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TechCrunch: Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack. “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.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/24/techcrunch-mastodon-says-its-flagship-server-was-hit-by-a-ddos-attack/ -
TechCrunch: Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack. “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.”
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TechCrunch: Google’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloads. “Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, announced the figure on X over the weekend, also revealing that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/techcrunch-googles-gemma-ai-models-surpass-150m-downloads/
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@techcrunch the Australian government backs down on its misinformation bill under pressure from Elon Musk.
Amazing how much power you yield when you build power plants for the Australian government, offer them starlink and maybe a Telsa factory or two for jobs in the country.
And it can't hurt to have a fascist friend or two on your side who acts like a mafia boss #nobackbone #corrupt
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TechCrunch: MKBHD’s wallpaper app Panels is shutting down. “Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, announced on Monday that his phone wallpaper app Panels is shutting down. Fans had high hopes for Brownlee’s foray into app development, given his reputation as an eagle-eyed tech reviewer who has amassed more than 20 million followers on YouTube.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/techcrunch-mkbhds-wallpaper-app-panels-is-shutting-down/
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TechCrunch: Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival. “Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/12/techcrunch-google-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable-rival/
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TechCrunch: Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company. “Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/14/techcrunch-co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company/
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Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon talk about building engaged audiences at TechCrunch Disrupt
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrando logros destacados #awear #Battlefield #billight #calificadas #cashew_research #celebrando #destacados #disrupt #Glīd_Technologies #homeboost #investwise #justiguide #logros #rax #sponstar #startup #Startup_Battlefield_200 #startup_battlefield_2025 #TechCrunch #TechCrunch_Disrupt_2025 #ButterWord ...
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is already cooking! They've just unveiled the latest VC judges for the Startup Battlefield 200. Get ready for some high-stakes pitches and the fight for that $100k prize.
If you were stepping onto that stage, what's the one thing you'd tell the judges to make your startup *unforgettable*?
#TechNews #Startups #VC #Disrupt2025 #PitchDeck
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TechCrunch: A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse. “The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps, is ramping up its security. On Wednesday, a nonprofit focused on bringing governance to open source projects, the Nivenly Foundation, announced the launch of a new security fund that will pay those who […]
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TechCrunch: For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing. “Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to ‘vouched’ users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, ‘AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.'”
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TechCrunch: For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing. “Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to ‘vouched’ users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, ‘AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.'”
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TechCrunch: For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing. “Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to ‘vouched’ users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, ‘AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.'”
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#Adobe launches #AI assistants for Express and Photoshop: https://zorz.it/SJqyQ
#IvanMehta #CreativeCloud #ChatGPT #Photoshop #Express #AdobeExpress #AIAssistants #TechCrunch
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TechCrunch: The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos . “This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely ‘reason’ through uploaded images. … These image-analyzing capabilities, paired with the models’ ability to search the web, make for a potent location-finding tool. Users on X quickly discovered that o3, […]
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TechCrunch: X is testing a pay-per-use pricing model for its API. “Two years after revamping its developer programs and pricing, X is expanding the closed beta of a pay-per-use plan for its API to more developers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/techcrunch-x-is-testing-a-pay-per-use-pricing-model-for-its-api/
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TechCrunch: Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts. “TechCrunch discovered the security flaw during a short test of the app on Thursday. We alerted the app’s founder, Alex Kiam (who previously did not respond to a request for comment about the app), to the flaw soon after our discovery. Kiam told TechCrunch later […]
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TechCrunch: OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says. “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Sunday said that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than the company expected.”
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TechCrunch: What’s Updog? Datadog’s new tool tells you which apps are down. “…the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — essentially letting them check whether major software providers are functioning properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog to find out if major SaaS […]
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TechCrunch: The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem. “Automattic says that its new plug-in works by scanning your WordPress posts for outbound links, then cross-referencing the Wayback Machine for archived versions of those links. If there are none, it will automatically take new snapshots of the articles in question. Should a linked web […]
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TechCrunch: Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat. “Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching ‘Stories,’ a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an alternative to the company’s chatbots, which are no longer accessible to users under 18 as of this week.”
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Klarna's IPO went pop, raising $1.4B! Sequoia's laughing all the way to the bank, as most shares were offloaded by existing investors. Smart move, or a sign of things to come?
What are your thoughts on 'buy now, pay later' stocks?
#TechCrunch #Fintech #IPO #SequoiaCapital #StartupLife
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TechCrunch: People are using AI music generators to create hateful songs... "Malicious actors are abusing generative AI music tools to create homophobic, racist, and propagandic songs — and publishing guides instructing others how to do so." https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/people-are-using-ai-music-generators-to-create-hateful-songs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&guccounter=239423592 #ai #aipocalpyse #music #suno
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TechCrunch: Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address. “Google said on Tuesday that it is now rolling out a way for users in the U.S. to change their Gmail address without starting over or losing access to their data.”
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TechCrunch: The dictionary sues OpenAI. “Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed ‘massive copyright infringement.'”
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TechCrunch: Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ . “Eugenia Kuyda saw the future of consumer AI before most. She founded Replika, the first major AI companion startup, in 2017 — years before ChatGPT launched. Today, it has 35 million users. Now Kuyda is back with a new startup called Wabi, which she describes as YouTube for apps — a social platform […]
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TechCrunch: Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people. “LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumers’ personal data to help its paying corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 364,000 people.”
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TechCrunch: Turo taps national security and counterterrorism experts after Cybertruck explosion
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TechCrunch: How the rewards app Freecash scammed its way to the top of the app stores. “The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in recent months, peaking at the No. 2 position in the U.S. App Store. In truth, Freecash pays users to play mobile games — all the while collecting a heaping amount of sensitive data, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/20/techcrunch-how-the-rewards-app-freecash-scammed-its-way-to-the-top-of-the-app-stores/