Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
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Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
Intero Biosystems beat out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home the $100,000 grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Meet the five companies competing in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026
It’s time to unveil the five companies that will be competing in the Startup Battlefield finals.
Google aims to make BigQuery spending on AI functions more predictable with token quotas
Google has made daily token quotas generally available for BigQuery’s generative AI functions to give enterprises a way to limit AI consumption by project and individual user. These quotas, which can
When an agent acts, who is accountable?
For most of the history of enterprise software, accountability has been relatively easy to understand. A person logs in, a person has a set of permissions, and a person takes an action. If something g
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the importance of failure and bouncing back from it
Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.
Building Fabric Apps with Microsoft’s Rayfin
Using vibe coding to scratch an itch has many of the same issues as using low-code and no-code development tools. That’s not surprising. Putting together something quickly to solve a specific problem
ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to please the US President. It is also updating Empl
Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
Ramp reaches $60B valuation as it pushes deeper into AI
The funding comes as Ramp's annualized revenue crosses $2B, and its customer count reaches 85,000.
Intero Biosystems wants drugmakers to test on mini human intestines, not animals
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technol
5 agentic AI trade-offs to consider before production
Companies across industries are moving quickly to build agentic AI systems. But getting an agent to work in a prototype is very different from getting one to perform reliably in production. Once agent
Seven ways to encourage critical thinking in AI users
Employees are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to get work done. Many are using agents to complete tasks, and others are using LLMs to generate content, vibe coding tools
Justice Department says North Koreans have infiltrated dozens of U.S. companies
U.S. authorities warn that sanctioned hackers are increasingly targeting Americans to act as facilitators between breached U.S. companies and Pyongyang.
The value of software is approaching $0
Imagine a vendor comes to you and explains how they can dramatically de-risk your infrastructure. They have a new software product or SaaS that detects everything that has bitten you in the past, as i
What building an Android weather app taught me about designing for reliability
I spent 13 years building Android apps, and for most of them, the backend was someone else’s problem. Building Weather Pal, my own forecast app, broke that habit fast. It taught me that mobile reliabi
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito traps into an AI-powered surveillance network
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease ri
TimeTeller puts our internal clocks at the center of personalized medicine
German startup TimeTeller has developed a saliva test kit to help anyone understand their circadian rhythm; it aims to reduce side effects from cancer treatments.
Ambrosia Energy will build a 10 GWh factory in Texas to make batteries for off-grid data centers
Startup Ambrosia Energy will build a massive factory to crank out batteries to augment solar panels, creating a round-the-clock clean power plant.
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