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The Startup Battlefield 2025 judging panel is getting even stronger. Our first wave of VCs brought serious firepower, and now we’re adding more top investors who will grill founders, unpack the big questions, and help crown this year’s $100,000 champion at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Like the legendary investors who’ve judged in years past, this next group brings the insight, experience, and instincts that can change a founder’s trajectory in just one Q&A. Here’s the next set of investors ready to bring their sharpest questions to the Disrupt Stage. Secure your ticket now to save…

George Mason University’s efforts to diversify its workforce violate a civil rights law intended to end segregation, according to the Trump administration.Following a roughly six-week-long investigation of GMU’s hiring practices, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has found that the Northern Virginia-based university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race in public education.To resolve the alleged violation, the department has proposed an agreement that would require Mason President Gregory Washington to issue a statement and “personal apology … for promoting unlawful discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion, and…

Small business owners wear many hats, often including that of an IT director.With limited time and resources to devote to technology, busy entrepreneurs can often make technology errors that have devastating effects on their business finances, reputation, and productivity — though free resources like SCORE, which offers mentoring and workshops for small business owners, can help.Fortunately, there are also steps — including the right tech investments — that a small business can take to avoid common pitfalls and grow their business. Here’s a closer look at the four most common small business tech mistakes entrepreneurs make and how to avoid…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Commuters and students in Philadelphia woke up earlier than usual on Monday to navigate service reductions that the region’s public transit agency has called more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the United States.The cuts took effect as the school year began in the nation’s sixth-most populous city and could herald similar moves by major transit agencies around the U.S. as they struggle with rising costs and lagging ridership. Reductions are also on the table at transit agencies in Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. In many places, funding has not kept…

The billionaire tech investor David Friedberg thinks the debate around whether “privilege” determines success misses the point — and says immigrants who succeed in Silicon Valley are proof.He made the argument in response to an X post by The New York Times finance columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who quoted the former British politician and Meta executive Nick Clegg as saying: “If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.””I was almost stopped in my tracks by that line in a profile of him. What do you think? I’m very curious,” Sorkin asked, referring to Clegg.Friedberg, the CEO of the agri-tech…

A human case of flesh-eating screwworm was detected in the U.S. related to the the latest outbreak of the parasite in Central America, according to officials.The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador, Andrew G. Nixon, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told Reuters in an email.On Aug. 4, the Maryland Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the parasite as a New World screwworm, but said it is travel-related.”The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low,” Nixon said.While…

PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what’s now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.This year is a different story.All summer he’s been scouting for brown and wilting leaves or ears of corn with kernels missing, and now it’s becoming clear that every kernel will count this harvest.…

Saquon Barkley, Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles are built for a repeat championship.Can they do it?That’s one of the top storylines entering the 2025 season.Barkley is coming off a record-setting season, Hurts proved doubters wrong and coach Nick Sirianni earned redemption when the Eagles dominated Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, preventing a three-peat to secure the franchise’s second Super Bowl title.The offense is loaded, a young defense is stacked with talent despite key losses and expectations are high in Philly.But winning the division will be the first challenge. No team has repeated in the…

The Make America Healthy Again movement has generated a lot of discussion about public health. But the language MAHA proponents use to describe health and disease has also raised concerns among the disability and chronic illness communities.I’m a researcher studying the rhetoric of health and medicine – and, specifically, the rhetoric of risk. This means I analyze the language used by public officials, institutions, health care providers and other groups in discussing health risks to decode the underlying beliefs and assumptions that can affect both policy and public sentiment about health issues.As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of…