timef 12/23/2025
- France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack techcrunch.com2025-12-23 23:42:23
France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.
- Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system techcrunch.com2025-12-23 23:05:49
The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.
- Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify techcrunch.com2025-12-23 22:51:40
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
- The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation techcrunch.com2025-12-23 22:00:00
Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up with interactive online experiences […]
- OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks techcrunch.com2025-12-23 06:11:19
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an 'LLM-based automated attacker.'
- Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks techcrunch.com2025-12-23 05:10:54
Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.
- Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again techcrunch.com2025-12-23 04:52:31
The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.
- Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40 billion Larry Ellison backing techcrunch.com2025-12-23 03:53:33
It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.
- ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped techcrunch.com2025-12-23 03:01:04
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.
- CEO of SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance resigns techcrunch.com2025-12-23 02:35:51
Tory Bruno's abrupt departure comes after 12 years in the role. The company, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, has had to fight to keep pace with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
- Elevate your home bar with these mixology gadgets techcrunch.com2025-12-23 01:15:00
From robotic bartenders to smart coasters that ensure the perfect pour, here are some cool gadgets to elevate your home bar.
- Splat’s app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids techcrunch.com2025-12-23 00:55:48
The app turns your own photos into pages for your kids to color, via AI.
- Uber and Lyft to test Baidu robotaxis in London next year, joining Waymo techcrunch.com2025-12-23 00:25:19
The geographic expansions continue for the ride-hailing companies' robotaxi plans.
- A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs techcrunch.com2025-12-22 23:57:49
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2025.
