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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ios-notification-threat-apple-hero.jpg?resize=1200,814″] The German government is warning politicians and public figures that they were targeted by government-backed spyware, days after Apple began sending out notifications warning victims that their iPhones may have been hacked. Germany’s federal cybersecurity office, known as the BSI, said in a note over the weekend that it had become aware…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/brave-browser.jpg?resize=1200,800″] The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.  Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Chip-chips-dollar-signs-money.png?resize=1200,960″] Custom chip designer Marvell has signed a deal to acquire optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an enterprise value of $115 billion (including debt) and an equity value of about $80 billion. Marvell will provide 4.5 shares of its common stock for each share of Lumentum.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/image-6.png?resize=1200,675″] Readwise, the maker of a read-it-later app and digital reading companion that keeps track of your highlights across services, is now taking on Amazon’s e-book empire with its latest app, Readwise Books. The app is an e-book store and helps you track what you’ve read, similar to Amazon’s Goodreads. The bootstrapped startup…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/starlink-direct-to-cell.jpg?resize=1200,601″] SpaceX is looking to buy Boost Mobile from EchoStar, according to a report from The Washington Post. If the deal goes through, it would help the Elon Musk-owned company build a hybrid cellular-satellite network that could help catapult it into fourth place among the top U.S. wireless providers. The space-launch company has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/IMG_3572.jpeg?resize=1200,895″] Here’s a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation? Israeli startup 42AI says it is developing a “behavioral world model” that can do just that, and it has just come out of stealth…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/grok-getty.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Over Halloween weekend, some Grok Bot users awoke to something especially spooky: Their weekly usage limits were unexpectedly maxed out, even if they hadn’t been using SpaceX’s agentic AI overnight. Some users reported on X that their usage jumped from as low as 50% to 100%. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/DSCF1932.jpg?resize=1200,800″] U.S. data centers use 17 to 19 billion gallons of water to cool their hot-running chips each year — and that number is expected to triple in the next five years, according to The Water Foundation. That’s an expensive and politically tricky proposition for investors throwing billions of dollars at the challenge…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/NinjaCrispi.png?w=800″] I never thought I’d get excited about replacing my microwave, but the Ninja Crispi Microwave and Air Fryer has made a pretty convincing case for ditching two appliances and making room for one. Combining a microwave with a built-in air fryer, it’s designed to speed up everyday cooking, give leftovers their crunch…