Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon
Mixed messages Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year. 222 The exhaust plume from the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission was seen by astronaut Chris Williams onboard the International
Tesla's Texas factory workforce reportedly shrunk 22% in 2025
The total workforce at Tesla's factory outside Austin, Texas shrunk dramatically last year as the company suffered its second straight year of declining sales, according to a compliance report spotted by Austin American-Statesman . Tesla went from employing 21,191 people at the factory in 2024
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked
Hims & Hers, the telehealth company that sells weight-loss drugs and sexual health prescriptions, has confirmed a data breach affecting its third-party customer service platform. The healthcare company said in a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general's office on Thursday that
Teens Are Torturing, Confiding In, and Sometimes Dating AI Chatbots
A whole world of role-playing AI chatbots has quietly exploded among teenagers - from harmless fantasy to troubling psychological territory. Most of the attention goes to ChatGPT and Claude, but the real story is happening on platforms few adults can even name.
TechCrunch Mobility: ‘A stunning lack of transparency’
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! You might recall the congressional hearing last month that sparked criticism against Waymo over its use of
Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law
money behind the scenes Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades. 62 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Stand
Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars
Founders Fund has made its name backing what Peter Thiel calls 'zero to one' companies — businesses that don't just improve on existing ideas but create something entirely new. Its portfolio includes Facebook, SpaceX, and Palantir. Its latest bet is a New Zealand startup that
Perplexity Sued: Incognito Mode Allegedly Shared User Data With Meta and Google
A class action lawsuit claims Perplexity's incognito mode was a sham — embedding Meta and Google trackers even for paid users who expected privacy.
People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center
As data centers have grown and proliferated, so too has the backlash. A new Harvard/MIT poll found 40% of people supported the building of a data center in their area, with 32% opposed when asked about the building of different industrial facilities in their neighborhoods. One fun tidbit from the su
Lucid blames dip in Q1 sales on seat supplier issue
Lucid Group finished 2025 on an upswing — building twice as many EVs as the previous year and reporting a 55% uptick in sales. Then the first quarter of 2026 arrived. The company, which makes the Air sedan and Gravity SUV, reported Friday that it sold 3,093 vehicles in the first quarter, a 42% drop
In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain productivity, companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and
Human API Launches App Where AI Agents Hire People for Paid Tasks
A $65M-funded startup lets AI agents assign work directly to humans — from reading lines aloud to completing real-world tasks. The gig economy just got a new boss, and it's software.
After fighting malware for decades, this cybersecurity veteran is now hacking drones
Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit. A seasoned speaker, he is trying to make an important point to a room full of fellow hackers and security researchers at one of the industry's global annual meet-up
The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology. The problem, he quickly learned, ran de
Europe’s cyber agency blames hacking gangs for massive data breach and leak
The European Union’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday that a recent hack and data breach at the EU’s executive body was the work of a cybercriminal group known as TeamPCP. In a new report , CERT-EU also reported that the hackers stole around 92 gigabytes of compressed data from a compromised Amazo