Texas Tech Chancellor Tedd Mitchell has led the 64,000-student university system since 2018. His departure will mark the latest shake-up in the state’s higher ed leadership. Read: Read More
El Paso Matters – Trump administration should reverse decision to withhold school grants, Escobar and other House Democrats say
Rep. Veronica Escobar and 150 other Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives criticized the Trump administration’s move to suspend billions of dollars in federal grants to local schools, including more than…
Tech Crunch – Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself
Sarah Smith, founder and managing partner of the eponymous Sarah Smith Fund, announced Thursday the final closing of a $16 million Fund I. Smith launched her eponymous fund in 2022 and is…
Tech Crunch – Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’
Devin won’t replace humans developers at the bank. It will be supervised by them, CIO says. Read more: Read More
The Athletic MiLB News – MLB Futures Game primer: The top hitters Jim Bowden can’t wait to watch
The Futures Game is a great opportunity to evaluate and compare some of the top hitting prospects. Here’s who — and what — I’ll be watching. Read: Read More
El Paso News The El Paso Gambling Ring For The Rich And Famous
It all started when a confidential information quietly told his FBI handler that an El Pasoan was running an illegal gambling business out of west El Paso. During the October 1998 meeting,…
Tech Crunch – Medium’s CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine announced on Friday that the publishing platform has remained profitable since August of last year, when it first achieved this milestone. In a post, Stubblebine detailed what it…
Tech Crunch – Startups Weekly: Still running
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This newsletter took a…
Tech Crunch – CISA confirms hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ bug
The U.S. cybersecurity agency gave federal agencies just one day to patch a security bug in Citrix Netscaler, which can be exploited to break into corporate and government networks. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – “They Will Laugh Again. And That River Will Be Redeemed.”
David Carpenter knows every piece of the Guadalupe River; his family’s roots in the Hill Country town of Ingram predate Texas. He grew up learning the currents, finding the holes for catfish,…