Diddy, R. Kelly cases have ‘similarities’: Federal prosecutor

Yahoo Celebrity Sean 'Diddy' Combs denied bail, ordered detained until trial; indictment alleges 'freak offs,' guns, arson and other shocking allegations The indictment contains a litany of allegations against Combs, claiming he "engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals" after soaring to stardom in the rap world in the 1990s.

TechCrunch Space: SpaceX calls out 'systematic challenges' with FAA While this is no doubt just a rounding error for SpaceX, the company hit back hard against the allegations in a letter sent to top congressional leaders. The company asserts that the inability of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to process "relatively minor" license updates is further proof that the agency is unable to keep pace with the space industry's — but chiefly SpaceX's — rapid growth. NASA wants to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, but right now, astronauts have to be in direct line of sight with Earth to phone home.

X will soon make your public posts visible to accounts you've blocked X will soon change the functionality behind its block button so that if you block an account, they will still be able to see your public posts, according to changes to X's website spotted by independent app researcher Nima Owji. Elon Musk confirmed these changes on Monday, noting that blocked accounts will still not be able to engage with users who have blocked them, but they will soon be able to see their posts. "The block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, [a] public post," said Musk in a tweet on Monday.

Ephos wants to shatter the market for AI and quantum chips with a new design based on glass A theoretical physicist believes he has made a breakthrough in photonics research that will enable us to have faster and better processors — a major need in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other tech with heavy workloads. Now, his startup has received early backing from NATO, the European government, and other key investors to produce those chips. Ephos has raised $8.5 million in seed funding that it will use to build out and operate a new R&D and manufacturing facility near Milan focused on glass-based quantum photonics.

Zin Boats' bigger, faster electric leisure craft is built from the hull up with PNW pride After taking on water during the pandemic, Zin Boats is back with a bigger, better electric watercraft that it has built from the hull up — again. Founder and CEO of the eponymous company, Piotr Zin, took these setbacks as a challenge. "Rather than retreat, we said, let's use this time to invest in R&D," Zin Boats' President and COO, David Donovick, said.

Ibotta's CEO explains why startups shouldn't try to time the IPO market The IPO market has not roared back in 2024 as many investors hoped it would — not yet, at least. Elevated interest rates (this week's 50 bps rate cut notwithstanding) and uncertainty related to the U.S. election have prompted many companies to stay private and wait for better market conditions. Enterprise rewards platform Ibotta, which builds the back-end rewards program infrastructure for enterprise clients like Walmart and Exxon, was one of them, debuting on the NYSE on April 18.