Tech
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Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders | TechCrunch
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
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Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner | TechCrunch
At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.
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Nintendo finally reveals how much a Nintendo Switch 2 will cost in the UK from next month
Nintendo has officially confirmed the new UK price for the Nintendo Switch 2, which increases next month.
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Prove your knowledge of Hulu's The Shards with our trivia quiz
Hulu's The Shards is now streaming, and now you can test your memory of it with this trivia quiz.
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China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon
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Strange gamma-ray signal could unlock dark matter’s secrets | New Scientist
Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or some even more exotic phenomenon
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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds | TechCrunch
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
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How to watch The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project online — stream the reality series from anywhere
Get to know Khloé's inner circle with this fresh reality series
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule | TechCrunch
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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Android users beware — if you own one of these budget smartphones, your device could be hacked with a simple video call
Exploitable Improper Isolation
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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users | TechCrunch
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
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How I learned I hadn't heard electrostatic speakers done well, 'til I heard the Martin Logan Electromotion ESL X
I might be an electrostatic convert
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How Teen ‘After-Prom’ Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager
The West Coast house-party scene has long been iconic. For these young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs, it was also inspiration for MyPlots, a party-promotion empire.
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NASA's ground control software has a worrying security flaw which could let hackers contact spacecraft
Ground control to major hack
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The investor's guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know | TechCrunch
Year after year, investors who've explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the ground at Disrupt this year.
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Semiconductors
Discover more about Semiconductor with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users | TechCrunch
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
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'We’ve removed the biggest barrier to customer AI adoption: writer’s block' — Starling Bank AI boss on why agentic AI could be the key to help customers manage their money better
Starling Bank tells us why its AI tools could help users supercharge their money management
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The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold is the best Pixel foldable yet — but I'd still choose the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8
Google's latest foldable is an impressive device with key refinements over its predecessor, but it doesn't do enough to match Samsung's best.
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Will personalised mRNA vaccines transform cancer treatments? | New Scientist
A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes that this approach could work against many cancers
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'Huge changes are coming to Windows 11 privacy': Microsoft is implementing per-app permissions for all software — the only question is why it took so long
Microsoft is finally changing app permissions to make sense for all software.
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Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards | TechCrunch
The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.
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Moving AI from pilot to production
How to scale AI successfully
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Catastrophic GTA VI leak is a full working build — notorious hacker CyberLeek taunts Rockstar Games by spraying the word 'leek' onto a wall in-game with bullets
It's unclear how Cyberleek got their hands on the game.
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Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back
This county is hitting the brakes on data center development after more than a quarter of a century of making the most out of them.
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IPVanish wants your help testing its next big features, and joining takes seconds
IPVanish has just launched a beta program to give testers a direct line to shape what it ships next
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The world of GTA 6 looks so realistic in the latest leak that it's taken my hype up to 11
New GTA 6 leak shows an urban scale that I didn't even think was possible in games.
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Synopsys validates a PCIe 6.0 PHY inside a face-to-face 3D stack at 64 GT/s — says it got there by pulling apart an existing 2D test chip
The 5nm test chip routes signals through TSVs to the package.
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The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut | TechCrunch
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startups from around the world.
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Scammers pose as ransomware recovery agents, but just go on to steal more from victims
Ransom Busters are not an actual ransomware recovery firm
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Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery | TechCrunch
Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped recommendation system designed to give smaller creators more visibility.
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Video Games
Discover more about Video Games with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Data centers can't operate if they can't plug in or don't have water.
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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router | TechCrunch
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
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Healthtech firm CareCloud reveals March 2026 data breach impacted 3.7 million patients
Impacted individuals are being notified
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US Army is phasing out its futuristic drone and robot assault battalion, as part of a 'back-to-basics' approach
The Ukraine war apparently hasn't demonstrated the effectiveness of drones enough
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Data Centers
Discover more about Data Centers with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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There are less than 48 hours to save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket | 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 13-15 at Moscone West!
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The dark side of back-to-school: Why ExpressVPN urges parents to rethink their online privacy habits
Before you post that proud uniform shot, cybersecurity experts are urging families to consider the hidden dangers of AI image scraping
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Exclusive: Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part | TechCrunch
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
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Two emerging tick viruses that can be deadly are spreading in the US | New Scientist
Heartland virus and Bourbon virus, which are transmitted by lone star ticks, have killed at least seven people in the US
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Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being overhauled to remove live-service features following negative feedback, as new details emerge about a canceled Spider-Man multiplayer
Guerilla Games is reportedly overhauling Horizon Hunters Gathering and stripping out the game's live-service elements following negative feedback.
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Exclusive: Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast | TechCrunch
Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.
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What AI usage is really telling us about enterprise adoption
For business adoption, AI usage should matter more than model rankings
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CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars
Steal process recipe, get your DRAM on the market faster.
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Depression doesn't shrink the brain like we thought it did | New Scientist
For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case
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Samsung's Galaxy Book4 Edge is 'a zippy Windows 11 laptop' that's now £399
We found this vibrant 15.6-inch laptop delivered 'provides plenty of runway for productivity and personal tasks.'
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Price drop on Logitech's MX Master 3S - a serious productivity upgrade
Logitech MX Master 3S is our favorite wireless mouse for work, packing quiet clicks, MagSpeed scrolling and extensive customization.