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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will appear on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West. He'll discuss the future of programming and how AI is letting more people turn ideas into software products.
Epic Games has filed a formal opposition to Apple's request to seal parts of its recent court filings on proposed commissions for purchases made outside the App Store via external links. Apple wants to redact financial figures, link-out adoption estimates, and developer survey data it calls commercially sensitive, but Epic argues the material is directly relevant to setting fair commission rates and should remain public. Epic also claims some of the data Apple wants hidden is either outdated or already publicly known.
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.
Federal regulators have broadened a safety investigation into General Motors' eBoost brake-by-wire system after receiving hundreds of complaints. The system, used across more than 1.1 million vehicles including GM EVs and models built for Honda and Acura, can suffer a spindle fracture that some drivers say causes immediate, total loss of braking rather than the gradual degradation GM claims should occur.
According to a New York Times report, Netflix is negotiating with Peacock and Fox One to bring their shows and movies onto its platform. It's not yet clear whether Netflix would sell subscriptions to those services directly or simply fold their content into its own app experience.
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.
Deloitte surveyed 501 senior business leaders driving AI strategy and found most companies remain stuck testing or expanding AI agents rather than running them at scale. Just 15% have achieved orchestrated multi-agent deployments across functions like customer service, IT and engineering, while 42% are still testing small numbers of agents and 43% are expanding pilots.
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.
Ocean surface temperatures have climbed to their highest level ever recorded, according to new data. Scientists point to a combination of long-term warming trends and short-term weather patterns driving the spike.
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.