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Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Delicate Balance of AI in Eating Disorder Support
AI shows transformative potential for increasing accessibility in eating disorder care, but emerging research highlights significant risks including the delivery of harmful advice and the inability to detect complex, early-stage symptoms reliably.
Meditation Doesn't Just Calm You—It Rewires You
Recent neuroscience research reveals that meditation produces measurable structural changes in the brain—enhancing neuroplasticity, metabolic flexibility, and endogenous opioid production—while building lasting emotional resilience.
WinRAR’s Forgotten Door: How Russian Actors Turned a Year-Old Patch Into a Backdoor
Shadow-Earth-066 and Earth Dahu exploit CVE-2025-8088 in Ukraine—and beyond—because organizations still haven’t found WinRAR on their networks. It’s not the flaw that’s dangerous; it’s the silence.
When A$AP Rocky bought Burberry's most iconic piece — and why it mattered more than a million-dollar campaign
How A$AP Rocky's spontaneous in-store Burberry scarf purchase became a defining moment for Burberry Forward, revealing that the most valuable brand moments can’t be bought—only recognized.
Market Snapshot: Jack in the Box Stock Performance and Valuation Fundamentals
Overview of JACK stock performance within current market conditions and a primer on the Price-to-Earnings ratio.
Melodies for the Mind: Why Learning an Instrument Later in Life Could Be Your Brain’s New Best Friend
Explores recent research showing how learning to play a musical instrument in later life can act as a powerful cognitive booster, enhancing memory, attention, and executive function.
iOS 27’s Real AI Isn’t Siri—It’s the Quiet Stuff You’ll Use Every Day
While AI-powered assistants often dominate the headlines, iOS 27 brings critical, quality-of-life AI improvements to the iPhone, enhancing photography, messaging, and system automation for a more intuitive user experience.
Lightspeed Backs VLC Developer's New Startup Kyber for Real-Time Robot Synchronization
VLC Media Player creator Jean-Baptiste Kempf has launched Kyber, an open-source real-time coordination layer for physical AI and robotics, raising $5 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed.
ServiceNow’s Blind Spot: How an Unauthenticated API Endpoint Exposed Customer Secrets
Attackers exploited a misconfigured ServiceNow API endpoint to query customer data—while the vendor delayed action, waiting for a bug bounty report to trigger a fix.
Save Up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Tickets Before the May 29 Early Bird Deadline
Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 expires May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT, offering attendees a chance to save up to $410 on passes for the October 13–15 event at Moscone West in San Francisco.
Iran Just Started Selling Oil Again — And No One’s Stopping It
Tehran began oil exports within hours of signing the US-Iran MOU, bypassing sanctions and triggering a global market shift — all while nuclear talks remain suspended.
Warner Music Group Acquires AI-Attribution Startup Sureel AI
Warner Music Group (WMG) has acquired Sureel AI, an AI-attribution startup, to strengthen its ability to track the use of its catalog in AI model training and generation through "AI DNA" technology.