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September 1, 2026

Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/pigeon-flock-2289958923.jpg?resize=1200,800 The states of Florida and Texas are moving to end their relationship with surveillance giant Flock, as the company faces increasing backlash over privacy concerns […]
August 31, 2026

Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/mckesson-2236133684.jpg?resize=1200,800 A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading to the latest spill of highly sensitive […]
August 31, 2026

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brianstack-mspy-email-leak-2024.jpg?resize=1200,675 Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. […]
August 29, 2026

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/theragun-sense.png?resize=1200,788 As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or […]
August 28, 2026

More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/flock-camera-sf-surveillance-2157492329.jpg?resize=1200,794 The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance […]
August 27, 2026

ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/atf-police-1233760688.jpg?w=1024 The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” […]
August 27, 2026

Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Pokemon_Fitbit_Air.png?w=1200 Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, […]
August 27, 2026

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/open-ai-chatgpt-anthropic-claude-icons.jpg?resize=1200,800 In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging […]
August 27, 2026

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/teampcp-hacker-afp.jpg?resize=1200,744 Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech […]