August 13, 2025

How we found TeaOnHer spilling users' driver's licenses in less than 10 minutes: Exclusive: A dating gossip app for men exposed thousands of users' personal data, including scans of driver's licenses. The app's developer, Xavier Lampkin, won't say if he plans to notify affected users about the app's security lapse. Read More

Why I finally left Spotify: Spotify's dependence on algorithmic recommendations has gotten too suffocating. Read More

ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated: GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out. Read More

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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it's raised: Perplexity tells TechCrunch the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome's underlying engine, Chromium, open source and to invest $3 billion into it. Read More

Hackers breach and expose a major North Korean spying operation: Two hackers broke into the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents, offering a rare glimpse inside the secretive nation's spying operations. Read More

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk's Neuralink: Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger. Read More

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025: The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024. Read More

Apple dismisses Elon Musk's claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps: The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was "behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store." Read More

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StubHub is once again working on its IPO that could raise $1B: On Monday, StubHub filed an updated S-1. This indicates its delayed IPO is back on. Read More

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