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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps | TechCrunch
There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely. Yet, despite how sensitive this personal data is, an read more
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Lyft opens its ride-hailing app to teens | TechCrunch
Lyft launched teen accounts on Monday, a product that allows minors as young as 13 to hail a ride without an adult in 200 U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and New York. The official launch comes two weeks after Lyft CEO David Risher announced on X plans to open the ride-hailing service to teenagers. read more
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ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users
U.S. ChatGPT users who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today, according to OpenAI. Ads will be limited to the Free and Go subscription tiers, and will be shown to logged-in adult users. OpenAI does not plan to show ads to minors, and the company claims that read more
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Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data | TechCrunch
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that companies collect automatically but almost never use in a meaningful way. To read more
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Anthropic closes in on $20B round | TechCrunch
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reports, with investor demand leading the company to raise twice the funding it set out to obtain. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs read more
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Snapchat now lets you inform others when you have arrived at your destination | TechCrunch
After launching a “Home Safe” feature that lets users notify friends and family when they’ve arrived home safely, Snapchat is now introducing additional alerts to inform others when users have arrived at other destinations. The social media giant announced on Monday that with its new “Arrival Notifications,” users can now set one-time or recurring alerts read more
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Victoria Dugger Reinterprets the American Flag in Glitter and Fringe
When Victoria Dugger encountered Jasper Johns’ “Flag” during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, she found herself contemplating similar ideas. The encaustic painting is one of Johns’ most recognizable works and revels in ambiguity: although it bears stars and stripes, it’s not an exact representation of Old Glory, nor is it read more
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Meet the Speakerhead Wiring the Art World for Sound
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. One of the standout works in “Art of Noise,” an exhibition of music-related design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, is a listening room devoted to a sound read more
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A Painterly Short Film Follows Alfred Nakache from Swimming Star to Holocaust Survivor
As a child, Artem “Alfred” Nakache (1915-1983) was afraid of water. The youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family that emigrated from Iraq to Constantine, Algeria, Alfred eventually overcame his terror of the depths and actually excelled at swimming. He became so skilled that by the mid-1930s, he had won both local and French read more
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Debbie Harry, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Al Green Appear in New Factory Images Acquired by the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has added more than 400 rarely seen images of famous figures who passed through Andy Warhol’s Factory, from David Hockney and Debbie Harry, to Georgia O’Keeffe and Paloma Picasso. According to the institution, the images were captured by the artist Ronald “Ronnie” Cutrone as stereoscopic slides, pairing two photographs read more
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Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO | TechCrunch
Enterprise resource planning software company Workday announced Monday that chief executive Carl Eschenbach was stepping down and leaving the company’s board, effective immediately. Workday co-founder and former CEO Aneel Bhusri will return as CEO. Eschenbach joined Workday in December 2022 as co-CEO alongside Bhusri, and had been operating as the company’s sole CEO since February read more
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Dreaming of Creating a Giant Public Artwork With Google? Artist Judy Chicago Doesn’t Recommend It.
For just about any artist, a major, permanent public commission from a giant global corporation might seem like great news. The artist might expect big budgets, massive exposure, and a ribbon-cutting with the mayor and CEO. Even Judy Chicago, an icon of feminist art who has had solo exhibitions at institutions from New York’s New read more
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Israel's Plan to Artwash Genocide at the Venice Biennale
Since the beginning of the full-scale genocide in Gaza, which has galvanized resistance worldwide, the Israeli pavilion of the Venice Biennale has been mobilizing to art-wash the nation’s brand. Two months before the opening of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a petition written by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) and signed by thousands of artists read more
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Matthew Bogdanos Awarded Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for Repatriation of Stolen Artifacts
Announcement The leader of the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit is acknowledged for his lifelong dedication to recovering and safeguarding looted antiquities. Matthew Bogdanos (all images courtesy the Vilcek Foundation) US Colonel Matthew Bogdanos has worked tirelessly throughout his career to protect cultural heritage, recovering thousands of artifacts from across the world. For his extraordinary read more
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2026 Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are open | TechCrunch
Early-stage founders, this is your moment! Are youready to put your startup to the test on the ultimate global stage? The Startup Battlefield is calling. Nominations forTechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, the world’s most iconic startup pitch competition, are officially open. Step onto themain stage atTechCrunch Disrupt 2026and go head-to-head in front of world-class VC judges read more
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MFA Boston Denies Targeting DEI Staff in Cutbacks, Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang Stepping Down: Morning Links for February 9, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines FACING PUBLIC BACKLASH, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has denied targeting DEI employees when it fired 33 people, including the institution’s only Muslim curator, Nadirah Mansour, only Native American curator, Marina Tyquiengco, and only Black curator, theo Tyson, reports Artnet News. After read more
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Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm | TechCrunch
Gather AI, a startup that offers an AI platform for warehouse cameras and drones, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Smith Point Capital. That’s the VC firm founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block. The Gather team first met Smith Point a year ago at a logistics conference, and “it read more
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Discord to roll out age verification next month for full access to its platform | TechCrunch
Discord is rolling out age verification globally starting next month, the company announced on Monday. All users will be put into a “teen-appropriate experience” by default unless they prove they’re adults. Age verification will be required to change certain settings and access age-restricted content. Discord users will need to be confirmed as adults in order read more
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macOS: Share a Link That Jumps to a Specific Line on a Webpage
Sometimes when you share a webpage link with someone, you just want to bring their attention to a specific passage or sentence to make your point, rather than have them read through the entire article. In 2020, Google added a function to its Chrome browser called Scroll to Text Fragment (STTF) that helps you achieve read more
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Spain’s Cosmic Mother of Modernism
MADRID — The most famous portrait of Maruja Mallo depicts the artist covered from head to toe in seaweed. She is crowned and draped with long, rope-like strands of kelp, her arms raised triumphantly like an all-powerful marine goddess. This unconventional photograph, snapped in 1945 by the poet Pablo Neruda on a Chilean beach, was read more
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