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    Ex-federal judges ask court to reopen Trump’s IRS lawsuit, probe payout fund washingtonpost.com/national-se
    The 35 former judges want a court to investigate whether the unusual agreement to create the $1.8 billion fund was an act of fraud.
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    Starbucks tests the limits of emotional labor qz.com/emotional-labor-starbuc
    Arlie Hochschild coined the term in 1983 to describe a specific workplace cost. Starbucks' Green Apron Service is pushing it further than she imagined
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    US returns Palestinian rights expert Francesca Albanese to sanctions list aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/28/u
    Trump administration has sought to pressure international officials who scrutinise reported abuses by Israeli forces.
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    ’60 Minutes’ Journalist Sharyn Alfonsi Loses Deal After Dispute With Bari Weiss nytimes.com/2026/05/27/busines
    Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment on a brutal Salvadoran prison was pulled abruptly in December, said that CBS News and its top editor, Bari Weiss, had let her contract expire.
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    Wikipedia Is Doing the Capitalist Thing medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikip
    TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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    No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says nbcnews.com/health/health-news
    No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week.
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    Spanish police beat and detain Gaza flotilla activists at airport aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2
    Spanish police clashed with members of the Global Sumud Flotilla and supporters at Bilbao Airport.
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    Residents burn Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak pbs.org/newshour/world/residen
    People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a...
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    HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards theregister.com/security/2026/
    Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%
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    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence' businessinsider.com/steve-wozn
    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak's speech about AI at Grand Valley State University earlier this month got a laugh and applause from graduates.
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    The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. techpolicy.press/the-world-is-
    Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
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    ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-tha
    Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.
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    DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time - FSFE fsfe.org/news/2026/news-202605
    The Free Software Foundation Europe has been granted permission to intervene at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case T-359/25 - Apple aga...
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    Judge Bars ICE From Making Immigration Arrests at Courts in New York nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyregio
    The Trump administration’s practice of detaining migrants at federal courthouses had stirred outrage.
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    EPA wants to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water washingtonpost.com/climate-env
    If finalized, the proposal would end the Biden-era restrictions for four toxic PFAS compounds and give utilities two more years to comply with limits on two other compounds.
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    A Bridge to Somewhere: How to Link Your Mastodon, Bluesky, or Other Federated Accounts eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/brid
    One of the central promises of open social media services is interoperability—the idea that wherever you personally decide to post doesn’t require others to be there just to follow what you have to say. Think of it like a radio broadcast: you want to
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    GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-w
    Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempe
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    Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/cana
    Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst se
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    Trump Uses Taiwan Arms Sales as Bargaining Chip With China, in a Risky Move nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/a
    The president said a potential arms deal for Taiwan was a “very good negotiating chip” in talks with Beijing. His words raise questions about the reliability of U.S. support.
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    Where did Eurovision go wrong? aljazeera.com/features/longfor
    Eurovision has long claimed to be apolitical. This year, that claim may be its most contested performance yet.
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    Britain is losing the ability to tell anti-Semitism from dissent aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/
    The collapse of that distinction protects no one — least of all the Jewish communities it claims to defend.
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    UCF Commencement Speaker Draws Boos After A.I. Remarks nytimes.com/2026/05/14/style/u
    Humanities students made their displeasure known at the University of Central Florida.
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    Texas high court rejects removal of Democratic lawmakers who left state over redistricting apnews.com/article/texas-congr
    The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who briefly left the state last year in a quorum break to stop a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by President Donald Trump vacated their offices. The all-Rep
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    OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
    Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your financial accounts.
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    At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign. propublica.org/article/charles
    At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get mental health support.
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    The Take: How US donor bodies were sold for Israeli military training aljazeera.com/podcasts/2026/5/
    How donated cadavers from US universities ended up in Israeli military surgical training.
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    German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software dw.com/en/german-intelligence-
    Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir. Civil society has welcomed the move, but says more must be done.
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    Google and Amazon: Acknowledged Risks, and Ignored Responsibilities eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/goog
    In late 2024, we urged Google and Amazon to honor their human rights commitments. Since then, a stream of additional reporting has reinforced that our concerns were well-founded. Yet despite mounting evidence of serious risk, both companies have refused to take action.
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    World enters era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1
    The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on Tuesday by UN researchers.
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    Ebola outbreak confirmed in DR Congo: Africa CDC dw.com/en/ebola-outbreak-confi
    A new outbreak of the highly contagious Ebola virus has killed dozens of people in a remote part of Congo, according to health authorities. It comes as the country battles several armed groups.
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    UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j1
    The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.
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    The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice forbes.com/councils/forbestech
    Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.
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    Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump propublica.org/article/trump-c
    Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
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    U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregio
    The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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    Poll: Democrats want to beat the GOP — even if that means fewer Black districts politico.com/news/2026/05/14/p
    A new POLITICO Poll suggests many appear willing to embrace a maximalist posture on redistricting.
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    AI Is entering health care, and nurses are being asked to trust it scientificamerican.com/article
    When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk
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    Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone theregister.com/on-prem/2026/0
    : Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
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    Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone theregister.com/on-prem/2026/0
    : Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
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    ‘Mass mobilization’ expected in Selma, Montgomery this weekend after Supreme Court decision al.com/news/birmingham/2026/05
    The National Day of Action for Voting Rights will include rallies in Selma and Montgomery against plans that include threatening seats held by Black representatives.

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    The UK is set for a staycation summer - and there are plenty of hidden gems bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjpv9
    Seasoned staycationers share their favourite spots as Airbnb and Booking.com say interest in UK stays are up on last year.
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    Rep. Rob Bresnahan sold stock in several Medicaid providers before voting for cuts nbcnews.com/politics/congress/
    WASHINGTON— A week before he voted to significantly cut Medicaid, Rep.
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    Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That's now stalled. politico.com/news/2026/05/05/x
    Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company abruptly stopped work on a water reuse facility meant to alleviate strain on the Memphis-area water supply. Nobody’s saying why.
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    Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now gizmodo.com/extortion-using-sm
    A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media.
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    Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds independent.co.uk/news/uk/home
    A third of children in the UK have bypassed age verification gates, research from Internet Matters suggests
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    A message from Lebanon: The Israeli Government’s impunity will not end without action - Greenpeace International greenpeace.org/international/s
    Governments must hold the Israeli government accountable under international law, impose arms embargoes and meaningful sanctions that create genuine political and economic consequences.
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    NHS Goes To War Against Open Source shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-g
    The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappoint
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    Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2
    Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon
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    California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/cali
    Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods. The proposed tower is And
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    USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew wired.com/story/usaid-whistleb
    Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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    Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion
    The president is one of a kind.
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