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Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see t…
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Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the que…
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Revolut, Wise and UiPath-backer Seedcamp raises $320m
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WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever…
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SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company
For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really op…
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London’s Isometric lands $40M to certify the industrial economy with AI
Certification is the kind of work most people never think about until it holds something up. Before a regulator grants a permit, a…
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Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once
Mach's approach differs sharply from some of its peers.
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Investors bemoan vibe-coded product slop
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Want to build European AI muscles? Scrap non-compete clauses
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Unlikely AI loses senior staff amid widening losses, strategic shakeup
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It's not just about nudity warns actress - the complex reality of images and online abuse
Tech companies and authorities are failing women by focusing on nudity rather than consent, says a report by Chayn.
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The American dream is ‘very dead’ for young Americans, says Mrs. Dow Jones
The American dream is “very dead” for millennials and Gen Z, according to financial influencer Haley Sacks, better known as Mrs. D…
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, has died at the age of 69.
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Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winning…
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Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds
Nearly six out of every ten videos TikTok serves to a brand-new account are AI-generated junk. That is the central finding of a re…
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TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
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When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what th…
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Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.
Apple’s industrial design studio, once the most influential product design operation in the technology industry, has been gutted. …
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Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in i…
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Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions
Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on J…
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Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is failing because humans stop paying attention
Amazon’s security leadership is arguing against one of the most widely accepted principles in AI governance. Eric Brandwine, VP an…
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New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason
Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in February, and is expanding interna…
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Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the…
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not s…