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Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the day or night.  Amid mounting resistance to the presence of AVs in the city, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) published two […]

Cruise, Waymo near approval to charge for 24/7 robotaxis in San Francisco by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The Supreme Court resolved two adjacent cases aiming to hold social platforms liable for dangerous content on Thursday. The pair of cases, Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google, both sought to hold tech platforms accountable for hosting content from the Islamic State that promoted the terrorist organization in connection to violent attacks. The Supreme […]

Supreme Court rules in favor of Twitter and Google, avoiding the issue of Section 230 for now by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Venture debt, in many ways, used to be an afterthought. But in the post-SVB world, raising this kind of debt is going to look very different.

The new rules of venture debt are already being written by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

A consulting firm founded and run by two well known cybersecurity veterans laid off six people last week, TechCrunch has learned. Krebs Stamos Group was founded in 2021 by former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs, the former director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, who was famously fired by tweet […]

Consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group lays off six employees by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

One thing you can definitely say about Eric Migicovsky: he seems to be having a lot of fun. The Pebble founder left a three-year stint as a partner at Y Combinator to co-found the chat aggregation app Beeper. During that time, he’s been dipping back into his hardware roots. Back in 2017, he launched a […]

Okay, but how about a Raspberry Pi device with a BlackBerry keyboard designed for Beeper? by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch