Anaheim Ducks forward Troy Terry needs hip surgery that could endanger his availability at the start of next season. Terry has a chronic hip impingement, the Ducks revealed Thursday in their postseason injury report. Anaheim’s first postseason since 2018 ended last week in the second round with a six-game loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. … Read more
Google is about to ruin the internet. And I love the internet. I love websites. I love sending links to my friends. I spend nearly my entire workday looking at various Chrome tabs. I enjoy looking at websites I’ve never looked at before. All of that is going to change with Google’s new search updates, … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s grip on his party slipped on Thursday as anger boiled over among Senate Republicans about a growing list of issues. In a striking display of defiance, GOP senators abruptly derailed plans to vote on legislation to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown amid deep disagreements over security funding for a White House ballroom and a … Read more
What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said on Thursday that it had raised that much in a Series A round that values it at $6 billion post-money. The … Read more
Kyle Busch, a two-time champion of the NASCAR Cup Series and the association’s winningest driver in history, has died at age 41. “We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport’s greatest and fiercest drivers,” NASCAR said in a statement … Read more
In early June 2021, Joseph “J.B.” Moresco and Lisa Elin, co-owners and general partners of Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, the renowned high-desert watering hole and music venue in Pioneertown, Calif., changed the locks on the doors of their new property. A few months earlier the L.A. couple had, with the financial backing of Tony-nominated … Read more
Elon Musk’s attempts to win over advertisers have yet to spark a major recovery in ad revenue for X. In 2025, ad revenue for X (formerly Twitter) reached $1.8 billion, up around 7% from 2024. That said, revenue was down 21% from 2023 and about 59% from 2021, the year before Musk took over Twitter … Read more
WASHINGTON — A political influencer has filed a complaint against Tom Steyer’s campaign for governor, saying the committee failed to notify her of disclosure requirements, as required by law, when she was paid to meet with Steyer in March and later produced social media content from the meeting. What’s more, she said the Steyer campaign falsely accused … Read more
While there are some shocking revelations in SpaceX’s S-1 as it gets ready to become a public company, Elon Musk’s total control of the company perhaps isn’t one of them. I could argue that the oddball provision where Elon Musk gets up to a billion more shares to add to his already oversized, company-controlling cache … Read more
Elon Musk’s companies love to work together. Now, we have a bit more insight into how much money is moving between them. On Wednesday, SpaceX filed its 277-page S-1, a document that peels back the curtain on the combined space-and-AI company’s spending. The filing showed that SpaceX (and its recently acquired fellow Musk company, xAI) … Read more
Waymo has suspended robotaxi service on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami as it works to improve performance in construction zones, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Waymo said it’s in the process of integrating “recent technical learnings into our software and expect to resume these routes soon.” Waymo robotaxis are … Read more
Step right up to Elon Musk’s financial merry-go-round. Tucked more than 200 pages into SpaceX’s S-1 paperwork, which the company filed on Wednesday, is an outline of how interconnected Musk’s various companies are, including through more than $660 million in payments, goods, and services involving SpaceX and his other ventures last year. Musk has his … Read more
Hour-to-hour swings for oil prices keep jerking financial markets around, and U.S. stocks wavered Thursday following the latest reversal. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.2% and inched closer to its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones industrial average added 276 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.1%. All three … Read more
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its administrator. The FBI said in an alert that First VPN was so popular that “at least” 25 ransomware gangs used the service to hide their malicious activity. Cybercriminals also relied … Read more
This story includes spoilers for the finale of “Survivor 50.” Jeff Probst gave fans one last “Survivor” twist during the season finale, albeit accidentally. The longtime host prematurely revealed the loser of a fire-making challenge before the segment aired. While Probst was hosting the “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans” finale live, the … Read more