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Rivian has finally revealed that the first customers of the company’s new R2 SUV will get their vehicles on June 9. The automaker has spent the last few months ramping up its efforts to release the R2, which is more affordable and aimed at a larger market than its current R1 lineup. The new SUV will initially be available in a trim that starts just under $60,000, though Rivian has announced plans to release a “standard” version that starts at $48,490 in 2027. The company has teased an even more affordable version “starting around $45,000” late next year — a…
While Trump did not use the word again in the early days of his second term in office, in May 2025, a congressional notification from the State Department revealed that the Trump administration was planning to create an Office of Remigration within the department’s Bureau of Population, Migration, and Refugees.The congressional notification said that the Office of Remigration would be initially staffed by personnel reassigned from the bureau’s Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs. “Those of us in the Office of Western Hemisphere didn’t know what that language meant for us, and despite all of our questions, our leadership would not…
Sharyn Alfonsi will no longer be a 60 Minutes correspondent after CBS News let her contract lapse.Alfonsi, in December 2025, was at the center of a controversy involving CBS News’ recently appointed editor in chief, Bari Weiss, temporarily shelving her 60 Minutes story around the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan men to the maximum security prison CECOT in El Salvador.According to The New York Times, Alfonsi’s term with CBS News came to an end on Saturday, and her agent has not heard from the news network about signing a new contract over the past several weeks.In a terse statement shared on…
Remote , a seven-year-old, Amsterdam-based payroll service provider, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive. But the real story, it insists, is what happened behind the scenes: a 50% increase in revenue per employee after the startup adopted AI at every level of the organization. “As we are talking, on the second screen of my laptop, I have five different Claude instances running, building different things — and some of those are for me, but a lot of them are for Remote,” CEO Job van der Voort tells TechCrunch. This includes a Slack…
Xreal, known for its high-end display-centric smart glasses, is making its gear more accessible. On Wednesday, the company revealed a new sub-brand—X By Xreal—focused on lightweight display glasses that start at $299.Xreal is the Chinese tech company that makes screen-forward smart glasses. Its devices connect to a phone, desktop, or console and provide a display that beams large, high-quality video directly into the wearer’s eyeballs. The glasses are meant to provide a sharp, reasonably comfortable way to play games or watch movies on a big screen, without having to crane your neck down at a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld.X…
Gen X is known as “the forgotten generation,” and that appears to apply to the way they are treated by marketers: New research from Curion Insights reveals that 93% of Gen Xers feel “brand messaging misses them entirely.”The study surveyed 7,000 Americans aged 50 and up to see what they thought of the advertising messages targeted toward them.Most respondents (which include members of Gen X and Baby Boomers) believed that brands “focus too heavily on younger audiences,” while just 6.5% said marketing geared toward 50+ consumers “feels authentically designed for people like them.”But Curion’s research also revealed that close to…
A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website was exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and selfies to the website as part of the application process. The website is not affiliated with the U.K. government, and some have complained that they mistakenly paid a fee to this company instead of using the official GOV.UK website. The exposed data was secured overnight…
President Donald Trump is squeezing Republicans to do his bidding on the ballroom.White House officials are pushing Republicans in Congress to approve $1 billion in security enhancements for Trump’s ballroom on grounds that it would be bad optics for private donors to pay for the presidential bunker underneath, according to two people familiar with the matter.The White House has said the ballroom itself has been paid for by donors like tech giants Apple, Meta, and Amazon, but there has been concern about these companies or rich donors effectively sponsoring a bunker.The proposed security measures for the East Wing broadly fall…
NBC News’ Today cemented its dominance in the Adults 25-54 demo as it was the only morning show with growth in either of the measured categories for the week of May 11.Today recorded double-digit gains in the prized demo, but, like its peers, registered week-to-week declines among total viewers.A week after 56,000 demo viewers separated Today from Good Morning America, NBC News’ morning show widened that gap between the two broadcasts, finishing with an additional 164,000 demo viewers.According to Nielsen’s national live+same-day big data plus program ratings, GMA averaged 2.768 million total viewers and 453,000 viewers in the A25-54 demo…
Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beginning tests of new subscriptions for businesses, creators, and Meta AI users. For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things. In an announcement, Meta’s head of product Naomi Gleit noted that “more fun features” will be added in the…
While Gen Z catches a lot of flack for being single, or even antisocial, there’s a brutal economic reality underscoring why some people aren’t going out: They simply don’t have the disposable income.Dating apps, already struggling to maintain user bases due to enshittification and a lack of quality matches, are contending with this affordability crisis.In a dystopian sign of the times, BLK, the app for Black singles, announced on Wednesday that it is giving away free gas in an attempt to incentivize people to go on dates.As part of the promotion, BLK is providing $500 gas gift cards to 10…
Top of the Ticker: Friday’s edition of CBS Mornings did not cover the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. According to Puck’s Matt Belloni, the decision not to cover the finale on CBS News’ morning show was made by CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who was not happy that the late-night show host made fun of the network’s failure to get Tony Dokoupil into China during President Donald Trump’s visit.TVNewser reached out to CBS News for comment but received no response.Meanwhile, Friday marked the end of CBS News Radio’s nearly 100-year run. The network, which fell victim…
CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from open-source software developers. The takedown operation had the goal of disrupting the activities of the cybercriminals behind the so-called Glassworm botnet, who have been targeting the broader open source software supply chain for two years, according to CrowdStrike. In recent months, several hacking groups have targeted developers and open source projects to push malicious software to companies and organizations who in turn use that software. These attacks can be…
Other Computer Speakers I LikedThere are tons of computer speakers on the market, and many of the ones I tested are perfectly fine, but don’t deserve a spot above for one reason or another.Photograph: Simon HillCreative Pebble Nova for $240: These eye-catching orb-shaped speakers with RGB rings around the base are a statement piece for your desk. They are big, angled at 45 degrees, and you have the choice of a flat base or elevated stands. They light up, produce a pleasant sound that’s rich across the board and with real depth, and can, frankly, get far too loud for…
Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. That’s a major leap from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation when it closed a $400 million funding round just eight months ago in September. The round was led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst, with existing investors pouring in, including Founders Fund, 8VC, and others. The round also included new investors Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global. This is a giant vote of confidence from top-tier VCs that there will be room for…
You know things are bad when the Pope gets involved. No doubt reeling from a launch that somehow went down even worse than Ferrari itself anticipated, the Italian carmaker sought to get the endorsement of none other than His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for its first EV, the Luce.Guided by Ferrari chairman John Elkann and senior Ferrari executives, in a hillside town about 15 miles southeast of Rome, the pontiff sat in the driver’s seat and listened patiently as test driver Raffaele De Simone explained the vehicle’s controls and driving modes as if he really was speaking to a man…