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Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the agency expedited its antitrust review. Mesh Optical came out of stealth in February when it announced that it raised a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital. Before founding Mesh Optical, the startup’s co-founders, Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli, developed the optical communication links that keep thousands of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites…

Paso Robles, CA, June 26, 2026 –(PR.com)– John Whitford, founder of John Whitford Communications, is proud to announce that the company, in business since 1982, has been authorized as an Internet reseller for business customers as a sub-agent of DSI. For over four decades, John Whitford and his team have been installing cutting-edge solutions, and now, they are bringing Starlink to business clients.As a licensed contractor serving California and Arizona, John Whitford Communications now offers a managed Starlink plan—far beyond standard service—ideal for wineries, RV parks, and businesses of any kind, whether in remote areas or right in the city. John…

Tesla has settled a lawsuit connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company’s advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving. Bloomberg was first to report on the settlement. Terms were not disclosed. The lawsuit was filed against Tesla and the driver by the daughter of Johna Story, a 71-year-old woman who was struck by a Tesla Model Y. Story was hit after she stepped out of her own vehicle to direct traffic around a crash that had occurred earlier due to sun glare. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation into Tesla’s…

While hiking through Morocco’s Dadès Valley, Dr. Rowan Martindale spotted something so unusual that it immediately caught her attention. Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at The University of Texas at Austin, was exploring the rugged landscape with fellow researchers, including Stéphane Bodin of Aarhus University. Their goal was to investigate ancient reef ecosystems that once existed beneath an ocean covering the region millions of years ago. To reach those ancient reefs, the team had to cross extensive layers of rock known as turbidites. These deposits form when underwater avalanches of mud, sand, and debris rush down the seafloor and eventually…

Galaxy Digital’s research arm has cut its estimate of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 to 50-50, down from 60% just three weeks ago, citing a Senate floor calendar that grows shorter each week and a bill that still lacks a merged text, a scheduled vote, or public commitment from leadership. The downgrade, published by Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn, is a calendar story more than a substance story. The bill itself — the CLARITY Act, short for the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act — cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 on May 14 and has sat…

Philip Smith, 29, grabbed the woman round the neck and held a knife to her throat as she waited for the taxi in Bartholomew Square, Brighton, Lewes Crown Court heard. He raped the woman twice, days after assaulting another woman on a busy Brighton street in broad daylight. The victim of the second attack – a 31-year-old woman – was able to contact a friend nearby, who rushed to the scene and disturbed the attacker. Police officers on patrol found Smith with two knives in Quadrophenia Alley in Little East Street. He was also in possession of class A drugs.…

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own. Corgi denies this, telling TechCrunch. “No code was used from Papermark.” But there were reasons why people believed the initial allegation, which was made by Papermark co-founder Marc Seitz on X, concerning Corgi’s newly released product called Dataroom. Seitz’s post blew up because he shared screenshots showing Corgi’s product using the same language for the same features as Papermark’s, word for word. Deal…

For decades, startup employees have been sold on the promise of equity. Join early, help build the company and one day that stake could be worth a fortune. The problem, however, is that increasingly, that “one day” is taking much longer to arrive. As private companies stay private for longer, a growing number of founders, employees and early investors are finding themselves in an unusual position: asset-rich on paper but cash-poor in reality. Now, New York-based startup Techdollar is betting that this problem has become big enough to build an entire business around. The company has announced a $3 million…

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a clean break and more of a hedge. Custom silicon means more control, hardware tuned to specific needs, and the kind of performance gains Apple unlocked when it ditched Intel.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what the custom…

Friday 26 June 2026 4:22 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 26 June 2026 4:29 pm Abubaker Salim is a keen cook – Photograph by Grzegorz Blazewicz; @grzgrz_blazew House of the Dragon star Abubakar Salim tells us what he’d eat for his last meal on earth, from Kenyan kebabs to a warm bowl of ramenMy mum has always been the cook in our family. My memories of being young are just my mum being in the kitchen cooking all the time – that was her love language. I grew up in Welwyn Garden in Hertfordshire but my family is from Kenya so there…