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You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason | TechCrunch 0
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- August 19, 2026
College is a constellation of Venmo requests — your roommate’s cut of the utilities, your half of an Uber ride, the ticket to your friend’s a capella performance that you don’t actually want to go to. On Wednesday, Venmo’s parent company PayPal announced that you will now be able to use its services to pay
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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch 0
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- August 19, 2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process. “As models become more capable, the risks associated with
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TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says | TechCrunch 0
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- August 19, 2026
TikTok is developing a feature that would allow users to send each other money via direct messages, according to a new report from Bloomberg. If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases. References to the potential feature were
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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform | TechCrunch 0
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- August 19, 2026
For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up. The AI startup, which is now
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DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs | TechCrunch 0
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- August 18, 2026
The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at $190 billion, and Fivetran, which combined with dbt Labs in June. The firm’s co-founder, Ben
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Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch 0
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- August 18, 2026
Comcast has rolled out a new motion sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the Wi-Fi signal of the wireless network, and sends
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