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Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood b
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now to save up to $100. Grab a second pass at 50% off
"The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about," said founder Sara Tashakorinia.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled communi
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in ret
Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration.
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might ha
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on th
A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier thi
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models,
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new ru
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.
Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealt
X is turning its NFL-focused Gametime feature into a year-round sports destination, starting with MLB and with other professional leagues to follow.
OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.
As it turns out, the cure for stuffy, chemical-infused office air might be a tower of leafy greenery.
CIA officer David Rush, who worked on highly sensitive intelligence programs, reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors after he was caught siphoning money and gold with a fake gov
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service.
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own custom
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.
Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.
TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.
Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.
Rust Ecosystem
Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Deno Deno’s story is a cautionary tale of ambition colliding with reality. Born as the biggest Rust project aimed at everyday developers , it pro
A message broker runs many kinds of work at once: network requests, periodic maintenance, storage operations, metadata writes, and shutdown cleanup. Executing a future is only one
I run several coding agent sessions at once. The one that has waited twenty minutes for my permission is always the one at the bottom of the pile. So I built Horadric, a desktop ap
My game, O'BLOCK, is a roguelite about flipping sneakers: you start on a Chicago block with $300 and a pair of Bred 1s and negotiate your way up to billionaires. The store page wen
Most modern blockchain networks operate on an arms race of scale: Proof-of-Work demands megawatt-scale ASIC farms, while Proof-of-Stake concentrates voting weight into capital-heav
I kept paying for the same LLM answer twice. An agent retries, a user double-clicks, two workers ask the identical question a second apart, and each one is a fresh model call on th
I built wstrace , a lightweight terminal-first Windows system and API monitor written in Rust. I wanted a quick way to inspect Win32 APIs and syscalls directly from the terminal wi
ArrowMetal is now on two Apache project pages, and I am going to enjoy this one. Since 8 September it has been on Apache Arrow's Powered By page , alongside the libraries I learned
Quick Summary: 📝 Git-graffiti is a Rust tool that allows users to manipulate Git commit hashes by brute-forcing the SHA-1 algorithm to create custom prefixes. It achieves this by a
PHPStan 2.3 came out last week with a blog post titled a leap in performance , and my timeline lit up. Seifeddine Gmati, creator of Mago, updated the PHP Toolchain Benchmarks the s
FoxyInvoice now speaks MCP — the Model Context Protocol . Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, or Cursor to your workspace and ask it to invoice a client in plain English:
I've been wanting to experiment with GPUI for a while now. It's the Rust UI framework developed for Zed, and I was curious what it would be like to use it for something of my own.
Meet Zeca — a pixel-art parrot that lives on top of your screen and reacts to Claude Code running in your terminal. When Claude finishes a task, he celebrates. When Claude needs yo
Theo Browne announced an experimental Rust TypeScript compiler port on October 7. The project, called ts-rust or tsc-rs, reports substantial speed improvements on some workloads an
Your backend verifies Firebase ID tokens. You want to call it from curl or Postman as a specific user. Firebase gives you no button for that. The usual answers each cover only some
For several hours on 2026-09-30, every memory write from a Hermes Agent install on a Windows 11 machine failed with this: YantrikDB unavailable: remember failed: refusing to write:
Introducing async-ceph, providing async Rust interfaces across Ceph’s RADOS, RBD and CephFS libraries for object, block and file storage. Stelia has open-sourced async-ceph [1], a
