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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

TechCrunch · May 4, 2026

Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.

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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

TechCrunch · May 1, 2026

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

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Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court

TechCrunch · Apr 29, 2026

Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its case with Epic heads toward the Supreme Court.

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What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

TechCrunch · Apr 27, 2026

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

TechCrunch · Apr 24, 2026

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.

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Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI

TechCrunch · Apr 22, 2026

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

TechCrunch · Apr 20, 2026

Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

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Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

TechCrunch · Apr 17, 2026

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

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Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

TechCrunch · Apr 17, 2026

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.

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Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

TechCrunch · Apr 17, 2026

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

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‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

TechCrunch · Apr 17, 2026

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

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Open-source AI model ecosystem: enterprise adoption trends and the private market opportun

Joystar Capital Insights · Mar 19, 2026

# Open-Source AI Model Ecosystem: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Private Market Opportunity The enterprise adoption of open-source AI models is reaching an inflection point that mirrors the early cloud infrastructure boom, and savvy investors are positioning themselves ahead of ...

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