Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

by News Feed Editor | May 16, 2026 | Technology

Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models. On May 20, Amazon will end support for the following Kindle devices: Kindle 1st Generation Kindle 2nd Generation Kindle DX  Kindle DX Graphite...

Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent

by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2026 | Technology

The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new...

How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%

by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2026 | Technology

One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit. To overcome this...

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12B across three startups and investors still want more

by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2026 | Technology

Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian, has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as strategic and institutional investors for his...

General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z

by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2026 | Technology

One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst. In a now-viral post on X that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, the venture firm — better known as GC — posted a “VC vs GC” video on Wednesday. The VC...

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2026 | Technology

A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called...