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Netflix launches a standalone app for kids' games
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (390+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. Netflix is launching a new standalone app for kids" games called Netflix Playground, the company announced on Monday. Netflix Playground is available as part…...
Why safety regulators closed their investigation into Tesla's remote parking feature
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (302+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. U.S. auto safety regulators closed its investigation into Tesla's remote parking feature, known as "Actually Smart Summon," after finding crashes were rare, at low speed,…...
North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (407+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to…...
Apple plans Supreme Court appeal in Epic Games App Store battle — again
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (424+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. Apple is preparing to take its App Store fight with Epic Games back to the Supreme Court. In a new filing, the iPhone maker…...
Iran threatens 'Stargate' AI data centers
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (239+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United…...
Watch this video of how a job interviewer exposes a North Korean fake IT worker
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (280+ words) THIS WEEK ONLY: Save close to $500 on your Disrupt pass. Offer ends April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here. For the last few years, North Koreans have gotten remote jobs at hundreds Western companies pretending to be from somewhere else, using fake resumes,…...
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week
38+ min ago (594+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth…...
Ticket savings of up to $500 this week for Disrupt 2026
39+ min ago (276+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Starting today, you have 5 days to save'nearly $500'on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. This offer disappears Friday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. There are no extensions. If'you've'even…...
Spain's Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (534+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers. Now, with…...
Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (522+ words) The first StrictlyVC of 2026 lands in San Francisco on April 30. Tickets are limited. Register here. The first convicted spyware maker in over a decade has avoided jail time after earlier pleading guilty to U.S. federal charges associated with running his surveillance…...