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Helen Thomas is an executive editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the FT's flagship investment commentary service. She previously wrote a column on British business and finance. Previous roles in her first stint at the FT included being a Lex writer in New York, working on FT Alphaville, covering M&A and the mining sector. From 2013, she worked at the Wall Street Journal and then at BBC Newsnight before rejoining the FT in 2021.
An asteroid the size of a commercial airplane will skim past our planet on Wednesday, September 3. Asteroid 2025 QD8 has no chance of hitting Earth, but its brief proximity will allow scientists (and you!) a rare opportunity to observe a passing asteroid at very close range. The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 will host a livestream of the flyby starting at 7:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 2. This astronomical program, overseen by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy, uses remotely c
Marshall's family of TV audio gear is growing. The company has announced the Heston Sub 200 subwoofer and Heston 60 compact soundbar, both of which are now available for pre-order. The $700 Heston 60 is a smaller take on the first soundbar Marshall introduced earlier this year, the Heston 120, offering Dolby Atmos and DTS-X for more intimate spaces. With the Heston Sub 200, a $600 subwoofer that pairs with both soundbars, Marshall touts "a sound that can be truly felt." Both products come in Cre
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the world’s toughest problems. Under his leadership, X has birthed game-changing projects like Waymo (self-driving cars), Wing (delivery drones), and Loon (internet-beaming bal
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Vivo has confirmed the first details about the upcoming X300 Pro smartphone. This is a sequel to the X200 Pro, which is one of the best camera phones of 2025. The new phone will offer a semi-custom 200MP periscope camera with improved stabilization, focusing, and more. There’s no shortage of great camera phones in 2025, but the vivo X200 Pro certainly made my list. Now, vivo has officially confirmed that the X300 series is on the way and revealed the f
OpenAI is working on a new feature called the Thinking effort picker for ChatGPT. With the Thinking effort picker, you can choose how hard ChatGPT can think. When a model thinks harder, it doesn't necessarily mean a great response. You might not want the model to think harder when you're not sure what to do tomorrow. However, you may want the model to think harder when you're working on a complex topic, such as econometrics, bond valuation, healthcare and so on. As spotted on X, OpenAI is te
Originality is still alive at Disney, and it’s taking the form of 2026’s Hexed. Unveiled during the studio’s Destination 23 event, the Walt Disney Animation Studios film from Zootopia and Raya and the Last Dragon artist Josie Trinidad and Moana 2 co-director Jason Hand centers on “an awkward teenage boy and his Type – A mom,” per the logline. When they discover his oddness is actually magic powers manifesting, they learn of a secret world of magic that’ll forever transform their lives. (A premi
2025 There has to be a laptop that does it all and won’t break my back as I haul it around town. I’m sure every mobile-minded gamer has asked themselves that question and come away without a good answer. The one arena I keep coming back to is the 14-inch gaming laptop. Today’s tiny beasts have the performance necessary to keep up with 16- or 18-inch laptop without needing to lug around a huge chunk of aluminum. What’s not to like? Here’s the kicker: it’s only getting more expensive to achieve t
Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) will have to wait for showtime just a little longer than originally anticipated, as Mortal Kombat II will bow out of 2025’s fall movie release schedule, instead opening in May 2026. The Warner Bros., New Line, and Atomic Monster production was originally slated to be released on October 24 of this year, but that is no longer the case. According to Deadline, it’s not a reflection of the film’s quality, as the trade reports the film has been testing well, but rather a piv
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Foldable phone deals seem to be getting really good lately, and I must say this one is likely the hottest I have seen in a while. The Motorola Razr Plus 2025 usually goes for $999.99, but right now you can get it for just $449.99. This marks a new record-low price for the device, and it’s far below the hottest sales we’ve seen in the past. Buy the Motorola Razr 2025 for just $449.99 ($550 off) This offer is available from Woot, a deals-focused website owned by A
IFA, Europe's answer to the CES, kicks off on September 5 in Berlin, Germany. The show likely won't be the biggest source of news in September — Apple's iPhone launch event is officially happening on September 9 — but it is usually home to its fair share of announcements. IFA 2024 featured new "AI PCs" from ASUS and Dell, including the first Inspiron laptop with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Plus chip. There were plenty of more unusual ideas, too: Honor used the show to introduce a laptop with a detac
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing false CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error messages after installing the July 2025 preview and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. When it acknowledged this bug two weeks ago, the company asked users to ignore error events caused by recent updates that triggered a warning about the 'Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider' not being loaded. "Following installation of the July 2025 Windows non-security preview update (KB5062660) and later upd
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where over 10,000 founders, VCs, and tech innovators collide on October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. But the conversations don’t end when the venue doors close. They spill across San Francisco — throughout the week — into the rooms, rooftops, and lounges where the real connections happen. That’s where Side Events come in Host your own gathering during Disrupt Week, October 25-31. From a salon-style dinner, to a hands-on workshop, to a pitch-off in a packed
