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Companies from Starbucks to Cloetta and Dutch Bros are launching products engineered around texture, not just taste, according to market researchers and food scientists. Examples include Starbucks' air-whipped Aerocano, Trolli's chewy frozen gummies, and popping juice balls at Dutch Bros, alongside global trends like stretchy Chinese yogurt and Parisian crookies blending croissant and cookie textures.
Security firm Socket found that the Chrome and Firefox extension 'Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot,' which promises ad-blocking and forced 1080p playback, secretly captures users' Twitch OAuth session tokens. The credentials are routed through proxy servers run by JeetBot, a Russian-language streaming and chatbot service, where they land in plaintext request logs accessible to the vendor. The extension exempts ten hardcoded Russian-language channels from this behavior, and its own store listing admits earlier versions sent tokens to its servers outright.
iMazing, the Mac and PC utility for managing iPhone and iPad data, is running a 20% discount for 9to5Mac readers ahead of a major upcoming release. That update will mark the tool's first step toward supporting Android devices, expanding beyond its Apple-only roots. Since iMazing 3 launched in 2024, the app has added features like Apple Watch support, spyware detection, screen recording, and enhanced Messages and WhatsApp export tools.
Apple's iOS 27 update, rolling out this week, ships with expanded Apple Intelligence features including Siri AI, Image Playground and notification summaries, but these can consume up to 7GB of device storage. Users can disable the AI tools individually or entirely through a few Settings menus on iPhone, iPad and Mac without losing any core device functionality.
A 13-year-old fan named Abby received a one-of-one gold trading card of Jimothy, a viral Seattle raccoon, during a Mariners promotional giveaway of 20,000 cards. After fans and even a team staffer tried to buy it on the spot, her family instead listed it on eBay, where it drew over 100 bids and sold for $20,100.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that hiring managers should stop overweighting resume signals like big-name employers, large budgets or big teams when evaluating marketing leader candidates. Instead, they say the key question is what a candidate actually diagnosed and improved in past roles, and whether they can quickly assess what a specific business needs marketing to do within their first weeks on the job. The piece also stresses that strong marketing leaders should help shape a company's value proposition, not just communicate it after the fact.
Most major phone makers, including Apple, Google and Samsung, have phased out the 3.5mm headphone jack in favor of USB-C for wired audio, charging and data transfer. Apple made the switch starting with the iPhone 7 in 2016, followed by Google in 2017 and Samsung in 2019, with Apple finally adopting USB-C for the iPhone 15 due to EU regulation. Sony remains an exception, still including a 3.5mm jack on its upcoming Xperia 1 VIII.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, will feature a Builders Stage session titled 'What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap.' The panel brings together Michel Tricot of Airbyte, Rob Toews of Radical Ventures, and Linda Tong of Webflow to discuss how AI startups navigate the risk of foundation model providers absorbing their core features. The event is expected to draw over 10,000 founders, investors, and operators across 250+ sessions.
A software developer shares an anecdotal pattern from years of code reviews: peers rarely object to map or filter functions, but frequently flag reduce as hard to read. The developer notes reduce appears far less often in codebases than similar array methods, despite personally preferring it.
In a new blog post titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues AI could cure diseases and usher in prosperity within a decade, while proposing that open-weight models face heavier regulation, distillation be restricted, and frontier labs like his receive an antitrust exemption. He frames this as necessary given fears of imminent AGI and recursive self-improvement risks, positioning Anthropic and OpenAI as responsible stewards of the technology.
President Trump said he sees no need for additional oversight of artificial intelligence, pushing back against safety warnings from industry insiders. He also claimed that opposition to AI development and new data centers is being driven by a coordinated campaign rather than genuine public concern.
Superhuman has acquired Fathom, a Y Combinator-backed AI meeting notetaker that has attracted over 400,000 monthly active users since its 2020 founding. Rather than build its own notetaking tool from scratch after months of internal testing, Superhuman opted to purchase Fathom, which had raised more than $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024.