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Which USB adapters should you actually keep in 2026?

USB adapters with ports for connections you haven't seen in years, like Micro-USB or Apple's Lightning cables, should probably find their way to the trash.…

I tested the top MacBook alternatives: See which Windows PCs actually beat Apple

I replaced my MacBook with the top Windows laptops.…

LemonEdge, which provides fund accounting and operations tech for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

Ask HN: Which Linux distribution is capitalizing on AI momentum?

Claude vs. ChatGPT: Which AI Security Incident Was Worse

Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT models both hacked real companies in July 2026. We compare both incidents using the labs' own reports.…

Which Version of ‘The Odyssey’ Will You Experience?

Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (Reuters)

Reuters : Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation — Defense …

I watched hours of Tubi and Pluto TV to see which free streaming service has more ads — and one has twice as many

I pit two of the best free streaming services to the test to see which one wastes your time more…

Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, and more, grew 12% YoY to $30.74B, vs. $31.36B est.; AAPL drops 4%+ after hours (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)

Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking and storage chips, raised $300M led by Fidelity Investments at a $2.8B post-money valuation (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)

K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Furnishing a bedroom? I did the math on prices at IKEA, Lowe's and Home Depot to find out which is the winner — the result may surprise you

Shopping around could well be worth your time…

Former Perplexity engineer launches new Polar AI browser which aims to automate repetitive tasks

Polar has raised $5.7 million to build an AI browser that automates workplace tasks, reflecting a broader industry shift away from AI-powered search and toward browser agents.…

Which of Dyson’s 2026 Vacuum Models Is the Best?

Curious if you should get Dyson’s new 2026 stick vacuums or stick to the older ones? I tested five models, old and new, to find out for you.…

Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M — …

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch : Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage …

Which group achieves 41% more weight loss on GLP-1s like Mounjaro: study

When it comes to losing weight on the blockbuster drug Mounjaro, new research suggests it's a battle of the sexes.…

ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Max A. Cherney / Reuters : ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $1…

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical "chiplets" to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Mamdani hates everybody — which is why his mayoralty is doomed

Rookie mistakes or intentional insults? Either way, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is alienating ethnicity after ethnicity in the Big Apple, America’s most tribal and least for…

Which countries have banned social media for kids?

Australia started it. Now, the list is growing.…

I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more

I compared Google's new default AI against OpenAI's default reasoning model…

BNY, the world's top bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems, which service $8.6T in assets (Financial Times)

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media : London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a …

Which robot vacuum works the best on pet hair? After testing, my cats and I chose our top picks for 2026.

When shedding "season" is really just year-round, automated floor cleaning is a non-negotiable.…

CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market cap on July 28 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)

Wency Chen / South China Morning Post : CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market c…

Which mobile AI agent is the most powerful in 2026

A comparison of four mobile GUI agent projects: MobiAgent, Mobile-Agent, Mobilerun, and mobile-use, covering basic information, functional focus, strengths, weaknesses, and suitabl…

ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quanto…

Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $…

'They will renew your subscription even if you turn off the auto-renewal' — Which VPN has the most price complaints on the Play Store?

We analyzed almost 30,000 Android VPN reviews to reveal the hidden cost of major VPNs…

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4 Opus, ……

Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B (Kyle Alspach/CRN)

Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)

A biblical disease is back with a vengeance in Florida — experts warn which animal is to blame

Experts say the adorable armored creatures may be the culprit behind a rising number of cases of an ancient disease.…

GrubMarket, which connects wholesalers and distributors to grocers and other food buyers, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $4.5B in February (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today —…

A bard, a sorceress, a witcher? Find out which character from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt you are

Which character from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are you? Let's find out.…

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt …

Putin Saw a Gap in Which He Could Act With Impunity. Let’s Close the Gap.

Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed.…

Researchers develop model that predicts which Red Sea fish are most likely to invade the Mediterranean

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Cl…

The US Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles to build a supercomputer in 2010. Which one did they choose?

10 places in the American West that make you forget which planet you're on

Factory farming could be fuelling spread of common disease which causes food poisoning

Farmed chicken is thought to have increased the spread of Campylobacter, the most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea worldwide…

Window AC vs. Mini Split: Which is the Smarter Cooling Upgrade for Summer?

Summer does not have to mean rising electricity bills and blocked window views. Before buying another temporary fix, see why modern homeowners are switching to quieter, smarter min…

Black Panther 3 Cast: Which MCU Stars Are Confirmed & Could Return

Marvel Studios has finally announced the upcoming release of Black Panther 3, which will feature a mix of new and familiar cast members.…

What's the difference between USB 3.0 & 2.0 and which should you use?

The ports look the same, but one is much faster than the other.…

Which borrowers could qualify to have their debt forgiven this August?

Debt forgiveness isn't a feasible option for every borrower. Here's who may have the best chance of qualifying now.…