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Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount
The FCC has announced it's waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by …
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Third tanker in a month hit by a suspected cyber incident, this time carrying US gas to Europe
An LNG tanker carrying American liquefied natural gas to Italy stopped short of its destination this month, after its crew found they could no longer reach some of the ship’s inte…
Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy
Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Lenovo laptop. The Yoga Slim 7X…
This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket
FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and ROMs. The FPGB Mini's cartrid…
The Street Fighter movie popcorn bucket is gloriously goofy
The Street Figher popcorn bucket could make things easier for anyone planning to dress as Guile for Halloween.
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s next big bet is fusion: Go inside it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by September 25.
Tom Watson joins Palantir as its £330M NHS contract heads for a break clause
Lord Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Labor’s former deputy leader, has joined Palantir as a senior vice president, an appointment he announced on X. He called it: “Palant…
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before…
Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 makes sharing files easy, but access can remain long after its original purpose has ended, leaving organizations with little visibility into who can still reach sens…
Apple AirPods 5 review: The choice is clear
The most notable AirPods 5 upgrades are available on both models, but you'll be happier with the pricier one.
The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is today, September 18. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October 13–15.
Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions
Microsoft Teams will soon let administrators tweak the list of file extensions commonly associated with security threats to meet their company's security requirements. [...]
Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest
Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day
The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy wen…
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop…
Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports
Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them. The company confirms it exists, yet it will no…
Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter?
Fast-growing companies face countless recommendations for securing Google Workspace, but not every control provides the same value. This webinar examines real-world breaches to ex…
Samsung Galaxy S26 FE review: An incremental price hike for incremental updates
It's tough times for the midrange phone.
Huawei says AI will burn 100,000 times more tokens by 2035
“Visions are painted in words, but measured in deeds,” David Wang wrote in the foreword to Huawei’s latest forecast. The company published two reports days before Huawei Connect 2…
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a lis…
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week…
Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The …