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4 May 2026 Vol 19

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These Beats Headphones Are Marked Down to $150 for Black Friday

Say what you will about Beats fans, but at least they know what they like. These headsets and earbuds are…

CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers

Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has confirmed firing a “suspicious insider” last month who allegedly fed information about the company to a…

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach

Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain…

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges

A powerful United States Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years…

Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. A growing number…

Phictly’s new app brings people together over their favorite books and TV shows

In the early days of social media, posting a rant about the latest episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” on MySpace felt…

Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle

The Trump administration revealed this week a revamped organizational chart for the Department of Energy, one which dumps several offices…

The Download: The secrets of vitamin D, and an AI party in Africa

“At some point you’ve got to wonder whether the bug is a feature.” —Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust…

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing

SpaceX rolled out an upgraded version of its Starship rocket booster in South Texas on Thursday to begin testing, and…

Posha vs. Thermomix: Kitchen Robots Face Off on Thanksgiving Sides

The holiday is still almost a week away, and I’m sick of Thanksgiving. I’ve already made four rounds of mashed…