August 07, 2025

Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok's responses: The move would help power X's struggling ads business following the departure of former CEO Linda Yaccarino. Read More

Truth Social's AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources: The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on the iOS and Android apps planned for "the near future." Read More

Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must 'resign immediately': Trump's post comes after Republican Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday wrote to Intel's board of directors, asking about Tan's ties to China, his investments in the country, and raised concerns about his time leading Cadence Design Systems, which had a Chinese military university as a customer. Read More

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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website: Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention. Read More

Google's AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta: Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks. Read More

Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website: The U.S. congressional agency confirmed to TechCrunch that the removal of key sections of the Constitution from its website were removed in error. The full text has now been reinstated. Read More

TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data and driver's licenses: The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs. Read More

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent: Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against. Read More

Forget manual scraping and fragile scripts. Deck runs permissioned sessions to automate any user-facing flow, then hardens them into fast, reliable jobs you can call. It's automation that behaves like a real user, only faster, safer, and always on.

Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward "Big Balls" Coristine: Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Read More

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