Daily Monday, 12 October 2026
Monday, 12 October 2026
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Context Language Models: Self-Managing Context to Improve Performance and Reduce Compute Costs
Researchers from Meta, MIT, and the University of Washington introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), a new approach that enables language…
AWS Introduces Enhanced Custom Event Buses for EventBridge
AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across account…
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
Listen now (62 mins) | Josh Woodward of Google Labs on where great ideas come from, knowing when to kill them, and building for a world whe…
Jason’s Takes on This Week’s 20VC: Loyalty Changed for Good, Agents Now Pick Your Vendors, and When to Take the $2 Billion
My cut of the episode where Dev Ittycheria, one week back as CEO of MongoDB, told me I was wrong about the biggest story of the week. Thurs…
Swiggy, Zomato Have A New Fight On Their Hands
For years, Swiggy and Zomato have ruled the Indian foodtech sector with an iron fist, building vast restaurant networks and…
48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next
Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at…
The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
Year after year, investors who've explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need to be on the groun…
The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineu…
Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair
Richualist is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies!
Hero Electronix’s Tessolve Semiconductor raises $75 Mn led by Vector Line Capital
Tessolve Semiconductor, a Hero Electronix company, has raised $75 million in a funding round led by US based strategic investment firm Vect…
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500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
Zetwerk raises fresh issue size to Rs 2,830 Cr, OFS component up 49% in RHP
Manufacturing platform Zetwerk has filed its Red Herring Prospectus (RHP) for its initial public offering (IPO), comprising a fresh issue o…
Bot traffic from Yandex
LineageOS 24
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
I paid people to try and follow my README
IRCv3
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being ske…
The new Apple TV could have a built-in mic and a remote with a speaker
The latest rumors are that the new Apple TV will have a built-in microphone, while the upgraded remote will get a speaker. The mic would le…
Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online
If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science…
The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
What to expect from Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ event
We are quickly coming up on Apple's "Welcome Home" launch event, where we expect a host of smart home-related announcements. We are expecti…
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused
In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to "enhance the safety and security of students." But by S…
Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers.
George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama
George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living…
Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero , the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One
Vurt wants you to look at vertical videos as a genre of their own
From Disney Plus to HBO Max, almost every major established streaming service is experimenting with ways to get into vertical content. It's…
Why the LeapPad couldn’t survive the iPad
For multiple years, the hottest toy in the United States was a book. But not just any book: a smart book that could play sounds and respond…
Horror is big business
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how pervasive horror has becom…
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud serv…