The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display. However, it offers more than just a dedicated reading experience because it runs Android and supports Google Play, giving you access to third-party apps. Think of it as…
It’s been a long time since I’ve been genuinely excited about a new iPhone. For years, a new iPhone meant a device that was thinner, faster, and had a camera that came with incredible upgrades. At some point (and Apple devotees can debate which year’s model this was!), a new iPhone became an incremental upgrade….
SpaceX appears to have lifted restrictions the Ukrainian military’s of use Starshield — the military-grade version of the company’s Starlink internet system. The Wall Street Journal reports that Defense Minister Evgeniy Khmara told reporters that Starshield appears to be working normally again, although the military is still conducting tests and has not received an explanation…
A startling announcement went out earlier this week: Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities in the open source programming language PHP, website owners had to immediately patch their sites — or if they couldn’t update right away, they should take the sites down to be safe. On this week’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec,…
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely in August. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold on to a reason to…
On Wednesday, a decades-old open-source web technology called PHP almost broke the internet, thanks to two vulnerabilities that had sat dormant for years until researchers recently figured out a way to exploit them. The bugs are dubbed PHP2Shell, officially designated as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. In simple terms, the bugs allow anyone who knows how to…
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor, according to multiple news reports The Information reported Friday that the grocery delivery company has hired an investment bank to help it evaluate its options, and that it’s held acquisition talks with DoorDash. And Bloomberg reported that the company has also talked to Uber — although Uber…
Jack Dorsey’s Block released a new voice model out of the company’s research lab that runs locally and sounds strangely human with its expressions like laughs, pauses, and cries. The company said the model, called Dessa, is trained fully on human speech and a single NVIDIA GPU. Dessa is a full-duplex model, which means it…
Most AI chatbots won’t outright tell you who to vote for, but some of the models behind them will. A new study found that when forced to choose in this year’s upcoming midterm elections, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of its answers, while OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol picked the Democrat in 97%….
In this article, we will discuss newly trending open sourced Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime (srt), the OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code’s sandboxed bash tool. The Anthropic sandbox-runtime limits which files a process can touch and which hosts it can reach. It does this without spinning up a container. It is also not tied to Claude Code. Your…
