SNAK Venture Partners announced Wednesday the close of its oversubsubscribed $50 million debut fund, anchored by Pritzker Group. 

Amazon opens Alexa+ to everyone in the U.S. The AI feature is free for Prime members across devices, and free for everyone on mobile and web.

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water. Below that, the picture gets murkier. Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added som...

Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There's no way to get your data back from them!…

Prized for its beauty, teak is in short supply, forcing the yacht industry to look for alternatives.

Fibr AI replaces marketing agency– and engineering-heavy website personalization with autonomous systems designed for enterprise scale.

Spotify is revamping its lyrics feature, adding offline access for Premium users, global lyric translations, and a more prominent placement in the Now Playing view.

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive technology that can precisely stimulate deep regions of the...

Social media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care?

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life could not easily use. This means more melting ice does not automatically boost carbon absorption. In th...

The investment comes from backers including the Qatar Investment Authority as demand for chips beyond Nvidia soars and as Qatar aims to build out its AI infrastructure.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to humans—became so complex. By comparing sea squirts, lampreys, and frogs, researchers found that key genes controlling cell communication began producing many more protein varia...

The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

Attia co-founded longevity medical testing startup Biograph, which came out of stealth a year ago.

Concerns were raised by a subcommittee including potential price rises and the future of cinemas.

Varaha's fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.

Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they've put much of their work on hold to help out their community.

Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.

All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins.

See what to expect for Startup Battlefield 200 in 2026, the ultimate startup pitch competition on the global stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Join the mailing list to be the first to know when applications drop.

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.

Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

Gradient's heat pumps fit in windows, minimizing installation times. Now, it is introducing software to make those units more intelligent.

Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience.

GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.…

This AI doctor is licensed in all 50 states, the startup says. The deal was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins.

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. Here's how tech leaders are responding to the moment.

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that looks surprisingly bacterial. This suggests plants reuse microbial tools to invent new chemistry. The ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their anatomy was anything but simple—featuring a bizarre, highly specialized skull and unexpected evolutio...

DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges Polish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks.…

Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into formate, a potential hydrogen source for fuel cells. The key was a clever redesign that made the catalyst last far longer than similar low-cost materials. Surprisingly, th...

Musk says the combined firm - which has been valued at more than $1tn - will be an "innovation engine".

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the research shows how dark matter gathered ordinary matter ...

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while preserving fat-related ones. This process, driven by ER-phagy, is tied to lifespan and healthy aging...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap across memory types. The finding challenges decades of memory research. It may also help scientists bet...

I've been working on a chrome extension that flags suspicious unit prefixes in datasheets and specs, things like "10 mF" that should probably be µF, or "0.005 m" that's almost certainly 5 mm. It started because I kept catching these errors in component specs and wo...

It makes China the first country to stop the use of designs first made popular by Elon Musk's Tesla.

The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called Lotus Blossom (aka Lotus Panda, Billbug), which abused weaknesses in the update infrastructure ...

Ukraine’s CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days Russia-linked attackers are already exploiting Microsoft's latest Office zero-day, with Ukraine's national cyber defense team warning that the same bug is being used to target government agencies inside the country and...

Chronic stress can damage the gut’s protective lining, triggering inflammation that may worsen depression. New research shows that stress lowers levels of a protein called Reelin, which plays a key role in both gut repair and brain health. Remarkably, a single injection restored Reelin levels and ...

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As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining may soon begin. Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers documented nearly 800 species, many previously unknown. Test mining reduced animal abundance and diversity si...

SAR11 bacteria dominate the world’s oceans by being incredibly efficient, shedding genes to survive in nutrient-poor waters. But that extreme streamlining appears to backfire when conditions change. Under stress, many cells keep copying their DNA without dividing, creating abnormal cells that grow...

The Reddit-like website which launched in late January allows AI bots to speak to each other.

Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.…

MACE is a next-generation experiment designed to catch muonium transforming into its antimatter twin, a process that would rewrite the rules of particle physics. The last search for this effect ended more than two decades ago, and MACE plans to leap far beyond it using cutting-edge beams, targets, a...

Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on Opinion  Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the Polish distribution grid were rebuffed and repor...