Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to cut Anthropic from his department’s supply chain unless it agrees to sign off on its technology being used in all lawful military applications by Friday. … Read more
The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits, as well 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 unknown to its developer but can … Read more
A major shareholder in Empery Digital has called on the company to abandon its Bitcoin-centric strategy, sell its digital asset holdings and return the proceeds to investors, along with demanding the resignation of the CEO and the entire board of directors. In a letter to the company’s board on Monday, Tice P. Brown, who is … Read more
The bulk of the supply chain for phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, and most other tech is still overwhelmingly reliant on overseas manufacturers. Most of Apple’s A- and M-series chips are still made in TSMC’s factories in Taiwan, and while TSMC is making some of its chips in the US, it has resisted efforts to … Read more
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 instead a collector’s item, with … Read more
The Taylor Sheridan universe is welcoming another legendary family to its ranks: “The Madison,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer as the matriarch of the Clyburn brood, is set to premiere Saturday, March 14 on Paramount+, and now we have a trailer offering a first look all at the … Read more
While Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham’s first two collections were presented under the banner of Aletta, the labels in their latest garments— their third collection—bear a new name: A Letter. While the shift to the homonym was a bureaucratic necessity, it nonetheless prompted a stock take of their creative practice: processes, intentions, parameters. In a … Read more
1Password is increasing its prices on March 27th, 2026. In an email sent to users, the password manager says it will raise the price of its yearly individual plan from $35.88 to $47.88, and that its family plan is going from $59.88 to $71.88. “While 1Password has grown substantially in value and capability, our pricing … Read more
A market analysis viewed almost 5 million times on X states that Bitcoin derivatives have turned the cryptocurrency’s 21-million-supply cap into a “theoretically infinite” one. Past Bitcoin (BTC) falls had a clear catalyst, but sharp drops in the opening months of 2026 have sparked several theories, ranging from digital asset treasuries (DATs) blowing up under … Read more
When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 — TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model — it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we’ve seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips’ star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) … Read more