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Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant announced two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on reducing apps’ memory usage and optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing “significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability,” which can then, in turn, affect the consumer’s experience with their devices. To address this, Google is now establishing new performance thresholds across several areas, like dynamic memory usage and bitmap…

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party.  Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event turned out to be far less rare than anyone would hope for.  According to a satirical website called Felony Bench (for benchmark), which tallies these incidents, there have been 17 incidents in total. It’s important to remember that criminal law experts…

A brand-new game on Steam called Never Sort By Color asks players to sort through a massive pile of LEGO-like plastic bricks containing thousands of pieces, but it also offers a satisfying payoff at the end. Brick collectors already have LEGO Skylines to look forward to, which is also coming to Steam, but they might want to check out this indie game as well. Never Sort By Color is being developed by solo programmer Bryan Livingston, and it seems to be their first release on Steam. That said, the indie project recently caught the attention of LEGO game enthusiasts, giving…

Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to flip $80,000 into support in recent days, but bulls’ real challenge is still to come, new research says.Key points:Bitcoin long-term holders add to BTC price resistance below $86,000, Glassnode reveals.Buyer demand must overcome this area as Bitcoin struggles to advance beyond $80,000.Multiple key trend lines sit around spot price, increasing the implications of an eventual loss or reclaim.Glassnode: Key overhead liquidity structures sit between $81,000 and $86,000In the latest edition of its regular newsletter, The Week Onchain, crypto analytics platform Glassnode flagged multiple pools of coins that could be released into the market below $86,000.Of…

BGaming is highlighting partner results to show how its Three Game Worlds portfolio serves different stages of the player journey. Introduced in 2025, the concept divides its catalogue into Casual, Entertainment and Classic categories, each designed around a specific operator objective.Casual Games Create An Entry PointThe Casual World contains instant-win and crash titles with low entry thresholds and quick outcomes. Their lightweight formats also suit mobile-first play.Aviamasters™ 2, Plinko 2, Penalty Duel with Júlio César, Chicken Shot and Fishing Time are among the category’s leading titles.Viktoras Ivanovas, Product Manager at Softsich, said: “Unlike other traffic bangers like Plinko and Chicken Shot,…

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion — had not yet produced a signed agreement and could still atomize. TechCrunch reached out earlier to both Nvidia and Hugging Face for comment, and neither has yet responded. (Nvidia’s silence is particularly noteworthy here as the company has moved quickly in the past to address…

StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, in what the company described as the first transaction of its kind. According to StarkWare, the transaction was confirmed Wednesday in Bitcoin block 964,199. Onchain data shows that it spent a 10,000-satoshi output protected by Levy’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme, with MARA Pool mining the block after receiving the transaction through its Slipstream service. Levy’s paper and code repository said QSB combines hash-based one-time signatures with computational searches that bind an authorization to a specific transaction. The construction is intended to prevent forgery even if a quantum…

Dragon Ball Super is gearing up for a massive comeback. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is going to release in just a few months, Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is rumored to drop shortly after the new anime remake wraps up sometime in 2027, and Toyotarou keeps dropping hints that the Dragon Ball Super manga is going to come out of hiatus soon. Every month, Toyotarou either drops new art or makes a comment that strongly suggests the Black Frieza Saga is right around the corner. One way or another, Dragon Ball Super is about to enter a new golden…

The science fiction genre has produced some of the most iconic and recognizable movies in cinema history, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, The Matrix, and Blade Runner. However, the genre is also full of impressive films that have gradually disappeared from mainstream conversation. Some were overshadowed by bigger releases, while others simply found their audiences too late. As a result, there are plenty of excellent sci-fi movies that you probably forgot, or didn’t even know, existed. Some of the best forgotten sci-fi movies don’t have as big a cultural footprint as the genre’s biggest classics, but they’re particularly rewarding…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday defended the chipmaker’s growing role in financing the artificial intelligence boom, pushing back on criticism that the company’s financial support for other AI companies is meant to inflate its top-line growth. “I think they’re missing a very big point,” Huang said on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” shortly after the company released better-than-expected quarterly results. “This is the first generation of startups that needed tens of billions of dollars to get funded,” Huang continued. “When was the last time anybody heard of a startup that needed billions of dollars to get off the ground and needed…