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Famed iPhone, Sony Hacker Says AI Coding Agents Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen

George Hotz spent six months testing agents on real projects and came away convinced they're creating an avalanche of…

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

A bootstrapper's guide details how to build a full European infrastructure stack for under €10 per month using permanent…

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

California is moving to exempt most open-source Linux distributions from its Digital Age Assurance Act through Amendment…

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

A VPN service provider has successfully deployed exit IP mitigation across 415 of its 555 online servers, representing…

The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers

Major tech companies are conducting massive layoffs in 2026, with over 100,000 jobs cut this year as AI investments…

Perplexity Built a Tool That Checks Your Computer for Infected Software—Without Setting Off the Infection

Bumblebee scans developer machines for compromised packages and AI tool configs.

RentFlow (YC S24) Is Hiring

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing

Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald stated that the company is struggling to justify its AI spending, as increased token usage…

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

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The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and…

Pope Leo Releases First AI Encyclical, Calls Data a Common Good and Rejects Moral Neutrality of Tech

The 245-paragraph document was presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, whose company is actively…

The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI

Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done.

Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK)

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27

The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27.

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

Real-world C code rarely adheres strictly to ISO C standards, instead relying on non-standard extensions and…

5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase

Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

Dutch authorities arrested two men on May 18 for operating internet hosting infrastructure used by Russia to conduct…

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

The proposed 2026 HIPAA Security Rule update—still not finalized, with final action now targeted for July 2027—would…

Cyannova Capital announces global launch at its first strategic reception in Hong Kong

Cyannova Capital (“Cyannova” or the “Company”), a New York-based investment firm, announces its inaugural investment…

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"

Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical titled "Magnifica Humanitas" warning that opaque AI algorithms controlled by a…

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia

Microsoft has abandoned its plans to build a 244-acre data center in the Village of Caledonia, Wisconsin after facing…

Leave Me Behind

The author reflects on a decade-long career as an Android developer, beginning with building a simple todo app in…

I manage teams without a single call

A manager argues that asynchronous text-based communication is superior to calls for team management, claiming that…

US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal

Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

GPT-4.1 produces decidedly non-random distributions when asked to pick a number between 1 and 100, exhibiting distinctly…

Ozak AI’s Expanding Capital Base Above $7 Million Fuels Growing Speculation That Its First Exchange Listing May Arrive Sooner Than the Market Expects

Ozak AI’s capital base has now pushed decisively beyond the $7 million mark, intensifying speculation that its first…