Affirm stock popped 20% Friday after the buy now, pay later firm beat Wall Street's expectations across the board in its fiscal fourth-quarter results. The stock was already up 31% this year heading into the report, outpacing the Nasdaq's 12% gain. Earnings came in at 20 cents a share and nearly doubled analyst expectations, with revenue also topping estimates at $876 million, up 33% from a year earlier. Net income was $69.2 million for the quarter, compared with a loss of $45.1 million in the
The Creep Tapes returns this fall, Sean Bean plays the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Elijah Wood talks up the sequel to Ready or Not. Press the button, Max! It’s time for Morning Spoilers. Violent Night 2 Deadline reports Kristen Bell and Daniela Melchior have joined the cast of Violent Night 2 in currently undisclosed roles. The Young People NEON has revealed Lola Tung and Nico Parker wills star in The Young People, a mysterious new project from director Osgood Perkins that is somehow related
Joe Maring / Android Authority There’s a lot to like about the Google Pixel 10. The triple-camera system on the back is one of the most impressive we’ve seen for a non-Pro Pixel. Magnetic Qi2 charging is a fantastic addition, the Tensor G5 is a significant upgrade, and the Indigo color this year is oh-so-pretty. Google has also been at the top of its display game for a while now, and the Pixel 10 is no exception. With a 6.3-inch OLED panel, a 120Hz refresh rate, and up to 3,000 nits of peak br
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. Dangbei is bringing its S7 Ultra Max all-in-one projector to Berlin next week for the big IFA tech show. That’s a good indication that the China-only 4K projector with a ridiculously bright 6,200 ISO lumen output is preparing for a global launch. H
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one. This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machi
Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in
NVIDIA has revealed that its revenue for the second quarter ending on July 27 rose 56 percent compared to the same period last year, and that's without shipping any H20 chips to China. It reported a revenue of $46.7 billion and a net income of $26.4 billion. As CNBC has noted, the company previously said that H20 shipments to China could have added $8 billion in sales to its second quarter figures. Instead, the company was only able to release $180 million worth of the chips to a customer outsid
Funding season is about to restart in Europe after the summer lull, and if all goes well, it will be counting new unicorns in dozens — plural. While mega-rounds are less common than they were in 2021, this hasn’t prevented 12 European startups from raising rounds at valuations of more than $1 billion during the first half of 2025. As the usual caveat goes, past performance is not indicative of future results, but this bodes well for the rest of the year. Either way, this is also a good indicati
Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, NVIDIA DGX™ Spark delivers 1 petaFLOP of AI performance in a power-efficient, compact form factor. With the NVIDIA AI software stack preinstalled and 128GB of memory, developers can prototype, fine-tune, and inference the latest generation of reasoning AI models from DeepSeek, Meta, Google, and others with up to 200 billion parameters locally, and seamlessly deploy to the data center or cloud.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang waves to a crowd as he leaves the China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing on July 17, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there's a "real possibility" the company brings its advanced Blackwell processor to China as he urges the U.S. government to open up access for American chipmakers. He also predicted the artificial intelligence market in the world's second-biggest economy will grow 50% next year. "The opportunity for us to bring Blackwell to the Chin
To say 2025 has been an unpredictable year for the smartphone market would be an understatement. Early in February, IDC had forecast a 2.6% growth, followed by a decrease to just 0.6% in May. Now, the institute has once again adjusted its forecast, thanks in part to “accelerated” iOS growth. Here are the details. Tariff uncertainty now ‘just background noise’ When IDC lowered its 2025 worldwide smartphone market forecast from 2.6% to just 0.6% in late May, it cited “high uncertainty, tariff vo
A judge yesterday chided the Federal Communications Commission for its "vague and uninformative" response to a DOGE-related lawsuit and ordered the commission to produce documents sought under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA). The FCC was sued by journalist Nina Burleigh and Frequency Forward, a group that says it is investigating how Elon Musk's influence in government "is creating unmanageable conflicts of interest within the FCC." Burleigh and Frequency Forward alleged in an April 24 co
More than 28,200 Citrix instances are vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-7775 that is already being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway and the vendor addressed it in updates released yesterday. According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Citrix, the security issue has been exploited as a zero-day vulnerability. The versions affected by CVE-2025-7775 are 14.1 be
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — TechCrunch’s annual, handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world. These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography. Their reward? A coveted spot to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. This is the cohort to watch — and this fall, you’ll get to meet them in person. From AI to climate, he
Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur who turned a fitness concept into a $500 million acquisition by Lululemon will debut her latest venture at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at San Francisco’s Moscone West in October. Putnam’s path from that breakthrough Disrupt moment to today is a story of very smart timing. Mirror, the connected fitness device that brought boutique workout classes into home
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Citrix fixed three NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway flaws today, including a critical remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2025-7775 that was actively exploited in attacks as a zero-day vulnerability. The CVE-2025-7775 flaw is a memory overflow bug that can lead to unauthenticated, remote code execution on vulnerable devices. In an advisory released today, Citrix states that this flaw was observed being exploited in attacks on unpatched devices. "As of August 26, 2025 Cloud Software G