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A trial is testing ways to enforce Australia's under-16s social media
ban. But the tech is flawed
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Moodys Slashes US Credit Rating - Forbes (No paywall)
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Financial ratings firm Moodys Ratings downgraded the U.S. governments
credit ratings Friday, citing its rising debt and interest in a move
that underscores a ballooning federal budget deficit, making it the
last of the big three firms to downgrade the governments credit.

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Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve your loneliness with an a''AI
frienda''' No, me neither | Emma Brockes
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Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the
potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on
friendship is a bit like taking business advice from Bernie Madoff or
lessons in sportsmanship from Tonya Harding. But at recent tech
conferences and on podcasts, Zuck has been saying he has seen the
future and it's one in which the world's "loneliness epidemic" is
alleviated by people finding friendship with "a system that knows them
well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed
algorithms do". In essence, we'll be friends with AI, instead of
people. The missing air quotes around "knows" and "understands" is a
distinction we can assume Zuck neither knows nor understands.

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British Consumers Are Skeptical of American Meat. Can They Change?
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The countries’ trade agreement is just a first step, U.S. officials
say. But consumers in the U.K. are wary of American food production.

























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Say cheese! Tourists in China pose for CCTV cameras to snap 'souvenir
photos'
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Chinese tourists have been using publicly accessible surveillance
feeds to capture their group travel photos at iconic locations.

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How This Founder's Horse Riding Hobby Helps Her Buck Tariff Turmoil -
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Welcome to Out of Office, a series that explores the extracurricular
activities of entrepreneursfrom passion projects to full-blown side
gigsand why what they do in their downtime helps them level up as
business leaders.

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The Baffling Return of Adam Neumann, Megalandlord
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When Adam Neumann launched Flow, his residential real-estate venture,
a little over three years ago, a lot of people were skeptical. The man
who had run WeWork into the ground in spectacular fashion was
launching another vague, vibe-y real-estate start-up? And people were
once again throwing money at him to do it? Like WeWork, Flow seemed
overvalued — it had a $1 billion valuation right off the bat, thanks
in part to $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z
venture-capital firm, the largest single investment the firm had made
at that point. “If a start-up is worth $1b before it launches a
product it’s probably a scam,” Jason Calacanis, a podcaster and
angel investor, tweeted at the time.

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Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters
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LONDON: US energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by
Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy
infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found
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How to Write Email with Military Precision
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A few tips on how to quickly and clearly relay information and avoid
miscommunication.

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Is Qatar's Shiny Plane a White Elephant? - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
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Q&A: Is Qatars Shiny Plane a White Elephant?

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Coming to a brain near you: A tiny computer - WSJ (No paywall)
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Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis
control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon enable
them to manipulate prosthetic limbs without moving a muscle.

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Objective pain score? Here's the problem with that
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Invitations to rate your pain on some arbitrary scale of numerals, or
on a display of smiley faces that range from happy to sad (if you’re
a child), remain the standard ways of assessing people’s pain. If a
doctor wants to know how much pain their patient is in, that’s how
they’ll try to find out. And they do this for good reason: no one
knows a person’s pain better than the person whose pain it is.



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We've Been Thinking About Gun Violence All Wrong
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A vigil in honor of victims of gun related deaths at Public Square
Park in Nashville, Tenn., on September 20, 2024. The vigil includes
the picture of 18-year-old Yasser Paz, who was shot and killed outside
of a nightclub earlier that month.

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Which Is the Best Position to Sleep In?
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Some swear by a night on their side, others on their back. But which
sleeping position is the best for a good night's rest?

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How Russias call for peace talks turned into a diplomatic defeat for
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Peace in Ukraine remains as elusive as when Russian tanks first
streamed across its borders more than three years ago. This weeks
talks in Istanbultalks that Vladimir Putin himself proposedshow he
isnt yet ready to do a deal. They might also show President Trump that
the Russian leader really is the obstacle to peace that the Ukrainians
and their European backers claim he is.

