed in a motherboard's PCIe x16 slot, a graphics card such as the GeForce RTX 5080 can draw up to 75 watts of power directly from the slot. This power comes from the motherboard's +3.3V and +12V rails (3.3V × 3A + 12V × 5.5A), which is the maximum defined by the PCI Express base specification for a x16 slot (this limit ha

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Latest Tech News

Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman

As Trump Comes for Your Social Media, It’s Time You Consider What’s Worth Sharing

The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

Computing’s Top 30: Sukanya Meher

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users

Pixel Camera update may have killed this handy sharing feature

Victoria’s Secret restores critical systems after cyberattack

PCIe 7.0 is coming, but not soon, and not for you

Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring a President / CRO

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M

Bluesky backlash misses the point

Do Whole Body Vibration Plates Actually Promote Weight Loss? We Asked Fitness Experts

The Nothing Phone 3 will be available in the US via Amazon

Apple quietly fixed an iPhone zero-day flaw that was used against journalists

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Is Now Near-Free With 54% Off, Currently One of Amazon’s Best-Selling Processors

These Are the Best TV Shows on Apple TV Plus That'll Scratch Your Sci-Fi Itch

GitLab patches high severity account takeover, missing auth issues

Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media liable for user content

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

Small retailers on 'vacation from hell' as they seek clarity on Trump's China tariffs

RFK Jr. announces 8 appointees to CDC vaccine panel—they’re not good

YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

The cloud is not enough: Cisco embraces the shift toward Hybrid AI workloads

How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?

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