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The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

San Francisco is increasingly blanketed with AI-generated billboards featuring nonsensical messages like "Your agents…

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people.

Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach

Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical…

OpenAI's First Device Is a $300-Plus Doughnut-Shaped Speaker: Report

Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and…

Buterin Backs Signal No-Phone Number Feature, Warns on Privacy

The open-source instant messaging app Signal is working to allow users to register on its network without a phone number.

Software is about people, not code

A software developer reflects on learning that successful software development depends far more on understanding…

99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

You put together the concept — from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits…

Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels

SpaceX and Tesla are building a massive semiconductor fab in Texas that will depend on natural gas power plants, not…

US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

USA Today Co., America's largest newspaper chain, has partnered with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize…

AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

The article discusses how the traditional web server deployment model creates inefficiencies when building applications…

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Growing numbers of knowledge workers are experiencing a crisis of faith in their careers, feeling that their work is…

China’s Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Look Up Test Answers

Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default…

The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era?

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

Wyzer is a new statically typed, compiled programming language designed to address safety issues in distributed systems…

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

pgrust version 0.2 achieves 300x faster performance than Postgres on analytical benchmarks through major query engine…

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

Textlog is an open-source, JavaScript-free microblogging platform designed as a quieter alternative to mainstream social…

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

Cloudflare has announced Kitesurf, a new lightweight browser specifically designed for AI agents rather than humans,…

Tesla, SpaceX Pick Texas Site for Musk’s $16.8B Chip Plant

Tesla and SpaceX have formally committed $16.8 billion to break ground on Terafab, Elon Musk’s giant AI chip factory,…

Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

Certo is an open-source platform that enables organizations to issue, manage, and verify digital badges and certificates…

Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity

Generative AI tools are compared to the video game Guitar Hero—both create an illusion of creative skill without…

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

Memory manufacturers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have reportedly sold out their entire 2027 DRAM and HBM production…

The Problem With “Artificial” — Why AI’s Biggest Branding Issue May Be Its Name

Jack Dorsey has reopened a basic question about the technology industry’s most familiar term.