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At a press conference on Monday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro showed off his bold claim to Howay smartphone, where Chinese President Xi Jinping gave him talent, calling it the “best phone in the world.” “Americans can’t hack it, there’s no spy plane or satellite,” Maduro said. The phone looked like the Mate X6, a folding phone released by Huawei in 2024. Obviously, it’s not impossible to hack, and not so few by US government hackers considered the best in the world. A US-based vulnerability researcher told TechCrunch that Huawei manufactures its own hardware and its own mobile operating system (Harmonyos),…
Apple is holding a “awarding” hardware event on Tuesday at 10am. The company plans to announce the iPhone 17 lineup. This includes updates to Slimmer versions, Apple Watch and Airpods. The keynote speech will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino. Viewers can tune it to a live stream here or watch it on Apple’s website. As always, TechCrunch will cover the event, so stay tuned for the news. There are many rumors surrounding the upcoming iPhone lineup. Center Stage is the rumored iPhone 17 Air, which can replace the Plus model, making it more pronounced than the previous iPhone…
Amogh Chaturvedi runs around a bit of sleep, but there is a lot of certainty at 6am, he is a gloggy, apologising for the rescheduling, and is still upset by recent horrors, including family and an electric scooter. Within minutes, however, the 20-year-old Stanford Dropout had focused, as he and his co-founder sold one startup at the age of 19, landed in Y Combinator, raising $5 million for the next company, the human behavior. Human behavior, launched just a few months ago, bets that Vision AI can do what analytical tools like Mixpanel and Posthog struggle with. Instead of relying…
Advanced geothermal startups were largely spared when Congressional Republicans took Sledgehammer to the Inflation Reduction Act last summer. Drilling for renewable energy appears to be one of the few that generate bipartisan support. Now, with uncertainty resolved, geothermal companies are announcing a deal that promises to pave the way for a wider deployment of their technology. Houston-based Fervo Energy said it had selected a supplier for the main portion of the power plant on Tuesday, indicating that the second phase of Utah’s Cape Station project is moving forward with all its strength. The startup said Baker Hughes, a leading oilfield…
Last year, Netflix launched a mobile scene clipping feature called “Moments.” This allows users to quickly save their favorite scenes from shows and movies within the Netflix app. The streaming giant rolled out an update on Wednesday, allowing users to specify both starting and endpoints when saving scenes. Now I have the option to adjust the ending of the scene, allowing me to create long or short clips. Previously, users could only set a starting point when saving the scene. To use the feature, start watching a show or movie, tap anywhere on the screen, and[クリップ]Click the button. Once saved,…
Fizz, the university’s social app, is expanding to grocery distribution thanks to a new partnership with GoPuff. The partnership allows students to order anything from late-night snacks to weekly groceries within the Fizz app, about 15 minutes faster, Fizz says. Founded in 2021, Fizz is available on more than 620 campuses across the United States and has so far been shared with over 27 million posts. Social platforms allow students to connect anonymously with others at the university. Fizz also has a market where users can buy and sell items locally. Fizz co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon told TechCrunch via…
Invited to Comet, Perplexity’s new AI-powered web browser, is one of the hottest products on the web these days. The new product was first made available to a small group of maximum subscribers and invited customers at the AI company’s $200 per month. But now there is a new way to jump to the waitlist. On Wednesday, PayPal announced that it would normally offer it to customers that are $200 to customers, including PayPal and Venmo users, early access to Comet and a free subscription to Perplexity Pro, a premium service from Perplexity. The browser, launched in July, offers an…
September 3, 2025Ravi LakshmananArtificial Intelligence/Vulnerability Threat actors are leveraging newly released artificial intelligence (AI) attack security tools to leverage recently disclosed security flaws. Hexstrike AI is pitched as an AI-driven security platform for automating reconnaissance and vulnerability discovery, with the aim of acquiring licensed red teaming operations, bug bounty hunting and flag (CTF) challenges, according to its website. For each information shared in the GitHub repository, the open source platform integrates with over 150 security tools to promote network reconnaissance, web application security testing, reverse engineering and cloud security. It also supports a number of specialized AI agents tweaked for…
In January 2025, cybersecurity experts at WIZ Research discovered that Chinese AI expert DeepSeek was suffering from data leaks, putting more than a million sensitive log streams at risk. According to the Wiz Research team, they have identified a publicable Clickhouse database belonging to DeepSeek. This “gives complete control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data,” Wiz Research said it involves over a million log streams, including chat history, private keys and more. Wiz immediately reported the issue to Deepseek. This ensured exposure quickly. Still, the incident underscored the risk of data leakage. Is it intentional or…
Scientists are able to train four-legged robots to play badminton against human enemies, and have given up across courts to play gatherings of up to 10 shots.By combining full body movements and visual perception, the robot called “Anymal” has learned to adapt how to reach Shuttlecock and return it successfully on the net thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).This shows that four-legged robots can be constructed as opponents in “complex and dynamic sports scenarios.”Anymal is a four-legged dog-like robot weighing 110 pounds (50 kilograms) and about 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) tall. With four legs, Absmal-like quadruped robots can move across challenging…