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Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York

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. The US Secret Service says it has disrupted a network of devices used to carry out assassination threats against US officials and for anonymous communications between threat actors, according to a report from NBC News. In the Tuesday announcement, the agency rev

Vinod Khosla on AI, moonshots, and building enduring startups — all at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Few investors speak as bluntly — or think as big — as Vinod Khosla. The Khosla Ventures’ founder has never shied away from calling out hype, doubling down on ambitious bets, and pushing founders to look beyond incremental progress. This October at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Khosla will return to the Disrupt Stage for a fireside chat that promises insight, provocation, and inspiration. In a session overflowing with experience and hard-won le

Police dismantles crypto fraud ring linked to €100 million in losses

Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects linked to a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that stole over €100 million ($118 million) from more than 100 victims. The joint operation started in September 2020 and was carried out by investigative teams from Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania, coordinated by Eurojust and supported by Europol. "During the joint action day, five places were searched in both Spain and Portugal, as well as in Italy, Roma

Best Amazon Prime Day tablet deals 2025: My favorite sales ahead of October

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Best Costco deals to compete with Amazon Prime Day 2025: My favorite sales so far

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You can update your iPhone to iOS 26 for free right now - here's which models support it

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This iOS 26 feature makes your screenshots so much more useful - here's how it works

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Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI's CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company's next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute contract tweaks, the two giants of artificial intelligence struck a $100 billion partnership on Mon

GoPro's Lit Hero is an entry-level action cam with a built-in light

Along with its new 360 Pro 2 Max camera, GoPro has introduced the Lit Hero — a new compact action cam that looks like its entry-level Hero with a built-in LED light. That, along with improved image quality and a price that falls between the Hero and high-end Hero 13 models, could make it a popular option for creators and vloggers. The GoPro Lit has a similar form factor to the Hero but differs in a few key ways. The built-in light opens up creative options particularly for vloggers, as it can h

GoPro Max 2 review: There's a new 360 camera contender in town

In a break from tradition, GoPro hasn’t announced a new Hero Black camera this fall. Instead, this year’s flagship is the much-rumored Max 2 360 camera ($500). The Max 2 lands at a time when spherical video is having a mini renaissance, taking on Insta360’s X5 ($550) and DJI’s Osmo 360 ($550). Perhaps surprisingly, GoPro’s Max 2 is the most affordable of the three, suggesting that the company might be looking to gain ground on its rivals and, hopefully, make the creatively warped world of 360-de

SonicWall releases SMA100 firmware update to wipe rootkit malware

SonicWall has released a firmware update that can help customers remove rootkit malware deployed in attacks targeting SMA 100 series devices. "SonicWall SMA 100 10.2.2.2-92sv build has been released with additional file checking, providing the capability to remove known rootkit malware present on the SMA devices," the company said in a Monday advisory. "SonicWall strongly recommends that users of the SMA 100 series products (SMA 210, 410, and 500v) upgrade to the 10.2.2.2-92sv version." The u

Best Walmart deals to compete with Prime Day 2025: All-time-low prices from Microsoft, Samsung, and more

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Best Amazon Prime Day Apple deals 2025: My 24 favorite sales ahead of October

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The Secret Service found 300 servers capable of crippling NYC's cell system

Federal agencies See all topics Follow On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around once before they arrived. It was a hoax – a swatting call at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence. Five days later, GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Florida was swatted. Within a month of Donald Trump clinching his second presidential election win, several of his Cabinet p

Nvidia Invests in OpenAI With $100 Billion to Build Out More AI Data Centers

OpenAI and Nvidia have struck one of the biggest partnerships in AI, with Nvidia pledging to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI while supplying the compute power needed to build the company's next generation of models. The deal, announced Monday in a letter of intent, calls for OpenAI to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for AI data centers over the coming years. The first phase, one gigawatt, is scheduled for the second half of 2026 on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin platform, named

YouTube wants you to go live

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is the most powerful platform in entertainment, and as such it has outsize influence on what kind of entertainment people make and watch. When YouTube adds a mid-video ad break, videos get longer to accommodate it. When YouTube tells podcaster

Chinese EV giant BYD says it has a backup plan if it's cut off from Nvidia chips

The Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD presents its models at the Open Space Area during the IAA Mobility in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on September 12, 2025. Li declined to expand on what the plan is, but she pointed to the Covid-19 pandemic during which there was a global shortage of semiconductors which badly affected the auto sector. BYD had "no issue" at the time because it developed a lot of its technology in-house, he said, so it was able to source alternatives quickly. Stella Li, exe

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DJI Osmo Nano review: High-quality video in a truly tiny action cam

