Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a “new model” that’s…
El Paso Matters – Are traffic checkpoints legal? El Paso sheriff’s driver’s license checkpoints prompt concerns
On a quiet Monday morning in the unincorporated area of Sparks, workers at the Centro Comunitario Socorro Ramirez noticed sheriff deputies pull up in the parking lot. Shortly after, they noticed several…
Border Report – $20M in liquid meth found in mineral water bottles
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized over $20 million worth of methamphetamine that was being smuggled in bottled mineral water from Mexico at a South Texas…
Tech Crunch – DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
Affected staff say more than 100 employees working to protect U.S. government networks were ‘axed’ with no prior warning © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read…
Border Report – Woman allegedly tries to smuggle crystal meth under belly flap
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A federal grand jury has leveled drug charges against a woman who allegedly tried to smuggle methamphetamine under a belly flap at an El Paso port…
Texas Monthly – How Big Bend National Park Workers Discovered an Impish New Plant Species
As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Last year, Big Bend National Park volunteer Debra Manley and park interpretive operations supervisor Cathy Hoyt were on a hike in a…
Tech Crunch – Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free
Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where…
Tech Crunch – Flower Labs launches a new service that automatically switches from local to cloud AI
Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming…
Texas Monthly – TribCast: Fights, scandals and still half a legislative session to go
The gang discusses a legislator’s lash out, a lottery scandal, and some big news from one of our own. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Yet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest round
The intersection of robotics and AI continues to attract attention from investors and Big Tech alike. The latest indicator? Dexterity, a startup specializing in industrial robots with “human-like” finesse, has raised $95…