The Engineering Implications of Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Rust The TypeScript compiler ( tsc ) is a monolithic, single-threaded JavaScript application that has served as t
A cache can absorb a burst of requests for one popular product page. But a crawler visiting thousands of different product pages creates a different problem: every URL may need its
NVIDIA is fundamentally changing native GPU programming by bringing Rust directly to GPU kernels, setting a new standard for AI systems development. By compiling Rust natively to P
I like vtop . I wanted a more performant version that works exactly the same, so I made ptop , short for Pate's top . It's a copy of vtop, rewritten in Rust. The dotted graphs are
Every cache has a capacity, and almost every capacity is a guess. Too small and the cache thrashes: entries are evicted just before they are needed again. Too large and you pay mem
CI/CD pipelines are a common attack surface, and most developers focus on the obvious risks: exposed tokens, world-readable repos, overly permissive workflow permissions. But a sub
For one of Semwright's demos, I started with an existing aircraft project in Blender. The workflow updates materials, adjusts the camera, renders a new shot, creates animated title
I was reading a post about a homemade config format (in Russian) where the author explained why the format needs a "take this as is" marker: so that 00544 does not quietly become 5
kubectl diff is the closest thing Kubernetes has to a plan step: it shows what kubectl apply would change before you apply it. Its output is a unified diff of two YAML dumps, and t
cliproxy-rs is a Rust rewrite of CLIProxyAPI. It's one local server that Codex CLI, Claude Code and other tools talk to, and it forwards to whatever you've configured: your own API
I work with AI coding agents all day, and my terminal setup was a mess: one window per project, another for git status , a browser tab to check how much of my 5-hour Claude quota w
Google is bringing JPEG XL back to Chrome. Its October 6 announcement names Chrome 155 as the decoding milestone and describes a new Rust implementation. For developers responsible
At Rails World 2026, DHH described a division of labour that caught my attention: let agents write Rust and enjoy the result without having to look at the code. At around 30:15 in
I built PixaFind for the search you do when you remember a file's contents but have forgotten its name. You might remember a cat sitting in sunlight, a whiteboard from a meeting, o
A video player reads a file in playback order. A BitTorrent peer can deliver whichever pieces it has. When I built Harbour , I had to connect those two access patterns without maki
whoami A reimplementation of the Linux command whoami in Rust. link to repo Overview whoami displays the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un . E
Introduction Burn, a Tensor Library and Deep Learning Framework designed for both training and inference, has reached a pivotal milestone with its 0.22.0 release . This update is n
Your database documentation says REPEATABLE READ . Your code assumes it. Have you ever checked? I spent the last stretch building adya , a black-box checker for transactional isola
A former Zed employee started a fork of GPUI and then wrote a post admitting he was becoming less sure it should exist. I read it twice. That sentence is the whole story. A framewo
TL;DR : RustDNS is a recursive DNS resolver written in plain Rust with zero dependencies , just std::net::UdpSocket and a 512-byte array. It parses DNS packets by hand, follows com
Every introduction to programming eventually reaches data types. An integer is a whole number. A string contains text. A Boolean is true or false. A floating-point number represent
Every code editor I used daily was a web browser in a trench coat. VS Code, Zed's predecessors, all of them: Chromium or a web view somewhere in the stack, carrying the memory foot
The core idea behind Featherboard is to keep the core functionality accessible without a paid plan. You can run the app on your own hardware for free, while the hosted version offe
Whenever I needed to jot down a quick two-minute thought or run a quick inline calculation, opening full workspace apps felt excessive. I didn't need relational databases, complex
Why Ruff, uv, Pydantic, Polars, and a growing class of Python tools are choosing Rust — and why the shift matters. Figure 1 — Conceptual illustration: Python remains the developer-
From the first stable release to GitHub Packages, optional evidence-grounded AI, a web container image and a better mobile experience — this is the RepoDNA journey from v1.0.0 to v
Sonir Bench is a macOS app that takes every sound your Mac plays, runs it through signal processing you design, and sends the result to your DAC. The beta went live in October 2026
Tell your AI agent what it's about to break, before it breaks it AI coding agents are great at editing files. They are worse at knowing what those edits touch. You rename a field.