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This Is Your Brain on Silence
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Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in
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Why Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' May Be in Trouble
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We dont need GRANDSTANDERS in the Republican Party, the President
posted on Truth Social minutes before a handful of GOP hardliners
voted against his big, beautiful bill at a key House Budget Committee
meeting, effectively stalling the legislation from advancing.

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New stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development
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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem
cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates
development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four
weeks after fertilisation. This is the first model of amniotic sac
development after two weeks.

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A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg
from its neck
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The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand
snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying
an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the
country’s conservation agency said Wednesday.

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House Dems aren't sure DOGE's IT hackathon is a good idea
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The latest please-explain-this-DOGE-activity letter letter [PDF]
landed yesterday on the desk of the Internal Revenue Service's acting
inspector general, Heather Hill. It is from Representative Gerry
Connolly (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee and perennial DOGE gadfly.
























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People Are Using AI As Couple's Therapy -- and Experts Are Giving It a
Side-Eye
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Maybe you've used it for writing emails -- but would you ever trust AI
to save your relationship?

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Why did DeepMind solve protein folding?
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Why was the protein folding problem solved by a VC-backed company,
DeepMind, and not by an academic group? Do you think that this
achievement provides a general solution for the future of AI in
science?

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Doom: The Dark Ages and the challenges of finding new players
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Doom's director Hugo Martin says the response to Doom: The Dark Age's
previews were encouraging - something he puts down in part to its new
"Medieval sci-fi" setting and altered gameplay style.

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How A Soviet Refugee Became A Hedge Fund Billionaire
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It’s a cloudy March morning in Midtown Manhattan and Igor Tulchinsky
is explaining from behind his wooden desk, between sips of coffee and
long pauses to think, his latest algorithmic vision—the introduction
of large language models for his hedge fund WorldQuant. “The first
thing that the LLM can do is it can structure data and 80% of data
that’s out there is unstructured,” says Tulchinsky, dressed in all
black, his piercing blue eyes gleaming with excitement. “It’s like
a free lunch.”

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The world's five happiest cities for 2025
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To find out, researchers at the Institute for the Quality of Life
recently released their 2025 Happy City Index, tracking 82 indicators
of happiness across six major categories including Citizens,
Governance, Environment, Economy, Health and Mobility. The index
measured the policies that contribute to the quality of life, as well
as their implementation and impact on residents. 

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Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies
use to harm people in Gaza
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it sold
advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the
Israeli military during the war in Gaza and aided in efforts to locate
and rescue Israeli hostages. But the company also said it has found no
evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used
to target or harm people in Gaza.

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In 1977, A Computer Programmer Fixed a Massive Bug -- And Created an
Existential Crisis
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Here's what vintage typesetting, defense software, and the Apple Lisa
have to do with a ubiquitous computing feature.

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Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow -
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As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need
a better read on snowpack temperature to understand when water will
reach reservoirsand when it threatens to flood them.



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Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus,
Files Reveal
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Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal
with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its
military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a
confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.

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Revealed: Big techa''s new datacentres will take water from the
worlda''s driest areas
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Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast
amounts of water in some of the world's driest areas and are building
many more, the non-profit investigatory organisation SourceMaterial
and the Guardian have found.

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It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
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The AI industry has promised to “disrupt” large parts of society,
and you need look no further than the U.S. educational system to see
how effectively it’s done that. Education has been “disrupted,”
all right. In fact, the disruption is so broad and so shattering that
it’s not clear we’re ever going to have a functional society
again.

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Trump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through
coded picture
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The post comes as the former FBI director is about to publish FDR
Drive, the third installment of a crime series about a fictional New
York lawyer, Nora Carleton. Publisher’s Weekly outlined the plot as
centering on a US attorney who tries to bring to justice “a
far-right media personality with a popular podcast vilifying those he
thinks are destroying America: intellectuals, immigrants, and people
of color”.

























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I was on a flight - but British Airways told me I wasn't
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I ended up at a check-in desk and after checking in my bag, a British
Airways staff member handed me a boarding pass. Admittedly I didn't
read the pass in any detail, but headed off to get processed in the
security area as normal.

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Better air quality is the easiest way not to die
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While most things that clearly improve health are well known, one is
insanely underrated: Fixing your air. I suspect this is often the most
effective health intervention, period. Nothing else is so important
while also being so easy to address.

