Digg founder teams up with former Reddit rival to buy and revive website

Content aggregator Digg is making a comeback thanks to a partnership with rival and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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IRS Layoffs 2025: How Businesses Will Feel the Impact

IRS layoffs in 2025 could mean tax delays, fewer audits, and compliance challenges. See how businesses will be affected.

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Not all cancer patients need chemo. Ataraxis AI raised $20M to fix that.

Ataraxis AI has raised a $20.4 million Series A to make cancer treatment more personalized.
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Apple adds AI-powered app review summaries with iOS 18.4

As part of the iOS 18.4 software update, currently in public beta, Apple is introducing AI-powered summaries of App Store reviews. The new feature will leverage Apple Intelligence, the company’s built-in AI technology, to offer an overall summary based on the reviews others have left on the App Store. The review summaries will be generated […]
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Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved

A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.

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UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe

Digital rights campaigners say it shows the regulator has given into Big Tech and been “defanged.”

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Apple Taking Legal Action Against UK Over Backdoor Demands

Apple told TechRepublic it is “gravely disappointed” to remove Advanced Data Protection in the U.K., as it fights government demands for an iCloud backdoor.

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Former NSA official says federal worker cuts will have ‘devastating impact’ on cyber and national security

Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Agency until retiring in 2024, was providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, […]
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Ryan Breslow is back as CEO of fintech Bolt, after years of controversy

Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Bolt shared a communication that recently went out to investors in which Breslow wrote that “following a challenging few years,” he had been reinstated as Bolt’s CEO with “unanimous approval” of the board of the one-click checkout company. Justin […]
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Amazon’s One Medical CEO stepping down after less than two years at helm

Green was tapped to lead One Medical shortly after Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the company.

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