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Feds Say Company That Bought RadioShack Was Running $112 Million Ponzi Scheme

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-09 12:41:12

The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged this week that Retail Ecommerce Ventures, the company that bought RadioShack out of bankruptcy in 2020, ran a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $112 million. REV was founded by Taino Lopez and Alexander Mehr and spent recent years buying up distressed retail ventures including Dress Barn, Franklin Mint, Linens ‘N Things, Modell’s Sporting Goods, Pier 1 Imports, RadioShack, and Stein Mart. Lopez and Mehr allegedly promised investors in t

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Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-09 12:14:16

Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into the enterprise stack, as companies foresee demand for AI tools that can tap into corporate data securely. Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents

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The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2025-10-09 16:10:00

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400 even more obscure ones are being developed. But many of these smaller editions are being swamped with AI-translated content. Volunteers working on four African languages, for instance, estimated to MIT Technology Review that between 40% and 60% of articles in their Wikipedia editions were uncorrec

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One of our favorite slim MagSafe power banks is on sale for a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 16:16:28

Carrying around charging cables, adapters or even a bulky power bank defeats the purpose of traveling light. But now there are plenty of options for those who want a power bank as svelte as their phone — even those who are investing in an iPhone Air. One of Anker's latest fits the bill: the Anker Nano 5K MagGo Slim power bank. Now, both Anker and Amazon are running sales on it, dropping the price from $55 to $46. The 16 percent discount a new low for the power bank and available in the black an

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Ford decides to run its Le Mans program in-house, racing in 2027

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 16:00:55

Formula 1 might be riding high these days on a wave of interest not seen since the 1960s, but the Drive to Survive effect has been felt elsewhere in the world of motorsport. Endurance racing like the 24 Hours of Le Mans or the Rolex 24 at Daytona has seen record crowds over the last few years, and a large part of that is down to the sports prototype class, exemplified by cars from the likes of Ferrari and Porsche. And soon, we can add Ford to the list. Currently, eight different manufacturers a

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Proton Mail's redesigned mobile app is built for speed

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:00:42

If you use Proton Mail on your phone, things are about to pick up. The company is rolling out new apps for Android and iOS. The updated mobile applications are rebuilt from the ground up with a "cleaner, faster and more private experience." Proton first announced in April that it was working on the revamp. The company says the new Proton Mail lets you scroll, archive and reply twice as fast as before. It also now supports an offline mode, allowing you to read, write and organize messages while

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 25

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 16:44:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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iOS 26: Your iPhone Will Get These New Emoji Next Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 01:00:03

iOS 26: Your iPhone Will Get These New Emoji Next Year An orca and Sasquatch are some of the upcoming emoji you should expect to see on your device in the future.

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-10 00:00:00

By June, Musk appeared to officially leave DOGE. With him went some key lieutenants: Steve Davis, Musk’s righthand man during the Twitter takeover and DOGE’s de facto leader; Nicole Hollander, Davis’ partner, who played a key role at the GSA; and Katie Miller, communications lead for DOGE and the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller. Musk’s send-off had included a friendly press conference with Trump, but that fragile peace was shattered a few days later, when Musk

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The Onion Made an Absolutely Unhinged Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2025-10-10 00:00:00

In a world where hallowed news organizations transform into conservative mouthpieces and milquetoast late-night jokes are grounds for suspension, satirical headlines from the Onion can feel closer to real life than parody. Now the site is taking on one of the most taboo subjects of all—disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein—in mockumentary form. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is a 20-minute satire that’s half biopic, half true crime, and 100 percent dumb (complimentary). It laun

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Google's Conversational Photo Editor Is the Rare AI Feature People Will Actually Use

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-10 00:30:00

A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice control and touch for photo editing. The top comment on the YouTube video demonstrating the capability is this one, left by a viewer 12 years ago: "Why so much hate? It isn't for the "real" photographer, but for my dad, that sometimes uses Photoshop; this is great." The democratization of powerful photo editing tools has clear dangers, like the ease with which bad ac

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Uber Eats is offering grocery discounts to combat ‘veggie-flation’

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-10 01:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Uber is launching a new discount program aimed at fighting against rising produce prices. The company is launching a new feature called “Fresh Days,” in which customers will receive discounts of up to 50 percent on “local fruits, veget

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Qualcomm's new flagship mobile platform is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:04:27

Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which the company claims is the "world's faster mobile system-on-a-chip." It was designed for flagship devices for manufacturers and smartphone brands that don't make their own mobile platforms, with the first devices equipped with the SoC launching in the coming days. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is powered by the company's third-generation Oryon CPU, which Qualcomm says "improves performance by 20 percent and CPU power efficiency by 35 percen

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Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-10-09 23:26:31

Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources. He started earlier this month. The move comes after Zuckerberg went on a hiring blitz earlier this summer, bringing in at least 11 top researchers from OpenAI, Goo

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Nvidia's investment in OpenAI will be in cash, and most will be used to lease Nvidia chips

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Ari Levy 2025-10-10 02:34:51

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters Nvidia's massive investment in OpenAI, announced earlier this week, will put billions of dollars into the coffers of the artificial intelligence startup to use as it sees fit. But most of the money will go towards use of Nvidia's cutting-edge chips. The agreement between the two companies was big on numbers but thin on specifics. They said the investme

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The (Business) Process Deadlock

news.ycombinator.com Uwe Friedrichsen 2025-10-06 08:09:29

The process deadlock When a company is small and young, work is often done in a seemingly ad hoc fashion. People briefly discuss and then do what appears to be the best solution for the task at hand. As the company is small and most people in the company have a good idea what is important and what is not, this approach tends to work quite well. Sometimes, a wrong decision may be made but in general, this sort of ad hoc approach works quite well. But when companies grow, this approach often rea

