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The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

Starting with the original in Camp Miasma in 1980, the horror franchise went on to have a long life. There were multiple sequels, spinoffs in the form of arcade cabinets and board games, and just about every kind of merchandise you can think of, from alarm clocks and lunch boxes to Halloween costumes and action […]

When I haul my 27-inch desktop monitor into the garage to film fun gadget videos… or want to play Japanese SNES games with friends… or lose the AC adapter for my old external hard disk… I can now power them with a USB battery instead. None of them came with USB-C ports; the entire USB […]

What makes the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra so Ultra? Samsung's first foldable with the Ultra name isn't a souped-up version of the regular Fold 8, as you might expect. Where the Z Fold 8 is squat and wide, the Fold 8 Ultra retains the thin outer screen and square inner panel of the […]

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.

SpaceX and Tesla are building a massive semiconductor fab in Texas that will depend on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels.

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

You put together the concept — from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal — and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disrupt.

The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.

While contributing to Grafana, I picked up a memory issue in the Time Comparison feature — a follow-up to earlier performance work I had done in the same area. A comparison panel was consuming significantly more memory than expected. The interesting part: the extra memory wasn't coming from real data. This post covers how I traced it to the root cause and fixed it. Background Time Comparison overlays an earlier period onto the current one — for example, this week vs. la...

Nota: en Lumora construimos libros infantiles personalizados con IA, y escribimos en diez idiomas. Este artículo cuenta un problema de i18n con el que chocamos de frente y cómo lo resolvimos. Lo contamos desde dentro, con nuestro nombre, porque el error nos costó reescribir una campaña entera. Casi todos los equipos tratamos el idioma como si fuera el país. Ponemos es en el selector, sacamos las cadenas a un JSON y damos el problema por cerrado. Funciona hasta el día en que tu producto ...

There is a file in this blog's repo called tags.ts . Eight lines in, it says this: IMPORTANT: Do not add new tags without updating this file. Build validation will reject posts with unapproved tags. I wrote that. It's addressed to an agent, and every agent that writes a post here reads it. The schema that would do the rejecting is one line in a different file: tags : z . array ( z . string ()). optional (), Any array of any strings. It appears eight...

There is a line in almost every Python web tutorial that nobody explains: uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 I copied it for weeks without thinking about it. Then I deployed the same application three times — to a local VM, to a production server, and into a container — and the correct value was different every time. Twice it was 0.0.0.0 . Once, in the place that mattered most, it was not. That gap is worth writing about, because the setting itself is trivia...

Every new SaaS seems to embed ChatGPT these days. Most AI support solutions rely on third-party platforms, monthly subscriptions, and vendor lock-in. While they're great products, I wanted something different. I wanted complete ownership. I wanted to deploy everything on my own server, use my own OpenAI API key, customize every part of the experience, and embed the widget into any website with a single script tag. So I built my own self-hosted AI support widget using Spring Boot and ...

Why Sports Data Is Harder Than Most People Think Building believable cross-era simulations turned out to be less about the engine and more about the data underneath it. Here is what we learned. MicroLeague Dev Blog, Vol. 3 By Eddie Solar When we started building MicroLeague Sports, I assumed the simulation engine would be the hard part. The vision was ambitious enough to justify that assumption. Let fans ask whether the 1996 Bulls beat the 2017 Warriors. Whether the 198...

If you are building anything that touches European business data — onboarding, invoicing, KYB, fraud checks — you will eventually ask the same question I did: which countries can I actually get company data from, for free, without an account? I could not find this written down anywhere, so I worked it out the hard way while building a supplier checker. Here it is. The baseline: VIES The European Commission runs VIES , which validates VAT numbers across all 27 member states pl...

The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I still remember the first time I tried to build an autocomplete widget for a side‑project. I had a list of 200 k product names, a simple filter that ran on every keystroke, and the UI felt like wading through molasses. Each keypress triggered a full scan of the list, and with a few users typing at once the browser would start to lag. I was stuck in a loop that felt like the infamous “boss fight” where you keep hitting the same pattern over and over, ...