I'm skipping the physical media craze and turning my old Android phone into a FLAC player instead — You can still own your music in an all-digital world.
A senior engineer traced why their database queries were slow and found the answer buried in a comment from 2015 that nobody read. The fix was one line.
How Lightspeed found their newest hire… via Instagram DM | TechCrunch — Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their growing social media presence and their podcast, Lightwork.
Companion AI use is a dating dealbreaker, Match survey says — But using AI to date other humans seems OK.
Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin | TechCrunch — The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.
Google's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that's just the start | TechCrunch — Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation — starting with Omni
Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features | TechCrunch — Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite — A blog mostly about Clojure programming
Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams | TechCrunch — As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sou
These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era | TechCrunch — Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood…
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living | TechCrunch — Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.
OpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app | TechCrunch — ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch — OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on…
AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke | Stephen Bochinski — There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardwa...
Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites | TechCrunch — The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert. — <p>Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so not
startup founders list their actual hourly wage from year one — most made less than minimum wage? 💀 the math is... rough
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names | TechCrunch — World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction — Modern retrieval systems, whether lexical or semantic, expose a corpus through a fixed similarity interface that compresses access into a single top-k retrieval step before reasoni
Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-bit Embedded Systems — A customer's Go application kept crashing on a 32-bit embedded Linux system. We traced the fatal netpoll error to a pointer aliasing bug in the Go runtime.
US government says it got hacked — again | TechCrunch — A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.
Jensen Huang says he's found a 'brand new' $200B market for Nvidia | TechCrunch — The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it's not the model) | TechCrunch — Watch as Menlo's Matt Murphy joins Equity to discuss backing Anthropic early, AI startup growth, and more.
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled (2026) - Shopify — How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
ClickHouse triples anualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO | TechCrunch — The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years.
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights | TechCrunch — The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star | TechCrunch — The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don't have to | TechCrunch — Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.
Guide to data tools landscape for developers · OlegWock — Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over all the concepts and…
GitHub - dekart-xyz/geosql: Turn Claude/Codex into geospatial analytics agent. — Turn Claude/Codex into geospatial analytics agent. - dekart-xyz/geosql
Science Corporation's vision-restoring chip wins EU approval | TechCrunch — "The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.
WhatsApp now lets you make calls using its web app | TechCrunch — Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps, the web app will support the calling features such as screen-sharing and reactions.
2025 - The 29th IOCCC — IOCCC Year 2025
China is catching up to Elon Musk's reusable rockets | TechCrunch — China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
I'm de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it's pretty) | TechCrunch — The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection features are disappointing.
Tesla’s Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut — An invite-only event in Austin, Texas, kept online fans in the dark for hours.
Abundant Intelligence — Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward. As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and...
GitHub - segaboy/vulkan-netbsd: This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD. — This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD. Contribute to segaboy/vulkan-netbsd development by creating an account on GitHub.
SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith | TechCrunch — The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total
Chasing Galaxies: A Self-Taught Astrophotographer's Story | Zubuyer Kaolin | TEDxCUET — A self-taught astrophotographer takes us through his journey from building a homemade telescope out of a cardboard tube at age 12, to a career in computer graphics and film, and back to the…
The Great Software Regress: How "Move Fast and Break Things" Broke Our Lives — Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking chang...
Athletes, what else are you? | Taya Smith | TEDxMarist Sion College Youth — Taya shares her personal experience of being an athlete but being so much more. Taya is a student at Marist-Sion College. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but…
YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases | TechCrunch — The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular…
One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline's accuracy gains by feeding another the answers — <p>A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is built to answer strictly from the documents it retrieves. But when engineers optimize these AI pipelines end-to-end, the reader module can…
A View From the Easel — “A ritual I have is to always scribble a line or word, or poem that stayed with me while listening to an audiobook or song, onto the wall in my studio.”
Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets | TechCrunch — A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million,…
How will the Mecca agreement become an operational framework? — Officials from Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan meet to discuss implementing the pact.
If you use Google, you're training its AI. Here's how to opt out. | TechCrunch — PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.
TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says | TechCrunch — If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.
Fujifilm XF 400mm f/4.5 R LM OIS WR Review: A Top-Tier Super Telephoto — I have to admit that I give Fujifilm a bad rap when it comes to wildlife and sports photography. This new 400mm lens might change all that.
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO | TechCrunch — Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Seven arrested after death of newborn baby girl — The baby was pronounced dead at a property in the Wincobank area of Sheffield.
Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide — Learn how to design a high-performance attention decode kernel on AMD MI450 GPUs using Gluon.
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware | TechCrunch — Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.
Dortmund agree loan move for Arsenal's Nwaneri — German club Borussia Dortmund agree a deal with Arsenal to sign Ethan Nwaneri on a season-long loan.
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch — The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
The highest point in the Netherlands — A year after Cisco. What it actually did to me, and what I did about it.
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory — I built an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory.
Trump Devises New $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee — The Trump administration is proposing a regulatory process that would charge companies roughly $103,000 for each candidate they sponsor for a visa under the H-1B program for foreign-born professionals. Bloomberg's Alicia Caldwell…
Sanctioned by EU, Israeli settler steals and kills Palestinian donkey — A donkey belonging to a Palestinian farmer was reportedly stolen and dragged to death by Israeli settlers.