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array of 4 MacBook Neo units
Hardware

MacBook Neo, AirPods Max 2, iPhone 17e, and everything else Apple announced this month | TechCrunch

From a budget-friendly MacBook to a new iPhone, Apple announced a series of new products this month. The...

US multinational computer technology company Oracle's logo is pictured at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 27, 2024.
In Brief

Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations | TechCrunch

The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many...

Nscale signage on the exhibition floor during the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California.
In Brief

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing | TechCrunch

Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as...

The TIkTok logo is seen in this photo illustration.
In Brief

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again | TechCrunch

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices, according to...

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the keynote address at an Apple special event on September 09, 2025 in Cupertino, California.
Apps

Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX | TechCrunch

Apple has acquired MotionVFX, a company that develops plug-ins, templates, and advanced capabilities for Apple’s Final Cut Pro...

North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood, on Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 1, 2017. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un declared the country had achieved a "historic cause" of becoming a nuclear state, its state media said on November 29, after the country tested an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.
Security

North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike | TechCrunch

A new report by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike found North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online...

AI

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge | TechCrunch

A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German...

Google Vids
AI

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets...

young woman seated at a classroom desk using a MacBook Neo
Hardware

The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit | TechCrunch

Apple’s new MacBook Neo isn’t just the most affordable MacBook by far — it’s also the most repairable...

The Claude Fable logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which the company's icon is projected.
Security

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its...