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AT&T wins court approval to pay $177 million settlement over data breaches
A judge approves AT&T’s settlement of $177 million that will be paid to victims of a couple of data breaches.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge has a major problem: it does not sell
The very thin flagship failed the test, which might lead to Samsung no longer replacing the S26+ with an Edge ...

Dont forget: Microsoft is killing passwords. How to set up a Microsoft passkey before August deadline.
If you use Microsoft, you will soon be required to ditch your passwords and create a passkey. This is part ...

The 6 tech products you cant escape at VidCon 2025
VidCon is an annual gathering for video creators, especially YouTube creators, and this year Mashable joined the fray. Our digital ...

Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid
If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O’Brien serve as a ...

US Considers Canceling Chinese Factory Chip Equipment Waivers For TSMC, Samsung & SK hynix
Following on his bid to limit advanced technology transfer to China, the Commerce Department’s Bureau for Industry and Security (BIS)’s ...

Yes, 16 billion passwords leaked online. No, its not what you think.
News spread early Friday that a record-breaking data breach exposed 16 billion passwords to the world, including user credentials for ...

TikTok creators are obsessed with this selfie light, now just $25 at Amazon
TL;DR: The Newmowa 60-LED High-Power Selfie Light, aka the Alix Earle light, is on sale at Amazon thanks to a ...

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 ...

Google plans to improve Pixels by adding new features, some AI based, to Gboard
Google is working on making improvements to Gboard by adding new features.

TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up ...

Spotify’s lossless HiFi update might be coming very soon
It seems Spotify HiFi might be dropping sometime in the near future, if the latest leaks are to be believed. ...

Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything’, raises $15M from a16z
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.

Mafia: The Old Country Has Gone Gold Ahead Of Its August Release
Mafia: The Old Country has gone gold ahead of its August 8, 2025, release date, developer Hangar 13 has announced. ...

SEGA Reveals Persona 4 Revival And Stranger Than Heaven Might Not Be Out Until 2027
According to SEGA’s latest fiscal report, the recently revealed Persona 4 Revival and RGG Studio’s Stranger Than Heaven might not ...

This app turns an iPhone into a scanner, and it lasts for life
TL;DR: Scan anything, anywhere, with this lifetime subscription to iScanner, now A$38 (reg. A$306) with code SCAN through 20 July. ...

Huawei unveils HarmonyOS 6 with new AI agent framework, Dev Beta now out
Huawei kicked off its Developer Conference today, and Executive Director Richard Yu took the stage to unveil HarmonyOS 6 – ...

User Receives A Fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D; Delidding Reveals It Had No CCDs Or I/O Die On The Substrate
The investigation exposed a fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. GN shows the difference between a real Ryzen 9800X3D and a ...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 makes the Fold 6 look ancient
A side-by-side comparison of a dummy unit of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and a Galaxy Z Fold 6 shows ...

The new math: why seed investors are selling their winners earlier
Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one ...

Samsung faces a deadline to choose which processor will power the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+
Samsung will eventually have to decide whether to use the Exynos 2600 or Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 on Galaxy S26 ...

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to ...

Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO
Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta’s apps.

Startups Weekly: Fast and furious
Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot.

The startups rolling out of Europe’s early-stage micromobility scene
A handful of early stage micromobility startups out of Europe that are filling the gaps in a maturing ecosystem.

Final Fantasy Producer Naoki Yoshida And Creative Director Kazutoyo Maehiro Seem To Drop A Hint At Final Fantasy XVI Coming To Nintendo Switch 2
Final Fantasy XVI just recently arrived on Xbox Series consoles, which means that it’s now available to play on PlayStation, ...

Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others.

Deezer starts labeling AI-generated music to tackle streaming fraud
Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to ...

Redmi K Pad disassembled and reviewed ahead of launch
Xiaomi is preparing to launch two “Redmi K” flagships in China – the Redmi K80 Ultra and the Redmi K ...