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An escalating crackdown by U.S. immigration authorities in Minneapolis has left several people dead, including at least two Americans, and the city’s tech industry is reeling. Eight Minneapolis-based founders and investors told TechCrunch that they’ve put much of their work on hold and are now spending their days focusing on the community, volunteering at church, and helping with food purchases. This is part of a grassroots effort where people of all races and classes speak out, donate, protest and provide moral support to each other. “There are a lot of parallels between the current reaction from teachers and the reaction…

As Intel continues to rebuild, its CEO has promised to start producing a new type of chip that has been hugely popular by rival Nvidia. At the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will begin producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors compared to the CPUs traditionally produced by Intel and are used for tasks such as gaming and training artificial intelligence models. TechCrunch has reached out to Intel for more information. The project will be overseen by Kevork Keshichian, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center…

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 is the leading early-stage startup competition held at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, highlighting the world’s most promising young companies. Each year, thousands of applicants from around the world compete for one of the 200 spots in this cohort. This gives you unparalleled visibility, access to top investors, and growth opportunities. Early-stage startups from around the world are joining the Startup Battlefield email list to be the first to know when applications launch this month. If you’re ready to get in on the action, don’t miss out. What is Startup Battlefield? Image credit: Kimberly White/Getty Images…

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly secretly demanding that technology companies hand over information about users who criticize the Trump administration. In recent months, the Department of Homeland Security has used administrative subpoenas to seek identifiable information about individuals operating anonymous Instagram accounts that share posts about ICE immigration raids in their neighborhoods. These subpoenas are also being used to request information about people who have criticized Trump officials or protested government policies. Unlike judicial subpoenas, which are granted by a judge after seeing enough evidence of a crime to authorize the search and seizure of a person’s property,…

El Segundo, California-based aviation automation startup Skyryse has raised more than $300 million in Series C investment, pushing its valuation into unicorn territory at $1.15 billion. The round, announced Tuesday and led by Autopilot Ventures, is a multimillion-dollar boost for the startup as it nears the end of the lengthy Federal Aviation Administration certification process for its flight control system. The capital will also be used to integrate the company’s operating system, known as SkyOS, into a number of aircraft, including the U.S. military’s Black Hawk helicopters. Other investors in this round include Fidelity Management & Research Company, ArrowMark Partners,…

Ravi LakshmananFebruary 3, 2026Artificial intelligence/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a patched security flaw affecting Ask Gordon, the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker command-line interface (CLI). This flaw could be exploited to execute code or leak sensitive data. This critical vulnerability has been codenamed DockerDash by cybersecurity firm Noma Labs. This issue was resolved by Docker with the release of version 4.50.0 in November 2025. “With DockerDash, a single malicious metadata label within a Docker image can be used to compromise a Docker environment through a simple three-step attack: Gordon AI reads, interprets, and forwards…

Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman announced the launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The two are developing an “intelligent family care system” starting with an app experience and extending to hardware devices. Two years after leaving Google, Park and Friedman are betting on AI to ease the emotional burden of caregiving. According to a recent report, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults, or 63 million people, are family caregivers, a 45% increase from 10 years ago. Luffu uses AI in the background to collect and organize family…

Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen new executive departures. These follow other leadership departures over the past year as the company deepens its focus on AI investments and plans to expand its footprint in the United States, while retaining India as its largest market. The departure stems from internal disagreements with senior partner Ashish Agrawal (pictured above, left), which led to the mutual decision to part ways, managing director Shailendra Singh told TechCrunch. He added that two other partners, Ishaan Mittal (pictured above, right) and Tejeshwi Sharma (pictured above, center), had…

hacker newsFebruary 3, 2026Threat Detection / Enterprise Security Most security teams today are buried in tools. Too many dashboards. Too much noise. Not enough real progress. Every vendor promises “full coverage” and “AI-powered automation,” but inside most SOCs, teams are still overwhelmed, stretched, and unsure of which tools are truly powerful. result? Growing stacks, missing signals, and increasing pressure to accomplish more with less. This live session “Breaking Down the Modern SOC: What to Build vs Buy vs Automate” with Kumar Saurabh (AirMDR CEO) and Francis Odum (SACR CEO) clears the fog. There are no technical terms. Real answers to…

Ravi LakshmananFebruary 3, 2026Open source/vulnerabilities Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical security flaw affecting Metro Development Server in the popular “@react-native-community/cli” npm package. Cybersecurity company VulnCheck announced on December 21, 2025 that it observed the first exploit of CVE-2025-11953 (also known as Metro4Shell). With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the underlying host. Details of the flaw were first documented by JFrog in November 2025. Even though more than a month has passed since the first exploit in the wild, “this activity remains largely unknown…