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Meta was hit with a $25 billion penalty on Wednesday when a judge in New Mexico found the company had misled users about data privacy practices. The decision marks one of the steepest corporate payouts ever levied against a technology company. Under the ruling, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and
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Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Andruil’s Palmer Luckey had an idea to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. That idea, on Thursday, announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel,
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week’s earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don’
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A new AI model can connect DNA to human language, enabling scientists to interact with genetic code in new ways. Hugging Face announced the Carbon-X model on Thursday as the latest and most powerful in the company’s Carbon family, a group of AI models built to analyze DNA. “Carbon-X
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. GenAI Doh: During his career, Masahiro Sakurai created a few extremely successful game franchises, including Kirby and Super Smash Bros. Now, the Japanese designer is weighing in on the generative AI debate, arguing that
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Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: The Parking Startup That Swallowed A 100-Year-Old Giant | Metropolis CEO Alex Israel Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
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In Brief 3:34 PM PDT · October 22, 2026 In a sign that crypto and blockchain-focused investing has receded in importance, Andreessen Horowitz announced Thursday that it is renaming its digital asset unit from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. The practice, helmed by Chris Dixon, has raised nearly $10 billion
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Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: The Parking Startup That Swallowed A 100-Year-Old Giant | Metropolis CEO Alex Israel Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
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In Brief 3:08 PM PDT · October 22, 2026 OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing ahead with an IPO. The AI lab is working on raising up to $30 billion at $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation in a round led by
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How much of the web PHP2Shell touches PHP2Shell reaches most of the web because it lives in PHP itself, not in any one app. Sansec reports the vulnerable code dates to PHP 5.4 in 2012 and default configurations are exposed, so the risk is the language's entire
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Singapore, Singapore, October 22nd, 2026/Chainwire/--Travala, the Binance-backed crypto travel booking platform, and the AVA Foundation—Travala’s loyalty program provider and issuer of the platform’s native AVA token—today announced the AVA Buyback Multiplier, an upgrade to the AVA Strategic Reserve launched in September 2026. Under the
