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If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-16 19:15:13

There’s no reason to delay getting in the spirit of Halloween as popular costume retailers begin to release this year’s slate of pop culture-inspired looks. From Spirit Halloween to BoxLunch to PetSmart, there are a ton of fandom fits across stores and online for the while family. For Squid Game fans we’re excited about the official collaboration between Spirit Halloween and the Netflix hit show. Fans can dress up as players, guards, and the Front Man and there’s an update for the Young-hee dol

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The White House's LinkedIn Pic Is Now Donald Trump's Face. Former Staffers Are 'Frustrated'

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 23:08:00

Whenever you leave a job, you largely surrender your connection with the organization or company you worked for, but the reputational tie can often linger on -- for better or worse. Some former White House staffers feel their reputation has taken a hit this week, after the current presidential administration updated the official White House profile picture on LinkedIn to a photo of President Donald Trump. Now, in the Experience section on the LinkedIn profiles of everyone who has ever worked fo

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-16 23:49:27

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. Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “c

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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-16 23:32:52

Technically, the poke never really left Facebook. The classic feature from Facebook’s early days lets users get a friend’s attention with a virtual nudge of sorts. While the poke fell out of use ages ago, the company has more recently seen an uptick in its use among younger users, which has now prompted it to make the poke a more central part of the Facebook experience. Now users are able to poke their friends from a new, dedicated button directly on their Facebook profile, which will alert th

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Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable green robot - try it for free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-17 03:26:00

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

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Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-17 07:10:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable Android bot - try it for free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-17 07:15:43

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

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AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-17 07:00:00

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take over tedious and repetitive work performed by freight shippers, carriers and brokers. On Thursday, Augment announced that it raised an $85 million Series A le

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Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-17 07:06:54

Nepal has ordered internet service providers to block access to major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, after the companies failed to comply with local registration rules — drawing criticism from media rights groups and raising concerns over censorship and free expression. On Thursday, Nepal’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed the Nepal Telecommunications Authority to instruct internet service providers to restrict access to 26 so

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OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-17 07:19:46

OpenAI says it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees, a service that would put the outfit in close competition with LinkedIn. The product is called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, and the company expects to launch the service by mid-2026, an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced the new endeavor in a blog post Thursday, saying the company will “use AI to help find the perfect matches between what companies need an

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Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-10-17 07:45:00

The luxury membership platform Vivrelle, which allows customers to rent high-end goods, announced Thursday the launch of an AI personal styling tool called Ella as part of its partnership with fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. The launch is an example of how the fashion industry is leveraging AI technology to enhance customer experiences and is one of the first partnerships to see three retailers come together to offer a personalized AI experience. Revolve and FWRD let users shop designer clo

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Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:51:42

Threat actors have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in legacy Sitecore deployments to deploy WeepSteel reconnaissance malware. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-53690, is a ViewState deserialization vulnerability caused by the inclusion of a sample ASP.NET machine key in pre-2017 Sitecore guides. Some customers reused this key in production, allowing attackers with knowledge of the key to craft valid, but malicious '_VIEWSTATE' payloads that tricked the server into deserializing and exe

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Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 11:15:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is one of

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The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-17 10:01:19

Around six years ago, a new rallying cry rippled through Washington: “Break Up Big Tech.” It was a slogan emblazoned on campaign posters, uttered at congressional hearings, and beginning, it seemed, to echo through the halls of the nation’s antitrust enforcers. Momentum in the legislatures eventually petered out, but the enforcers at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission remained more active than ever. President Joe Biden never took the kind of hard posture on Big Tech that politi

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Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 for a 20th anniversary conversation on the future of venture

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-17 15:27:00

We’re excited to announce that Roelof Botha, managing partner of Sequoia Capital and one of the most influential voices in venture capital, will join us live onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than two decades, Botha has helped shape some of the world’s most iconic companies — and his perspective has never been more important. Why this session matters The venture ecosystem is in flux: Venture firms are evolving into broad

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LinkedIn is cracking down on fake recruiters and executive impersonators - here's how

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-17 19:01:00

LinkedIn / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways LinkedIn might verify your next job update to the site. LinkedIn will verify companies, recruiters, and executives. The news comes amid rampant job and recruitment scams. The job market is tough enough already -- but recruitment-related scams make it tougher. On Thursday, LinkedIn outlined several ways it's making its platform more trustworthy to mitigate scams and executive

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Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

news.ycombinator.com Josh Dzieza 2025-10-17 18:30:20

WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” in cases of notable deaths that they are said to have the fastest past tense in the West. So it was unusual, according to one longtime editor who was watching the page, that on the afternoon of January 20th, 2025, hours after Elon Musk made a gesture resembling a Nazi salute at a rally following Pr

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Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-17 19:00:59

