timef 03/27/2026
- Iranian hackers claim breach of FBI director Kash Patel’s personal email account techcrunch.com2026-03-27 23:39:07
Handala, a pro-Iranian hacking group allegedly working for Iran’s government, published emails it said were taken from the Gmail account of FBI director Kash Patel.
- Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware techcrunch.com2026-03-27 22:27:32
The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.
- David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead techcrunch.com2026-03-27 09:26:40
Sacks will be much further from power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.
- Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga techcrunch.com2026-03-27 09:18:38
A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.
- You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini techcrunch.com2026-03-27 07:47:56
Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.
- Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing techcrunch.com2026-03-27 05:50:10
The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.
- Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp techcrunch.com2026-03-27 04:42:50
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.
- Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again techcrunch.com2026-03-27 04:39:17
The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.
- 16 of the most interesting startups from YC W’26 Demo Day techcrunch.com2026-03-27 03:30:00
From redirecting doomscrolling to training humanoid robots, these 16 startups stood out as the most interesting ones from an overflowing YC cohort.
- Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries techcrunch.com2026-03-27 03:11:52
The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.
- OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode techcrunch.com2026-03-27 02:34:02
It's only the latest of several side project that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
- Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills techcrunch.com2026-03-27 02:23:31
Sens. Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.
- Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after U.S. Air Force deal techcrunch.com2026-03-27 02:05:51
In one year, Shield AI's value has leaped 140%. This after it won a contract to be the software provider to Anduril's Fury fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force.
- Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks techcrunch.com2026-03-27 01:22:01
Leaked hacking tools threaten the security of millions of older iPhones. Cybersecurity experts weigh in.
- Google is launching Search Live globally techcrunch.com2026-03-27 00:37:38
Search Live allows users to point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed.
- Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve techcrunch.com2026-03-27 00:06:33
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