The original Roblox Account Manager by ic3w0lf22 helped millions of players run several Roblox accounts on one PC: its last release has over 2 million downloads. In October 2024 th
TL;DR : Relaxnative is a Node.js library that lets you write a function in C, C++, Rust, Zig or Go , point loadNative() at the file, and call it from JavaScript like any other func
Chapter 1: The JSON file that ate Friday It was a Friday evening. The kind where you push one last fix and promise yourself you'll close the laptop in five minutes. Then a teammate
In a blockchain landscape dominated by capital-heavy Proof-of-Stake validator cartels and hyper-optimized ASIC mining farms, RustChain explores a completely different design philos
Getting a Polymarket trading bot to place orders is one problem. Keeping it running correctly for days or weeks is a different problem. A bot can work perfectly in a local test and
Coding agents get blamed for "making tests pass" by skipping or deleting them. I wanted numbers before building a guard for that, so I collected public pull requests that modified
The same project.faf used to score 64 in one FAF tool and 100 in another. Not because either was broken: each tool had learned to score on its own, and they mostly agreed. Mostly i
Almost every messenger says "we can't read your messages." Almost none of them let you check. While building Umbera, a messenger for Android and iOS, I decided to do the opposite:
In the previous article, I documented my collaboration with AI. In this article, I’ll add a few details about the basic work specifications and use them as the starting point for t
WebAssembly's origin story is the browser. Designed to run near-native-speed code in web applications, it became the standard for computationally intensive frontend tasks, image pr
An SSH client keeps every live session in a shared map behind a lock. Holding it through a slow handshake froze every other session — here's the Rust fix. Here's a shape you'll rec
Lithair is a memory-first Rust web framework I build; cidx is the declarative CI runner I build, and it runs Lithair's CI. Both are open source. This post stands on its own. A bran
Introduction Integrating a video player like mpv into a cross-platform Rust GUI application is no small feat, especially when targeting Android TV alongside Windows and Linux. The
TL;DR We wanted multi-tenant exception ingest on a two-container stack: one Rust binary + PostgreSQL 16. No Redis. No Kafka. Dashboard reads go through Postgres RLS with SET LOCAL
Repo: darkedges/pf12.3-biscuit-datalog-tokens Part 2 built a token generator plugin. On its own it does nothing: PingFederate needs a login, an access token manager, a client, a pr
I Built My Own Database From Scratch — Meet CleaveDB I've been building something I've wanted to experiment with for a while: CleaveDB . CleaveDB is a hybrid relational-document gr
The line rustc points at is usually not the line you edit. The message is doing more work than most people read. Here's the smallest example, E0384: fn main () { let x = 5 ; x = 6
RPGMapEditor started as a browser-based map editor for creating RPG maps directly on the web. Now we're taking the next step: RPGMapEditor is coming to desktop. The new desktop edi
Flutter & Cross-Platform
You want a mobile app on both iPhone and Android, and your budget says you can't build two separate native apps. So the question lands on your desk: React Native vs Flutter for an
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built WildQuest is a mobile-only, offline-first nature exploration game. You pick a 1
Introduction In November 2023, Google introduced a policy change that caught thousands of indie developers and startup teams off guard: all personal Google Play developer accounts
The first time I shipped an Arabic locale, I thought the work was translation plus one TextDirection . The translation was the easy half. What took the longest was everything that
Offline-first in Flutter works when the UI only ever reads from the local Drift database, and every write goes into that database along with an outbox row in the same transaction.
Beyond chat with llamadart · Part 1 A piece is falling. There are a few places it could land. Somewhere in the background, a local AI model is choosing one. If it takes too long, t
"How much does it cost to build an app?" It is the first question almost every client asks me, and the honest answer is: it depends on what the app needs to do. App development cos
Flutter app development has changed what a small team can deliver. One developer, one codebase, and your app runs on Android and iPhone with the same polished design, the same feat
If you look at the productivity section of the Google Play Store or App Store, you'll notice a frustrating pattern: app fragmentation . To have an effective daily focus workflow, y
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass 🌿 🌿 Why SkyDrift? (The "Touch Grass" Fit) As developers, we spend entire days staring a
In a chat app, a slow reply is mildly annoying. In a spoken conversation, it breaks the exchange. Silence feels longer than a spinner does, and people judge the delay from the mome
Llama Village in motion. The characters’ dialogue is generated by an on-device model. Watch the full trailer on GitHub I wanted to try building a 3D game with flutter_scene . I was
lucknow call girl INTRODUCTION: - You all know me by many names like call girl, A woman with money, who has sex for money and to tell you the truth, she is a prostitute, this is wh
Series 2 of 2 — Part 1 of 4 Building DevFeed — Part 1: MVVM Architecture Before Writing a Single Screen Series: Building DevFeed — A Proper Flutter MVVM App from Day One When I sta
Why I Keep Seeing This Question Every few weeks, somebody in a developer community drops the same message: "What is the mobile app developer salary in India, and is it still worth
You’re testing a form a few screens into your Flutter app, with the fields already filled in. The spacing looks cramped, so you adjust it in the code and trigger a hot reload . The
A native app on both stores, in five languages, built by one person with an AI as the developer. This is how it started: the day an AI took my first spec apart. "Computers are good
2026 Mobil Uygulama Geliştirme Yol Haritası: Flutter, Mimari ve Sıfır Hata Prensipleri Mobil ekosistemi 2026 yılında artık sadece çalışan bir uygulama sunmayı değil; sıfır çökme (0
Originally published on the Ant Media blog . By the end of this guide you'll have a working Flutter video conference app running on your iPhone, with people joining the same call f
24 hours response/(Contact US) ➤ WhatsApp: +1 (903) 702-9701 ➤ Telegram: @usasvcit ➤ Email: usasvcit@gmail.com The search phrase “buy verified Payoneer accounts” reflects a growing
My writing assistant could talk to Gemini. The missing piece was using it without a connection. That was the reason I started llamadart: I wanted an offline mode for flights, unrel
Shorebird lets a Flutter app download a patch to its Dart code and apply it on the next launch, so a bug fix reaches users in minutes instead of waiting on store review. I added it
On social media, opinions on Flutter are usually extreme: either it's the best thing since sliced bread or it's the worst framework ever. Theo , a popular software development YouT
Every month, founders walk into our Toronto office or join a Zoom call and ask some version of the same question. Should we build native, use Flutter, or just ship a progressive we
Introduction & Industry Context In 2026, the concept of an 'online-first' mobile application is largely obsolete. Users no longer tolerate disruptions caused by unreliable network
flutter run works, flutter build ios works, and then flutter build ipa fails in the build phase that the FlutterFire CLI adds for Firebase Crashlytics. This flutterfire upload-cras
September in four pieces We published eight articles in September. If you run growth on a consumer app, start with these four: India In-App Engagement Benchmarks 2026 . Five benchm
Flutter + Physical AI Robotics: End-to-End Latency Optimization This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart glasses, NVID
Flutter + NVIDIA Jetson: Isolates, FFI, and Native Bridges for Edge Robotics This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart
Flutter + NVIDIA Models: Optimizing Edge AI Result Visualization This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart glasses, NVI
Flutter + NVIDIA Physical AI: Performance Architecture for AI Robot Interfaces This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smar
Flutter + ROS 2: Efficient Image, Point Cloud, and Sensor Visualization This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart glass
Flutter + ROS 2: Reducing Dashboard Rebuilds and Message Processing Cost This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart glas
Flutter + Jetson + ROS 2: Optimizing High-Frequency Robot Telemetry This tutorial focuses on practical performance engineering for Flutter applications connected to smart glasses,
Disclosure up front: I build NexWall, one of the five APIs in this comparison. I've tried to be fair: the other four are well-established services, and for several use cases one of
Disclosure: I build NexWall, the wallpaper API used in this tutorial. Most of the Flutter code here (pagination, image caching, MethodChannels) works the same with any JSON image A
1. What happens to the sparks of inspiration when you test on a real device? When building a Flutter app as an indie developer or within a small team, when do you get your best ide
The flutter state management 2026 conversation is a religious war, and like most religious wars it distracts from the decision that actually matters. Founders keep asking which lib
Intro Post My Flutter Internship Learning Journey: Two Projects, One Progression A Dev.to blog series about learning Flutter the hard way — and then the right way. I am an MCA stud
I build Pooka, a Pokémon card collection app for iOS, Android and web. Until version 2.0, scanning a card meant uploading a photo: the server turned it into a CLIP embedding and ra
We just shipped v3.8.0 of OpenROM — a free, open-source retro gaming toolkit built with Flutter + Dart. From day one, OpenROM was designed to be 100% offline. No telemetry, no acco
Hey everyone! 👋 I've been reading articles on DEV for a while, and I figured it was finally time to properly introduce myself to the community. My name is Muhammad Uzair, and I am
Flutter is a framework from Google for building applications that run on mobile, web, and desktop from a single set of code. Instead of building separate apps for iOS and Android,
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Aditya, a Laravel and Flutter developer from India. This is my first post here, so let me quickly tell you who I am. What I do I've been working with PHP and Lar
I built EchoPod — a Flutter app that turns real podcasts into immersive language lessons. What it does AI Transcripts — every episode gets a word-level transcript with precise audi
Every few months a team asks us to "fix the sync" on an app that works perfectly in the office and falls apart in the field. The request is usually framed as a network problem. It
React Native vs. Flutter vs. Native: Why Cure.fit Rebuilt Its Navigation From Scratch Cure.fit, the Indian fitness platform, had built its app on React Native since day one. Then t
Every year someone reopens the Flutter vs React Native debate, and every year most of the takes are stale by six months. This year the underlying tech genuinely moved, so here's wh
Hi r/FlutterDevs, I just published Vergate , a Flutter package that decides whether the installed version of your app may run. It handles force updates, optional updates and mainte
I build native iOS apps, so take my bias into account. But I have also worked in web teams and across a product organization that shipped on several platforms, and the right answer
When people start planning a mobile application, one of the first technical decisions is often: Should we build it with React Native, Flutter, or native development? There is no un