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Dive Brief: - Ariel Investments, which has a 5.4% ownership stake in Mattel, is pushing the toy company to explore strategic alternatives, including a potential divestiture of assets, a merger or a sale, the global asset management firm wrote in a letter to the company. - Ariel u

Student admits murdering woman in 'Dexter' kill room - Published Warning: This article contains details that readers may find distressing A forensic science student obsessed with the US television drama Dexter has admitted murdering a 24-year-old woman after luring her to a plast

Iran has stepped up its attacks on tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a fragile rebound of crude oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Nearly 20 commercial ships, mostly tankers, have come under attack over the past month while sailing through Hormuz, the Persian G

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where investors and oper

Googlebooks are Google’s latest attempt to carve out a piece of the premium laptop market, and tight integration with Android phones is a key part of that effort. Now that Googlebooks are available, we’re learning of some frustrating limitations of that plan. For now, Googlebooks

Retailers are rolling out branded AI chatbots and embedding the technology in their apps, while third-party AI tools assist consumers with inspiration and product comparisons. But for all the talk of AI changing the online customer journey, the lion’s share of retail transactions

GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters depend on compatible versions across dozens of components, each on its own release cycle: host kernels, GPU drivers, container runtimes, networking, storage, operators, and workload frameworks. A configuration that works for one service, GPU ge

Neighborhood Intelligence Chief Financial Officer Brian LaRose resigned from his position, effective Monday. LaRose was named chief financial officer of the organization in April after Neighborhood Intelligence — formerly Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. — moved to acquire The Container St

Rohan’s view After Semafor reported last week that Chipotle had tapped bankers to fend off a potential takeover, we started digging to see who might take over the $40 billion burrito maker. People close to the company tell Semafor that Chipotle hasn’t received a takeover bid, and

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

- Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way. - Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys are derived, not stored

As a flight director during NASA’s Apollo missions, Gerry Griffin led several lunar landings. He helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Later, he directed Johnson Space Center in Houston. Through these experiences, Griffin learned the value of teamwork in spacef

Managed Apache Iceberg at scale: How Spanner powers Lakehouse runtime catalog Vinod Ramachandran Product Manager Mina Mikhail Software Engineering Manager As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a

On Tuesday, Anthropic announced an expansion of its Claude for Startups program, offering subsidized access to its AI models and a variety of other benefits to qualifying companies. The new version of the program, which launched as part of Anthropic’s SF Tech Week event, provides

Artificial Intelligence Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025 With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing $581.69 billion, organization

Artificial Intelligence Best practices for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod administration and governance Amazon SageMaker HyperPod gives machine learning (ML) teams access to large pools of accelerated compute for training and fine-tuning models. When several teams share one cluster, t

Dive Brief: - Target is reintroducing Simply Shabby Chic, an affordable offshoot of designer Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic brand, the mass merchant announced Tuesday. - An initial collection of bedding, throws and other decor will be available as of Sunday in stores and online, fo

Groww, Angel One, BSE, and Motilal Oswal Financial Services were among the capital market stocks that made significant strides on Dalal Street this year, logging double-digit gains even as the broader market remained under pressure. The performance of these companies is closely t

Artificial Intelligence Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Spaces directly from SageMaker Studio We recently introduced the ability to create and manage Amazon SageMaker Spaces on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from the Amazon SageMaker Studio UI. Data scientists a

Artificial Intelligence Build a voice travel concierge with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Managed Knowledge Base and Nova Sonic Airlines already have apps and websites where travelers check flights, pick seats, and manage bookings, and adding a natural voice layer opens those tasks t

VC Unfiltered by 1752vc invites you to spectate our next pitch competition! Lightning Round IX will be held over Zoom on October 8th! We’ll kick things off with an exclusive investor panel featuring industry leaders, followed by exciting live pitches from innovative startups. Sea

Sensex rose over 685 points to close at 73,068, while Nifty 50 gained over 220 points to end the session at 22,776. The gains added nearly Rs 5 lakh crore to the total market capitalisation of all companies listed on BSE, pushing it near Rs 474 lakh crore. Also read | Why did mar

DISK Seagate and Toshiba both want to acquire TDK's disk read/write head business Toshiba and Seagate are competing to acquire TDK’s disk drive magnetic head operation according to Bloomberg. TDK is the only independent supplier of HDD recording heads and sells to all three drive

AuthKit: Enterprise-ready auth (Sponsored) Devs, start here: AuthKit is the complete auth platform for your app, with user management free up to 1M monthly active users. WorkOS is trusted by 3,000+ companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor. With AuthKit, you can: - Offer

When we shop for almost anything, we expect three things: (1) to understand our options, (2) to see what they cost, and (3) to get what we need quickly. Technology has enabled entire industries to rebuild themselves around making this experience easier for consumers. Then, we get

Mumbai: Foreign investors are scaling back their bearish bets on banking stocks ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) policy decision on Wednesday, raising the prospect of further gains in the Bank Nifty if the central bank delivers an expected rate hike without any negative

If you’re looking for a document editor that doesn’t use artificial intelligence, LibreOffice may be just the software for you. The Document Foundation, the nonprofit software maker behind the open source document editor LibreOffice, said in a blog post this week that while it do

The unexplained death of a lab technician at a Russian research institute handling plague bacteria has raised questions among infectious disease experts, who say the circumstances surrounding the case are unusual and key details remain unanswered. According to local reports, some

There is, I think, a pent-up demand for bringing electrification to camping. Anyone who’s had their sleep disturbed by the sound of someone else’s generator running at night would probably agree. Certainly, any time we cover an electric van, comments are filled with people wonder

Dollar demand from oil companies added to the woes even as likely intervention from the central bank capped the loss, traders said. This is the rupee’s weakest closing level in more than two months. The currency saw its all-time low of 96.96 in May. The rupee opened marginally we

The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in recent weeks, with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dot, and Instinct taking the lead and more competitors being launched each week. But Vinod Khosla is betting on former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar’s Wajo for one si

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti has told CNBC that "hard measures" are needed to tackle France's spiraling debt crisis, warning that "small, incremental changes" will not be enough. Speaking to CNBC's "Squawk On The Street" on Tuesday, Ermotti compared the ongoing turmoil in Europe's bond