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The Iran war has spiked gas prices. The RAM crisis has spiked prices on electronics. A wide swath of imported goods costs more than before due to Trump’s tariffs. Right now, your wallet is likely feeling the squeeze.It’s a tumultuous time, and the constant media barrage of doom and gloom doesn’t help ease anxieties. It’s also hard to figure out when things will get better, so you’re stuck in a rut of worrying about finances. It’s OK. Take a breath. The first thing to remember, according to “The Budgetnista” Tiffany Aliche, is that the economy is cyclical.“I’ve lived long enough…
Meta announced on Thursday an improved Meta Account system designed to make it easier for users to sign in and manage their Meta accounts and devices. Today, the Meta ecosystem has become so expansive that it almost feels unwieldy — users might have various different accounts and log-ins for Facebook, WhatsApp, Meta AI glasses, and more. While the Accounts Center already serves to streamline this experience, the Meta Account system aims to simplify it further. The company says this new system will roll out over the next year. With a Meta Account, users can choose to set up a single…
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history, per reports from CNBC and Bloomberg. According to an internal memo, employees will be eligible if their years of work at Microsoft plus their age totals 70 or more, with some exceptions. So if someone who is 52 years old has 18 years of service at Microsoft, they could qualify for the buyout. This move gives Microsoft an opportunity to reduce its headcount in a manner less abrasive than mass layoffs. Over the last few years, Microsoft has weathered several rounds of layoffs, affecting thousands of…
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.5, its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model” yet. The algorithm comes with increased capabilities in a multitude of areas, with OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman claiming that it also brings the company one step closer to the creation of OpenAI’s “super app.” On a call with journalists, Brockman said that the new model was a big advancement “towards more agentic and intuitive computing.” “This model is a real step forward towards the kind of computing that we expect in the future — but it is…
Sam’s Club is a warehouse club owned by the same parent company as Walmart. You can expect the same advantages you get from buying in bulk in a no-frills retailer like Costco, but Sam’s Club is also leveraging Walmart’s market power and vast network of suppliers. While there is a membership fee to join, it’s easy to earn it back in a single trip, given the savings you get when buying in bulk. Sam’s Club is a great option for large families or homes with shared resources, because Sam’s Club not only carries items in larger quantities, but also offers…
Porsche will start selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe in late summer, the latest signal from the German automaker that it still sees market demand for EVs. The Cayenne coupe EV — which has four doors, unlike a traditional coupe — will join several other all-electric variants of the SUV when it comes to market later this year, including the base Cayenne Electric, Cayenne S Electric, and Cayenne Turbo Electric. Porsche does, after all, love its variants. And it could be its most successful. When Porsche introduced a coupe version of its gas-powered Cayenne in 2019, it took just a year…
Trump’s twice-chosen pick to run the U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA has requested to withdraw from the position, leaving the agency without any clear person to lead it on a permanent basis. In a letter to the White House on Wednesday, Sean Plankey requested that the Trump administration withdraw his nomination, citing a holdup in the Senate, which is required to hold a vote to approve his appointment. Plankey said it has “become clear” that the Senate will not confirm him, more than a year after he was first nominated to lead CISA. The New York Times published a copy…
What if you could outsource your doomscrolling? That’s the premise behind the new startup Noscroll, which is offering an AI-powered bot that can browse your social feeds, news sites, and other online chatter, then text you when something important happens. “no feed. no brainrot. no ragebit,” reads Noscroll’s pitch to users. just signal.” X has the best information on the internet and the worst incentives & culture.meet noscroll — the AI that doomscrolls it for you and texts you just the things that matter.no feed. no brainrot. no ragebait. just signal.try it for free → 🙅🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/EaHt2zfb7k— noscroll (@noscroll) April 21,…
A special forces soldier involved in the operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department. His alleged crime? Making numerous bets on the prediction market Polymarket that Maduro would be removed from power, for which he is said to have made upwards of $400,000. Authorities claim Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who was involved in the “planning and execution” of Operation Absolute Resolve (the stratagem that toppled and captured the Venezuelan leader), made bets on Polymarket about whether the U.S. would deploy forces into Venezuela and remove Maduro from power. Van Dyke was arrested on…
Bob Iger is returning to Thrive Capital as an advisor, just one month after stepping down as CEO of Disney, a role he held for nearly two decades. Iger previously served a two-month stint as a venture partner at the firm in late 2022, but left when the Disney board asked him to retake the helm of the media conglomerate, following his initial departure from the company in 2020. “Bob leads with boldness and conviction because he knows what he is building and why. He is rejoining Thrive at a time when that kind of leadership matters most,” Thrive’s founder…
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more than $400,000 in profits on Polymarket trades. A grand jury indicted him on five counts, including multiple violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.Van Dyke is the first person to be charged with insider trading on a prediction market in the United States. Lawmakers have been voicing concerns for months about the high likelihood that politicians and public servants could use nonpublic…
Redwood Materials chief operating officer Chris Lister is leaving the battery recycling company to retire, TechCrunch has learned — and he’s not the only executive that recently departed. Lister, a former vice president who led operations at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, has been with Redwood since late 2023. He started as the company’s chief supply chain officer and was quickly promoted to the COO role in 2024. The promotion put him closer in the org chart to Redwood founder and CEO JB Straubel, who was Tesla’s longtime chief technology officer and currently sits on the automaker’s board. Redwood Materials recently informed employees…
Over the past several months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely watching. Australia’s regulations, along with other countries’ proposals, aim to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, which include cyberbullying, addiction, mental health issues, and exposure to predators. Of course, there are concerns about privacy regarding invasive age verification and excessive government intervention. Critics, including Amnesty Tech, have said such bans are…
Instead, Kamluk saw that it was a self-spreading piece of code with very different intentions. Using what was referred to within the code as “wormlet” functionality, Fast16 is designed to copy itself to other computers on the network via Windows’ network share feature. It checks for a list of security applications, and if none are present, installs the Fast16.sys kernel driver on the target machine.That kernel driver then reads the code of applications as they’re loaded into the computer’s memory, monitoring for a long list of specific patterns—“rules” that allow it to identify when a target application is running. When…
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps businesses integrate AI into workflows. This is Sierra’s third public acquisition. It previously bough Japan-based enterprise AI solutions company Opera Tech (which it acquired in late March) and voice agent company Receptive AI (which it also announced it acquired in late March). Fragment co-founders Olivier Moindrot and Guillaume Genthail will be joining the Sierra team. In a blog post, Taylor and his co-founder, Clay Bavor, wrote that Moindrot and Genthail will bring “valuable strength” to Sierra’s…
Some Rednote users have reported that their accounts were automatically converted from the Chinese to the international version of the website recently. One American user, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being punished by the platform, shared a screenshot with WIRED showing that when he logged into the platform in April, a banner appeared that read “Your account is a rednote account. We have automatically redirected you to rednote.com.”The user says he registered his account with a Chinese phone number years ago, but suspects his account was converted because of using a non-Chinese IP address. “I have never posted…