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The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 7.32% from 7.40% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.19%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also eased this

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The bad week for cybersecurity just got worse for thousands more companies, who were spied on by Chinese hackers following the breach of IT management and remote access giant ConnectWise. Security researchers at Microsoft say the China state-aligned hackers broke into ConnectWise

The latest push into high-end travel is taking place on the high seas, as cruise lines increasingly lean on luxury offerings. On Regent's Seven Seas Splendor, an all-luxury ship, cabins cost anywhere from $1,800 to $15,000 per night for its top-of-the-line booking, the Regent Sui

Russell Brand accuser said alleged rape 'really hurt', court hears - Published - Warning - this report contains graphic content The friend of a woman claiming to have been raped by Russell Brand told a jury the complainant had told her after the alleged attack that it had "really

AMD and Intel announced that they will combine their x86 CPU optimization work for PyTorch in oneDNN, the open-source deep learning library governed by the Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL), and have aligned on it as the default open-source library for x86 acceleration inside

Employers continue to hold onto workers even as hiring remains weak, sending weekly jobless claims to around their lowest levels in records that stretch back nearly six decades. Initial filings for unemployment insurance slipped to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 for the week ended

Government officials in Guinea-Bissau have formally rejected a clinical trial that would be run by Danish researchers and funded by the US to look for alleged nonspecific harms from the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine dose is currently recommended globally fo

Beyond Yoga CEO Nancy Green has an easy answer when asked why the brand didn’t go for a permanent location for its recently opened New York store. “Oh we will,” she said of the pop-up location, which debuted in September and will stay open through January. “It's a great way to ex

We’re excited to announce the fellows who will be part of the inaugural a16z Ops Engineering Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of leaders who are transforming their organizations with AI. We received thousands of applications from talented people around the world. Today, we’re thrille

Dive Brief: - David’s Bridal has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to separate out its AI platform Pearl into a stand-alone, publicly traded company. Pearl will combine with special purpose acquisition company K&F Growth Acquisition Corp II for the deal. - Pearl, which is a su

The Scoop Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing a much needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. The deal came together at roughly the same time as equity inve

The rising French star whose dad won Rugby World Cup with England - Published Accents quickly reveal a lot about a person. So speaking to Leeds-born Felix Balshaw - the 20-year-old son of England Rugby World Cup winner Iain - it soon becomes clear why he is representing France on

Government websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as concerns spread about vulnerabilities in servers that host sites coded in PHP, the world's most popular server programming language. The U.S. National Security Agency warned millions of organizations to either imple

Fernandes to stay captain as Rooney calls Man Utd players babies - Published Bruno Fernandes will remain as Manchester United captain and will not be disciplined for his post-match criticism of Michael Carrick after the 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como. The United skipper crit

GPUs from stolen $470,000 Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment at Brazil airport appear for sale online, identified by serial numbers — three employees identified by police helped steal equipment The haul is thought to be worth nearly half a million dollars. Following reports over the weeken

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets — including 36 of the main character Prue alo

Dive Brief: - Walmart is betting more on agentic AI with the debut of “Agent Profiles” sometime in the next month, allowing customers to have dedicated profiles within their account for an AI agent, per a Wednesday announcement. - Shoppers could require approval for purchases mad

Dive Brief: - EBay has downsized its global workforce for the second time this year, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. - The marketplace is slashing its global staff by 9%, with cuts impacting all regions where it operates. - That affects more than 1,000 people and comes after

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Nvidia Unveils DSX POD Amid Greenpeace Protest Nvidia says its DSX POD can slash AI data center deployment times, but its Berlin launch also underscored growing backlash over the industry’s rapid expansion. BERLIN – A simple imperative has defined the AI data center boom: faster,

Sensex dropped over 460 points to close at 73,249 and Nifty 50 lost 124 points to end the session at 22,688. The drop wiped off more than Rs 3 lakh crore from the total market capitalisation of all companies listed on BSE, dragging it down to Rs 458 lakh crore. Also read | Why di

Motilal Oswal Financial Services and Calliope Capital Advisors, an investment vehicle associated with the Motilal Oswal group, have applied for a combined 2.39 crore shares in Ola Electric’s ₹1,000 crore rights issue on the first day of the offer, which opened on Thursday. The el

Today we’re announcing that we’re expanding the scope of our new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups: companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. To reflect this, we’re renaming a16z Crypto to a16z

The bank is preparing to seek a review of the ruling, one of the sources told Reuters, while bondholders press for payment of coupons that have remained unpaid since Yes Bank wrote the bonds off six years ago. Last week, India's Supreme Court upheld a 2023 Bombay High Court rulin

Introducing new self-learning context enrichment in Knowledge Catalog Firat Elbey Group Product Manager, Data Analytics Vasiya Krishnan Product Lead Today, we’re launching self-learning context enrichment (preview) and a reimagined Knowledge Studio experience (preview) in Knowled

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be using ChatGPT Work. ChatGPT Work was introduced in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent that

This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and groundbreaking ideas of our 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. Out of thousands of applications, we selected 200 of the most promising startups, each bringing unique innovations to their respective industries. Th

Last year, we reported on Red Viper, a Virtual Boy emulator that added a splash of Super Game Boy-style color to Nintendo’s famously failed red-on-black “portable” 3D headset from the ’90s. Now, a new emulation experiment, VBoy Color, has taken the concept to a higher level, usin

The Last Best Place on the Internet by Richard Cooke. A quarter-century on from its founding, few sites have been as central to the development of the web as Wikipedia, which today stands in contrast to much of the modern internet. “While social media platforms fuel engagement by

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters Collectively, they spent nearly $6 million around

Tesla says it is preparing to launch its shiny gold Cybercab in new markets outside its home of Austin, Texas, in a bid to “literally take over every part of terrestrial transportation.” “We’re starting with getting people from one place to the other, but we want to basically own

Dive Brief: - Tractor Supply Company hired Fahim Siddiqui as its executive vice president and chief technology and digital officer, the rural retailer said Wednesday. He starts Monday and will report to President and CEO Hal Lawton. - Siddiqui will oversee the company’s enterpris

Why the venture box keeps shrinking, why CoreWeave is a B-tier asset, and why build-to-prod is the most important category in software Another week with Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll, and the theme ran through almost every segment: capital is concentrating into fewer names