Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Musk’s 10-month-old baby, xAI, is closing in on a whoppin’ $6 billion funding round. The social network X, née Twitter — also part of Elon’s tech family — is already a shareholder. The deal was initially supposed to raise just $3 billion, but … [Read more...]
5 things the Snapdragon X Elite needs to beat Apple Silicon
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC is just around the corner, and it aims to be a renaissance of sorts for Windows on Arm. With that comes a promise of beating Apple's M3 chipsets in its Macbooks, though there's more to a chipset than the raw power that it's capable of. There are a ton of things that Qualcomm needs to get right in order to best Apple, and these are five of the most important … [Read more...]
Three things we learned about Apple’s AI plans from its earnings
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t give much away about the company’s AI plans on Thursday’s Q2 earnings call with investors, but he did confirm a few tidbits about how the tech giant plans to move forward with artificial intelligence. Notably, his comments suggested that despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn’t planning to spin up too many new data centers … [Read more...]
Helldivers 2 PC players suddenly have to link to a PSN account and they're not being chill about it
Linking to a random third-party account when you just want to play a video game you paid for is truly annoying and, honestly, keeps me from even launching certain games by certain publishers who shall remain nameless. Helldivers 2 players are experiencing this frustration right now, as the PC version of the massively popular third-person shooter will soon require a link to a PlayStation … [Read more...]
Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims
Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost EV meant for the masses, and the Alaska, Fisker’s entry into the red-hot pickup truck market. In the weeks that followed, Fisker stopped paying the engineering firm that helped develop those vehicles, according to a … [Read more...]
Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM
Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most notably, the social network is introducing a new “Reveal” feature that lets you post a hidden Story for your followers to uncover by sending you a DM. Instagram is also launching other features that let you share your favorite … [Read more...]
5 Free Tools to Boost Developer Productivity
Hey there, devs! Are you tired of feeling like you're not getting enough done in a day? Do you find yourself switching between apps and tools, trying to stay organized and focused? Well, worry no more! We've got you covered with these 5 free tools that'll help you stay productive and get more done in less time.Notion is like the Swiss Army knife of productivity tools. It's an all-in-one workspace … [Read more...]
Sprinklr lays off more than 100 employees
Sprinklr, a U.S. firm offering a customer experience management platform to global brands, has laid off about 3% of its workforce — around 116 people — to realign its customer operations team, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year. The New York-headquartered company, which counts … [Read more...]
Backend Authentication: The Role of Access and Refresh Tokens
OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard for delivering sensitive authorization-related information across the web, typically in the form of a JSON Web Token(JWT).It uses two tokens—Access Token and Refresh Token. These tokens help securely manage access to protected resources without users needing to keep logging in repeatedly. Let's now delve deep and understand what and why these tokens are … [Read more...]
Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
This year already proved that startups are willing to go public in a less-than-ideal market — and get rewarded for it, too. But bankers, lawyers and investors said the recent IPO successes aren’t enough to foster more than a dozen tech IPOs this year. “I don’t think we will have the floodgates open like I might have thought,” Greg Martin, co-founder and managing director at Rainmaker Securities, … [Read more...]
Redfall’s two DLC heroes are still MIA a year later
As Microsoft tries to beef up its in-house Xbox studios, it may want to be more careful about leaving a trail of broken promises when things don’t go as planned. A year after the hyped vampire shooter Redfall landed with a thud, a Kotaku report highlights how players are still waiting for the advertised post-launch DLC they already paid for.Redfall’s Bite Back Edition is a $100 collector’s variant … [Read more...]
Instagram's 'Add Yours' sticker now lets you share songs
Instagram just announced some new features coming to Stories, including a suite of interactive stickers. The music one is perhaps the most interesting, as it's an extension of the pre-existing Add Yours feature. The Add Yours Music sticker lets users share their favorite songs, along with a prompt for followers to get in on the fun by sharing their own related tracks. Of course, the song has to … [Read more...]
6 reasons AMD is better than Intel for the average gamer
In the world of computing, there's always been a pretty big war between Team Red and Team Blue. Until recent years, you'd have been forgiven for saying that Intel was better for gamers; after all, pre-Ryzen 5000 series, it was. Games simply ran better on older Intel CPUs, and AMDs multithreading-focused FX CPUs didn't really offer much in terms of tangible performance benefits. Even early Ryzen … [Read more...]
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M
WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises, has been acquired by Swedish investment giant EQT. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch has learned via sources that the deal values WSO2 at “more than” $600 million, with EQT attaining a “significant majority” stake for the price. WSO2’s products include an open-source … [Read more...]
GitHub announces new updates to improve supply chain security
GitHub has released two updates designed to help secure software supply chains. The company announced a public beta of Artifact Attestations for GitHub Actions, which makes it easier for companies to verify where software components came from, and announced that Dependabot can now be run as a GitHub Actions workflow. Artifact Attestation allows maintainers of open-source software to easily … [Read more...]
Microsoft Overhauls Cybersecurity Strategy After Scathing CSRB Report
In the wake of a scathing US government report that condemned Microsoft’s weak cybersecurity practices and lax corporate culture, security chief Charlie Bell is pledging significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features. “This is job number one for us,” Bell said in his first public comments since Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) called public … [Read more...]
Tesla’s Supercharger layoffs couldn’t have come at a worse time
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New Windows 11 beta lets you duplicate your File Explorer tabs
The week may be almost over, but Microsoft is sending us off into the weekend with a neat little feature for Windows Insiders on the Beta channel. The company is rolling out a new update for this channel, which brings the OS build number to 22635.3570, and it comes with a single major addition, that being the ability to duplicate tabs in File Explorer. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]
10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts
Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to load illicit software onto their bulky graphing calculators. Such behavior was generally discouraged at school, but he wasn’t plotting to cheat on a test. He was simply traversing the Viridian Forest, … [Read more...]
Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to link to a PSN account
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