Tech

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-6 Equity

Mouse Sensors Can Pick Up Speech From Surface Vibrations, Researchers Show (it.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

California's Uber and Lyft Drivers Get Union Rights (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 Uber California

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 Startup

First Evidence That Plastic Nanoparticles Can Accumulate in Edible Parts of Vegetables (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-6 Europe

Cory Doctorow Explains Why Amazon is 'Way Past Its Prime' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 Amazon

Alvys, an AI-powered logistics software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $77M; Alvys has 1000+ customers (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-10-6 AI Logistics

Robinhood is expanding aggressively in the UK, releasing low-cost investment products and seeking to launch its prediction market products in the country (t.co)
2025-10-6

Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law (www.politico.com)
2025-10-6 AI California

Sam Altman Promises Copyright Holders More Control Over Sora's Character Generation - and Revenue Sharing (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of ~$67.71B, up 11% YoY, driven by strong demand for AI products; the company's consumer electronics division posted a slight decline (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-6 AI

Build real-world language skills for life with Babbel in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-6

ParkMobile pays... $1 each for 2021 data breach that hit 22 million (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-6

Hackers exploited Zimbra flaw as zero-day using iCalendar files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-6

An interview with DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on the company's £2.9B acquisition of Deliveroo, which closed on Oct. 2, to bolster its plans to expand abroad, and more (t.co)
2025-10-6 Interview

Opera Wants You To Pay $19.90 a Month for Its New AI Browser (slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 AI Browser

The FBI estimates that North Koreans posing as IT workers, using stolen IDs and AI-fabricated work, funneled up to $1B into the country over the past five years (fortune.com)
2025-10-6 AI FBI

Another look at Apple's executive succession, as it increases the spotlight on hardware chief John Ternus; sources: Apple weighed hiring a senior Meta AI exec (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-6 AI Apple

What Would Happen If an AI Bubble Burst? (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 AI

How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-10-6

AI's 'Cheerful Apocalyptics': Unconcerned If AI Defeats Humanity (slashdot.org)
2025-10-6 AI

The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-10-5 AI

PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-5 Asia

How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self-driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (restofworld.org)
2025-10-5 China

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (gizmodo.com)
2025-10-5

What's the Best Way to Stop AI From Designing Hazardous Proteins? (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-5 AI

Sources: Sam Altman is on a global tour since September, including UAE and East Asia, seeking funding and urging companies like TSMC to prioritize OpenAI orders (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-5 Asia

Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (www.scmp.com)
2025-10-5 Alibaba

Amazon's Prime Video Rolls Back Controversial 'Stylized' James Bond Thumbnails Without Guns (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-10-5 Amazon

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