Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms. Read more:…
Tech Crunch – Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup’s CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google. Read more: Read More
KTSM News – Alamogordo man dies after officer-involved shooting
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – A 50-year-old Alamogordo man died Wednesday, August 26, after four Alamogordo police officers opened fire during a standoff involving a suicidal man armed with a rifle, according…
Border Report – Irrigation district argues government built border wall on its property
A judge heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that could delay the government’s plan to build about 2.8 miles of border wall near the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – After years of hardship, Texas agriculture faces a new threat: data centers
Data centers and agriculture depend on many of the same resources, such as water, land and electricity, which has some in the industry worried about the future. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack
The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a “major incident” involving its cybersecurity. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off…