During Meta’s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors “egregious,” with Apple’s representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with its internal information in the future. Google’s attorney also blamed Meta for jeopardizing the search giant’s data with the mistake.

Details about the attorneys’ comments come from The Verge’s Lauren Feiner, who is currently in the courtroom where proceedings are taking place today. Apple, Google, and Meta did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment. Snap declined to comment.

Snap’s attorney maligned Meta’s “cavalier approach and casual disregard” of other companies swept into the case, and wondered if “Meta would have applied meaningful redactions if it were its own information that was at stake.” Meta attorney Mark Hansen suggested using a third party that’s not involved in the trial team to work on redactions.

Even prior to the discovery of the redactions issue, Snap had been upset about what it called confidential information being shared during opening statements. (The company didn’t specify precisely which information it considered confidential.) Hansen said yesterday that he didn’t believe he revealed anything confidential in the company’s opening statements, an assessment Snap’s attorney disagreed with. 

As for why Meta didn’t let Snap know it would be including the information, Hansen said that he didn’t want to give the company a heads up about what it’s presenting at trial because “very clearly, Snap is working with the FTC. Snap is a major competitor.” 

Though clearly redacted for a reason, as they shared information from inside other companies that wasn’t intended for public viewing, the unredacted documents didn’t reveal particularly juicy information. One segment mentioned that iPhone users tend to prefer Apple’s own Messages app to those of Meta and Snap, while another slide, labeled “Snapchat in 2020: Competitors Are Succeeding and Not Just Meta Apps,” noted that its competitors, including Meta’s apps and TikTok, were “thriving.” 

To Snap and the other companies, how juicy the details were isn’t the point. Snap’s attorney accused Meta’s lead attorney of openly referencing Snap’s competitive assessments that should have been private.

In a video message about the Federal Aviation Administration doing "drone-detection testing" in New Jersey, Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy indicated that the Trump administration is committed to "radical transparency," juxtaposing that approach with what he referred to as the Biden administration's "drone fiasco."

The FAA noted in a post on its website last week that the testing is slated to occur "in Cape May, New Jersey, between April 14-25."

"The FAA will operate several large drones and more than 100 commercial off-the-shelf drones during the two-week period. Testing will take place over the water and near the Cape May Ferry Terminal during the daytime on weekdays only. The public should not fly recreational drones near this area during the test period," the post stated.

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In a video message shared on social media this week, Duffy explained that the testing is being performed "to ensure we can properly detect drones in our airspace and make sure they don't interfere with aircraft navigation systems."

Many Americans were concerned by a spate of sightings in the skies last year.

A joint Department of Homeland Security, FBI, FAA, and Department of Defense statement in December addressed the issue, declaring that "we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones. We have not identified anything anomalous and do not assess the activity to date to present a national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the northeast."

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Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered what she described as a statement from Trump, explaining that the drones over the Garden State were cleared by the FAA to fly "for research and various other reasons," and that many drones had been flown by hobbyists. 

"This was not the enemy," she concluded, describing the remarks as "a statement from the president … "

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The FAA's post last week noted, "The agency has been testing drone detection technologies at airports over the last few years and is expanding testing to off-airport locations. These tests will help determine the effectiveness of these technologies and whether they might interfere with FAA or aircraft navigation systems." 

Turo, the San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental startup often described as the “Airbnb for cars,” has laid off around 150 employees, roughly 15% of its team, after shelving plans to go public. The news, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as […]

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• Melinda French Gates took her first business course at 12 years old.
• The course emphasized writing and achieving life goals.
• French Gates said she later realized the need to balance goal-setting with enjoying life.

Melinda French Gates picked up her knack for goal-setting at an early age.

During the summer after seventh grade, her father sent a 12-year-old French Gates and her sister off to a business course. It was called the "Successful Life Course," and her dad had attended on an earlier work trip.

He was so inspired by what he learned, she wrote in her memoir "The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward," that he signed his daughters up to attend the class over 100 miles away from her Dallas home.

"'Oh my God,' I remember thinking. 'What did they do to my father?'" she wrote.

Their class used books from self-help guru Dale Carnegie and practiced "mind-controlled relaxation," which French Gates said was essentially power naps. The main lesson, however, was the art of goal-setting. They started with short-term goals and pushed on to life goals — reinforcing their commitment by writing them out each night before.

These are the goals that 12-year-old French Gates set for her future self:

• By age fourteen, to have made the intramural cheerleading squad.
• By twenty, to have taken a trip to Europe.
• And by twenty-one, to own her own car. ("'A Cadillac with velvet seats,' I specified, dreamily," she said.)

After the course ended, French Gates said she kept the navy blue binder she received and continued using it each night.

"Over time, the goals I wrote down started to become more and more serious," she wrote.

Although the goal-setting lessons stayed with her, she added that there was a key part of the class she'd been less disciplined in: reflecting on the goals she managed to achieve. Instead of slowing down after crossing off items on her list, her "entire focus would shift to the next one." Her ambition led her to a job at Microsoft, and, eventually, an estimated net worth of $30.1 billion, according to Forbes.

"I was almost using the goals to just push myself so hard in life," French Gates told CNN's Abby Phillip on Monday.

Yet by 35, she realized it was time to set the goal-setting aside and "ease into life," French Gates said during the live interview. At that age she'd been married to her ex-husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, for years and had become a mother. She wasn't done with her ambitions, however.

"I'm gonna have big audacious goals, but I'm gonna give myself some time to achieve them," she said she told herself at the time.

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