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“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.

Auk’s original countertop garden is on clearance for $199, with everything you need to start growing herbs indoors.

I’ve tested the wearables, tracked the prices, and found the Prime Day deals worth grabbing.

Snag some new Yeti gear in your choice of eye-popping colors while supplies last (which won't be long).

The right gadgets can make your house feel smarter. After extensive testing and price checks, these are the Prime Day smart home deals worth bagging.

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

Samsung’s The Frame is the leading art TV for a reason. The matte display makes paintings look like museum pieces, not a glossy screensaver.

Apple TV has had a really great run in 2026 - and a cozy new addition is helping expand its lineup even more. As the streaming service has attempted to grow in order to better compete with the likes of Disney and Netflix, it has steadily broadened the range of its series. This year has […]

Googlebooks are here. The first models went on sale Sunday, October 4th, and we received review units of all five Googlebooks about 24 hours ago. Since then, we've been in a mad dash to put the devices through their paces and get a check on what it's like to use these Android laptops. At first […]

Netflix just announced The Conjuring: Unspoken, a new horror game set in The Conjuring universe that you can play with your phone as a controller, and it will launch exclusively on the service on October 13th. Here's Netflix's description of the game: The Conjuring: Unspoken is an interactive paranormal investigation you can play from your […]

I don’t suppose there are many iPhone users who might be tempted by the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 now that the iPhone Duo is both real and coming very soon. But if you’ll entertain a great deal, there are big discounts happening for both the passport-style Z Fold 8 and the slimmer, taller Z […]

You could spend a lot on gadgets in our main October Prime Day roundup and get maybe one or two things. That’s all well and good, but you could spend as much (or less) and have a bunch of items arrive at your home instead. If you’re on a tight budget, or you just have […]

The Sonos Beam Gen 2 soundbar is on sale for $359 at Amazon and Best Buy during October Prime Day, a healthy $140 discount from its usual price, and $10 lower than the previous Prime Day price. The biggest draw here may be obvious — its native connectivity to other Sonos products — though it’s […]

If you've been using an older Amazon Echo device as a speaker through its 3.5mm aux input, Alexa voice commands to play or pause from line in may stop working. Ars Technica points to this Reddit poster claiming they received a message from Amazon about the change, which the company has confirmed. According to Amazon […]

Is Sony about to announce a new PlayStation Portal game streaming handheld? The Wi-Fi Alliance recently certified two unannounced PlayStation products of some kind, and the certification documents indicate that they could be updates to the PlayStation Portal, which might mean we're getting the OLED screen rumored earlier this year. The two devices, which are […]

Amazon’s October Big Deal Days are underway (lasting through tomorrow night), and we spotted a ton of Apple products and accessories in the sale, ranging from laptops and headphones to desktops and more. Some of the deals are only for Prime members, but other retailers are often matching or beating Amazon’s prices, and we’ll continue […]

"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston's SoWa Power Station, where investors and operators share how they've navigated crucial decisions.

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.

JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service.

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

A retry policy is useful only after the system knows what failed. TL;DR: put interview transcription behind a durable queue, honor Retry-After for 429 responses, and send every other 4xx response to a capability or configuration review instead of retrying it. For an edtech product that scores candidates against a job rubric, preserve the transcript as evidence and validate the score separately. Bulk submission can improve throughput later. It cannot turn an unavailable speech capability into...

If you're learning backend development, you've probably seen things like: localhost:3000 localhost:5000 :80 :443 At first, the port number can seem like just another configuration value. But why does a server need a port when it already has an IP address? If one server is running a Node.js API, PostgreSQL, Redis, and NGINX at the same time, how does the operating system know which application should receive an incoming request? That's the problem ports solve. ...

Redis says the key is gone. The memory comes back 22 seconds later. Remdore Remdore Remdo...

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge . I'm exploring a venture I could run as a solo founder, with multiple AI agents working together as my staff. I've been using AI to write company introductions and marketing copy, and it has been frustrating because it keeps making things up. What I wanted was help explaining the venture; what I ended up needing to know was which agent is least likely to invent facts. So I turned that frustration into a benchmark: 11 models,...

Automating Multi‑Platform Article Publishing with a Node.js Content Pipeline TL;DR: I built a tiny Node.js pipeline that pulls a single source markdown, injects front‑matter, writes platform‑specific files, and flips flags in metadata.json . The result is a reproducible, zero‑touch publish step that keeps Medium, Substack, and Dev.to in sync. The Problem Every week I write a single article in a src/ folder, then manually copy‑paste it into three different publishing p...

TL;DR: Count terminal notification delivery failures, query a recent window on a schedule, and notify only when a threshold crossing changes durable alert state. The metric answers an aggregate question; a Postgres row answers the equally important question of whether this worker has already announced that condition. Keep those responsibilities separate, and use a heartbeat monitor for the different failure in which the polling job never runs. For a marketplace notification service, my decisi...