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A lot of people have wrongly thought that former NBA commissioner David Stern is in the Epstein files. But it's not him. It's someone else entirely -- a German businessman I've been tracking for years, and one who was apparently very close to Epstein. techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/pr…
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Waymo launches a $30 per month membership program called Waymo Premier, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month (@sokane1 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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NEW, from me, @peard33, and @lmatsakis: Documents viewed by WIRED indicate that a recently-laid off Meta employee has been detained by US immigration agents
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This is disappointing and somewhat concerning. Having personally spoken to Emad, his passion and dedication for the brand was unquestionable. He seemed to be the only one who actually started to turn Lucid's software woes around after numerous failed attempts by others before him. techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/to…
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Waymo has purchased Apple's 5,500-acre self-driving car Arizona proving ground for $220 million. The location includes a 115-acre city course, a 35-acre vehicle dynamics area, a 4-mile oval track, and a freeway course for AV testing. Apple spent 10 years and $10 billion on its self-driving car project before cancelling it because it couldn't achieve its objectives. techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/wa…
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NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. wired.com/story/meta-removes…
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For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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GM’a bid to slash EV prices depends on the success of its new Battery Cell Development Center. It promises to bring new batteries to market a year faster. I recently got an exclusive tour and a behind-the-scenes look at GM’s new battery strategy. techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/gm…
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George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-584…
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The story repeatedly states that NameTag is unreleased and not publicly enabled. The question is why facial-recognition infrastructure was already embedded in software distributed to millions of users while Meta said it was still considering the technology.
It's not until ¶4 that Wired says this feature is "not enabled." And then takes until ¶16 for Wired to reflect that Meta has no existing plans and this is exploratory. And not until ¶10 does Wired quotes its own expert saying the feature is not “exposed to consumers.”
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We have been busy bringing our AV Labs fleet to life. Over the coming months, many hundreds of cars fitted with a suite of sensors (cameras, lidars and radars) will be operating on Uber’s network. Importantly, these cars will be generating revenues and completing regular Uber trips - going to airports, driving through construction scenes, navigating congested downtown corridors - getting exposure to the variety of “edge” cases our network handles countless times each day, as we fulfill 40M trips daily. A common question we have asked ourselves and our partners - how much data is enough data? One way to think about this is that AV operators globally have needed at least 10M miles of data to reach their first public driverless launch. By the end of this year, this fleet will be generating at least 2M miles each month, and will scale further from there in 2027. For our partners, we will democratize access to data for autonomous development, and we will do so with the best in class data that only Uber can generate.
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NEW: A Guardian review of thousands of DOJ-released Epstein records found that Ben Black— now the Senate-confirmed head of the $205bn @DFCgov — once invested in the same company as Epstein and maintained social ties with him for years afterward. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:
Bari Weiss Speaks on Scott Pelley’s Firing: ‘That’s the Path That He Chose.’ New, with @grynbaum nytimes.com/2026/06/03/busin…
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Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike (@sokane1 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Quibi you beautiful and crazy star, you burned too bright and too beautifully for this world techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/me…
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