timef 07/02/2025

The spyware operation's exposed customer email addresses and passwords were shared with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger.

Microsoft is leveraging another round of layoffs despite posting consistent growth.

Tesla sales fell more than 13% compared to last year as the company struggles to find demand for its aging lineup, and as CEO Elon Musk continues to damage the brand.

Rivian sales ticked back up in Q2 but were down 23% from the same quarter last year. The company has been dealing with affordability issues made worse by Trump's tariffs and trade wars.

Foxconn ordered over 300 Chinese employees to return home from its factories in India, per Bloomberg.

Qantas, the largest airline in Australia, confirmed the theft of 6 million customers' personal information.

At TechCrunch All Stage 2025, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures, will take the Scale Stage to flip the script on conventional startup growth advice.

Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASA’s flagship Artemis program.  The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke […]

The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. Attorney General.

The financials are impressive and founder CEO Dylan Field already cashed out $20 million worth of shares last year.

Historic regional competition launches to showcase Central Eurasia’s rising startup ecosystem on Silicon Valley’s biggest stage. For the first time in its history, Central Eurasia will have a direct pathway to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield through the launch of “Road to Battlefield,” a groundbreaking regional competition that promises to put the underrepresented region firmly on the […]

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are […]

Catalio Capital Management announced the closing of its more than $400 million Fund IV. The fund will continue the firm’s thesis of backing healthcare and biotechnology companies. 

Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced. The exec shared the news on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, published on Monday, saying that the project is “on hold” for an indefinite period. “What we decided is that we want to […]

AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like — and too often, investors are still playing by the old ones. At TechCrunch All Stage, happening in Boston on July 15, Kleida Martiro, partner at Glasswing Ventures, will lead a breakout that cuts straight to the core of this disconnect.

London-based smartphone maker Nothing has launched its first over-the-ear headphones, the Headphone (1). The new device follows Nothing’s first step into audio hardware with last year’s debut of the Ear 2 open-ear headphones. The new Headphone (1) headphones were designed in collaboration with British audio brand KEF and feature the sleek, transparent design that Nothing […]

GM's EVs were popular in the second quarter, a complete contrast to the struggles by Ford, Tesla, Hyundai, and Kia to grow electric vehicle sales.

Nothing has revealed its first over-the-ear headphones. The aluminum and transparent Headphone (1) was designed in collaboration with KEF. They offer adaptive noise canceling, bass enhancement for deeper low frequencies, and spatial audio, for $299 at launch. But spoilers: The buttons on these headphones might be the best part.

Nothing has revealed its first over-the-ear headphones. The aluminum and transparent Headphone (1) was designed in collaboration with KEF. They offer adaptive noise canceling, bass enhancement for deeper low frequencies, and spatial audio, for $299 at launch. But spoiler alert: The buttons on these headphones might be the best part.

Nothing on Tuesday launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts.  Since releasing Phone (1) in 2022 , the GV-backed […]

There are many iPad apps to help you organize recipes; sync tasks across devices; be more productive; and manage your notes.

Cathy Gao of Sapphire Ventures shares her playbook to scale a Series C+ at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston. Register now to save up to $210.

As Amazon's fleet of robots has reaches a milestone, the company is also releasing a new AI model to make them more efficient.

As Amazon's fleet of robots has reaches a milestone, the company is also releasing a new AI model to make them more efficient.

Elon Musk’s X has appointed serial entrepreneur and growth hacker Nikita Bier as its new Head of Product. “I’ve officially posted my way to the top,” Bier wrote on X, alluding to his large presence on the app. Bier is best known as the founder of apps like Gas, which was acquired by Discord, and […]

Reamrk raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Inspired Capital with participation from Stripe, Neo, Spero Ventures, Shine Capital, and Visible Ventures.

At launch, Threads DMs will support one-on-one chats, preset emoji reactions, the ability to report spam, and mute DMs (as on Instagram). Other features, like group messaging, inbox filters, and more advanced message controls, will arrive in a later release.

At launch, DMs will be available in most markets where Threads is available, except for Japan, Australia, the U.K., and the E.U.

After pushing the TikTok sale date back yet again, President Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday that he had found a potential buyer for the ByteDance-owned platform. Though the president said he will not reveal the identities of the buyers for another couple of weeks, Bloomberg is reporting that the buyer is a […]