DJI might be an innovative company, but it has been playing catch-up to rival Insta360 in the action cam world. A perfect example of that is its latest product, the Osmo Nano ($299). It follows a path Insta360 paved with its tiny Go Ultra and Go 3S, which let you separate the cam from the display to shoot with the least weight possible. Like those, the Nano’s tiny camera can be detached from the screen and easily worn to record activities ranging from extreme watersports to cat cam videos. The

How to Use 1Password's Travel Mode at the Border (2025)

Searches at the US border are at an all-time high. Between April and June of this year, US Customs and Border Protection says it searched nearly 15,000 devices, outpacing the previous quarterly record by over 2,000. Combined with visitors allegedly being turned away for content on their devices and hours-long detentions at ports of entry, it’s reasonable to be a little worried about entering the US. There’s a lot you can do to protect yourself at the US border, but most people have at least som

Nvidia and OpenAI's $100 billion deal sparks global chip stock rally

Major global semiconductor stocks rose on Tuesday after Nvidia announced plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. The deal between Nvidia and OpenAI is on a large scale. OpenAI plans to build and deploy Nvidia systems that require 10 gigawatts of power, which is equivalent to 4 million and 5 million graphics processing units (GPUs), according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The news sparked a rally on Wall Street, with positive sentiment flowing through to the global chip sector and especially touc

More Android flagships are confirmed to get a camera kit, this time from ZEISS

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR vivo has confirmed that its entire upcoming X300 series will be compatible with its existing ZEISS 2.35x telephoto converter. The company has shared renders of the X300 and X300 Pro with the ZEISS camera kit, including a new silver-colored model to accompany the base X300. The X300 Ultra will potentially also support the same ZEISS 2.35x telephoto converter, though we are hoping for more functionality through new lenses. The next round of Android flags

Apple @ Work Podcast: Building your fleet for compliance

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Indoor surfaces act as sponges for harmful chemicals

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, cement and paint. VOCs contained in insecticides, cigarette smoke and wildfire smoke can remain on indoor surfaces for as long as one year. Irvine, Calif., Sept. 22, 2025 — Indoor surfaces have an unexpectedly strong ability to absorb and hold harmful chemical compounds that can threaten human health for as long as a year, accordin

How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’

In March of this year, Meredith Whittaker was at her kitchen table in Paris when Signal, the encrypted messaging service she runs, suddenly became an international headline. A colleague sent their group chat the story ricocheting across the globe: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” Of course, you know the rest: In the piece, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, detailed how he’d been added to a Signal chat about an upcoming military operation in Yemen.

The common sense unit of work

What if we were to model a typical software development lifecycle in code? The unit of work would be the fundamental abstraction. We’d build state machines and workflows around it, carrying it from specification to deployment through activities performed by product managers, engineers, designers, and others. The process could be customised to each team’s needs, with all the bells and whistles. But fundamentally, its effectiveness and adaptability depends on how good this central abstraction is.

Rocket.new, one of India’s first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures

Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures to take on viral vibe-coding rivals like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt by letting users build full, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts rather than just quick prototypes. Accel and Together Fund joined Salesforce Ventures in the all-equity seed round, which comes only three months after Rocket.new launched its platform in beta in June. Sin

My favorite iOS 26 feature answers unknown calls so I don't have to - here's how

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Nvidia Invests in OpenAI With $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal

OpenAI and Nvidia have struck one of the biggest partnerships in AI, with Nvidia pledging to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI while supplying the compute power needed to build the company's next generation of models. The deal, announced Monday in a letter of intent, calls for OpenAI to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems over the coming years. The first phase, one gigawatt, is scheduled for the second half of 2026 on Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin platform, named for the late dark-m

T-Mobile is shaking things up with a new CEO, but what does that mean for you?

TL;DR Mike Sievert will step down as T-Mobile CEO on November 1, transitioning to the role of vice chairman after five years of leadership. Current COO Srini Gopalan will take over as CEO. Goplan has prior executive experience at Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone UK, and Bharti Airtel. T-Mobile states that Gopalan will lead a strategy focused on becoming a data-driven, AI-enabled, digital-first company while continuing 5G and next-generation network expansion. It has been five years since Mike Sieve

How Nvidia and OpenAI's staggering $100 billion deal could fuel a new age of AI

NurPhoto/Contributor/NurPhoto via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways This deal seals an NVIDIA and OpenAI partnership for years. This deal is bigger than all of NVIDIA's other AI deals combined. All other AI software companies must be concerned. Nvidia's partnership with OpenAI to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems in the next few years is a jaw-dropper. Backing this massive investment in OpenAI's data centers is a staggering $100