US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez accused of sexual abuseGetty ImagesUS civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was known for advocating for the rights of farm workers, has been accused of sexual abuse.Dolores Huerta said in the 1960s, Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW) with her, once "manipulated and pressured" her into having sex, and on another occasion forced her.It...

Hackers Conned a Chatbot to Hijack 20,000 Instagram Accounts Meta has since fixed the exploit, but it's yet another example of AI doing it worse than humans. Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a long-running affection for building his own PCs, which he did for the first time as a teenager. It evolved into a lifelong enjoyment of putting words on the internet about...

CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang In Brief Posted: 10:40 AM PDT · June 9, 2026 Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch A ransomware group is actively exploiting an unpatched flaw in security tools used across the U.S. federal government, prompting the U.S. cybersecurity agency...

German men aged 17-45 may need military approval for long stays abroadEPACompulsory military service in Germany was ended in 2011German males aged between 17 and 45 may need to seek approval for lengthy stays abroad, under changes introduced as part of a new law which introduced voluntary military service.The Military Service Modernisation Act, which came into force on 1 January, aims to boost...

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’ While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether.  Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at...