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Aaron Sorkin’s latest film, “The Social Reckoning,” is projected to collect just $5.5 million at the domestic box office during its debut weekend, trailing behind studio expectations. The estimated return falls short of initial studio forecasts, which had targeted between $7 million and $8 million. The figures mark a steep drop compared to 2010’s “The

Major technology executives are adopting President Donald Trump’s preferred terminology for artificial intelligence, replacing the long-standing label with “super intelligence” across company initiatives and public statements. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest industry leader to adopt the phrasing, repeatedly using “super intelligence” in a recent statement advocating for an AI safety “emergency brake.” His

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will bring an estimated 10,000 startup founders, investors, and operators to San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13 to 15, centering its programming on building and backing companies in the artificial intelligence sector. The conference schedule is slated to facilitate more than 20,000 curated networking sessions and showcase the Startup Battlefield 200,

A widespread cryptomining campaign dubbed Canto Incognito has compromised more than 3,400 servers globally by concealing command-and-control server addresses within stanzas of poetry hosted on GitHub, according to research from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs. The malicious payload, designated PoeLLM, deploys Iron and XMRig mining software tied to the Kryptex mining infrastructure. Infected hosts are

Brandon Thomas, the software engineer behind the open-source Adobe alternative suite ArtCraft, has announced a new collection of free applications aimed at replacing core Microsoft Office programs. Developed with the assistance of the Claude AI model, the new suite consists of GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, which are designed to replicate Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word,

Four-hour battery storage installations have become less expensive to deploy than open-cycle natural gas turbines across the globe, according to a new report from energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. The shift comes as artificial intelligence data centers rapidly consume available power infrastructure, pushing electricity demand and equipment costs sharply upward. The cost advantage for batteries was

Xiaomi is expanding interoperability between its devices and Apple’s ecosystem, introducing bidirectional synchronization features in its newly announced HyperOS 4 update. The cross-system integration allows Xiaomi handset owners to transfer files, photos, contacts, and web links directly to and from iPhones. Users can also access cloud photo albums across both platforms, receive real-time notifications, and