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7:03 AM PDT · September 1, 2026 Every breakthrough company starts somewhere. Every founder who changed the world had a moment where they found their people, discovered their next co-founder, or got the advice that shifted everything. TechCrunch Disrupt is where those moments happen. And we can’t pull it
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Nintendo gave the gaming community a heads up four months ago that it would be raising the MSRP for its popular Switch 2 handheld console on September 1, 2026, and that day has arrive. Right on cue, big retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have all adjusted pricing
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Save $125: The Worx Aerocart 8-in-1 yard cart is a huge upgrade over a traditional wheelbarrow, and right now it’s on sale for just $135 at Amazon, a huge $125 savings off the original price. That’s almost half off a cart that helps you get the job done
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As much as any Apple product released during his time as CEO, Tim Cook’s tenure will be remembered for its ruthlessly efficient tight-rope walk between an autocrat in China and a would-be autocrat in the US. During his 15 years as CEO, Cook steered Apple through relations with both
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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* Russians consider VPNs an essential domestic utility, RKS Global says * Community groups promoting shared use of VPNs are growing * Users also rely on multiple VPNs to counter regular crackdowns Russian citizens are increasingly viewing VPNs as a regular line item in their household bills as they create new forms of
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* Amazon accused of creating fake auction participants to raise advertiser bids * The number of advertisers paying more than anticipated doubled in three years * Amazon argues the FTC's lawsuit is misguided and that its practices are normal The Federal Trade Commission together with 22 US states has filed a
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* Windows 11's antivirus is bugged as of the latest updates * Microsoft Defender is telling users that it's turned off, when in fact it isn't — it's working just fine * The warning keeps popping up, though, and that's proving to be frustrating,
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Enables customers to set transaction limits across different UPI payment categories and proactively declare international travel plans for a more secure and seamless payments experience Axis Bank, today announced the launch of its industry-first UPI limit management feature and international travel declaration capability as part of the bank’s broader
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Highlights * A day-one briefing for Apple’s new CEO * Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses * Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential? * The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement * The Mac is in good hands in Apple’s post-Cook era
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Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering The European Space Agency's Cluster quartet is preparing for its final bow after Samba reentered Earth's atmosphere, with Tango due to follow tonight. Samba lost contact at 21:26 UTC on August 31 and reentered
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TL;DR Processors still execute instructions with no understanding of whether they are legitimate. Dover Microsystems’ CoreGuard, born from DARPA’s $100M CRASH program, adds a silicon-level enforcement layer that watches every instruction against programmable micropolicies. NXP engaged Dover in 2018 for embedded platforms. IBM finds 1 in 4 malicious
