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In 2015, fintech founder and eventual FDIC Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji was sitting in a co-working space when a loud bang clapped through the room. It startled his colleagues, a group of founders from the St. Louis startup community, according to a person who was there. Meghji turned to a colleague and said the violent pop gave him flashbacks to the time he was shot.
Many of Meghjiâs former colleagues and associates have heard him talk about his supposed encounter with a bullet, but the details.
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"I think the license should be taken away from ABC," Trump told an ABC reporter. "Because your news is so fake, and it's so wrong." Read more âș
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Cloudflare has confirmed that a bug in one of its core services caused a major outage on Tuesday, taking large portions of the internet offline. Read more âș
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Writer and executive producer Henry Gilroy says that Sabine's 'Ahsoka' arc was something consideredâand dismissedâduring 'Rebels'. Read more âș
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The Department of Education announced plans to move a portion of its work to other agencies. Shutting down the department still requires Congress. Read more âș
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If you're experiencing internet issues this morning, you're far from alone. Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing." The company said that services are starting recover, but customers may continue to see "higher-than-normal errors rates" is it continues to work on the problem. Cloudflare is a key internet hub, as it provides network and security products for internet... Read more âș
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Android phone owners are finding their handsets are less desirable to thieves. Read more âș
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Elon Musk claims Tesla may need 100 â 200 billion AI chips per year, a volume far beyond what TSMC and Samsung can supply, which is why he is considering building Tesla's own fab, as he believes existing foundries cannot scale fast enough for him. Read more âș
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A Virginia State University student who interned at Apple explains why he decided to pursue a full-time job outside Big Tech. Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without obtaining a warrant, according to a letter signed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and shared with 404 Media. The country's major airlines, including Delta, United Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest, funnel customer records to a... Read more âș
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Cloudflare, a networking company that provides DDoS protection and delivery services for many companies around the globe, is experiencing a major outage thatâs taking down sites across the web. Users are running into an error message when they try to access X, ChatGPT, and even the outage-tracking website DownDetector has an error message saying âPlease [âŠ] Read more âș
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Cloudflare confirmed that an "internal service degradation" was causing issues for users across the internet. Read more âș
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For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now itâs official. Read more âș
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Ookla has found that Appleâs custom N1 networking chip that integrates the Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread radios in the iPhone 17 family âdelivers a clear step-change in real-world Wi-Fi performanceâ when compared to the Broadcom chip used in the iPhone 16 models. In North America, the iPhone 17 family also outperformed flagship Android [âŠ] Read more âș
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A federal judge ruled that the FTC failed to prove Meta formed a monopoly through its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. Read more âș
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Google shipped out a new Pixel Feature Drop last week that included at least 8 new features or improvements to your Pixel phone, foldable, or tablet. There are new features in Google Photos, Messages, within Magic Cue, and to notifications (summaries!). One of the more noteworthy of the bunch is in this new Pixel Themes ⊠Continued Read the original post: Pixel Themes is a Great Idea That Kicked Off... Read more âș
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Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubinâs startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more âș
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At Teslaâs annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Muskâs other companies, xAI. But Muskâs revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work together. Musk had already discussed plans for such a chip fab internally at Tesla months before the... Read more âș
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Appleâs succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely wonât happen until after late January when ... Read more âș
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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disneyâs entertainment ... Read more âș
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OpenAI is trying to turn public opinion against The New York Times in their legal battle. As part of the Timesâ copyright infringement lawsuit against the ChatGPT creator, the Times has asked for access to 20 million conversations between users and ChatGPT, a request OpenAI said Wednesday was â ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Inside Grindrâs boardroom feud ⹠Plus, our Recommendations: âHarry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stone,â âA Biography of a Mountainâ and âMaterialistsâA bit of housekeeping: The Informationâs Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat weâre calling âtech wealth and culture.â This person will cover how Silicon Valleyâs moguls live largeâtheir pursuits, their pastimesâand how they spend their money. Hereâs a... Read more âș
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more âș
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Investors are rushing to back a new generation of research-focused AI startups. In just over a month, theyâve made or discussed $2.5 billion of investments into five of these startups, called neolabs, despite the high costs and risk of failure. The neolab startupsâ founders say they hope to exploit new approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked. Read more âș
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Anthropic plans to invest $50 billion building its own data centers, the first time it has done so, in Texas and New York, the AI startup announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Anthropic said it would partner with London-based cloud startup Fluidstack on the data centers. Anthropic said that the ... Read more âș
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Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the companyâs newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman is a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more âș
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