Only 5 days left until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, bringing together 10,000+ leaders, VCs, operators, and innovators shaping the future of tech. To celebrate the final countdown, we’re giving you one last chance to save big: Buy your pass and save up to $444, plus get 60% off a second ticket for your co-founder,…
While scalping is an ever-present scourge for collectible card game players, it has become a completely ruinous issue for the Pokémon TCG for almost a year now. Ever since the release of Prismatic Evolutions in January 2025, it has been close to impossible for even specialist stores to stock new sets of the wildly popular game,…
Oct 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Every week, the cyber world reminds us that silence doesn’t mean safety. Attacks often begin quietly — one unpatched flaw, one overlooked credential, one backup left unencrypted. By the time alarms sound, the damage is done. This week’s edition looks at how attackers are changing the game —…
In a cement plant operated by Conch Group, an agentic AI system built on Huawei infrastructure now predicts the strength of clinker with over 90% accuracy and autonomously adjusts calcination parameters to cut coal consumption by 1%—decisions that previously required human expertise accumulated over decades This exemplifies how Huawei is developing agentic AI systems that…
Aura is introducing its newest model, the $499 Ink frame, which brings a 13-inch color e-paper display to the company’s otherwise LCD-based lineup. The technology, similar to that found in the Kindle Colorsoft e-reader, uses a six-color ink system to create the illusion of millions of tones. More importantly, using e-ink technology allows the frame…
If you’re rushing to grab the latest round of free-ish games included in October’s PS Plus Extra or Premium bundle, you might want to slow your horses slightly and double-check that you aren’t about to accidentally lose your ownership of one of the games forever. Due to an ongoing bug with the PlayStation’s current subscription…
Oct 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Data Theft Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active malware campaign called Stealit that has leveraged Node.js’ Single Executable Application (SEA) feature as a way to distribute its payloads. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, select iterations have also employed the open-source Electron framework to deliver the malware. It’s assessed…
Salesforce plans to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to help businesses adopt AI. The move underscores the company’s push to stay competitive as AI becomes central to enterprise software. Founded and headquartered in San Francisco since 1999, Salesforce has been adding AI features across its products, including the workplace…
An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the company offered an update on the cause of the issue and noted it was still not yet resolved. In an announcement published to the Amazon website,…
Pushing through productive days and running multiple demanding applications at once won’t be an issue. There’s no reason for you to spend over $1,000, or even over $500, on a reliable everyday laptop. No, we’re not talking about a refurbished machine or one from a brand hardly anyone’s ever heard of. We’re bargain hunters, and…
