Google engineer who made $1.2 million from Polymarket charged with insider trading
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo on insider trading charges, accusing the company’s employees of making $1.2 million in trades on Polymarket based on confidential business information. Spagnuolo, who used the name “AlphaRaccoon” at Polymarket, has worked at Google for more than 12 years, according to information on LinkedIn. […]
Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
How many P’s does Google have? According to Google, there are two. According to Google’s AI Overview, “The word ‘poop’ has exactly one ‘r’ in it,” and the word ‘journalism’ has two ‘d’s, but is spelled ‘journadism.’ Google identified at least one P in the U.S. president’s last name, spelled trpum. You don’t need to […]
Payroll startup Remote announces 50% increase in revenue per employee without increasing headcount
Remote, a seven-year-old payroll service provider based in Amsterdam, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and is cash flow positive. But he insists the real story is what’s happening behind the scenes. After implementing AI at all levels of the organization, the startup saw a 50% increase in revenue per employee. […]
UK visa portal publishes passports and selfies of thousands of applicants, then calls in lawyers
A TechCrunch investigation found that a website called UK Visa Portal had published thousands of passports and selfies of applicants who paid fees to the site to obtain UK immigration visas. An anonymous person alerted TechCrunch to the security lapse, saying at least 100,000 documents were publicly available on the website from people who uploaded […]
Meta launches subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, AI plans and more to come
Meta is doubling down on subscription services. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it would roll out consumer subscription plans for its flagship apps Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally and begin testing new subscriptions for businesses, creators, and Meta AI users. Consumers who subscribe to Instagram Plus ($3.99 per month), Facebook Plus ($3.99 per […]
With $100 million in new funding, Princeton’s Thea Energy becomes the most funded fusion startup
Thea Energy has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series B led by the US Innovative Technology Fund, the fusion startup told TechCrunch. This amount would make the company one of the better-funded fusion startups and increase its chances of making a commercial reactor a reality. The new funding will help Thea expand production of its […]
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers
CrowdStrike worked with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors internet cyberattacks, to stop a botnet that cybercriminals were using to push malware and steal passwords from open source software developers. According to CrowdStrike, the purpose of the takedown operation was to disrupt the activities of the cybercriminals behind the so-called Glassworm […]
Grandoreiro malware and BTMOB RAT campaign targets Windows and Android users
Latin America and Europe have been targeted by two banking Trojan campaigns aimed at infecting Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively. This is according to new research published by WatchGuard and ESET, who observed these two malware families being used to identify companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as well as […]
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1 billion at $25 billion pre-money valuation
Cognition, which developed an autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Wednesday. That’s a big jump from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation just eight months ago, when it closed a $400 million funding round in September. The round was led by […]
Malicious npm package stole files from Claude AI user directory via GitHub
Rabi LakshmananMay 27, 2026Threat Intelligence/Supply Chain Attacks Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry with information-stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named mouse5212-super-formatter, is designed to upload files from /mnt/user-data. This is a dedicated directory used by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to process uploads and output […]