timef 07/19/2025
- These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more techcrunch.com2025-07-19 23:00:00
These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers.
- For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data techcrunch.com2025-07-19 20:00:13
AI tools are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing it to work.
- Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say techcrunch.com2025-07-19 07:21:29
YC alum Greptile raises $30M Series A.
- Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted techcrunch.com2025-07-19 06:33:47
Pig.dev was working on a problem that could have been revolutionary: agent tech for controlling Windows desktops.
- ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns techcrunch.com2025-07-19 05:04:30
The probe into the acquisition, which was announced in March, began in June according to sources familiar with the matter.
- Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot techcrunch.com2025-07-19 03:56:12
Cursor-maker Anysphere is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in an effort to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.
- What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor techcrunch.com2025-07-19 03:43:18
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent […]
- A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations techcrunch.com2025-07-19 02:45:07
The new SS7 bypass-attack tricks phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber's location, in some cases down to a few hundred meters.
- CaaStle founder charged with fraud, turns herself in techcrunch.com2025-07-19 02:30:00
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment against Christine Hunsicker, charging her with wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and lying to financial institutions.
- Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot techcrunch.com2025-07-19 00:29:06
SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.
- SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals techcrunch.com2025-07-19 00:29:06
SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.
- DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results techcrunch.com2025-07-19 00:23:54
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.
- With her app Smash, Kesha can be whoever she wants – even a tech CEO techcrunch.com2025-07-19 00:00:00
Kesha's app, Smash, is a community platform for music creators to collaborate.
