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The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most

6 February 2026 at 01:36
The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin
Yesterday — 5 February 2026TechCrunch

NASA astronauts can now bring their phones with them on their mission to the moon

5 February 2026 at 22:29
Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission -- which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s -- was delayed until March.

Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans

5 February 2026 at 19:25
The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a "significant number of individuals’ personal information" from the govtech giant's systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs

5 February 2026 at 03:49
Having raised a €30 million Series A round led by CapitalG, business identity verification startup Duna is now among the most well-capitalized European startups founded by Stripe alumni.

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem

5 February 2026 at 02:27
Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool also archives a user's own posts, helping to ensure their longevity.

A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

5 February 2026 at 00:24
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]
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Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches

4 February 2026 at 21:56
The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website.

Apeiron Labs gets $9.5M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots

4 February 2026 at 18:00
Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but it’s nothing like what we get from satellites today. It’s frustrating to everyone from fishermen to the Coast Guard, meteorologists to offshore wind developers.

2026 plans: What’s next for Startup Battlefield 200

3 February 2026 at 22:57
See what to expect for Startup Battlefield 200 in 2026, the ultimate startup pitch competition on the global stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Join the mailing list to be the first to know when applications drop.

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics

3 February 2026 at 22:35
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

French police search X office in Paris, summon Elon Musk for questioning

3 February 2026 at 20:55
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

What tech CEOs and executives have said about ICE’s actions in Minnesota

3 February 2026 at 20:13
The Trump administration’s approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. Here's how tech leaders are responding to the moment.

China is leading the fight against hidden car door handles

3 February 2026 at 01:55
Under new safety rules published Monday by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, cars sold in the country must have mechanical releases on their door handles. The new rules, which go in effect January 1, 2027, will prohibit the hidden, electronically actuated door handles popularized by Tesla — and now found on numerous other electric vehicles in China.

Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide

3 February 2026 at 00:39
"Breakthrough’s purpose is to fill in the funding and opportunity gap that exists in many of these ecosystems because students have historically lacked access to capital and the networks required to launch their entrepreneurial pursuits," co-founder Roman Scott said.

What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race

2 February 2026 at 23:09
Snowflake is the latest enterprise to sign multi-year deals with multiple AI companies in what could be a sign to come of a future trend.

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months

2 February 2026 at 22:09
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

31 January 2026 at 04:09
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’

31 January 2026 at 02:04
The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.

SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime

30 January 2026 at 23:41
To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions for late-stage private companies.

Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets

30 January 2026 at 22:56
Self-driving truck startup Waabi’s billion-dollar fundraise isn’t just about trucks.   The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million from Uber tied to deployment milestones, marks a major expansion into robotaxis for the company founded by former Uber AI chief Raquel Urtasun. It also feels like another chip from Uber on the autonomous vehicle roulette table. With more […]

Medium employees given Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE

30 January 2026 at 01:49
Activists behind the general strike are calling for "no work, no school, and no shopping" amid a push to defund ICE, which has escalated raids in U.S. cities, killing several people, including two U.S. citizens earlier this month in Minneapolis.
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