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Netgear’s premium Wi-Fi 7 Mesh is on sale for Prime Day

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Amazon Prime Day 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Handling four simultaneous movie streams and online gaming sessions with apparent ease, it's easy to recommend the Netgear Orbi 770. The accessible app displays connected devices, allows you to set up a guest or IoT network, and offers a range of analytical tools. The main router has a 2.5Gbps WAN and three 2.5Gbps LAN ports, while the satellites have two 2.5Gbps LAN ports each.Unfortunately, you have to pay for a subscription if you want Netgear Armor, but the feature-packed security software…

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Klue hack leads to data breach at several cybersecurity companies

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🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cyberattack,cybersecurity,data breach,extortion,Klue 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A hacking group has taken credit for a breach at market information provider Klue that allowed hackers to steal troves of data from the company's corporate clients, which include some of the biggest names in cybersecurity. Vancouver-based Klue, which allows companies to conduct market research by linking their data to their systems, said Friday that hackers stole data from an unspecified number of its customers during a cyberattack a week ago. (The blog contains a "noindex" code, which tells search engines not to include…

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Seedcamp raises $320 million for its new fund to expand its presence in the US

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✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Venture,early stage funding,SeedCamp ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early investor Seedkamp said on Monday it had raised $320 million for its latest fund, which will see it expand its presence in the United States. Fund VII is the investment firm's largest to date, double the $180 million it raised for Fund VI in 2023. However, Seedcamp is divvying up that amount to focus more on growth-stage investments: $220 million is allocated to Seedcamp VII, its vehicle for early-stage investments, while the remaining $100 million…

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New Lucid Motors CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,electric vehicles,EVs,Layoffs,Lucid Motors ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, or about 1,500 employees, just four months after the electric car maker laid off 12% of its employees. The company said on Monday that it had "cancelled the second shift" for electric vehicle production at its plant in Casa Grande, Arizona. The cuts are part of an attempt by Lucid's new CEO, Silvio Napoli, "to simplify the company, improve execution, and position Lucid to become more competitive over time," the company said in…

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Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Indian support

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,alexa+,Amazon,Exclusive,India 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new AI-powered conversational assistant Alexa+ in India, and is inviting users in the country to test a Hindi version. The company has sent emails to some customers, seen by TechCrunch, asking users to fill out a form in Hindi by June 22 to join the beta testing program. "You are invited to join the Alexa + Beta Program in India. We are creating a new Alexa experience, and your feedback will be important to improve what…

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Google DeepMind is betting $75 million on the future of artificial intelligence in Hollywood with A24 deal

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,a24,DeepMind,filmmaking,In Brief,movies 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A new alliance has been formed between a Hollywood studio and a tech giant. Google DeepMind on Monday announced a $75 million investment (per the Wall Street Journal) in popular independent film studio A24, known for hits like “Marty Supreme,” “Everything Everywhere All At One,” and the recent blockbuster “Backrooms.” Google DeepMind describes this investment as a partnership, a “first of its kind” that will see the two companies create AI tools for filmmaking, with Google DeepMind receiving “feedback and guidance from…

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A new irreparable flaw in Apple’s chips opens the door to jailbreaking an iPhone

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,Cellebrite,cybersecurity,Graykey,hackers,hacking,iPhone,iphone jailbreak,jailbreak,Spyware 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A company that sells spyware and hacking tools to government agencies has published details of a vulnerability in Apple's chips that could help hackers unlock older iPhones. This release opens the door for other researchers who specialize in finding iOS vulnerabilities, such as those working for or under government contractors, to develop effective iPhone hacks, provided they can find additional vulnerabilities to link to these vulnerabilities. This could help security researchers develop a so-called iPhone jailbreak, a technique to hack into Apple's mobile operating…

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Nvidia wants to reduce water use in data centers, but that’s not the same as fixing the water problem in AI

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✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Climate,data centers,liquid cooling,nvidia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nvidia just announced a warm water cooling system that it says can significantly reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating "virtually all water use" inside the data center, an Nvidia executive said in a press release. “The water consumption challenge in data centers has largely been solved,” Josh Parker, Nvidia's chief sustainability officer, told Axios recently. But that's just part of the water story. As long as AI data centers run on fossil fuels — a choice that…

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Microsoft and Chevron are planning one of the largest gas-fired data center projects in the United States

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Chevron,In Brief,Microsoft,natural gas 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft and Chevron on Monday announced plans to develop a 2.67 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant in West Texas to serve the technology company's cloud data and artificial intelligence centers. Under a 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide electricity for a data center operated by Microsoft. Two large GE Vernova turbines will generate most of the power, while Caterpillar's Solar Turbines will provide the rest. (The name solar turbines may sound familiar; xAI uses them at its unlicensed power plant…

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Shareholders are suing Uber’s board over sexual assaults and other incidents

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✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Dara Khosrowshahi,In Brief,Uber 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lawsuit filed by a Detroit pension fund accuses Uber's management and board of putting profits before compliance and safety, decisions that put the company and its shareholders at risk. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, alleges that Uber is a “serial compliance violator” who “knowingly” crossed the line. This lack of a culture of compliance has led to thousands of lawsuits by victims alleging sexual assault and harassment by drivers,…

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