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Today’s TechCrunch Roundup
Petco confirms security lapse exposed customers’ personal data
5 Dec 2025, 2:52 pm by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
The pet company has published almost no details about what happened, who was affected, and what personal data was exposed.
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. in a disruptive deal valued at $82.7B
5 Dec 2025, 2:08 pm by Lauren Forristal
In one of the most groundbreaking deals the streaming world has ever seen, Netflix acquires Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion.Â
After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something stranger
5 Dec 2025, 12:56 pm by Connie Loizos
“You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain,” Hodak says, “possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people.”
Walmart-backed PhonePe winds down its Pincode app in yet another e-commerce step back
5 Dec 2025, 11:08 am by Jagmeet Singh
PhonePe has shut down its Pincode app over two years after its debut.
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity
5 Dec 2025, 1:20 am by Julie Bort
The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity’s retrieval augmented generation (RAG) as a culprit.
All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
5 Dec 2025, 1:17 am by Kirsten Korosec, Julie Bort, Rebecca Szkutak
Amazon Web Services’ giant tech conference re:Invent 2025 is happening this week with news ranging from chips to AI services.
End of today’s TechCrunch roundup.
