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AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS plane crash last year had been re-created using AI and were...
SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return
SpaceX has launched the upgraded third version of its Starship rocket for the first time, though the test launch did not go perfectly for Elon Musk’s spaceflight company. The 407-foot rocket — the most powerful ever built — lifted off from SpaceX’s company town...
Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm’s last trust signal
On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account.Sigstore worked exactly as designed: it verified...
Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap
Blue Origin’s new mega-rocket, New Glenn, is no longer grounded. The company said Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the rocket to fly again after the upper stage failed to deliver a commercial payload during an April launch. Blue Origin...
Your AI agents need a terminal, not just a vector database
When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities. In reality, the limited information provided by the retrieval interface is often the primary limiting factor.Researchers at multiple universities...
Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’
So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary new disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a bit of praise...
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a “huge scam” among AI startups: inflation of the revenue figures that they announce publicly. “The reason many AI startups are crushing...
Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked
The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News. As of this writing, the website of Based Apparel is...
Apple says Epic lawsuit shouldn’t reshape App Store rules for all developers
In Apple’s seemingly never-ending lawsuit with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store commissions, the iPhone maker is once again fighting a court’s ruling. Its latest tactic? Saying that Epic Games’ beef with Apple over its fee structure shouldn’t lead to an...
Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook
A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms on earth. Two packets could crash any server running it. Finding...
Avec’s Tinder-styled email app allows you to swipe through your inbox
Apps like Superhuman and Mimestream have tried to get people to inbox zero on the desktop. Now, a new app called Avec for mobile devices aims to get you through your inbox using Tinder-style swipe cards and voice-based replies. The app, initially available on iOS,...
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat
Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X’s direct messaging system, X Chat, once again. The social network announced late on Wednesday that support for Voice Notes is now available within its private...
Hacker stole £700,000 from U.K. energy company by redirecting payment
British oil and gas company Zephyr Energy says someone stole £700,000 (close to $1 million) from one of its U.S.-based subsidiaries by redirecting a payment meant for a contractor into a hacker-controlled account. In a regulatory filing with the London Stock Exchange...
Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak-talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician. Meaning, you have to know the history to understand all of the...
Final 2 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Ticket discounts of up to $500 will end tomorrow, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up again. Miss this, and you’ll be paying more for the same access to one of the most anticipated tech epicenters of the year. Register...
Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
Spotify is introducing new controls that allow users to disable all videos in the app, the company announced on Thursday. The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says. Starting today, Family Plan...
Instagram expands its movie inspired content restrictions for teens internationally
Instagram announced that it plans to restrict content for teen accounts based on 13+ movie ratings last October in countries including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The social network giant said Thursday that it is now applying these...
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II. The firm, founded in 2021, backs early-stage companies in fintech, supply chain, and the future of work. It’s backed 75 companies to date after closing...
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea set aside by NASA and turning into high-powered propulsion for the...
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements
Rare earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they’re big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during trade disputes. Countries like the U.S. have started taking steps to...
WireGuard VPN developer can’t ship software updates after Microsoft locks account
WireGuard, the major software project and VPN that underpins popular security software including Mullvad and others, has found itself locked out of a key part of its Microsoft developer’s account and unable to ship software updates to Windows users. Jason Donenfeld,...
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Move Over Graphene, a New Transistor Material Is in Town!
Graphene, long hailed as one of engineering’s greatest wonder materials, may have found a competitor in phosphorene. Though graphene—made of single layers of carbon atoms—exhibits incredible flexibility and strength along with unique electrical properties, it has one...
Tired of Email? 4 Great Alternatives Your Prospects Will Agree With
How many marketing emails do you get each day? 10? 20? 50? Email marketing is one of the original forms of digital prospecting. Though it has grown far more diverse since the early days of the Internet, its basic premise and structure remain the same. For companies...
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