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Sources: Byju’s plans to sell Epic, acquired for $500M, to settle debts after defaulting on $1.2B+ in loans, and may also sell Great Learning, bought for $600M (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)

Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: Sources: Byju’s plans to sell Epic, acquired for $500M, to settle debts after defaulting on $1.2B+ in loans, and may also sell Great Learning, bought for $600M — Online education company was once India’s most valuable start-up but now plans asset sales to settle debts

HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ in rewards since the platform’s inception, with 30 hackers earning $1M+ and one receiving $4M+ (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ in rewards since the platform’s inception, with 30 hackers earning $1M+ and one receiving $4M+ — HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform’s inception.

Q&A with Founders Fund GP Keith Rabois on why the firm cut its new fund in half, investing in online wholesale marketplace Faire and jobs board Traba, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Founders Fund GP Keith Rabois on why the firm cut its new fund in half, investing in online wholesale marketplace Faire and jobs board Traba, and more — “If the rest of the world wants to lose money as venture capitalists, sometimes it’s in a founder’s interest to take

“Cheap Yellow Display” Builds Community Through Hardware

For the most part, Hackaday is all about hardware hacking projects. Sometimes, though, the real hack in a project isn’t building hardware, but rather building a community around the hardware. Case in point: [Brian Lough]’s latest project, which he dubs “CYD,” for the “cheap yellow display” that it’s based on; which is a lot easier

Google researchers use off-the-shelf headphones to measure heart rate

Illustration: The Verge Typical heart rate monitoring in wearable tech, like smart watches or wireless earbuds, relies at least partially on photoplethysmography (PPG), which uses light pulses to measure blood activity. It works generally well, but it has its limitations. Google scientists wrote in a new research blog spotted by 9to5Google yesterday that they had

EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin into Your Designs

If you’re like us, there’s a creeping feeling that comes over you when you’re placing an order for parts for your latest project: Don’t I already have most of this stuff? With the well-stocked junk bins most of us sport and the stacks of defunct electronics that are almost always within arm’s length, chances are

How Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins with a new law that took effect in June 2023 and includes terms to protect the assets backing stablecoins (Emily Parker/CoinDesk)

Emily Parker / CoinDesk: How Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins with a new law that took effect in June 2023 and includes terms to protect the assets backing stablecoins — Japan’s new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back

As Cruise suspends all driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: As Cruise suspends all driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US — The whiplash from approval to ban in just two months highlights the fragmented oversight governing the fledgling industry

Google researchers use off-the-shelf headphones to measure heart rate

I shouldn’t need to pay a premium for an unlocked Samsung phone

Samsung Galaxy S23 FE Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown On October 3, 2023, Samsung announced the Galaxy S23 FE. All its press materials said the phone costs $599 for the 128GB model. However, when the phone actually went up for sale at Samsung.com, the unlocked model didn’t cost

Brick-Laying Machine Builds Without Mortar

Move over, 3D printed houses. There’s a new game in town, and it is able to use standard concrete blocks to build the walls of a house in just one day. Australian company FBR’s Hadrian X is a tablet-controlled system that follows CAD models to lay the blocks one by one. As you can see

AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content (New York Times)

New York Times: AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content — Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence.

AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content (New York Times)

Brick-Laying Machine Builds Without Mortar

Govee’s colorful LED light strips are on sale just in time for Halloween

Govee’s LED light strip can add a splash of pizzazz to your staircase with color-changing, dynamic lights. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Halloween isn’t the only holiday on the horizon now that October is drawing to a close. Once the clock strikes midnight on October 31st, Mariah Carey will defrost, peppermint

Open Source Key Programmer for HiTag2 Keys

Hitag transponders have been used in a wide variety of car keys as a protective measure against hot-wiring and theft. They’re also a reason why it’s a lot more expensive to get car keys duplicated these days for many models that use this technology. However, there is now an open source programmer that works with

Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag2 is just as good as an Apple AirTag, if not better

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Ever since I was a kid leaving for school, my mom would repeat to me, “your raincoat, your backpack, your water bottle, and you!” I grew up with this habit of double-checking I had everything on me before leaving home or school, but still, that didn’t stop me

Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s

Illustration: The Verge Users have been reporting that their iPhone 15’s NFC chips were failing after using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, but until now, Apple hasn’t addressed the complaints. That seems to have changed as MacRumors reported this week that an Apple internal memo to third-party repair providers says a software update later this year

Some artists who tried to use Meta’s request form to delete their info from its AI training data say the process is frustrating; one calls it a “fake PR stunt” (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Some artists who tried to use Meta’s request form to delete their info from its AI training data say the process is frustrating; one calls it a “fake PR stunt” — This summer, Meta began taking requests to delete data from its AI training. Artists say this new system is broken

Sources: the UK government is working with OpenAI to develop Gov.uk Chat, an AI chatbot to help people pay taxes and access pensions (Telegraph)

Telegraph: Sources: the UK government is working with OpenAI to develop Gov.uk Chat, an AI chatbot to help people pay taxes and access pensions — Move raises fears that taxpayers may be directed away from understaffed phone lines — Rishi Sunak is planning to launch an AI chatbot to help …

5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week – Android Apps Weekly

Welcome to the 507th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Once again we bring you the latest news and apps from the previous week. Let’s start with some of the biggest headlines from last week: Google recently announced its Wallet digital payments app will now let users store transit cards and see ride history, as well

OnePlus Open review: Should you buy it?

Should you buy the OnePlus Open?

Threads third-party app support could become a reality

Illustration: The Verge Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said in a reply on Threads last night that his team is working on an API for Threads, despite concern that it would help publishers push content more than it would creators. TechCrunch spotted his reply in a thread in which Platformer’s Casey Newton told another user the

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