Month: September 2026
Ingenious Technique Explains How Easter Island Statues May Have Gotten Their Giant Hats
Some of Easter Island’s moai statues are adorned with large red hats, the heaviest of which weigh as...
Ancient Egyptian Mummified ‘Hawk’ Is Actually a Stillborn Human Baby
High-resolution micro-CT scanning has shown that an Egyptian mummy thought to be a bird is really a stillborn...
ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves | TechCrunch
If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to...
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity | TechCrunch
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports...
Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases | TechCrunch
Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in “misleading and aggressive”...
Something Completely Unexpected Happened to the First Settlers of South America
As the last Ice Age was coming to an end, and as the first settlers arrived in North...
Pompeii Resident Had His Head Crushed by a Giant Stone While Fleeing Eruption
The first major discovery at a new excavation site in Pompeii is turning out to be something right...
Archaeologists Discover 29 Human Footprints From the Last Ice Age
Archaeologists working off Canada’s Pacific Coast have found 29 human footprints dating back to the end of the...
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Deven Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are...
MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant | TechCrunch
Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one....
