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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. ‘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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2
    Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. Southern Poverty Law Center faces Justice Department criminal probe apnews.com/article/southern-po
    The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The Alabama-based civil rights organization made the announcement Tuesday, saying
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  21. Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” theintercept.com/2026/04/14/fa
    Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”
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  22. To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain arstechnica.com/science/2026/0
    LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.
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  23. Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal politico.com/news/2026/04/13/m
    Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
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  24. Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done zdnet.com/article/your-kindles
    You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
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  25. Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them newscientist.com/article/22878
    The common Sydney octopus ( Octopus tetricus ) An analysis of footage of octopuses off the coast of Australia "throwing" shells and silt suggests that they intentionally target – and often hit – other octopuses . In most cases, it is females that do the throwing, often at males t
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  26. OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters wired.com/story/openai-backs-b
    The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
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  27. Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization futurism.com/artificial-intell
    A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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  28. Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts futurism.com/artificial-intell
    The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
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  29. Airlines are starting to cancel flights as they face jet fuel shortages and rising prices businessinsider.com/airlines-c
    Jet fuel prices have spiked and supplies have dwindled as the US and Israeli war on Iran drags on, forcing some airlines to cancel flights.
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  30. LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told thenextweb.com/news/linkedin-b
    In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and att
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  31. Iran war live: Israel targets UN peacekeepers in Lebanon as fighting rages aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20
    Helicopters transporting the wounded UNIFIL troops after artillery fire on their base in Aadshit al-Qusayr.
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  32. Homeowner Called ICE on Migrants She Hired, Worker Says newsweek.com/homeowner-called-
    A video shared online showed agents arriving at the home in Cambridge, Maryland as workers wrapped up construction.
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  33. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate
    In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.
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  34. The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics theverge.com/entertainment/897
    Ghost in the Machine — out on Kinema March 26th — director Valeria Veatch speaks with The Verge about gen AI’s roots in eugenics.
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  35. Israel systematically torturing Palestinians in custody, says UN expert aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/21/i
    Report by Francesca Albanese says ‘torture in detention used on unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance’.
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  36. Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out theconversation.com/paul-ehrli
    Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited gr
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