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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell made a public plea to one of Brazil’s top judicial figures on Thursday, asking him to “please stop harassing Starlink” amid the ongoing battle in the country against Elon Musk’s social media business X.  Musk has been engaged in a months-long dispute with the Brazilian courts…

OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

The U.S. government indictment demonstrated deep knowledge of the Russian spies’ activities, including their real-world meetings at a cafe in Moscow. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year…

European regulators are pushing hard for greener energy. The REPowerEU plan calls for 10 million additional heat pumps to be added by 2027, and solar panels are also on the rise. But most installations are done by small businesses that could be more productive with better work processes…

These final maneuvers will bring to a close a troubled first crewed mission for the Boeing-made Starliner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

If you spend time on X or Threads, where snarky memes rise and fall, you’ve probably seen posts referencing “founder mode” over the last few days, like this: https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C_eaQAxyIcV Or maybe this: You may even have seen this parody about “goblin mode.” The chatter ties to a recent blog post that Y Combinator founder and…

As new users downloaded the app, Bluesky jumped to becoming the app to No. 1 in Brazil over the weekend, ahead of Meta’s X competitor, Instagram Threads. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Android introduced five updates on Tuesday as part of its latest release of the mobile operating system. Available for smartphones, tablets, and Wear OS watches, the new features include audio descriptions of images, text-to-speech technology for web pages in Chrome, and the ability to look up songs with “Circle to Search,” among other things. …

If you have never considered a search engine beyond Google, you might be surprised to see what else is out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…