U.S. health officials have issued several recalls of shrimp in recent weeks over concerns about radioactive material. And now a sitting U.S. Senator has taken the opportunity to warn people in the most dire terms possible. With help from a visual aide, of course. Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, took to the Senate floor with a giant poster board featuring a screenshot from the classic 1979 film Alien on Wednesday. And he wants you to know that Americans are going to look like the

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How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-17 23:13:14

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic is valued at $183 billion after a new funding round. The company currently serves over 300,000 enterprise customers. A marketing emphasis on safety could be a major driving factor. Anthropic is soaring, and the popularity of its tools among enterprise clients is providing much of the lift. The AI start-up announced on Tuesday that its latest funding round raised $13 bill

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Browser Company (makers of Arc browser) Acquired By Atlassian for $610M

news.ycombinator.com The Browser Company 2025-10-17 21:45:12

Roden Crater, James Turrell. Photographed by Agostino De Rosa, 2009. Today, The Browser Company of New York is entering into an agreement to be acquired by Atlassian in an all-cash transaction. We will operate independently, with Dia as our focus. Our objective is to bring Dia to the masses. Now that the headline is out of the way, we have to admit: it’s an odd experience writing an acquisition announcement. How do you fit five years of sweat, risk, and late nights into a few paragraphs? Espec

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 22:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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Lull in Falcon Heavy missions opens window for SpaceX to build new landing pads

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-17 23:13:25

Remember the first time you saw a SpaceX rocket nail a bullseye landing after hurtling back from space? How about the first time two boosters landed side-by-side, punctuating the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with thrilling synchrony? Some of SpaceX's most defining moments happened on a piece of beachfront property at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This is where SpaceX first landed a reusable Falcon 9 booster coming back from space and, a few years later, land

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Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-17 23:39:15

Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators that has secured over $100 million in venture capital to date at a valuation of $500 million, is rebranding to Mirage, the company announced on Thursday. The new name reflects the company’s broader ambitions to become an AI research lab focused on multimodal foundational models specifically designed for short-form video content for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The company believes this approach will disting

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Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-17 23:43:06

In Brief Cloud provider Lambda might be following rival CoreWeave to the public markets. Lambda, an AI infrastructure company offering on-demand GPUs, has hired bankers for an upcoming IPO, according to reporting from The Information. Lambda has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi for a public listing that could happen as early as the first half of 2026. Lambda did not respond to a request for comment. The company has raised more than $1.7 billion in funding, according to

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Atlassian is buying Arc maker The Browser Company for $610 million

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 03:52:37

The Browser Company — the maker of the Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers — is set to have a new owner. Atlassian is buying it for around $610 million in an all-cash deal , which it expects to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026 (i.e. by the end of the 2025 calendar year). According to The Browser Company, it will continue to operate independently as it builds Dia. A private beta for the browser started in June . Arc (a well-regarded browser on which the company has ended active de

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Ecovacs' new robot vacuum never runs out of power - and that's not even the best part

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-18 03:00:17

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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World’s first sodium-ion portable power station is ready for extreme cold

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-18 03:00:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bluetti’s at IFA 2025 with the world’s first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na = sodium) is covere

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Only 2 days left to claim your exhibitor spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-18 03:00:00

We’re in the final stretch — with just two days left and only 10 tables remaining, now is the time to act if you want to shine the light on your brand at one of the most anticipated tech conferences of the year. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco this October 27–29. Exhibiting puts your startup in the heart of the action — where 10,000+ founders, investors, press, and decision-makers come to discover what’s next. Your brand missing the spotlight at this tech epi

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These new headphones promise up to 100 hours (!) of battery life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 07:30:30

Baseus TL;DR Baseus has announced the Inspire XH1 noise canceling headphones. This pair of headphones offers up to 100 hours of battery life, or up to 65 hours with ANC enabled. The company also revealed a pair of wireless earbuds and a pair of open-ear earphones. Baseus has just announced two cool charging gadgets at IFA 2025, including a mobile hotspot that doubles as a 20,000mAh power bank. But the company isn’t stopping here, as it’s also announced a trio of audio products today. Inspir

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If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

The White House's LinkedIn Pic Is Now Donald Trump's Face. Former Staffers Are 'Frustrated'

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable green robot - try it for free

Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable Android bot - try it for free

AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn

Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’

Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors

Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach

The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 for a 20th anniversary conversation on the future of venture

LinkedIn is cracking down on fake recruiters and executive impersonators - here's how

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

Browser Company (makers of Arc browser) Acquired By Atlassian for $610M

Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

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Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

Atlassian is buying Arc maker The Browser Company for $610 million

Ecovacs' new robot vacuum never runs out of power - and that's not even the best part

World’s first sodium-ion portable power station is ready for extreme cold

Only 2 days left to claim your exhibitor spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

These new headphones promise up to 100 hours (!) of battery life

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