Rivian spinoff also reveals $4,500 high-end modular electric bike
A few years ago, when the Skunkworks team of engineers within Rivian set out to develop an electric micromobility vehicle, a question arose. “What do we build in-house?” Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in an interview reflecting on the early days of Also, which spun off from Rivian earlier this year. “We realized […]
Apple admits it has removed controversial dating apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store
Controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer have been removed from the Apple App Store. The removal of the apps was first discovered by app store intelligence provider Appfigures, which told TechCrunch that the two apps were removed from the App Store in all markets on Tuesday, but remain in place on Google Play. When […]
Iran-linked Muddy Water targets over 100 organizations in global espionage campaign
October 22, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cyber Espionage The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been implicated in a new campaign that leveraged compromised email accounts to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including more than 100 government agencies. Singapore cybersecurity firm Group IB said in […]
Ukraine aid group targeted through fake Zoom meetings and weaponized PDF files
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a coordinated spear-phishing campaign called PhantomCaptcha that targets organizations associated with war relief efforts in Ukraine and delivers a remote access Trojan that uses WebSockets for command and control (C2). The operation, which took place on 8 October 2025, targeted members of the International Society of the Red Cross, the Norwegian […]
World’s largest X-ray laser discovers never-before-seen type of ice that is solid at room temperature
Scientists squeezed water between two diamonds and created an entirely new form of ice that is solid at room temperature. The ice, named Ice XXI, forms when water is exposed to extreme pressure and becomes metastable, an unstable state that becomes physically unstable with the slightest disturbance. The researchers created Ice XXI by hypercompressing water […]
Astronomers discover giant ‘bridge’ and record-breaking tail hidden between two dwarf galaxies
Astronomers have discovered a giant, almost invisible bridge of gas, about twice as wide as the entire Milky Way, connecting a pair of distant dwarf galaxies. The neighboring objects also share a record-breaking galactic tail that is more than 15 times as long as the galaxy is wide. The dwarf galaxy pair NGC 4532 and […]
GM will introduce AI assistant powered by Google Gemini to cars in 2026
General Motors announced Wednesday during an event in New York City that it will add a conversational AI assistant powered by Google Gemini to its cars, trucks and SUVs starting next year. The rollout of Google Gemini is one of several technology-centric announcements made at the automaker’s GM Forward event, and one of the first […]
Astronomers discover a skyscraper-sized asteroid hidden in the sun’s glare – and it’s moving at a near-record pace
Astronomers have discovered a 700-meter (2,300-foot) wide asteroid hidden in the sun’s glare. This asteroid is hurtling through the solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The skyscraper-sized asteroid, named 2025 SC79, orbits the sun once every 128 days and has the second-fastest asteroid orbit in the solar system. It is also the second known […]
Meta cuts 600 AI jobs amid ongoing restructuring
Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexander Wang, said in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company would cut about 600 jobs from its Superintelligence Institute, Axios reported. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that the Axios report is accurate. Meta has had a busy summer on the hiring front as companies like Meta, […]
UK recognizes Apple, Google as having ‘strategic market positions’, opening door to further regulation
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday that it has designated Apple and Google as companies with strategic market positions in their respective mobile platforms. The decision affects companies’ operating systems, app stores, browsers and browser engines, and allows regulators to take targeted action to increase competition in this area. The CMA […]