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What founders can learn from Anjuna’s layoffs and recovery | TechCrunch

What founders can learn from Anjuna’s layoffs and recovery | TechCrunch

In 2021, Anjuna Security was growing fast, hiring aggressively, and chasing a market that seemed limitless. By the end of that year, the venture-backed cybersecurity company had scaled to around 75 employees, building out sales, customer success, and support teams in anticipation of continued hypergrowth. Then 2022 hit. As the market turned, enterprise clients became harder to land. Like many …

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Volkswagen drops all-electric ID.4 in the US in pivot back to gas SUVs | TechCrunch

Volkswagen drops all-electric ID.4 in the US in pivot back to gas SUVs | TechCrunch

Volkswagen will no longer produce the all-electric ID.4 at its U.S. factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the German automaker shifts its resources into high-volume vehicles like its upcoming gas-powered Atlas SUV. The company said Thursday that U.S. customers will be able to buy the ID.4 until the current inventory runs out. VW said it expects U.S. inventory to last into …

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Flush with cash: Washington startup lands up to $500M to deploy facilities treating sewage, dairy waste

Flush with cash: Washington startup lands up to 0M to deploy facilities treating sewage, dairy waste

Dairy cows at the Puyallup Fair, now called the Washington State Fair. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies — a Washington company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage — announced it’s being acquired by Ara Partners. The global equity firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate …

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Florida AG announces investigation into OpenAI over shooting that allegedly involved ChatGPT | TechCrunch

Florida AG announces investigation into OpenAI over shooting that allegedly involved ChatGPT | TechCrunch

Florida’s Attorney General, James Uthmeier, announced Thursday that his office planned to investigate OpenAI over the alleged role of ChatGPT in a deadly shooting last year. In April 2025, a gunman opened fire on Florida State University’s campus, killing two and injuring five. Last week, attorneys for one of the victims of the shooting claimed that ChatGPT had been used …

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A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii

A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii

You may already know that emulators can run Wii games on a Mac. But one developer has flipped the script. Bryan Keller now has an ancient version of the Mac’s operating system running on Nintendo’s 2006 game console (via Kottke). Why? Because they said it couldn’t be done. The developer first had the idea in 2013 while a sophomore in …

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StubHub to pay $10M to settle FTC allegations over ‘deceptive’ ticket pricing | TechCrunch

StubHub to pay M to settle FTC allegations over ‘deceptive’ ticket pricing | TechCrunch

StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the ticket marketplace failed to clearly disclose the full price of tickets. The federal agency said in a proposed settlement filed on Thursday that StubHub violated the FTC Act and its Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees by “deceptively” advertising ticket prices on its website without …

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Instagram comments can now be edited (within 15 minutes)

Instagram comments can now be edited (within 15 minutes)

Meta is giving users the ability to edit Instagram comments they leave on posts, though only within a 15 minute window after they’re posted. The setup is similar to how the social app handles editing messages, an option it first added in 2024, 11 years after direct messaging was introduced to Instagram in 2013. You’re only able to edit comments …

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Jazzy stealth-action game Thick as Thieves hits PC on May 20

Jazzy stealth-action game Thick as Thieves hits PC on May 20

Thick as Thieves, the magical heist game from a crew of stealth legends at OtherSide Entertainment, is coming to Steam on May 20. OtherSide and publisher Megabit Entertainment announced the release date in a new gameplay trailer during today’s Triple-i Initiative showcase (which was packed with cool indie games, as always). OtherSide was founded by Thief and System Shock 2 …

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Meta AI app climbs to No. 5 on the App Store after Muse Spark launch | TechCrunch

Meta AI app climbs to No. 5 on the App Store after Muse Spark launch | TechCrunch

Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday’s launch of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark — its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI last year to overhaul the social giant’s AI efforts. According to new data from market intelligence provider Appfigures, consumer …

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