Month: August 2026
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Apple Maps has ads now
Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple’s announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They’re appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the “suggested places” section in search, but Apple says they’ll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the … Read more
‘The Government Doesn’t Own Our Data’: Prosecuted GrapheneOS User
Samuel Tunick, facing five years over a wiped phone, said he was secretly placed on a watch list as a suspected terrorist.
Crypto CEO Faces US Extradition Over Alleged $20 Million Token Scheme
Manpreet Kohli, accused of making $20 million from an alleged scheme to manipulate the Saitama token, is a step closer to facing trial in Boston.
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.
Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblentz, the firm’s co-founder, told TechCrunch — women’s health, … Read more
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has updated Gemini Audio with some new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe are designed to provide better precision for Google’s voice-controlled AI features, without struggling with background noise or when your speech is … Read more
Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It’ll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick
GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and managing approximately 82 million domain names. At that scale, access to timely business data directly affects how quickly the company can act. When GoDaddy’s analytics infrastructure faced challenges under the weight of thousands of dashboards, … Read more
Mara Raises $7M Led by Khosla Ventures and a16z Speedrun to Build Spike, a Counter-Swarm Platform
A THAAD interceptor costs somewhere between twelve and fifteen million dollars. A Patriot PAC-3 MSE round is listed at roughly $5.3 million in the US Army’s most recent budget request. The FPV drone that a great deal of modern air defense is now being asked to shoot down costs a few hundred dollars and is … Read more
Natera’s intelligent appointment scheduling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Booking a phlebotomy appointment shouldn’t be a hassle for oncology patients already managing treatment. Natera’s service, powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, allows a phlebotomist to come to the patient, helping Natera deliver a more convenient experience. Natera, a global diagnostics company specializing in cell-free DNA testing, wanted to transform their patient experience by replacing manual … Read more
Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3
In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script mode on managed framework containers from AWS to write custom training and inference code. Script mode was a leap forward: you didn’t need to build or maintain Docker images to run your own algorithm on … Read more
Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 2: Advanced data strategies
Data preparation for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) doesn’t end when your dataset is clean and correctly formatted. The harder questions come next. How much data do you actually need? Should you collect more, or select a better subset of what you have? How do you generate high-quality examples when human annotation doesn’t scale? And how do … Read more
Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality
Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning (SFT) project. You’ve evaluated your foundation model (FM), and out-of-the-box performance isn’t meeting your production requirements. Maybe the model doesn’t follow your output schema reliably, struggles with your domain’s classification taxonomy, or can’t maintain the tone your application demands. The question isn’t whether to customize, it’s … Read more
SEC sends crypto custody rule overhaul to White House for review
The securities regulator’s crypto custody overhaul could clarify how investment advisers and funds hold digital assets for clients as the proposal moves through review.
Tokenized Deposits Could Drain $700 Billion From Bank Lending, Dallas Fed Warns
A shift toward faster, more rate-sensitive deposits could push banks into safer assets, constrain lending, and raise borrowing costs, Dallas Fed researchers said.
77% of Americans see crypto in retirement plans as risky: Survey
A new survey finds broad skepticism toward crypto in workplace retirement plans as US policymakers move to expand access to alternative assets.
Apple announces September iPhone launch event
A screenshot from Apple’s events website. Apple’s next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a “Surprise and shine” tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream … Read more
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.
How to Avoid Burnout as a Solo AI Filmmaker: The System I Built for Lost Garden
AI filmmaking burnout rarely comes from generating too many clips. It comes from quietly becoming your own set designer, colorist, sound editor, and producer at the same time, with nobody around to tell you that’s five jobs, not one. I noticed it on a week when Lost Garden wasn’t even going badly. The shots were … Read more
What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there with it. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis is joined by Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup … Read more
Bitcoin dips below $78K as stocks, gold fall on higher US PCE Inflation data
Bitcoin stayed away from challenging $80,000 after July US PCE inflation data came in slightly higher than anticipated, pressuring gold and risk assets.
Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases
Organizations often deploy agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model. These agents may access governed knowledge bases hosted in separate AWS accounts. This cross-account separation helps maintain clear workload boundaries but can introduce integration challenges. This post explains how AgentCore agents in … Read more
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
XRP Leads Crypto Pullback as Leverage Unwind Tests Rally
XRP led losses among the 10 biggest cryptocurrencies today. The charts show the real test for its rally is only getting started.
Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo’s cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The … Read more
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
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