NEW YORK (AP) — In his two decades as a professional drug snitch, Jorge Hernández was a master of the double cross. He lied to his handlers, threatened to unmask fellow informants…
Border Report – Texas lifts enhanced truck inspections but border city still has only 1 bridge open to traffic
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Border Report) — Retiree Ruben Duran Villarreal wears orange and green identifying medical bracelets and has bandages on his left arm as he waits on a porch near Bridge…
KTSM News – Sam’s Club cuts membership to $15 before the holidays
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Sam’s Club has cut the price of its annual membership by 70%, just in time for the holidays. The standard Sam’s Club membership is currently only $15…
Border Report – Mexico finding 1.8 clandestine graves daily, nonprofit says
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – More than 111,000 people have gone missing in Mexico since the war between drug cartels ramped up in 2007, a Mexico City think-tank reported this week….
Tech Crunch – Twitch adds anti-harassment features to stop banned users from watching streams
Twitch streamers can finally block banned users from watching their streams, thanks to a recent update to the platform’s anti-harassment features. Twitch first announced the feature in August. Though tools to prevent…
Border Report – Dominican Republic has partially reopened its border with Haiti, but a diplomatic crisis persists
DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over the construction…
Border Report – State Department official calls current wave of migration ‘unprecedented,’ with 28 million ‘on the move’
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols was invited to speak at the University of California at San Diego’s Institute of the Americas, where the current wave…
KTSM News – 5 nonprofits to compete in ‘Gator Tank’ pitch competition
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The Paso Del Norte Community Foundation will be hosting the 2nd Annual Gator Tank where five nonprofit organizations will compete from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday,…
Tech Crunch – Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison explains how FTX hid losses, sandbagged lenders
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Tech Crunch – Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB
Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed,…