4 days left: Up to $900 off your ticket and 90% off for your +1 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Here’s the deal: Only 4 days left to save up to $900 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket — and an additional 90% off for your +1. From October 27–29, San Francisco’s Moscone West transforms into the epicenter of tech innovation as 10,000 tech, startup, and VC leaders gather for the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch […]

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Strava is buying up athletic training apps – first Runna, and now The Breakaway

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

The social fitness app Strava has made two acquisitions over the last month and change: on Thursday, Strava’s acquired cycling app The Breakaway, following its acquisition of Runna last month. Incubated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 class, The Breakaway uses AI to create personalized training plans for cyclists working toward specific goals. Runna, a UK-based […]

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Exclusive look at the making of High NA, ASML’s new $400 million chipmaking colossus

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

ASML’s new $400 million chip colossus transforms how semiconductors are made. CNBC got the first-ever on-camera look at the new machine, called High NA.

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Hong Kong passes stablecoin bill as more governments recognize the digital asset

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Hong Kong has passed a stablecoin bill to expand its cryptocurrency licensing regime as more governments recognize the digital asset.

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Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

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Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

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The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

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Apple iPhone designer Jony Ive joins OpenAI in $6.5bn deal

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI says partnering with the “greatest designer in the world” will allow it to re-imagine what a computer is.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks U.S. chip curbs failed — and he’s not alone

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called U.S. semiconductor export controls on China “a failure,” and many chip analysts and pundits think he has a point.

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Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Signal said today that it is updating its Windows app to prevent the system from capturing screenshots, thereby protecting the content that is on display. The company said that this new “screen security” setting is enabled by default on Windows 11. Signal said that this new feature is designed to protect users’ privacy from Microsoft’s […]

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