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Sony Unveils Pulse Elevate Wireless Speakers for Gaming, Arriving Next Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 03:41:00

Sony's State of Play on Wednesday featured big news about new games coming out next year, including the long-awaited release date for Wolverine. The show also featured the debut of speakers for the PS5, PC and PlayStation Portal, Pulse Elevate. The new wireless speakers are intended to handle all of a gamer's audio needs. They use Bluetooth, but incorporate PlayStation Link (used by the Portal) to provide ultra-low latency and lossless connectivity, for minimal delay while gaming. Sony says th

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The Ryder Cup 2025: TV Schedule Today, How to Watch, Stream All the Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 08:00:04

The 45th edition of golf's biggest tournament takes place this weekend. Team USA will be looking to prevent Team Europe from claiming a first Ryder Cup win on American turf since 2012's "Miracle at Medinah." Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live. This year's installment of the biennial event sees Team USA skippered by Keegan Bradley. He will hope that home advantage, as well as having world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, wil

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5 Features Coming to Your New Laptop in 2026 Thanks to Snapdragon X2 Elite

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 08:33:10

We never seem to stop asking more and more of computers -- and the advent of AI is doing nothing to slow the trend. Keeping up with our demands requires ever-more powerful chips and Qualcomm has just unveiled its latest computing platform, which will do just that. On Wednesday, the company announced the X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips, which will be finding their way into some of the top laptops and other PCs over the next year. At the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii where it unveiled the chip

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Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-10 08:15:06

If you think about the laptop form factor, we’ve had ChromeOS for a long time and we’re super committed to that platform and it’s been really successful for us, we’ve learned a lot from it as well. We also have Android tablets that have been super successful, they’re becoming more productivity machines all the time. So I think the opportunity for us that we see is how do we accelerate all the AI advancement that we’re doing on Android and bring that to the laptop form factor as rapidly as possib

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The best Apple deals to shop ahead of Amazon’s fall Prime Day event

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-10 08:20:16

You can buy the latestwith Wi-Fi and 128GB of storage at Amazon Best Buy , and Walmart for $299 ($50 off), which is $20 shy of the tablet’s all-time low. It offers twice the base storage of its predecessor and faster performance thanks to the inclusion of Apple’s A16 Bionic chip; however, it still lags behind its higher-end siblings in performance and doesn’t support the newest Apple Pencil, nor does it support any of the AI-based Apple Intelligence features baked into the latest iterations of i

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Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-10 12:36:16

Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details. If you’re not familiar with AlphaFold, this is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking AI model that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This has been especially valuable in helping dev

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PlayStation Pulse Elevate portable speakers are coming for your desktop in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 12:53:20

Sony's lineup of gaming-focused audio devices is growing with the addition of the PlayStation Pulse Elevate wireless speakers. They work with PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation Portal, and they support Bluetooth and Sony's proprietary PlayStation Link Wireless connection scheme. The Pulse Elevate speakers come in white or black, and they're due to hit the market in 2026. There's no word on price just yet. The Pulse Elevate speakers can be set on charging stands when playing at your desk, or

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OpenAI Says It'll Build Five More Huge Data Centers. Here's Where

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 12:23:22

OpenAI's push to build more data centers to fuel its generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT reached a frenetic pace this week with plans that, if realized, could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Alongside the cloud computing company Oracle and the Japanese investment firm SoftBank, OpenAI said it would stand up five new data center sites in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio and a yet-to-be-announced location in the Midwest. It's the latest announcement in what's been du

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme for Windows PCs

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-10 12:03:25

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last year, after well over a decade of trying, Qualcomm finally made Windows on Arm laptops a thing, putting both Intel and AMD on notice and shoving Intel out of consumer-grade Microsoft Surface machines. Today, we’re learning about the second generati

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PlayStation’s new wireless speakers are for your desktop

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-10 12:46:14

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sony has announced new Pulse Elevate wireless speakers that you can use with your PS5, PC, Mac, and even a PlayStation Portal or smartphone. The company promises that they offer “lifelike desktop audio,” a built-in mic for voice chat, and support Sony’s PlayStation Link ultra-low laten

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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-10 12:56:31

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Qualcomm has formally unveiled its latest flagship SoC, destined for Android flagships in the very near future: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The name was revealed by way of a blog post last week, and if it seems like the company

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 benchmarks: Just how badly does it beat its rivals?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 16:45:28

Whenever a new chipset is announced, the first question on every enthusiast’s lips is “how well does it perform?” Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is no exception. While we’ll have to wait not too long to get our hands on the first consumer devices, we went hands-on with a reference handset at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit that gives us some indication of the chip’s peak potential. Just a word of caution: retail handsets are unlikely to perform quite as well, owing to their more cons

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New Supermicro BMC flaws can create persistent backdoors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 16:13:49

Two vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of Supermicro hardware, including Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) allow attackers to update systems with maliciously crafted images. Supermicro is a maker of servers, motherboards, and data center hardware. BMC is a microcontroller on Supermicro server motherboards that permits remote system monitoring and management even if the system is powered off. Experts at firmware security company Binarly discovered a bypass for a flaw (CVE-2024-10237) th

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How to be a leader when the vibes are off

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:03:59

...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has replaced the confidence that a tight job market for developers provided for decades. The vibes are for sure off. What’s Changed? (What follows are generalizations. If your company is escaping some or al

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Feds Say Company That Bought RadioShack Was Running $112 Million Ponzi Scheme

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