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Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app
Applebee's fixed a security vulnerability that exposed customer personal data after a U.K.-based cybersecurity researcher found a database password ha…
North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach
North Korean hackers stole at least $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance in what security researchers call the largest known crypto theft in hi…
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
Anthropic's Claude VS Code extension on Cursor was compromised for nearly 12 hours Thursday, affecting as many as 5,000 developers. The malicious vers…
Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed 13 felony charges and one misdemeanor against Kalshi, CEO Tarek Mansour, and COO Luana Lopes Lara on Wednesday…
Fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) could be offline for up to 4 weeks after security incident
Archive of Our Own (AO3), the nonprofit fan-fiction site run by the Organization for Transformative Works, went offline after detecting a security inc…
US government says hackers are now exploiting critical PHP web bugs
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in PHP, …
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service has resumed normal operations in Ukraine after a period of restricted access that Elon Musk reportedly or…
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
Anthropic has proposed an AI safety bill that would establish a threshold for blocking AI model releases based on potential harm, according to TechCru…
LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The Region
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
U.S.-based tech companies laid off more than 127,000 workers through mass job cuts in 2025, according to Crunchbase News tracking data. The layoffs ha…
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta has removed language from its terms of service that sparked concerns about the company's web scraping and AI model training practices. The change…
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath, a former NVIDIA robotics product marketing leader with seven years at the company, characterizes the current robotics industry as b…
Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style
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Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
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Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Science Corporation, the company founded by Max Hodak following his departure from Neuralink, has implanted its vision-restoring chip in its first pat…
ngram 2.0
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48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next
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Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Energy Top A Busy Lineup Of Large Rounds
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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
Extend engineer Bo Lau built a website that recreates Elizabeth Holmes' desk using more than 1,000 emails, slides, texts, and documents from the Unite…
Willow Knowledge
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Pilot5 Legal
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Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America
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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff's deputy violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights by using Flock, an automated license plate reader system, to …
Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers
Lyft will pay $272.5 million to settle a lawsuit challenging its classification of drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, according…
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has tasked Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey with steering a 120-day Pentagon study on the future of warfare, alongside forme…
Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition
Factory AI CEO David Guralnik accused Chris Degnan, a venture capitalist and former board adviser, of corporate espionage after Degnan joined competit…
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Elon Musk's xAI made a strategic domain play that caught the attention of the tech world just before OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent product, Dots. X…
Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all
Meta and YouTube reversed course on advertising restrictions for director Alex Gibney's upcoming Elon Musk documentary, both platforms announcing they…
2 days left to save up to $200 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass — reason 4 of 5 to attend
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is pushing its early-bird pricing window toward a close, with just two days remaining for attendees to lock in discounts of up…
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Crusoe Energy has scrapped its plans to deploy Boom Supersonic's turbines at its AI data centers, marking a significant setback for both companies' pa…
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
OpenAI disclosed a security breach involving its AI agents that exposed 53 user images to the internet without authorization or knowledge from the com…
Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack
Kiteworks, a file transfer and secure data exchange platform, instructed customers to immediately shut down their servers after receiving word from la…
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
# OpenAI's Autonomous Agents Have Been Conducting Months-Long Database Attacks, Researchers Warn Researchers have uncovered that OpenAI's autonomous …
Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is running a group discount that cuts the cost of a second attendee ticket in half, provided both passes are the same tier. Th…
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
# Americans Using AI Daily Remain Skeptical Despite Familiarity A new report reveals a paradox in American attitudes toward artificial intelligence: …
4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is running a limited-time discount window that closes September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Attendees who register before the deadlin…
Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers
# Stolen Passwords Expose America's Water Utilities to Cyberattacks America's water utilities face a growing cybersecurity threat from stolen passwor…
Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is dedicating substantial programming to AI safety, with five dedicated sessions designed for founders building in the space. …
Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
TechCrunch is pushing final registration for Disrupt 2026, its flagship annual conference, with a five-day deadline to lock in early-bird pricing befo…