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Today begins the 7-day countdown to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the flagship tech conference bringing together 10,000+ leaders, VCs, operators, and innovators, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco, October 27–29. To celebrate the countdown, we’re offering a special 60% discount for your plus-one. Buy your pass and save up to $444, plus get 60% off a second ticket for your co-founder, partner, friend, or team member. Get your two discounted passes here. Disrupt 2025 ticket type perks Industry Stage programming: 5 stages For Attendee, Founder, Investor, Student, and Non-Profit Passes Five massive stages that are designed to bring insights from the top leaders across the tech…
A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on October 16 after a strange incident occurred with the aircraft windshield. While the aircraft was at cruising altitude over Utah, part of the Boeing 737 Max 8’s windshield shattered. The plane was operating flight 1093 from Denver to Los Angeles on Thursday with 134 customers and six crewmembers on board, according to the airline. Over southern Utah, about halfway through the nearly three-hour flight plan, the pilot requested to divert to nearby Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), according to FlightAware data.United said the plane “landed safely in Salt…
OpenEvidence, a tool that doctors and nurses have likened to ChatGPT for medicine, plans to announce a $200 million raise at a $6 billion valuation, The New York Times reports. The fresh funds come three months after the startup raised a $210 million round at a $3.5 billion valuation, a testament to the intense investor interest in industry-specific AI applications. Trained on medical journals like JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, the OpenEvidence platform helps users quickly get answers to existing medical knowledge to help treat patients. Verified medical professionals can access OpenEvidence’s tool, which is supported by…
San Francisco is getting a symbolic jolt very soon as newly elected mayor Daniel Lurie steps onto the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at Moscone West, in a homecoming of sorts for both tech and the city that helped define it. Disrupt has long been a launchpad for founders and investors chasing the next wave. Lurie’s visit signals a renewed effort to weave innovation back into San Francisco’s future. Register now to save up to $444 on your pass, and get 60% off a plus-one ticket. Daniel Lurie, who campaigned on revitalizing the city’s economy…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 2:55 PM ET, Sun October 19, 2025 UPDATED: 3:00 p.m. EST, October 19, 2025According to the U.S. Travel Association’s real-time cost ticker, the federal government shutdown (which has been ongoing since October 1) has now cost the country’s tourism sector close to $2.6 billion to date. Meanwhile, those who are still traveling in the U.S. face longer waits at airport security as TSA agents — who are required to work without pay while the government shutdown persists — call out sick en masse. Air traffic controllers are in the same boat — that is, forced…
A Waymo robotaxi was recently spotted driving around a school bus that had its red lights flashing, and federal safety regulators have opened an investigation as a result. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced Monday morning that its Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened an investigation after seeing footage from early October of a Waymo autonomous vehicle maneuvering around a stopped school bus that was unloading kids in Atlanta, Georgia. ODI says in a document that it will investigate the performance of Waymo’s self-driving software around stopped school buses, how the system is designed to comply with rules…
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who sent a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” to a woman he later pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting on a Pennsylvania college campus was sentenced to two to four years in prison on Monday.The judge took into account Ian Cleary’s guilty plea, his remorse and his long history of mental illness in giving a sentence below state guidelines. Cleary, 32, said he sent the messages as part of a 12-step program, in hopes of seeking atonement.However, victim Shannon Keeler told the court on Monday that the messages only reopened wounds she…
NEW YORK (AP) — A major Amazon Web Services outage disrupted scores of online platforms on Monday — leaving people around the world unable to access some banks, chatting apps, online food ordering and more.History shows these kinds of system outages can be short-lived, and are often minor inconveniences — such as placing a lunch order in person or waiting a few hours for a gaming platform to come back online — than long-term problems, but recovery can be a bumpy road. And for people trying to move money, communicate with loved ones or work using impacted services, disruptions are…
Cruise lines are rethinking their itineraries in Asia after China extended its new “special port fees” to visiting cruise ships — a move that could cost operators millions per voyage. The fees, which kicked in on October 14, are the nation’s response to similar levies the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office recently announced on Chinese vessels. The American program mainly affects cargo ships owned, operated or built in China. In turn, China’s policy targets any vessel with U.S. ties — meaning those that are owned, operated, flagged or constructed in the United States are now subject to steep new fees when…
WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company’s Tumblr acquisition his biggest failure — but one he hasn’t given up on yet. The comments were made at the recent WordCamp Canada 2025 conference, where Mullenweg went live for a Town Hall session to connect with the open source-focused WordPress community. The exec noted that Tumblr was still on a different technical stack than WordPress — something he had intended to correct by migrating the back end to WordPress infrastructure. However, that massive undertaking was put on hold earlier this year, as the cost to move Tumblr’s half-billion blogs…