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Moodys strips US of top-notch triple-A credit rating - FT (No paywall)
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Agency warns of strains caused by rising government debt and a
widening budget deficit

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China Drops to No. 3 Holder of Treasuries, Falling Behind UK -
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China shrank its holdings of US Treasuries in March, with the UK
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FDA clears first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's
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Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on
the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and
biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The
Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard.
You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54.

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Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza overnight as UN human rights chief
warns of ethnic cleansing Middle East crisis live
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Israel has called up tens of thousands of reservists for the new
offensive, in which troops will hold on to seized territory and which
will lead to a significant displacement of the population, Benjamin
Netanyahu has said. Israeli ministers have spoken of "conquering"
Gaza.

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Joe Biden's Hur tape could backfire on Kamala Harris
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Anna Commander is a Newsweek Editor and writer based in Florida. Her
focus is reporting on crime, weather and breaking news. She has
covered weather, and major breaking news events in South Florida. Anna
joined Newsweek in 2022 from The National Desk in Washington, D.C. and
had previously worked at CBS12 News in West Palm Beach. She is a
graduate of Florida Atlantic University. You can get in touch with
Anna by emailing [email protected].

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Could Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change? - Scientific
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You dont have to pay much attention to the news to know that climate
change is causing Arctic sea ice to meltand to understand that this is
a huge problem. Ice reflects sunlight, which helps keep cold places
cold. Warmer weather means less ice, but less ice means more heat from
the sun, which means it gets warmer, which means theres less iceand
the sea level keeps rising and rising.



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Thoughtworks CTO: AI Means We Need Developers More Than Ever
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Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA
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Very disturbing: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented,
experts warn
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"It is very, very disturbing that a president of the United States
could be in a position to profit off the office in which he holds," he
continued. "And that is, again, something that is never supposed to be
able to happen. And it's really quite extraordinary."

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Under Fire From Trump's Tariffs, Ammo Makers in a Balkan Valley Hunker
Down
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Companies that make ammunition in the Bosnian city of Gorazde fear
they may not survive the tariffs imposed on the goods that they send
to their biggest market — the United States.

























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Government records show emergency killings of thousands of livestock
after transport to Australian export abattoirs
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The Australian Meat Industry Council, an industry peak body, has
previously said the number of welfare incident reports tabled in
parliament show the success of the oversight system and said it
equated to about “0.0058% of the total number of animals processed
through export abattoirs during that time”.

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'Risk being sidelined': US-China trade truce raises stakes for ASEAN
members seeking lower Trump tariffs
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KUALA LUMPUR: A temporary deal struck between the United States and
China on Monday (May 12) that put the brakes on an escalating trade
war has raised the stakes for Southeast Asian countries trying to
negotiate tariff reductions with Washington, analysts say.

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Putins New Hermit Kingdom - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum
for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs.
The magazine has featured contributions from many leading
international affairs experts.

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Building Dronesfor the Children? - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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A couple of months ago, Vice-President J. D. Vance made an appearance
in Washington at the American Dynamism summit, an annual event put on
by the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Members of Congress,
startup founders, investors, and Defense Department officials sat in
the audience. They gave Vance a standing ovation as he walked onstage,
while Alabamas Forty Hour Week (For a Livin) played in the background.
(Hello Pittsburgh steel mill worker / Let me thank you for your time /
You work a forty hour week for a livin / Just to send it on down the
line.) Youre here, I hope, because you love your country, Vance told
the crowd. You love its people, the opportunities that its given you,
and you recognize that building thingsour capacity to create new
innovation in the economycannot be a race to the bottom. The scene was
a snapshot of Americas ongoing and sometimes counterintuitive
realignment between Silicon Valley and the New Right.

























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Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash | TechCrunch
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Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its
driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary
recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to
the company and a filing with federal safety regulators.

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South Korea ex-President Yoon leaves PPP, urges support for party
candidate Kim
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SEOUL: South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol said on
Saturday (May 17) that he is leaving the conservative People Power
Party (PPP), according to his Facebook post.

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