If the El Paso Independent School District declares financial exigency and permits Superintendent Brian Lusk to cut hundreds of jobs in coming weeks, the district can move quickly to restore financial health,…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members,…
Tech Crunch – Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent. Read more: Read More
Border Report – 2 charged for allegedly ‘sending child to daycare with cocaine’
Charges have been filed against two people in Pennsylvania after a worker at a daycare center found cocaine inside a child’s lunch bag, court documents indicate. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech
Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality. Read more: Read More
KTSM News – 560K gallons of wastewater spilled in El Paso plant
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Crews responded to a wastewater spill at the Roberto Bustamante Wastewater Treatment Plant on Sunday, May 31, according to El Paso Water. Officials reported the spill was…
Tech Crunch – Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections
After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models. Read more: Read More