Pennsylvania seeks CDC help amid dispute over US measles deaths — The CDC and officials from the US state differ over how four deaths should be classified as cases continue to spread.
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers | TechCrunch — Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
GitHub - craigmccaskill/posthorn: Self-hosted email gateway between your apps and a transactional mail provider (Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, AWS SES, or outbound-SMTP). Three ingress shapes (HTTP form, HTTP API, SMTP). One Docker container, one TOML config.
India's surprising baby bust — For decades Indians were told they were having too many babies. Now India's fertility rate has fallen below the replacement rate of 2.1—the average number of babies needed per woman to keep the population stable. Why is the world’s most populous…
Siri AI is here as Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate and other major OS updates — The kinks are still being worked out for users in the EU and China though.
US Economy Can Withstand Two Rate Hikes, Says UBS’s Reiman — Kurt Reiman, head of fixed income at UBS Global Wealth Management, says multiple factors and “definitely not just the deficit” are pushing bond yields higher and explains why he expects two interest-rate hikes from…
CRACKING the CODING INTERVIEW — Help software engineers interview at their best. The best-selling book in computer science for 4 years running. Written by a former member of Google's hiring committee, and the consultant on engineering hiring for many of the top tech companie
Economists See Final ECB Rate Hike Next Week — Economists think the European Central Bank will raise interest rates next week but not beyond that. The majority of respondents in a Bloomberg survey expect the deposit rate to be raised by a quarter-point to 2.5% on Thursday and…
GitHub - ovenpasta/adi2: A modern GUI library for Ada: CSS styling, XML UI, SDL3 — A modern GUI library for Ada: CSS styling, XML UI, SDL3 - ovenpasta/adi2
Cyberdecks are having a moment, rejecting big tech surveillance with style and substance | TechCrunch — Over the last few months, these DIY hardware communities have exploded in popularity as people on social media show off their solar-powered game emulators, pocket-sized ereader
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users | TechCrunch — Affected users told TechCrunch say they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
This is what some the world's largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives | TechCrunch — What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?
Rosetta Code — Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how...
US lawyers say man on death row could be executed with expired lethal drugs — Execution method has long raised questions about cruel and unusual punishment and botched executions.
Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21 | TechCrunch — If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October…
Read Write Own - AVC — Chris Dixon, who leads the A16Z crypto fund, and has been an entrepreneur, VC, and friend of mine for over twenty years, has written a book called Read Write Own that is available for pre-order now and will start shipping at the end of the month. Chris gave
Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London | TechCrunch — Uber customers in the UK can now join an interest list to increase their chances of being matched with a Wayve robotaxi.
SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return | TechCrunch — The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups | TechCrunch — Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
Anonymous Coding & Technical Interview Prep for Software Engineers | interviewing.io — Get actionable feedback, get awesome at technical interviews, and get fast-tracked at top companies.
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push | TechCrunch — IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
Google reports 12th consecutive quarter of strong revenue gains — Better-than-expected results come despite delays in release of powerful AI model Gemini Pro
Waymo issues recall to deal with a flooding problem | TechCrunch — Waymo has issued a software recall that makes its robotaxis more cautious around flooded areas. A "final remedy" is in the works.
Lucid Motors denies report it's considering bankruptcy | TechCrunch — The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option.
'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunch — TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.
Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD - malisper.me — Last week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster…
Trump Admin permits Volvo to keep selling connected cars in the U.S. | TechCrunch — Volvo, which is majority owned by China's Geely Holdings, said it can now move forward with its expansion plans for its U.S. factory.
r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC's proposal to weaken quarterly reporting | TechCrunch — The retail trading subreddit submitted the sharpest criticism yet in response to the financial regulator's idea of letting companies report twice per year.
Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard | TechCrunch — A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.
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.
Uber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations | TechCrunch — Uber plans to open two new engineering campuses with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people in India by the end of 2027.
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GitHub - morishuz/delaunay32: Fast, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation using exact integer predicates — Fast, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation using exact integer predicates - morishuz/delaunay32
YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch — Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
watched a founder spend six months building the 'perfect' product before realizing customers just wanted the broken version cheaper. sometimes the MVP is the only P that matters.
Apple raises Mac and iPad prices, spares iPhone for now | TechCrunch — Apple raises prices of MacBook Air and Pro along with iPad Air and Pro
Rayfish · Your own private network. No servers, no setup. — Rayfish is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN. Connect your devices by cryptographic identity. No port forwarding, no hosted server to trust. Share a code, and you're on the same encrypted LAN.
GitHub - newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement) — Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement) - newren/git-filter-repo
Visa will offer an inside look at Project Glasswing and how the most powerful agentic models are changing enterprise security at VB Transform 2026 — <p>The security implications of advanced AI models were immediately clear to Visa’s technology team when they began testing…
Elon Musk said Sam Altman "stole" a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims | TechCrunch — “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”
Introducing Triton: DirectX 11 driver for QEMU — In the prequel, we introduced Neptune, a Direct3D protocol forwarding layer for VirtIO. Neptune allowed us to serialize Direct3D API calls across the hypervisor boundary and this allowed us to run Wine games on a Linux guest with…
We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance by Offloading PPPoE to a Separate Device with Half-Bridge — UniFi gateways (UDM Pro/SE/Pro Max/Beast/EFG) ship with notoriously underpowered CPUs and has no hardware acceleration for PPPoE. Paired with a PPPoE-based ISP connection, the…
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch — Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
How teams build – Linear — AI usage patterns in software teams: who is adopting AI, how it reshapes where teams spend their time, and how much more they ship.
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry | TechCrunch — The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
Sleep - AVC — I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The
China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US | TechCrunch — Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware's operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address.
Linguistic Frameworks and Civic America | Saharsh Shivshankar | TEDxIssaquah HS — Language is more than words. It carries history, culture, and ways of understanding the world. This talk explores linguistic frameworks and their role in American civic life, examining how people…
HarperCollins to Publish Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir in India — HarperCollins India will publish the memoir of senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the publisher said Friday, a week after Penguin Random House India dropped plans to release the book in the country.
Spotify launches 'User notes' to let users add memories to songs | TechCrunch — Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it
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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs | TechCrunch — From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
JPMorgan’s Former Macro Credit Trading Co-Head Joins Redhedge — The former co-head of global investment-grade and macro credit trading at JPMorgan Chase & Co has resurfaced at London hedge fund Redhedge Asset Management.
SpaceX awarded $6.45B in Space Force contracts ahead of IPO | TechCrunch — SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
What next for Gabriel and Man Utd? — On the night JJ Gabriel was supposed to become Manchester United's youngest player in history, the scramble is on to persuade him not to quit.
iPhone Duo — iPhone Duo. The largest iPhone display ever. In a thin, foldable design. 48MP Dual Fusion camera system. A20 Pro chip. All-day battery life.
Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows | TechCrunch — Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
I wasted years listening to music on a smart speaker — Two speakers are better than one.
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “T — The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “The New York City you live in is not my New York Ci
Recipe for success - the Chicken Shop Date moments that created a YouTube star — After more than 10 years, Amelia Dimoldenberg announced Chicken Shop Date was shutting up shop.