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Lawsuit: At Tesla, racial discrimination is “standard operating procedure”

Toyota used up all its EV tax credits on hybrids

Here's how China is future-proofing its dominance of the lithium-ion battery supply chain—and why that's making Europe and the US nervous. (Via @WIRED)

The European Parliament approved two sweeping new pieces of digital regulation, setting up what could be months or years of clashes between regulators and tech giants

Meta sues a site cloner who allegedly scraped over 350,000 Instagram profiles

The Landsat satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our world.

NIST selects four encryption algorithms designed to withstand future quantum computing hacking threats to be part of its post-quantum cryptographic standard (@derekdoestech / SC Media)

Crypto lenders may have a harder time attracting customers even after the market settles down, writes @emilyjnicolle in the Bloomberg Crypto newsletter

Minions movie sees smash success in theaters driven by TikTokers dressing up in suits

TikTok is testing the ability to restrict livestreams to viewers who are 18+

EU regulators are trying to create a safety net for consumers amid fears of a long crypto winter, delegating stablecoin authority to the European Banking Authority.

Shares of Deezer, the French music-streaming rival to Spotify that went public via a SPAC deal in April, fell on their first day of trading

ICYMI: Vauld, the Singapore-based crypto lender that announced a freeze on withdrawals on Monday, says it has signed a tentative agreement to be acquired by rival Nexo

Crypto trading volume drops in India as additional taxes hit investors

Meta employees might want to start updating their resumes after Mark Zuckerberg's latest company Q&A.

EU lawmakers pass landmark tech rules, but enforcement a worry

Tesla’s production problems extend beyond China. Its German plant isn’t firing on all cylinders

Credits for qualifying Toyotas will still exist in smaller amounts, phasing out gradually over the next four quarters.

Lithium stays sky-high as other EV battery metals come down to earth

Here's how T-Mobile fared in our latest round of speed testing across America. See how it performs in the city nearest you.

Microsoft's chief environmental officer has used his background as an ecologist focused on scale to inform his work at the tech giant.

Tesla deliveries drop by 18 percent in Q2 2022

Twitter sues India to challenge government order to block content

Redesigned Siri Remote gets firmware update for Apple TV owners

An EU consumer rights group has issued new complaints suggesting that Google intentionally designs default settings to deceive new users into sharing broad swaths of personal info.

NASA's CAPSTONE satellite has gone dark

Paying with iPhone at drive-thrus illegal in places with laws against phone use in the car

Top chip makers issue a stern warning as subsidies legislation stalls in Congress.

Apple Releases Firmware Update for Apple TV Siri Remote

Decentralized finance platform Crema Finance announced that it was hacked on Saturday and had about $8.8 million stolen, via @jgreigj

Tech giants have promised us wonderful cities of the future. But the reality is they're likely to be even more segregated by income, hostile to pedestrians, and designed to line the pockets of tech giants.

TikTok is reportedly giving up on its live shopping plans in the US and Europe

Twitter just announced it's suing the Indian government over a recent order to take down posts Last week we reported on the removals and how "hostage-taking laws" have heightened the tension between tech platforms and governments

As Intel Macs fade, two decades of data shows they’re getting fewer macOS updates.

Here's what we found when @jguynn and @willcarless looked for Proud Boys on Twitter — an extremist group the platform said it permanently banned in 2018.

Landmark EU rules will finally put regulation of Big Tech to the test

What luxuries await Elon Musk in his new $80 million Gulfstream private jet

What if people bought fewer clothes and wore them more? This article is part of our new Greener Living section that focuses on decarbonization of the consumer economy (via @climate)

"Quantum computers powerful enough to break present-day encryption will pose a serious threat to our information systems,” said @NIST chief @lelocascio

Exclusive: A pair of executives from two prominent Asian crypto venture firms have launched a fund to help web3 projects navigate through the bear market

The British Army is investigating a breach of its YouTube and Twitter accounts.

One of the largest publicly traded crypto mining operators in North America sold almost all of its bitcoin holdings in June.

Drunk ideas turn into... massively successful Twitter accounts.

Google was sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned Russian ad tech company owned by the country's largest state bank as recently as two weeks ago, according to a new report.

When a 3-year-old goes missing, internet sleuths’ focus turns to abuse, wild accusations, and ransom scams. (From 2021)

Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Monterey 12.5 to Developers

Over the weekend, tens of thousands of Starlink users urged the FCC to reject a 5G plan from Dish Network that SpaceX claims will make its satellite internet service unusable.

Core Scientific, a top bitcoin miner responsible for nearly 10% of the network's hash rate, sold 7,202 mined BTC for $167M in June and now holds 1,959 BTC (@davidpan_1 / Bloomberg)

Tesla plays 'whack-a-mole' with snags as deliveries fall for first time in two years

A new Telegram post by Roscosmos shows three cosmonauts using the ISS as a backdrop for a photo op celebrating the so-called liberation of Ukrainian territory.

Matt Mullenweg thinks Tumblr can be a better Twitter than Twitter ever was

Thomas Dohmke told @himichellema that he wants GitHub to go completely passwordless by 2025.

As more companies pledge to neutralize their carbon emissions in response to climate change, securing green power in the U.S. is getting much more expensive

Gen Z employees have become the default office tech support—and they’re not happy about it

Another major crypto lender might get acquired after pausing withdrawals: Here’s the latest from the ‘crypto credit crisis’

Crypto mining giant Core Scientific sold the bulk of its Bitcoin holdings in June as a market selloff puts the squeeze on the industry

IDC: “All eyes will be on Apple” as Meta’s VR strategy “isn’t sustainable”

Nexo, a crypto lender managing assets for ~4M users, says it's signed a term sheet to buy Vauld, which recently halted withdrawals and manages assets for ~100K (@ryan_browne_ / CNBC)

JPMorgan trims price target for Tesla, says shares could fall more than 40% on weaker deliveries

The Landsat satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our world.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Overinflated valuations, equity crowdfunding, SCOTUS v. climate tech

Top chip makers issue a stern warning as subsidies legislation stalls in Congress.

Apple Seeds Fifth Betas of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 to Developers

Apple releases iOS 15.6 beta 5 to developers

Twitter is struggling with India’s tightening rules for online speech

In a sign of consolidation in the crypto world, cryptocurrency lender @Nexo said it has signed an indicative term sheet with competitor @VauldOfficial for a potential acquisition.

We tested Verizon's speed and reliability in 30 cities across America. How does it perform where you live?

One of the largest pediatric networks in the country was sending personal information about children and their parents to Facebook.

Bank of Google? Not exactly. But fintech's future is in Big Tech's ecosystems

RIP to the FCC's inbox. Read how a SpaceX petition protesting Dish Network has resulted in 70,000 Starlink users bombarding the US regulator.

For now, Asus says only that the 6 series will arrive worldwide 'soon,' but it won't be cheap.

Tesla is no longer the world's largest EV producer

Twitter filed a legal challenge against the Indian government’s orders that the social-media company block some users’ accounts and individual tweets in the country, ramping up a battle over online speech

China takes wider aim at foreign tech with national standards plan

Encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.

The Central African Republic, which adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in April, is poised to roll out its own digital currency as part of a plan to develop its financial industry

Two pieces of legislation will overhaul how tech and the internet are regulated in Europe, introducing better protections for internet users and potentially leading to big fines for tech companies failing to comply.

Reserve, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform backed by funders like Peter Thiel, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, and Coinbase, has created a crypto community in Venezuela. Now it has thousands of volunteers working for it

Hong Kong exchange enlists HSBC, Tencent to help create carbon market

Apple Watch Series 8 release date: Here's what to expect