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Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility. A central hub for news and insight on the future of transportation. To receive this in your inbox, sign up for free here. Just click on TechCrunch Mobility. It seems like not a day goes by that Waymo doesn’t announce some kind of expansion. Detroit, Las Vegas, Nashville, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. are just a few of the cities where the company plans to deploy robotaxis in the coming months. However, as I have argued before in this newsletter, there is another “extension” that I think is more important. highway. Now, after years of testing…
The world will spend $580 billion on data centers this year, $40 billion more than will be spent on securing new sources of oil, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. These numbers help explain some major changes in the global economy, and the comparison between data centers and oil seems particularly pertinent given concerns about how generative AI will accelerate climate change. Kirsten Korosec, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed the report’s findings on the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. There’s no question that these new data centers will be power-hungry, potentially putting even more stress…
simple factsWhat is it: barred spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303Location: Virgo, 55 million light years awayShare date: October 28, 2025Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already helping astronomers discover remarkable things even before serious scientific activity begins. The observatory’s first images, released in June, included deep views of the Virgo cluster, the closest and best-studied galaxy cluster. Then, in the lower right of the image, eagle-eyed astronomers witnessed something unexpected – a razor-thin stream of stars arcing away from one of the cluster’s galaxies.The barred spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61, also known as NGC 4303) is…
The Roman Empire is famous for arenas like the Colosseum, where gladiators engaged in bloody skirmishes. But were any of these gladiators women?Some evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggests that female gladiators existed in the Roman Empire, but female gladiators were much rarer than male gladiators.However, this evidence is limited to approximately a dozen documents and inscriptions, and a small number of artifacts depicting them. For example, the Roman Senate passed laws in 11 AD and 19 AD that prohibited upper-class women and free-born women under the age of 20 from fighting as gladiators. Another document states that…
simple factsMilestone: First SARS infectionDate: November 16, 2002Location: Foshan, ChinaPerson: Food handlerIn January 2003, Chinese epidemiologists identified two cases of “atypical pneumonia” in patients who visited health care workers in Guangdong province. The team began contact tracing and eventually discovered that the disease-causing bacteria had been circulating since November 16, 2002, when the patient became ill.The earliest cases in November were “food handlers,” people who worked as chefs in restaurants or as vendors at “wet markets,” where live animals such as poultry and more exotic animals such as civets and raccoon dogs were displayed in crowded conditions.By the time disease…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been awarded a total of $142 million in legal fees for Charlie Jarvis and Olivier Hamard, the founders and chief marketing officers of financial assistance startup Frank. JPMorgan acquired Mr. Frank for $175 million in 2021, but earlier in Thailand Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Amar were convicted of defrauding banks by inflating Mr. Frank’s customer numbers, and Mr. Jarvis was sentenced to seven years in prison. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, JPMorgan is now seeking to reverse a judge’s order requiring the bank to pay the pair’s legal costs. Michael Pittinger,…
A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology. According to Reuters, a jury found that the Apple Watch’s workout modes and heart rate notifications violated Masimo’s patents. “This is an important victory in our continued efforts to protect our innovation and intellectual property, which is critical to our ability to develop technology that benefits patients,” Masimo said in a statement. “We remain committed to protecting our intellectual property rights.” An Apple spokesperson told Reuters the company plans to appeal the ruling, adding:…
After a two-week blackout, YouTube TV and Disney announced Friday that they had reached an agreement. In addition to the return of Disney networks such as ABC, ESPN, and FX to YouTube’s streaming TV service, the deal also allows ESPN to make new direct-to-consumer services available on YouTube TV at no additional charge. YouTube may also sell select Disney networks and Disney+/Hulu bundles as part of various packages. Disney Entertainment co-chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement that the deal “recognizes the tremendous value of Disney programming and provides more flexibility and…
November 15, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/vulnerabilities Botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances for critical security flaws that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score: 9.8), which allows a guest user to execute arbitrary remote code via a request to the “/bin/get/Main/SolrSearch” endpoint due to a reputation injection bug. Patched by maintainers of XWiki 15.10.11, 16.4.1, and 16.5.0RC1 in late February 2025. Although there has been evidence that this flaw has been in the wild since at least March, it wasn’t until late October that VulnCheck revealed that it…
Forensic analysis of a 750-year-old skeleton reveals that a Hungarian duke was brutally murdered by at least three assailants. Duke Béla of Masso was stabbed more than 20 times with weapons such as sabers and long swords, according to a new study.”By looking at how the blows overlap and how the body reacts, we reconstructed the order in which the blows landed, and then reconstructed which parts of the body would be exposed to receive the next blow,” study co-author Martin Trautmann, an osteoarchaeologist at the University of Helsinki, told Live Science.The research team counted 26 injuries by the time…