Tech
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How to watch The Great ADHD Myth? online – it's FREE
Psychiatrist Max Pemberton takes on conventional thinking on ADHD in this incendiary Channel 4 documentary – here's how to watch it
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Viral Disneyland Content Creator Defends Her ‘Special Friendship’ With Peter Pan
Disney superfan Toni Kulusich has been accused of stalking her favorite character, sparking discourse about boundaries with park actors. She tells WIRED the backlash is unfair.
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Star Wars Zero Company's final trailer confirms the return of one of my favorite characters from The Clone Wars and I couldn't be more hyped
Bit Reactor has released the final trailer for Star Wars Zero Company, which confirms the return of another fan-favorite Star Wars character.
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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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'Yup, that sounds like a trunk closing alright' — GTA 6 fans are getting excited over game footage in new 'It Happens on PS5' ad
Sony has released a new PlayStation 5 ad featuring Grand Theft Auto 6, and fans are getting excited over a new sound effect.
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Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack | TechCrunch
This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.
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Loan company breach sees nearly 750,000 users have financial info, SSNs leaked
Heights Finance cloud account compromised
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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC's N2X node
bLLC might remain exclusive to desktop for Nova Lake family.
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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans | TechCrunch
The company has shifted from making van-life builds to custom outfitting vehicles for small businesses, all while the EV landscape in the U.S. changed dramatically.
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Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries | TechCrunch
Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries.
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Why Apple's camera-equipped AirPods may not be the 'pervert pods' consumers fear | TechCrunch
Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
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OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
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Ex-British F1 engineers build a cheap 466-MPH kamikaze drone
TigerShark, TigerShark, burning bright
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Warp's new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
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Female clones created from the blood of male mice | New Scientist
A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuable for conservation
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Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India | TechCrunch
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
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Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores | TechCrunch
Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to operate alternative app marketplaces.
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Wi-Fi network could recognize who you are even if you turn off your phone
A normal Wi-Fi router may now see more than your devices, with researchers reporting nearly 100% identification accuracy
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Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too | TechCrunch
The Fairphone 6+ is a midrange Android offering, but given the increasing prices of consumer gadgets amid the ongoing component shortages, a repairable device that can be made to last for years may prove a good proposition.
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Etched's valuation doubles to $21B in a month | TechCrunch
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
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AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
But these are just estimates, not actual benchmark results.
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer dev says players should try embodying iconic pod racer Sebulba by controlling the game 'with their feet'
Star Wars: Galactic Racer developer suggests players should channel their inner Sebulba and try playing with their feet.
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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 13-15 at Moscone West!
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The next camera race will be about understanding
How AI inference is reshaping what camera sensors are for
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‘It’s not about who can generate a homepage in 30 seconds’: Hostinger launches a new agentic AI Builder, helping businesses do more with AI
Hostinger has launched a new tool driven by a shift in how customers are using its platform
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Geekom reveals multiple mini-PCs may be infected with malware hidden in a network driver — but it's now down to you to fix your PC
A LAN driver has been found to contain a malicious executable
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Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York | TechCrunch
The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.
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Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns — and all new projects require ‘early consultation’
Cherokee Nation won't support any new data centers without early consultation
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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to 'expand human potential' | TechCrunch
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265 million Fund V.
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Tech Industry
Discover more about Tech Industry with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans | TechCrunch
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on a support page.
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Russia charges teenager for listening to a banned song using a VPN
A new administrative charge shows the lengths Russian authorities will go to punish citizens for bypassing internet censorship
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OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it | TechCrunch
ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.
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We're asking the wrong question about the cost of enterprise AI
Enterprise AI's real cost battle: tokens vs infrastructure economics
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Apple's new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera | TechCrunch
A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.
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I asked ChatGPT to test me on 5 things I thought I knew — my confidence was wildly misplaced
ChatGPT is surprisingly good at revealing your ignorance
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Marvel's Wolverine PS5 console and controllers pre-orders — live build-up ahead of tomorrow's stock drop
A flash of the admantium blades
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Using ChatGPT on my iPhone had become infuriating — I changed these 3 keyboard settings, and it made all the difference
It turns out you can keep Auto-Correction without letting your iPhone finish your sentences.
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Two months in, the Secretlab Atlas eased my wife's pregnancy back pain
Skip the Titan Evo on sale for work - of all the chairs I own, only the Secretlab Atlas brought my wife any back pain relief thanks to its firm support.
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Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails | New Scientist
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale
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Curious about Nioh 3's Hell Rising DLC? We interviewed Team Ninja to learn all about it
Nioh 3: Hell Rising is here, and we've spoken to Team Ninja developers to give you an idea of what to expect in the game's first DLC.
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The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here
Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.
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RAM
RAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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Windows
Discover more about Windows with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX
The CMP 170HX has quickly gone from crypto trash to AI treasure.
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'We cannot survive in this landscape' — Sony CEO confirms the PS6 has no fixed launch date and it needs to 'take some action' as the RAM shortage continues
Sony CEO Hiroko Totoki has confirmed that the PlayStation 6 release date remains undecided due to the ongoing manufacturing component crisis and trade wars.