The DaB - Daily Briefing

Well, the coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York study. A crushing New Yo...

Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision that could influence access to one of Silicon Valley’s most important talent pipelines. Stanford is also ending its test-optional policy, requiring SAT or ACT scores for the fi...

Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people's credit cards — since the demise of its predecessor.

Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out for.

The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model.

Microsoft is killing Lens, a handy mobile scanning app with over 90 million downloads.

OpenArt launched a new feature to help creators make AI-generated brain rot videos.

For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level.

The multimodal tool, which includes speech, text, and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.

Following concerns about safety, Instagram head Adam Mosseri reassured users that the feature is opt-in, and noted that some people are “confused” about how the feature works.

Nuclear power could be the linchpin for long-term human activity.

An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract.

Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice.

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force.

In Colombia, the parasites were caught expanding into endangered wild mountain tapirs.

It's unclear exactly how GPT-5's new approach to model-switching will work here.

Just another "viral" stunt.

Stellar cast, lavish visuals make Netflix adaptation of influential graphic novels shine.

Advocates say Supreme Court shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."

Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are considered more secure. And because we should be using different ones for each device and/or app, the best way to track all of them...

Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it's hard to know where to st...

How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord - which would eventually become my first car. We lived in the suburbs, so almost no […]

It's the lack of noise you notice first. There's no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people. I'm at a warehouse - or customer...

Leaving the house without my phone is the stuff of nightmares. Leaving the house without my phone on purpose? Are you kidding? What if I need to take a picture of something? What will I look at if I need to wait in line? What if disaster strikes or a War of the Worlds happens? […]

In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month. Early Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI laun...

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 93, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm sad the sun is setting sooner, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm reading about the rise of GEO, laughing at Kirby'...

I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at a congressional hearing at the end of June. Wearables, he said, are key to th...

Returning to work or school from summer vacation is never easy, but the Aura Aspen could help you hold onto your favorite memories by putting them front and center. And right now, you can pick up the digital photo frame for around $199 ($30 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and Aura, which is a new […]

Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it's a nearly impossible task. If it's for a big, meaningful event, I get even more anxious. When you find the right place for everyone, though, it's even more satis...