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Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.
Who will you learn from in 6 days at TechCrunch Founder Summit? Meet the founders and investors taking the stages
Six days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston on Nov. 4 to share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and lessons that shaped their companies. Register before it starts for ticket savings and deals.
Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.
Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is…
Dept of Justice reportedly probes Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face AI platform acquisition — concerns raised over competition in AI and pressure on customers
Nvidia is reportedly facing questions from the United States Department of Justice over whether its purchase of Hugging Face will have an impact on competition in the growing AI space. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face in September, paying almost $13 billion. Hugging Face offers an open-source platform for the hosting and testing of new AI models, and that appears to be behind the DOJ's concerns. Reuters reports…
Tech whizz's internet-accessible Synology NAS gets bit by ransomware attack from 18-month-old remote code execution flaw — security updates neglected in a series of catastrophic errors
Systems administrators are among the first to point out lax security policies in other companies' or people's setups. Sometimes, they are the ones who get bitten by not taking the same advice they will so readily dispense. Such is the tale of Reddit user NakamuraHwang, who had files on their Synology DS918+ NAS encrypted by a ransomware attack after making a series of unforced errors. Hwang appears to be quite…
Reddit now lets you choose between For You and Following feeds
Reddit has announced the introduction of a new For You feed, an algorithmic-driven one that tries to find new communities and threads to match your interests. Fortunately, you don’t have to use it … more…
DoorDash acquires Instacart in $17 billion delivery service merger
The deal combines the two largest grocery delivery platforms in the US.
Our first step at defining a CPU benchmark for agentic AI
Agentic AI has set off a firestorm in the world of CPUs over the past six months, yet it’s an area of performance that still doesn’t have solid, repeatable benchmarks to evaluate where the latest hardware falls. We’ve been working on an internal set of tests to evaluate at least one aspect of contentious agentic loops end-to-end, isolating CPU and memory performance from the accelerator to understand how these…
The education price of the MacBook Neo just jumped again
The MacBook Neo was already a bargain by Mac standards when it launched with a starting price of $599, but for students an education price of $499 made it a steal. Sadly, that changed back in June when both retail and education prices rose by $100 . Now, however, the education price has been raised even further … more…
The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI, a nonprofit advancing best practices in AI governance. AI agents are taking unauthorized actions, from hacking websites to accessing private…
EasySMX S10 Lite review: A Switch 2 fidget toy with a weird removable faceplate
EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation.
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for around $17 billion
Speculation around a deal started circulating last week. | Photographer: Michael Nagle/ Bloomberg via Getty Images DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery via Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partnerships. DoorDash, which started as a restaurant courier…
Score a huge $1,250 saving on this Alienware gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB DDR5 right now — big Newegg price drop means you can grab this 4K-ready rig with a 24-core Intel CPU and 1TB SSD for $2,599.99
You don't have to settle for huge price rises in the PC hardware market. Thanks to Newegg, there's a $1,250 discount right now on a 4K-capable Alienware Aurora DACT1250 gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $2,599.99 . ● Check out this deal at Newegg This is Dell's premium brand for gamers and, as you can expect from a premium brand, the prices are usually towards the top end. The…
Garmin Messenger is placing too much trust in SMS verification, and this might not end well
TL;DR A Garmin Messenger user reports restoring their entire chat history on a second phone using only SMS verification, without a Garmin account password. The findings raise concerns that recycled phone numbers could let new owners access previous conversations, including sensitive location information. Garmin has reportedly been informed of the issue, but it hasn’t confirmed a fix. Handing over an old phone number…
Apple seems to have the right approach to the first touchscreen Mac
Steve Jobs famously dismissed the idea of a touchscreen Mac back in 2010 when he said that it “gives great demo” but turns out to be “ergonomically terrible” in real-life use. It was inevitable that eyebrows would be raised when the company did a U-turn on this by launching the first touchscreen Mac . But while I have no interest myself, I do think the company’s counterargument some 16 years later makes sense … more…
Fujifilm plans 5x production boost of 100TB magnetic storage tapes driven by skyrocketing AI storage demand — $63 million injection is the largest investment in tape for 20 years
Fujifilm plans to boost production of magnetic tape by as much as 5x as it works to keep up with demand for the data storage medium that has seen a jump in popularity amid ongoing global AI data center buildouts. The Japanese firm will spend 10 billion yen ($63.3 million) to increase capacity at its Odawara plant throughout its fiscal year 2028. The move will enable it to produce more advanced tapes with capacities…
Save $234 on 32GB of DDR5 RAM with this 3-item AM5 Newegg bundle
Newegg is offering a stellar deal on this 3-item AM5-based combo. For only $1,069 ($234 off) you get a quality Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 7 motherboard, one of the fastest gaming chips around with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and the piece de resistance, 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX DDR5-6000 CL36 RAM. With the massive $234 discount, the RAM comes down to $336, a great price for the sad times we’re in. Check out…
7 Android settings I always turn off on my Google Pixel phone
Credit: Brady Snyder / Android Authority Google Pixels give you the best out-of-the-box Android experience, hands down. You’re not uninstalling a bunch of bloatware or hunting down a dozen privacy-invasive settings a manufacturer might have snuck in. Still, there are a handful of features I always end up disabling — whether it’s because they’re useless, drain the battery , or cause more problems than they solve.
Anthropic’s IPO filing shows most of its compute goes to R&D, not serving customers — company details massive $800 billion in TPU and GPU contracts
Anthropic spent less than a third of its $8.9 billion first-half compute bill on serving customers, with most of the rest going into training, research, and running Claude internally, its S-1 filing shows. It has meanwhile signed up for hundreds of billions of dollars more in TPU and GPU capacity. By our math, it has meanwhile signed up for roughly $800 billion more in TPU and GPU capacity, and revenue per compute…
This beefy Android handheld quietly got a gigantic, 10,000mAh battery
Credit: MANGMI TL;DR The MANGMI Pocket Max has quietly received a battery capacity upgrade, going from 8,000mAh to 10,000mAh. This means it might have the largest battery out of any Android handheld on the market. The handheld otherwise offers a Snapdragon 865 chip, a 7-inch 144Hz OLED screen, and a base 8GB/128GB model for $230. The MANGMI Pocket Max is one of the most notable large Android handhelds on the market…
Fake PS5 emulators are being used to steal gamers' passwords — two well-known GitHub repos, including popular AnyPS5, get hit, infecting gamers' computers with password-scraping malware
Malicious GitHub repositories masquerading as two well-known and legitimate PS5 game emulation tools have been identified as spreading malware that steals gamers' passwords. The malware uses self-signed certificates, created using fake company names and on the same day the malware was built — suggesting that the malware campaign may be automated. Just two minutes after infection, a cleanup script scrubs the affected…
I hope the Motorola Signature 27 is great, but I have 2 big concerns I can’t shake
Credit: Motorola Maybe I just like rooting for the underdog, but I can’t help but feel that the US smartphone market could do with a good shake-up. Loosening the grip of Apple, Google, and Samsung would inject a little more urgency into the pace of hardware innovation. While phones like the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max and vivo X500 Pro Max offer global consumers something different, they’re not available in the US. At…