Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI | TechCrunch — In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.
US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense | TechCrunch — U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed.
Sweet scoop: Ice-cream study points to potential sugar substitute — Russian research reveals that the protein brazzein could help reduce blood sugar spikes.
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis | TechCrunch — Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.
Instagram rolls out an AI video editor for creators | TechCrunch — This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet | TechCrunch — The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
(USD:UGX) Uganda Shilling Turns Worst Currency as Investors Sour on Local Debt — Uganda’s shilling is bearing the brunt of rising US yields and foreign-investor selling as offshore holders trim their exposure to local-currency bonds.
Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away — <p><a href="https://www.alibabacloud.com/en?_p_lc=1">Alibaba Cloud</a> on Sunday released <a href="https://www.happyhorse.com/">HappyHorse 1.1</a>, a major upgrade…
We rebuilt the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon — Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on…
GitHub - rsutcliffe/nightwatch: Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point at. Any telescope. MIT. — Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point…
Founders Guide: Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love — Founder market fit is a necessary but insufficient condition for finding success in the startup world
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave | TechCrunch — After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter — Three OpenAI researchers said their firings may have a 'chilling' effect on employees.
Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts | TechCrunch — Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding,…
MCP solved tool calling. A2A solved coordination. What solves transport? — <p>The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. </p><p>Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java
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GitHub - duanebester/gooey: Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan — Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks | TechCrunch — Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch — After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.
Stanford researchers will discuss their agentic 'scientists' that are on course to reshape drug discovery at VB Transform 2026 — <p>Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through…
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it. — Jake A. Smith — In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.
Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration | TechCrunch — Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.
Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch — Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time | TechCrunch — If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there's a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or
protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises · Buf — We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
The 2026-07-28 Specification — The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer — <p><i>Presented by EDB </i></p><hr/><p>As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the…
Sources: Big 12 withdraws federal suit against Texas Tech — The Big 12 has withdrawn the federal lawsuit it filed against Texas Tech in June amid questions of former quarterback Brendan Sorsby's eligibility, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Monday.
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% — <p>Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the<a…
Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot | TechCrunch — The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.
Why it's important to backup data saved on your older thumb drives — Transferring important files to a thumb drive is brilliant for portability, but not always great for longevity. Here's why you should back them up elsewhere.
You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough — A cron job for every man, woman, and child.
In search of Love yet unseen | Gyusik Lee | TEDxSNU — 이번 강연에서 이규식 님은 기술이 모든 것을 대체하는 시대에 사랑이 왜 가장 비효율적이면서도 인간적인 선택인지를 이야기합니다. Curator, Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local…
This Month in Ladybird - August 2026 - Ladybird — Video on Twitch and YouTube, CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging, session restore, and a serious push on engine performance with a new style engine.
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India's AI-fueled data center boom | TechCrunch — The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.
StrictlyVC at Disrupt 2026: Inside the changing rules of venture capital | TechCrunch — StrictlyVC joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss the changing VC landscape thanks to AI. Get your Investor Pass to join this exclusive session.
Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? — The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
Making math automatic with Mathy — I finally built Mathy, a little project I’ve been thinking about for a couple years. It’s free, and no account is required if you want to try it on iOS or web. I use Math Academy daily…
Godox Picks Up Where Profoto Left Off With Magnetic Xenon Flash for iPhone — <p class="feature-image"><a href="https://petapixel.com/2026/10/08/godox-picks-up-where-profoto-left-off-with-magnetic-xenon-flash-for-iphone/"><img width="1600" height="840"…
Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations — The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.
If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? - The Old New Thing — Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you.
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations — We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign | TechCrunch — Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better | TechCrunch — The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.
Who really needs a cocktail robot? | TechCrunch — Bartesian's cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks.
Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund | TechCrunch — Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise | TechCrunch — Watch as Equity catches up with Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, co-founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode with Anthropic acquired earlier this…
Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12 | TechCrunch — Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.
WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing - bednars.me — Eliminate the overhead and lack of idempotency of a full Windows system in automated testing. A practical guide to configuring WinPE and QEMU for lightning-fast boot, automating kernel debugging,…
Release Audacity-4.0.0 · audacity/audacity — Audacity 4.0 Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows remain available...
‘Chelsea win major trophies consistently’: Palmer signs new deal until 2034 — Attacking midfielder Palmer has become a key figure in Chelsea's squad since his arrival from Man City in 2023.
Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong — TL;DR: I believe Odin's inline assembly is currently the best out of any language.The most important aspects are of this article listed below. I am not aware of any other assembly (GCC/Clang/Rust/Go...) that would combine…
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips | TechCrunch — ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
Offrun | One workspace for every coding agent you run — Isolated worktrees, shared project memory, and a second agent reviewing the diff before you ship. Runs on your own agent accounts.
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit — Artists are frustrated with the lack of transparency around DistroKid removing their songs.
GitHub - AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake: Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake — Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake. Contribute to AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitFut — your GitHub, rated out of 99 — Rate any GitHub profile out of 99 as a FIFA-Ultimate-Team-style player card, scored from real commits, stars and contributions. Get scouted and share your card.
3 days left to save up to $200 and make impactful connections at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch — 3 days to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, plus 50% off a second. Make impactful connections with 10,000+ tech leaders. Register here.
Hurricane Isaias: Track the storm’s path online — Hurricane Isaias is expected to strengthen further ahead of a Gulf Coast landfall in the US. Where to follow the track.
Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency — The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim.