Engineering for Bounded Cognition — The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch — Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B | TechCrunch — Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.
Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers' wellness data via internal tool | TechCrunch — The breach at wearable ring makaer Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.
Google is making it easier to switch from iPhone to Android | TechCrunch — The new feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app.
SQL to ER Diagram — Free Online ERD Generator from SQL — Paste a SQL schema and instantly generate a clean, interactive ER diagram. Free, open source, runs in your browser — nothing uploaded.
Is the FDE role becoming less desirable? — Job postings for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) have surged, but many professionals don’t want the role because it’s more like solutions engineering than software development.
Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents | TechCrunch — The Series F round values Coralogix at $1.6 billion and comes less than a year after its previous raise.
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone | TechCrunch — The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.
The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy — In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
Sam Altman's space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe | TechCrunch — "homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user | TechCrunch — Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.
Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens — <p>GPU memory is the most expensive resource in production AI, and it's also the one running out fastest. </p><p>Long context windows and multi-turn…
Unlocking the Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all — Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen.
Reid Hoffman says SpaceX is 'not an AI company' and xAI is a 'complete train wreck' — and there's room for both OpenAI and Anthropic | Fortune — The LinkedIn co-founder and investor in both Anthropic and OpenAI offers his most pointed public assessment yet of Elon Musk's AI…
NotebookLM's new update will help you build source repository from chat | TechCrunch — Google is making Gemini 3.5 the default model in NotebookLM
Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features | TechCrunch — Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a…
Avalanche's desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma | TechCrunch — Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.
All Paths | The Odin Project — The Odin Project empowers aspiring web developers to learn together for free
Things I want in a modern relational query language - the sporks space — This was a very old draft I’ve had sitting around for years. The recent discussions of new query languages like Acadia spurred me to revisit, revise, and publish this. I think one of the biggest causes of…
Google unveils the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini and advanced health monitoring | TechCrunch — The new smartwatch, which starts at $399, can track blood pressure patterns and insulin resistance, as well as deliver personalized help and better sleep tracking.
Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis | TechCrunch — On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."
SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure | TechCrunch — The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue re-lighting the booster's rocket engines.
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links | TechCrunch — The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.
The Agentic Reckoning: Enterprise AI organizations have a runtime problem, not a model problem — and most are building the wrong solution — <p>In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the <a href="https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/the-ai-governance-mirage-why-72
Even GoPro is pivoting to defense | TechCrunch — The action camera maker, like so many other companies these days, is looking to defense applications as it evaluates a possible sale.
Every fast write moves work somewhere else — A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the work left for later.
Best Prime Day cordless tool deals: Save on Craftsman, DeWalt, Hoto, and more — Get those home DIY projects started (and finished?) all before Prime Day ends.
Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory | TechCrunch — An old Oscar Meyer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.
handwritten.danieljanus.pl: Edsger – a remarkable Clojure REPL — An actual Clojure REPL running on my reMarkable 2
Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100 — <p>Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like <a href="https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-brings-mythos-to-the-masses-with-claude-
Project - transcribe.cpp — A place to play around with technology and make it easy and fun
UK unveils sweeping social media ban for users under 16 | TechCrunch — The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch — In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different…
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise | TechCrunch — Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says | TechCrunch — About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
Four imprisoned Palestine Action activists appeal terrorism sentences — Supporters of those who participated in a raid on an Israeli weapons maker say the sentences set a dangerous precedent.
Israel admits firing on car carrying Hind Rajab, symbol of Gaza’s suffering — The Israeli military has announced a criminal investigation into the killing that shook the world.
Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets | TechCrunch — Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.
This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs | TechCrunch — More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.
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.
Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion — Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.
Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies — During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that won’t change anytime soon.
GitHub - alibaba/open-code-review: Battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in fine-tuned ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | TechCrunch — Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
How ‘Beef’ Director Jake Schreier Builds a Oner for Maximum Anxiety — Director Jake Schreier tells IndieWire about the joys of long takes and using visuals to create a visceral sense of character.
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars | TechCrunch — Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business | TechCrunch — Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.
Four killed in helicopter crash in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro — Three Colombian tourists are among the victims of Saturday's crash on mountainside forest of Tijuca National Park.
Can social media start over? Bluesky's CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch — Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider is joined by COO Rose Wang for a Disrupt Stage session on whether social media can start over and where Bluesky fits into that potential…
TikTok launches TikTok Pro Events, an app for cultural moments like the FIFA World Cup | TechCrunch — The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.
Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’ | TechCrunch — Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool | TechCrunch — Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers | TechCrunch — Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.
‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators | TechCrunch — Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch — Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
Nvidia doesn't mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it's already showing progress | TechCrunch — The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues | TechCrunch — Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero | TechCrunch — Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.