Month: September 2026
The Great Space Elevator
There are startups and then there are startups. Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and I love...
Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
A new study pinpoints Bennu's birthplace to a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system.
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch
OpenAI on Monday apologized to the Australian government for not immediately notifying the country’s administration that its agents...
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | TechCrunch
Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises...
CERN to Morons: Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy Earth. Morons.
Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large...
A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality
For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.
Tim Cook reportedly tells employees Apple ‘must’ win in AI | TechCrunch
Apple CEO Tim Cook held an hourlong all-hands meeting in which he told employees that the company needs...
Apple projects tariff costs will hit $1.1B next quarter | TechCrunch
Tariffs are projected to cost Apple $1.1 billion in the July-to-September quarter, an uptick from the previous period,...
Apple has now sold 3 billion iPhones | TechCrunch
Apple has sold 3 billion iPhones since the product was launched in 2007, Apple CEO Tim Cook said...
Apple plans to ‘significantly’ grow AI investments, Cook says | TechCrunch
Apple on Thursday signaled that it’s getting more serious about its plans to catch up in the AI...
