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General Catalyst is working on a ‘continuation’ fund worth up to $1B, sources say

General Catalyst, one of Silicon Valley’s largest capital firms, is gearing up to launch what’s known as a “continuation fund” worth between $800 million and $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the plans. A continuation fund consists of a portion of stakes that the VC firm has in portfolio companies. With around $25 […]

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VC firm NFX laid off 4 employees and plans to hire more investors

Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product teams to its investing team, general partner Pete Flint told TechCrunch. The layoffs included one product leader and three engineers, Flint said. About a week ago, Amy Lin, chief product officer since […]

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News Image Joker: Folie à Deux’s Ending Came From a Scrapped Idea for the First Film

Christopher Nolan was purportedly the reason it didn't make it in—and it was no longer a problem by the time the Joker sequel was coming around.

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Meet the ScaleUp Startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

We’re excited to announce the debut of the ScaleUp Startup Exhibitor Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Join us at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30 to meet an exciting lineup of startups that are poised to make their mark in the tech world. The ScaleUp Startup Exhibitor Program offers Series A and B […]

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VESSL AI secures $12M for its MLOps platform that aims to cut GPU costs by up to 80%

South Korean MLOps platform VESSL AI is trying to carve out a niche for itself by focusing on optimizing for GPU expenses using hybrid infrastructure.

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MoneyGram confirms hackers stole customer data in cyberattack

MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole customers' personal information and transaction data in a September cyberattack that caused a five-day outage....

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News Image The Penguin Just Made The Batman Even Better

Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti star in Matt Reeves' DC Comics spinoff series, now on HBO.

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News Image Apple’s next MacBook Pros might have leaked in Russia

At least two Russian creators have posted videos in which they unbox what appears to be the next base model 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip. Apple, which hasn’t announced the laptops yet, is rumored to have a launch planned for November. Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman pointed to a video posted by the Russian YouTube channel Wylsacom. He points out that the packaging looks the same as the M3 MacBook Pro, down to the wallpaper on the label that Apple tends to change annually. In the 13-minute video, the host sets up the laptop and runs some Geekbench tests alongside a 2022 MacBook Air. Based on the times and CPU scores shown in the video, these appear to be those benchmarks. Overall, the MacBook Pro shown in the video...

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News Image Chevy’s cheapest Silverado EV now starts at $57,095

Chevy is lowering the Silverado EV’s starting price for 2025 by adding a new standard range Work Truck (WT) version that starts at $57,095, which includes destination charges but not other fees, and Chevy says the dealer “sets final price.” Chevy also added several additional versions of the electric truck with varying ranges compared to the outgoing 2024 model with only one version, the RST trim, priced at nearly $100,000. While a top-of-the-line “max range” version is still there, for 2025, Chevy will make a cheaper RST starting at $89,395 that has a shorter 390-mile EPA range. Chevy says it will reveal the $57K work truck’s range closer to launch, but there’s also a...

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ADT discloses second breach in 2 months, hacked via stolen credentials

Home and small business security company ADT disclosed it suffered a breach after threat actors gained access to its systems using stolen credentials and exfiltrated employee account data....

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News Image Prime Day: Amazon Slashes Prices, Here Are the 10 Best Deals of Monday

Amazon unveiled thousands of Prime Day deals this Monday on some of the world's biggest brands.

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LEGO's website hacked to push cryptocurrency scam

On Friday night, cryptocurrency scammers briefly hacked the LEGO website to promote a fake Lego token that could be purchased with Ethereum....

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News Image The Galaxy Z Fold 6 Is Almost Free On The Samsung Site, $1500 Discount as a Prime Day Gift

The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is undoubtedly the best folding phone available right now.

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Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of communications networks, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. "People familiar with the matter" told the WSJ that hackers breached the networks of companies including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (also known as CenturyLink). "A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of US broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests," the WSJ wrote. "For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful US requests for communications data, according to people familiar with the matter." These "attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic Internet traffic," according to the WSJ's sources. The attack is being attributed to a Chinese hacking group called Salt Typhoon. Read full article

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News Image Your Regular Reminder That Ewan McGregor Would Love to Do More Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Star Wars star's hints about wanting a season two are starting to sound like all the hints he dropped before the Disney+ series arrived in the first place.

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