CALWIRE Tech Report (Friday, July 17, 2026)

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FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets
Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, inf... — TechCrunch

Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.
As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifica... — TechCrunch

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores — Ars AI

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars
Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fe... — TechCrunch

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creator... — TechCrunch

reMarkable’s new Paper Pure is good. That’s why I wrote this review on it.
Remarkable's Paper Pure replaces Remarkable 2, and it is quite good. — TechCrunch

No product? No problem. This Disrupt 2026 session shows how to get pre-seed funding with conviction, storytelling
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone loo... — TechCrunch

Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke
The recall comes as the top automotive safety regulator in the U.S. has warned AV companies about their vehicles interfering with... — TechCrunch

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals. — TechCrunch

A scorecard for the AI age
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dep... — OpenAI

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather... — MIT Tech Rev AI

San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators it's time to put mo...

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