6+ hour, 26+ min ago  (159+ words) Google announced Monday that it's making its Gemini in Chrome feature available in seven new markets, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and i OS…...

11+ hour, 55+ min ago  (130+ words) Apple announced on Monday that Tim Cook, who has served as Apple's CEO since 2011, will step down. Cook was the direct successor as Apple CEO after Steve Jobs, who resigned due to health issues. Cook will remain in his role…...

8+ hour, 43+ min ago  (287+ words) Sometimes, things are not just one thing " they're also another thing. This sentence construction (It's not just this " it's that) has become so common in AI-generated writing that now, it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing…...

11+ hour, 24+ min ago  (394+ words) Mastodon's flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, the social networking software maker said, which rendered the instance unusable at times. Much of the site was inaccessible, throwing error messages or displaying a full-screen outage warning....

16+ hour, 25+ min ago  (387+ words) The Federal Aviation Administration has instructed Blue Origin to perform an investigation into the apparent failure of the upper stage of its New Glenn rocket on Sunday, according to the Orlando Sentinel. That means the company won't be able to…...

16+ hour, 31+ min ago  (259+ words) The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic's recently announced model that it withheld from public release, Axios reports. The news comes weeks after the NSA's parent agency, the Department of Defense, labeled Anthropic a "supply…...

12+ hour, 38+ min ago  (359+ words) Whats App is testing a new subscription tier, similar to Instagram Plus and Snapchat+, that lets users pay for customized icons, themes, ringtones, and more. The paid plan's features are largely cosmetic; users don't get many additional functional features. Whats…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago  (454+ words) Cloud app hosting giant Vercel this weekend said hackers had breached its internal systems and accessed customer data. Hackers have claimed they have stolen sensitive customer credentials from Vercel's systems and are selling the data online. Vercel says its Next....

4+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (265+ words) Anthony Ha is Tech Crunch's weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at Venture Beat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a VC firm....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (958+ words) Open AI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is about acquisitions, competition with Anthropic, or bigger debates about AI's impact on society. On the latest episode of Tech Crunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and…...