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On Friday morning, University of Pennsylvania alumni, students, staff, and community affiliates received several emails from hackers purporting to represent the university’s Graduate School of Education (GSE). “We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,” read the email. “We love breaking federal rules like FERPA (all your data will be leaked).” A partially redacted email sent by hackers with access to the university of Pennsylvania email system.Image Credits:TechCrunch (screenshot) This message was sent from a variety of different Penn-affiliated email accounts, such as the GSE, as well as purporting to come from several senior members of staff across the…

Announced two weeks ago, Oppo’s Find X9 duo is already on sale in China and will be available globally from early November. Will you be buying one? The Oppo Find X9 Pro will retail at €1,300 for a 16/512GB unit. In our review, we praised the phone’s improved camera performance and noted that it topped our battery life chart. You can also watch our video review for more details on the phone. Oppo Find X9 Pro: key features It is, perhaps, most evenly matched with the vivo X300 Pro, which just launched in Europe earlier this week.…

On Tuesday morning at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, our senior producer Maggie Nye rolled up her jacket sleeve to show me her new tattoo: a classic, pixelated cursor arrow. TechCrunch’s Becca Szkutak got a matching cursor, while Theresa Loconsolo got a smiling moon. I guessed that at some point during all the Disrupt hoopla, Maggie and Becca wandered off to some trendy San Francisco tattoo shop to cement their friendship with appropriately tech-themed ink (and maybe Theresa was there too?). That seemed like a more logical explanation than the reality, which is that they got these tattoos at Disrupt — yes,…

In last week’s poll, the Honor Magic8 Pro rose up while the vanilla Magic8 went on a downwards trajectory. While the two phones share a lot of hardware, the more capable camera of the Pro model is giving it a serious advantage. Honor Magic8 and Magic8 Pro The Honor Magic8 Pro scored highly in the poll and the numbers can improve with solid reviews. Some are still wondering whether the camera improvements are as big as Honor claims. One in ten voters is planning on holding off until the Ultra model is announced in the next few months. For the…

Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion.   They did so following a vote-no recommendation from their largest shareholder, Sina Toussi of Two Seas Capital, a firm that focuses on post-bankruptcy companies. Core Scientific emerged from its bankruptcy in January 2024.   Core Scientific, which began as a crypto miner and still is one, shares that early history with AI data center provider CoreWeave, which also started as a miner.   But CoreWeave, with investor and partner Nvidia, has now transitioned to serving…

Honor is rumored to launch the GT 2 series in December, reportedly consisting of the GT 2 and GT 2 Pro. While there’s no word from the brand about these phones’ features yet, reliable tipster Digital Chat Station has revealed key specs of the GT 2 duo, giving us an idea of what to expect from the two phones. According to DCS, the Honor GT 2 will be powered by last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, while the Honor GT 2 Pro will have the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip at the helm. Snapdragon…

Meta signed three deals this week to procure nearly 1 gigawatt of solar power as it races to power its lofty AI ambitions. The trio of agreements brings Meta’s total solar purchases to over 3 gigawatts of capacity this year. Solar is cheap and quick to build, and as a result, it has become a go-to power source for tech companies as their data center fleets multiply in size. Meta yesterday announced two agreements in Louisiana that see it buying the environmental attributes of a combined 385 megawatts of electricity. Both projects are expected to be completed two years from…

Board gaming console suits every family member HomeBoard Games Gadget Flow EditorsBoard Gaming Console (Founder Edition)Hurry up! This item is 29% OFF!Bring everyone together with the Board gaming console. It blends physical game pieces with digital play, letting families and friends play without controllers.Piece-based controls: Each game uses custom physical pieces that the console recognizes. Board knows what game you want to play. This makes even simple moves magical.24-inch tabletop design: A large, flat display ensures all players see the action and stay engaged.Exclusive 12-game library: Twelve games span arcade, strategy, and party styles. Each title includes tutorials for quick…

There were plenty of new smartphone launches on the other side of the ocean in the last couple of weeks, but the US market has been pretty quiet. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any discounts this week, of course. This is probably not a good sign – the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is under $700 for a 256GB unit and the upgrade to 512GB is only $40. Never mind the S25+ (which is out of stock on Amazon, anyway), the S25 Edge is now cheaper than the vanilla Galaxy S25! Unless you settle for the 128GB S25, which you probably…

So, there you are, composing a text message and you want to spice it up by adding a timely and topical GIF. On my Pixel, using Gboard, I can ass a GIF by tapping the four box icon, and tapping GIF. That leads to a small Search bar where you can choose to search for a custom GIF or use one of several suggestions. Before you even start typing, you can get a GIF by opening the Google Messages app and tapping the “Plus” icon inside a circle on the left side of the text field. From the multiple options, select…