The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His…
Tech Crunch – Redpoint raises $650M 3 years after its last big early-stage fund
Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the…
Border Report – 5 takeaways from birthright citizenship argument at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court mulled whether judges should be allowed to extend injunctive relief to the entire country in a lively argument Thursday stemming from President Trump’s efforts to narrow birthright citizenship. The…
KTSM News – Horizon PD: Wanted woman arrested on outstanding warrant
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 41-year-old woman was arrested on an outstanding warrant for possession of a controlled substance last week in Horizon City, according to the Horizon City Police Department….
Tech Crunch – Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code
Microsoft’s Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Miniscule number of migrants smuggle drugs, survey of CBP data shows
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — An investigation conducted by the Project on Government Oversight shows migrants are rarely found carrying illicit drugs when apprehended by Border Patrol agents between ports of entry….
The Border Chronicle – “None of These People Are from the Border”: A Dispatch from the National Defense Area in New Mexico
Subscribe now A Stryker combat vehicle and soldiers at the New Mexico border on May 8. (Photo by Can Hasasu/Anadolu via Getty Images) Share When I asked Norma Gomez, program organizer for…
Tech Crunch – Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a…
Tech Crunch – Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic
Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Lucid’s record quarter got a lift from rental sales and company leases
Lucid Motors set a company record for deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, shipping 3,109 EVs to customers in North America, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. It appears that a new company…