If you’ve built, backed, or operated inside high-growth startups, your experience could shape how the next wave of founders scales. On June 9 in Boston, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will bring together 1,000+ founders and investors for a focused day on the realities of growth. We’re inviting seasoned founders, VCs, and startup operators to lead interactive roundtable discussions rooted in real-world…
YouTube Premium Lite subscribers just got a free upgrade
YouTube Premium’s $8 per month Lite subscription tier just got a major upgrade in the form of two new features: background play and support for offline downloads. The former allows you to continue video playback with the mobile YouTube app closed, along with native support for picture-in-picture (PiP) mode. The…
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Time is running out! Just 3 days left before Super Early Bird pricing ends on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This is your last chance to secure the lowest ticket rates for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. If 2026 is your year to fundraise, hire, scale, or launch, you cannot afford to miss it. Lock…
Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
The video editor in Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions. Typically, you have to upload your footage and B-roll into a video editor, and manually…
How To Stop Specific Website From Getting Saved in Browsing History
Using incognito mode might not be feasible, as you would have to log in each time you visit a website where you have a profile. In Mozilla Firefox, in the History settings, you can search for a particular website and delete all data for that domain, including history, cookies, and…
Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like … an urn?
Spotify and Liquid Death have teamed up to launch what might be the wildest product collaboration of the year: the Eternal Playlist Urn, a wireless Bluetooth speaker shaped like a cremation urn. Yes, you read that right. The Eternal Playlist Urn is not really meant to hold ashes, but is…
You don’t have to buy new HDMI cables, so stop it
HDMI cables are very important, and your high-end devices should certainly be paired with high-end cables. In this case, that means using HDMI 2.1 cables with things such as your Apple TV 4K and PS5. Before you go out and buy all new cables, let me let you in on…
Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal
Google on Tuesday announced it’s adding a new way to create automated workflows to its vibe-coding app Opal. The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts. The feature uses the…
Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor
The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits, as well as sanctioning their founders and their associates. Officials with the U.S. Treasury told TechCrunch that the government was imposing sanctions against the brokers of zero-days — security vulnerabilities in software that are…
Instagram’s TV app is launching on Google TV devices
Instagram is expanding its Instagram for TV app to Google TV devices in the U.S., two months after its debut on Amazon Fire TV in December. The app first launched as a way to expand Reels viewing beyond mobile, and now users can also browse posts from their Instagram feeds…