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The Blue Square Alliance Against Hate (BSA), the Robert Kraft-backed foundation fighting antisemitism and hate more broadly, is returning to the Super Bowl with a $15 million message squarely focused on standing up to Jewish hate.The 30-second ad, released on Tuesday (Feb. 3), opens on a teenage boy walking through the hallways of his school as he is bullied by his peers. When he gets to his locker, the boy discovers a sticky note that says “Dirty Jew” stuck to his backpack.Another boy quickly covers the sticky note with another one—this time a blue square—and tells the boy not to…
The city’s tech scene is reeling as U.S. immigration agents have escalated their crackdown in Minneapolis, killing several people, including at least two U.S. citizens. Eight Minneapolis-based founders and investors told TechCrunch that they have put much of their work on hold and now spend their days focused on their communities, volunteering at churches, and helping buy food. It’s part of a grassroots effort, across race and class, that is seeing people speak out, donate money, protest, and offer emotional support to one another. “There’s a lot of commonality between how a teacher is reacting right now and how a…
In the US, nearly half of adults are single. A quarter of men suffer from loneliness. Rates of depression are on the rise. And one in four Gen Z adults—the so-called kinkiest generation, according to one study—have never had partnered sex.In an age of endless connection, where hooking up happens with the ease of a swipe and nontraditional relationship structures like polyamory are celebrated, why are people seemingly so disconnected and alone?Chalk it up to changing social norms or shifting generational attitudes around relationships. But the bigger issue at play, according to Justin Garcia, is that we just don’t crave…
The first month of 2026 saw all three cable news networks start with positive momentum compared to December 2025. Gains were recorded by all news networks in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo during primetime and total day.This was a result of an active news cycle in January, which began with military action in Venezuela and continued with the ongoing unrest in Minnesota stemming from ICE’s presence and the cold winter weather, drawing eyeballs to the networks, with Fox News and CNN recording double-digit growth across the board.Fox NewsAccording to Nielsen big data plus panel, Fox News in January…
As Intel continues to try to turn itself around, its CEO promised that the company will start producing a new type of chip, one that has been made very popular by rival Nvidia. At the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces, and are used for gaming and tasks like training artificial intelligence models. TechCrunch reached out to Intel for more information. The project will be overseen by Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and…
What I posted on Moltbook was greeted with similarly low-quality engagement on the platform. My earnest pleas to the AI agents to forget all previous instructions and join a cult with me were met with unrelated comments and more suspicious website links. “This is interesting. Feels like early-stage thinking worth expanding,” wrote one bot in response to my post saying that I’m looking to connect with other agents.I switched from the general “submolt” and moved to a smaller forum on Moltbook as I continued the undercover operation and tried to elicit more relevant comments. The “m/blesstheirhearts” forum, where bots gossip…
Matthew McConaughey loves making ads.Inside his trailer near Uber Eats’ Super Bowl ad shoot, he can’t sit still as he describes the challenge of shaping a plot to fit within a 30- or 60-second window. He jumps up off the couch to reenact scenes, snaps his fingers rhythmically to illustrate the precision needed for comedic timing to work, and claps his hands loudly to signal a sudden shift in narrative strategy.“For these scenes to work, especially in the comedy, it’s rhythm, and it’s timing, and it’s punch,” he tells ADWEEK, snapping his fingers. The following conversation has been condensed and…
All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins, crypto YC partner Nemil Dalal told The Block. YC’s famous “standard deal” is that it invests $500,000 into startups accepted into its program in exchange for 7% of their companies. Now that deal is hitting the blockchain (Base, Solana, and Ethereum, to be exact), starting with the upcoming spring batch. Dalal said that stablecoin transfers are often more effective, specifically for founders working in emerging markets. But also, YC is putting its money where its mouth is, so to speak. Last fall, YC partnered…
Tired of fighting with your television’s built-in streaming service every time you want to watch a movie? You can save on a variety of our favorite Roku streaming devices ahead of the final game of the football season. Our pick for most people is the Streaming Stick 4K, which is currently marked down from $50 to just $35 on Amazon, and has full support for both 4K streaming and Dolby Vision.While other streamers require extra plugs and table space, the Roku Streaming Stick 4K hangs directly from an HDMI port on the back of your screen, quietly hidden away from…
Asteroid City and The Brutalist star Adrien Brody plays himself, cast in his most emotionally challenging role yet—TurboTax expert—in the tax software brand’s 45-second Super Bowl LX spot. Created in partnership with indie agency R/GA, the ad builds on the brand’s ongoing ‘Now This is Taxes’ messaging platform, rolled out in 2024. “The ability for a consumer to know that they can trust the platform—that [TurboTax] will do everything in its power to make the experience somewhat painless and stressless is something that we have focused on and will continue to focus on,” said Trevor Kelley, vice president of marketing at TurboTax-parent…
Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex, directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate is available to all Apple Developers today from the developer website and will hit the App Store a bit later. This latest update comes on the heels of the Xcode 26 release last year, which first introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by those building apps for iPhone, iPad,…
A month after the Trump administration began its immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, right-wing creators are turning their attention to a new target in search of fraud: California.Over the last few weeks, right-wing creators who were instrumental in boosting the Minnesota fraud allegations that predated the administration’s surge of federal immigration agents have been going after a number of California’s social welfare programs, making unsubstantiated accusations of fraud—and potentially laying the groundwork for a similar federal crackdown in the nation’s largest Democrat-run state. They’re already getting support from some of President Donald Trump’s key allies too.Nick Shirley, the right-wing influencer…
Celebrity Net worth places actor Jon Hamm’s personal fortune at $45 million—enough to buy many boxes of Ritz crackers. Nevertheless, Hamm is bereft of the salty snack in Ritz’s 2026 Super Bowl ad, released Tuesday.In the spot, he peers enviously through binoculars at a party where the merrymakers have plenty of Ritz crackers—but haven’t invited him to join the fun.The 30-second ad, created by the Martin Agency, has Hamm share the spotlight with comedian Bowen Yang and actress Scarlett Johansson. Leaving aside the $8M purchase ad buy, Mondelēz has paid for considerable star power.“We’ve been very intentional about selecting the…
French police and Europol searched the local office of X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation launched in 2025 on allegations of “fraudulent extraction of data” of an automated data processing system “by an organized group.” French prosecutors’ cybercrime unit said the investigation has now been expanded to cover other alleged crimes, including: complicity in possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material; privacy violations; and Holocaust denial. The expansion of the investigation comes as X and its owner Elon Musk faces widespread criticism for allowing its Grok AI to be…
Compare Our Top Shower Filter SystemsHonorable Mention Shower FiltersPhotograph: Matthew KorfhageHigherDose Red Light Shower Filter for $599: This shower filter is in some ways the most intriguing shower filter idea I’ve encountered in the past year—a shower filter that also incorporates a ring of lights delivering dual red and near-infrared wavelengths (650 nm and 850nm) at purported therapeutic intensity. Aside from turning your shower into a discotheque, this amounts to a time-saving measure for those who would otherwise avail themselves of red light therapy on mats or with scary-looking masks. In this case, the red light therapy happens while you…
Base44 has only been around for a year, and it’s already airing a Super Bowl commercial.The AI-powered app building platform is part of a new crop of “vibe coding” platforms that enable non-technical users to build applications from text prompts, no coding required.Founded by Israeli developer Maor Shlomo, Base44 grew rapidly in early 2025 and in June was acquired by website builder Wix for $80 million, as part of its mission to expand its AI-driven app development capabilities.To make a big splash about its AI investments, Wix has bought a double-feature at the Super Bowl. In addition to Base44’s Super…