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TechCrunch is inviting companies, investors and community organizers to apply to host official Side Events around Disrupt 2026, which runs October 13-15 in San Francisco. Approved events can take place anytime from October 10-16 and will be promoted to Disrupt's more than 10,000 attendees through official marketing channels. Applications close September 4.
Lenovo confirmed that some Legion Go handhelds are going blank when installing BIOS version V42. The update wasn't pushed through Windows Update or Legion Space, and Lenovo has since removed it from its support site while it investigates.
A developer released a Claude Code plugin skill that pulls every highlight from a Kindle book's notebook page, including ones Amazon's export feature truncates or hides entirely due to an undocumented export cap. It reconstructs the missing text by cross-referencing the Mac Kindle app's synced annotation positions and the Cloud Reader's rendered pages, producing one combined, verbatim Markdown file with location citations.
Bitcoin, Ethereum and crypto-linked stocks extended a three-day climb, marking the sector's strongest stretch since 2023. Analysts are drawing parallels to that earlier rally as investors debate whether the momentum can hold, with commentators including Ray Dalio and forecasting platform Kalshi weighing in on possible outcomes.
Researcher Matthew Callaghan discovered AliExpress running hidden scripts that generate silent, inaudible sound waves through the WebAudio API to create a unique fingerprint of each visitor's browser. He noticed the tracking only because it interfered with his multipoint Bluetooth headphones, cutting off phone audio whenever the AliExpress tab was open. The scripts muted the sound with a zero gain setting so users would never notice, but the browser still processed and transmitted the audio data back to the site.
An industry tipster claims Samsung and Corning are jointly developing a new self-healing surface coating for the next generation of Gorilla Armor glass, potentially destined for the Galaxy S27 Ultra. The coating would reportedly let the glass recover from everyday micro-scratches on its own, though details on timing, testing, or branding remain unconfirmed.
Apple TV's September lineup includes the action-comedy 'Mayday' starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, the thriller series 'Last Seen,' the sixth season of 'Slow Horses' with Gary Oldman, and a new comedy 'Brothers' featuring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The titles roll out across the month starting September 4 through September 23.
Researchers documented that vLLM's XML-based tool parser for Qwen3 Coder (CVE-2025-9141) fed model-generated arguments directly into Python's eval() function, meaning a language model's own output tokens could execute arbitrary code on the machine running it. A Gemini-based review flagged the change as a critical risk before it was merged, but the lead vLLM maintainer force-merged it anyway.
Taiwanese prosecutors in Keelung have charged nine people, reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees, with breach of trust and document forgery for allegedly faking records to disguise illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China. Investigators found that of 130 B300 servers falsely documented as installed in Taiwan, 74 were actually shipped to Chinese customers, while 56 were stopped after customs officials spotted inconsistencies. The probe follows the March arrest of Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw in the US over an alleged $2.5 billion scheme to route restricted AI servers to China.
New leaks about Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, expected to launch under the Ultra branding at over $2,000, suggest several notable omissions. The device reportedly skips a telephoto lens in favor of dual 48MP Main and Ultra Wide cameras, ditches the Action button and mute switch entirely, replaces Face ID with a Touch ID sensor built into the side button, and appears to lack MagSafe charging support based on dummy units without the familiar magnetic ring.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica, are facing criticism after users were found photographing and filming strangers without consent, then posting the footage online. Critics have dubbed the devices 'pervert glasses' amid mounting concerns about privacy and ethical misuse.
A developer has released an update to the Textlog app that removes reply counts, follower/following numbers, and post timestamps from the interface. The stated goal is to eliminate features that enable tracking when someone was active or biasing readers toward newer content over older posts.