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How does our brain wake up?

When you wake up in the morning, your alarm may go off and your brain feels like it’s turned on, but you may still feel groggy for a while. But the actual process of waking up the brain is a gradual, coordinated event. So how exactly does that happen? First, let’s define what it means […]

Europol dismantles SIM farm network running 49 million fake accounts worldwide

October 19, 2025Ravi LakshmananSIM exchange/virtual currency Europol on Friday announced the disruption of its advanced Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform that operated SIM farms and enabled customers to commit crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud. The coordinated law enforcement operation, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, conducted 26 raids resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure […]

Wikipedia says AI search summaries and social videos are causing traffic decline

Wikipedia is often touted as the last good website on an internet increasingly populated by toxic social media and AI slop. But online encyclopedias aren’t completely immune to broader trends, with human pageviews down 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Wikimedia Foundation’s Marshall Miller. The foundation works to differentiate between traffic from […]

This top VC bets nearly 20% of its money on teenagers – here’s why

Kevin Hurts tends to be the first through the door. In 2001, he co-founded Xoom. Those were the days when you had to wait in line at Western Union to send money across the border. The company went public in 2013, and PayPal paid $1.1 billion for it in 2015. Four years after launching Xoom, […]

YouTubers are no longer dependent on ad revenue — how some YouTubers are diversifying

YouTube has become the largest platform and offers creators many opportunities to make a living. In June, the company reported that the creative ecosystem has increased U.S. GDP by more than $55 billion and created more than 490,000 full-time jobs. However, many YouTubers are reducing their reliance on ad revenue and brand deals. There are […]

Too burnt out to travel? This new app will fake your summer vacation photos

At a time when startup hustle culture is back and “locked-in” tech founders are even embracing the “996” working style (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week), there’s something dystopian about using an AI app to generate a fake vacation photo of yourself. Still, here we are. Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined […]