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Pizza Hut franchisee says delivery drivers gamed its new AI system

BUSINESSINSIDER.COM • 258 shares • 12 sources
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Justice Department announces nearly $1.8B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit

APNEWS.COM • 150 shares • 17 sources
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Canadians among activists detained on Gaza flotilla after Israeli interception | CBC News

CBC.CA • 164 shares • 11 sources
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Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

404MEDIA.CO • 62 shares • 7 sources
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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 • 69 shares • 15 sources
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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

THEREGISTER.COM • 31 shares • 11 sources
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The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure

POPULAR.INFO • 16 shares • 9 sources
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Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence

APPLE.COM • 56 shares • 8 sources
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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 80 shares • 14 sources
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The class of 2026 has heard enough about AI, thanks

THEREGISTER.COM • 42 shares • 11 sources

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 77 shares • 15 sources

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

ZDNET.COM • 42 shares • 14 sources

With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 40 shares • 14 sources

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 12 shares • 14 sources

She Was Ripped From Her Car and Detained, but She’s Not Done With ICE

SLATE.COM • 31 shares • 14 sources

This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM • 78 shares • 8 sources

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

404MEDIA.CO • 31 shares • 7 sources

Fact check: Trump’s false suggestion of a ‘genocide’ against White farmers in South Africa | CNN Politics

CNN.COM • 30 shares • 7 sources

We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help.

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 21 shares • 14 sources

Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

FUTURISM.COM • 24 shares • 9 sources

Web analysis without Google: Umami 3.1 brings replays and custom dashboards

HEISE.DE • 36 shares • 10 sources

Grenfell Tower fire: Police seek charges for up to 57 people

BBC.CO.UK • 21 shares • 15 sources

Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI

404MEDIA.CO • 29 shares • 7 sources

Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

THEINTERCEPT.COM • 25 shares • 11 sources

Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn

NEWREPUBLIC.COM • 17 shares • 12 sources

Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

ARSTECHNICA.COM • 26 shares • 15 sources

You think you've seen it all and then there's a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux

GAMINGONLINUX.COM • 14 shares • 11 sources

Trump administration proposes admitting more White South African refugees | CNN Politics

CNN.COM • 25 shares • 7 sources

Pentagon quits Canada-U.S. defence board | CBC News

CBC.CA • 16 shares • 11 sources

What to Know About the DOJ's New 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

TIME.COM • 22 shares • 14 sources

Trunk & Tidbits, April 2026

BLOG.JOINMASTODON.ORG • 19 shares • 12 sources

An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation

THEVERGE.COM • 18 shares • 13 sources

SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say

SPACE.COM • 41 shares • 6 sources

Dan Rather astounded as Republicans left holding the bag with Trump DOJ's 'blatant' scheme

RAWSTORY.COM • 24 shares • 10 sources

No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war

PUBLICNOTICE.CO • 24 shares • 6 sources

We Must Not Normalize Digital Surveillance Abuses. EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.

EFF.ORG • 16 shares • 11 sources

The US, Israel and the normalisation of scandal

ALJAZEERA.COM • 21 shares • 10 sources

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

THECONVERSATION.COM • 28 shares • 8 sources

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | TechCrunch

TECHCRUNCH.COM • 13 shares • 13 sources

FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem

GIZMODO.COM • 17 shares • 10 sources

Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn

APNEWS.COM • 17 shares • 17 sources

What to know about the Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola causing an outbreak in Congo

APNEWS.COM • 16 shares • 17 sources

A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell

APNEWS.COM • 14 shares • 14 sources

Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac

9TO5MAC.COM • 18 shares • 12 sources

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

TOMSHARDWARE.COM • 22 shares • 6 sources

Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot

THEVERGE.COM • 24 shares • 6 sources

Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer

THEVERGE.COM • 20 shares • 6 sources

Fog Is Teeming With Life, And It May Be Doing Us a Surprising Favor

SCIENCEALERT.COM • 26 shares • 6 sources

Ike Willis, Frank Zappa's Loyal Vocalist and Guitarist, Dead at 70

ROLLINGSTONE.COM • 13 shares • 7 sources

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors | Quanta Magazine

QUANTAMAGAZINE.ORG • 8 shares • 11 sources

What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

PROPUBLICA.ORG • 9 shares • 14 sources

With Orbán gone, EU looks to extend sanctions renewal deadline

POLITICO.EU • 15 shares • 10 sources

News organizations sue to unseal filings in DOJ’s Fulton County election investigation

NBCNEWS.COM • 13 shares • 10 sources

Newsom's budget shows he's not the resistance leader you think he is

MOTHERJONES.COM • 17 shares • 11 sources

Jamie Raskin Says Trump Aims to Fund His ‘Private Militia’

MEDIAITE.COM • 15 shares • 7 sources

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK • 14 shares • 10 sources

Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC

GAMINGONLINUX.COM • 20 shares • 7 sources

Ukraine is our 'number one priority' - top EU military chief

EURONEWS.COM • 12 shares • 9 sources

30-year US Treasury yield hits highest level in 19 years | CNN Business

CNN.COM • 19 shares • 7 sources

'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell | CBC Radio

CBC.CA • 18 shares • 9 sources

The Jan 6th Rioters Who Were Pardoned by Trump Only to Offend Again

BYLINESUPPLEMENT.COM • 30 shares • 6 sources

"I'm allowed to": Trump's presidential profit machine bursts into the open

AXIOS.COM • 16 shares • 9 sources

If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI | TechCrunch

TECHCRUNCH.COM • 9 shares • 13 sources

Colorado Supreme Court sides with transgender youth in fight against Children’s Hospital Colorado

COLORADOSUN.COM • 15 shares • 7 sources

Teenage gunmen open fire on San Diego mosque, killing 3 men and then themselves

APNEWS.COM • 8 shares • 16 sources

Federal court rejects Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late

APNEWS.COM • 5 shares • 17 sources

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

APNEWS.COM • 11 shares • 9 sources

Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos

THEVERGE.COM • 11 shares • 6 sources

Apple’s accessibility features add more AI-powered processing

THEVERGE.COM • 9 shares • 6 sources

Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports

THEVERGE.COM • 2 shares • 15 sources

Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations

THEVERGE.COM • 11 shares • 6 sources

Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing

THEATLANTIC.COM • 11 shares • 6 sources

The real reason RFK Jr. is coming for your antidepressants

SALON.COM • 10 shares • 8 sources

Moscow’s German front company: How the Russian military busted through sanctions

POLITICO.EU • 4 shares • 14 sources

Germany’s spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir

POLITICO.EU • 4 shares • 8 sources

Inside The Investigation Of Eric Trump's Kids-Cancer Charity

FORBES.COM • 1 shares • 6 sources

Why caring for the climate is not 'unmanly'

DW.COM • 3 shares • 12 sources

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

BBC.CO.UK • 1 shares • 15 sources

Farage facing new questions over home purchase funding

BBC.CO.UK • 5 shares • 9 sources

AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory

BBC.CO.UK • 2 shares • 15 sources

US suspends joint defence effort with Canada dating back to World War II

ALJAZEERA.COM • 13 shares • 6 sources

Amazon’s Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated ‘Podcasts’ Featuring Chats Between Two Robot ‘Co-Hosts’

VARIETY.COM • 12 shares • 6 sources

Why being called ‘detail-oriented’ can stall a woman’s career

THECONVERSATION.COM • 9 shares • 7 sources

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

SHKSPR.MOBI • 5 shares • 6 sources

Ukraine Has a New War Strategy—and It's Working

FOREIGNPOLICY.COM • 14 shares • 6 sources

Supreme Court sends closely watched Native American voting rights decision back to lower court

APNEWS.COM • 4 shares • 13 sources

Trump’s tough-talk foreign policy is hitting a wall with Iran as it grips Strait of Hormuz

APNEWS.COM • 11 shares • 8 sources

Israeli troops intercept a flotilla off Cyprus as it tries to breach the Gaza blockade

APNEWS.COM • 0 shares • 12 sources

Congo opens more centers to treat rare type of Ebola that has killed nearly 120

APNEWS.COM • 1 shares • 7 sources

Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

APNEWS.COM • 10 shares • 7 sources

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Generated: 2026-05-19 11:24:20 PDT

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