Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Everything we like is a psyop
If culture is shaped by TikTok’s algorithmic feed, then it’s time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode
Now, when you’re using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the webpage side-by-side with AI Mode. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Venezuelan family who entered country legally leaves U.S. after detention
By Uriel J. García / Texas Tribune In the summer of 2025, José, his wife Carolina and their teenage daughter arrived for their first scheduled hearing at an immigration court in downtown…
Tech Crunch – Two Americans sentenced for helping North Korea steal $5 million in fake IT worker scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and diagnosing where AI models go wrong, it’s diagnosing how the entire tech stack operates now…
Tech Crunch – AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – She won a $7M grant to teach Texans how to farm. Then the Trump administration yanked it over DEI.
Diana Padilla has spent a decade teaching Rio Grande Valley residents how to farm and was set to expand across the rest of the state, first in Kaufman County. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence
The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
The new new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process. Read more: Read More