Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia | TechCrunch — A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for hacking the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, and is attempting to extort the company.
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash | TechCrunch — Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud,…
Heavy Israeli air strike hits warehouse in central Gaza — Heavy Israeli air strike hits warehouse in central Gaza
India moves to give its instant payments network a business model | TechCrunch — The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.
Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) · Issue #708 · jqwik-team/jqwik — Hello jqwik team, While running our test suite under mvn test in 1.10.0, we observed a string appearing between Surefire's test summ
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office | TechCrunch — Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta 7 now available - 9to5Mac — Developers can now install macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 7, just a week after the rollout of beta 6. Here are the details.
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale — Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper, and safely.
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too — Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
Discover what's next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch — At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for…
Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost by Treating Them as Lifecycle and Architecture Problems — Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context:…
SIMD for Collision — In a previous post SIMD Matters I discussed the big wins I got from graph coloring to make the contact solver faster. That same approach exists in Box3D. I like to call this approach “wide SIMD”. The idea is to process multiple work units at the same time.…
Indie App Spotlight: ‘Laytr’ is a one stop shop for logging everything you want to see later - 9to5Mac — Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app...
India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them | TechCrunch — India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
Road to somewhere – Increment: Planning — By sharing both the route and the destination to our strategic objectives, we can set ourselves up for a smooth planning journey.
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.
GitHub - vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c: The most atomic way to train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free C — The most atomic way to train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free C - vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c
GitHub - jimparis/qr-font: A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ — A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ - jimparis/qr-font
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents | TechCrunch — Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.
Displaced Lebanese watch southern Lebanon’s ‘pilot zones’ from afar — “You can't do anything. Just stand here and watch.” Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem watched Israeli attacks near his home town.
Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs | TechCrunch — Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.
80 Years of Documentary Photography Reveal the Darker Side of Britain and Ireland — It features photos by Martin Parr, Don McCullin, and Lee Miller.
Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features | TechCrunch — Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion | TechCrunch — Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings | TechCrunch — The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze | TechCrunch — Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.
Two Qwen3 Models on One DGX Spark: The Residency Math for Local LLM Setup — The residency math, the gpu_memory_utilization trap, and what to verify first. Notes from my experiments with local LLMs.
The Future of Flipper Zero Development — We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach…
An IC’s guide to roadmap planning – Increment: Planning — How individual contributors can leverage their unique perspective to advance alignment and clarity of vision.
NotebookLM's new update will help you build source repository from chat | TechCrunch — Google is making Gemini 3.5 the default model in NotebookLM
GitHub - tobi/walgit — Contribute to tobi/walgit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Anthropic ships major Claude Design overhaul with design system imports, code round-trips, and a fix for its token-burning problem — <p>When <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/">Anthropic</a> quietly released <a href="https://claude.ai/design">Claude Design</a> in April as a…
GitHub - neilsonnn/image-blaster: An image-to-world skillset for Claude. — An image-to-world skillset for Claude. Contribute to neilsonnn/image-blaster development by creating an account on GitHub.
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.
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For — std::simd Can't Express 90% of Real SIMD Code
SpaceX shares slide on the heels of first quarterly report — The stock was down more than 13 percent as investors were spooked by the company's heavy investments.
Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable | TechCrunch — Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin | TechCrunch — Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you | TechCrunch — A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
CodePen 2.0 — Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
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.
GitHub - uber/submitqueue: SubmitQueue is a high-performance speculative merge queue that keeps your trunk consistently green at scale. — SubmitQueue is a high-performance speculative merge queue that keeps your trunk consistently green at scale. - uber/submitqueue
Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro | TechCrunch — Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis — <p><a href="https://1password.com/">1Password</a> on Tuesday launched <a href="https://1password.com/product/saas-manager">AI Spend and Consumption Management</a>, a new…
GitHub - dmtrKovalenko/ffs: F*ck file system - cli file search tool that bypasses OS kernel and reads your disc directlry — F*ck file system - cli file search tool that bypasses OS kernel and reads your disc directlry - dmtrKovalenko/ffs
Lucid's turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis | TechCrunch — Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.
This $300 pizza oven can easily help elevate your summer pizza nights | TechCrunch — The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unlike many other pizza ovens.
x86_64-unknown-linux-musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches · Issue #3494 · BurntSushi/ripgrep — Please tick this box to confirm you have reviewed the above. I have a different issue. What version of ripgrep are you using? ripgrep 15.2.0 (rev e89fff8)…
Forget 'TechnoKing': Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX | TechCrunch — Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.
Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids | TechCrunch — Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.
Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers | TechCrunch — New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.
Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth) | TechCrunch — Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview - GitHub Changelog — Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…
How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines — At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open.
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case | TechCrunch — Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.
Exclusive: US government lab is probing Chinese-made lidar for security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch — The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company -- or a group of companies -- in the electric and…
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases | TechCrunch — Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
‘Typical Trump, silly joke’: ‘Lake America’ has Canadians laughing — Canadians are reacting to US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’.
Wildlife and ancient trees destroyed by A31 wildfire — A Forestry England survey finds dead trees and wildlife, scorched bogs and areas devoid of plants.
Risklytics: Insurance for the Frontier — Build and review a commercial insurance application for companies putting AI to work.