🧑🚀 Space yurts: What will the next generation of space habitation look like? For Max Space (a company; not a person with a made-up name), the answer is expandable habitats that offer safety and room to stretch your legs. The first of these looks like a giant balloon (or even a yurt), and is going up in 2026. Read More
🧪 Testing for AI risk: A federal agency has re-released a testbed to measure how malicious attacks might degrade AI systems' performance. The tool is called Dioptra, and is modular, open-source and runs on a browser, and focuses on attacks that "poison" AI model training data. Read More
💰 WazirX wants customers to absorb its losses: The Indian crypto exchange suspended trading activities on its platform last week following a cyber attack. Now, to resume operations quickly, WazirX has introduced a strategy to distribute the impact of the $230 million loss "equitably" among its entire user base — even those unaffected by the hack. Understandably, that strategy is not being received well. Read More
🤖 Nuro is revving its engines: After two big rounds of layoffs over the past couple of years, the autonomous driving startup is back with a new robotic goods delivery vehicle. It will test the new vehicle this year in expanded areas in San Francisco and Houston, and claims its AI is better than ever. Indeed, it'll need to be good if Nuro ever wants to commercialize at scale. Read More
🛵 Zapp forays into India: The U.K.'s Zapp Electric Vehicles is gearing up to launch its two-wheelers in India, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. It's part of Zapp's mission to be a global EV company, and where better to start selling electric motorbikes than India, one of the largest markets for two-wheelers in the world? Read More
👻 Ghostery turns 15: Ghostery's free and open-source ad blocker and privacy browser has been downloaded 100 million times since 2009. For the company's 15th birthday, we sat down with CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz to discuss Ghostery's strategy, the state of ad tracking, and why he thinks regulation isn't the best path to protecting online privacy. Read More
