US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry

Mistrust Stabell Benn and colleagues appear impervious to this point. In a LinkedIn post Wednesday, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Bandim Health researcher involved in the trial, blamed the backlash on the…

Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years…

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work | TechCrunch

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be…

Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean

“So we have a lake and we have a gulf, now we need a river and we need an ocean. So I was thinking of the Hudson river, then I…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements | TechCrunch

This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and groundbreaking ideas of our 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. Out of thousands of applications, we selected 200 of the most promising…

This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display

VBoy Color comes with built-in color packs for 15 different games, which actually represents a significant chunk of the Virtual Boy’s limited official library. Tinkerers can edit those packs manually…

Tesla is prepping a Cybercab onslaught | TechCrunch

Tesla says it is preparing to launch its shiny gold Cybercab in new markets outside its home of Austin, Texas, in a bid to “literally take over every part of…

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Amazon has warned that vulnerabilities in a programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are being “broadly exploited” as governments and companies rush to secure…

Apple’s Magic Keyboards for iPad are about half off, with a small catch

You can outfit your iPad Air or iPad Pro with one of Apple’s slick Magic Keyboards for considerably less than the accessory usually costs at Woot. I won’t bury the…

PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web

By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt…