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A Year After Eaton Wildfires Devastated this Historic Black Neighborhood, a Full Investigation Begins

The Root

Calif. AG Rob Bonta is investigating whether systemic racism impacted how emergency responders reacted to devastating Eaton wildfires.

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A BlackBerry you might actually want just landed on Kickstarter

The Verge - All Posts
When The Verge's Allison Johnson went hands-on with the company's Titan 2 Elite phone at MWC 2026, Unihertz didn't divulge pricing info. But the compact Android phone with a BlackBerry-inspired keyboard is now available for preorder through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and starts at $489, with a discount for early backers bringing it down to […]

Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its "AI for Work" initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its “AI for Work” initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen  —  Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, will oversee the company's ‘AI For Work’ initiatives as focus shifts away from the metaverse

How to beat Marni's Excavatron in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All
How to defeat the Stolen Quarry boss in Crimson Desert and complete the first House Roberts faction quest.

Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its "open infrastructure" from infotainment to non-safety internal systems (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Techmeme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google launches Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, expanding its “open infrastructure” from infotainment to non-safety internal systems  —  Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles is an ‘open architecture’ for non-safety parts of the car's internal computer.