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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Also featured are stories about WeWork’s perennial struggles, Google’s Messages app fully embracing RCS, and spyware maker LetMeSpy shutting down after a massive data breach. Taking a page from mobile gaming: Retaining mobile app subscribers is harder than it was last year, but paywall optimization and gamified UX can help.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 We also have notes today on the latest and greatest in VR fitness products. See you at all three! – Alex. The TechCrunch Top 3. You can follow her on Twitter here.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. Web and Mobile. AI and Data. Virtual Reality.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — Session 1. with Peter A.