Thomas Kennedy, an Argentinian-American writer and immigration advocate, has sued the federal government alleging that a Customs and Border Protection agent searched his bags and phone upon his re-entry into the US at Miami International Airport. He says the agent took his phone for about 45 minutes, during which he believes data was copied, before releasing him without charges. Kennedy is seeking a court order requiring the government to delete any data taken from his device.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-30
Carnegie Mellon University announced a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder Ken Griffin, described as the largest individual gift in higher education history. $1 billion will go toward CMU's Pittsburgh campus, while $2 billion will fund a new 35-acre campus, CMU Miami, in the Wynwood neighborhood, which aims to begin enrolling students in 2028.
cmu.edu
· 2026-09-30
Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest single gift ever made to a U.S. university. About $2 billion will fund a new 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood for roughly 3,500 students, focused on areas like health, national security and energy, with construction starting next year. The remaining funds will split between renaming Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh computer science program after Griffin and other unspecified campus projects.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-30
WIRED is organizing the WIRED World Fair, a single-day event on November 4 at the Sacred Space venue in Miami's Wynwood district. The gathering will feature talks with figures from biotech, politics, and AI, plus appearances from The Onion, a dolphin-communication researcher, a screening of a Musk documentary, astronaut training simulations, and robots. Additional programming and immersive art installations, including work from Marina Abramović, will be announced as the date approaches.
wired.com
· 2026-09-19
Emil Barr, who launched Step Up Social from his college dorm room at Miami University, earned his first $1 million within 14 months of starting the business at age 19. Now 23, he estimates his personal net worth at roughly $35 million and has since founded a second company, Flashpass, aimed at addressing AI-driven job displacement.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-11
The NTSB detailed early findings from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders recovered after 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A cargo plane, overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sept. 6. The recorders captured over two hours of audio and 54 hours of flight data, with a timeline showing the crew configuring flaps and gear for landing while one pilot repeatedly warned about excessive approach speed.
ntsb.gov:443
· 2026-09-10
An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300 overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, tearing through a chain-link fence and striking a ground crew and an SUV before stopping just feet from a lot of parked Tesla Cybercabs. Five people were killed in the crash. Elon Musk's only public response so far has been a one-word tweet, 'Weird.'
futurism.com
· 2026-09-08
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the 21 Air Boeing 767-300 operating Prime Air Flight 7598 overshot Miami International Airport's runway by roughly 1,300 feet after arriving from San Juan on Sunday. The jet struck a cleaning-company van inside the airport, broke through a perimeter fence and hit a passenger car outside, killing at least five people and injuring five more before sliding through a second fence near parked Tesla robotaxis.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-07
An Amazon-contracted cargo jet arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico ran off the end of the runway at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. Sunday and struck vehicles, leaving at least five people dead. Federal investigators are now examining the circumstances of the landing to determine what went wrong.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-07
A Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air on behalf of Amazon Air overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. Sunday, catching fire and striking vehicles on a road beyond the airport grounds. The flight had originated from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, and the incident caused multiple injuries and forced a temporary halt to airport operations while more than 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-06
A public records request revealed that Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposed a marketing partnership with Rockstar Games in June to brand parts of the county—including the airport, PortMiami, Metrorail stations, and Tropical Park—with Grand Theft Auto VI's Vice City imagery. Proposed features include a Vice City Motor Fest car show, a themed airport terminal and baggage claim, a dockyard installation modeled on the game's Port Gellhorn, and a community media space called Vice City Radio Lab. The county's sheriff has pushed back against the plan, given the game's violent, law-breaking gameplay.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-06
Rockstar Games and Miami-Dade county's mayor's office are reportedly discussing a marketing tie-in that would rebrand parts of the county to resemble Grand Theft Auto 6's fictional Vice City, according to Rock Paper Shotgun and Axios. Proposed elements include airport signage and baggage displays, branded transit skytrains, a dockyard installation modeled on the game's Port Gellhorn, a classic-car 'Vice City Motor Fest,' murals, wrapped buses, and library programs with GTA-themed cards and recording gear. Nothing has been formally approved, and the county sheriff has publicly opposed the plan, citing the game's depiction of crime.
games.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-06
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