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Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds – The Markup

On stage spouses: Married couple star as Jay & Daisy in Broadway’s ‘The Great Gatsby’

Newlyweds Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada bring their passionate romance to the stage as Jay and Daisy in Broadway's "The Great Gatsby."…

The Medi-Cal fraud loophole Gavin Newsom doesn’t want you to know about

It is time to close this loophole once and for all.…

Netflix to give Greta Gerwig’s 'Narnia' wide theatrical release, marking a first - Reuters

Netflix to give Greta Gerwig’s 'Narnia' wide theatrical release, marking a first Reuters…

OMV Aktiengesellschaft (OMVKY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Bill Maher clashes with Newsom over CA leadership, says other side will ask, ‘Have you seen the stats?'

Bill Maher challenged Gov. Gavin Newsom on California gas prices, rents and the ballooning high-speed rail costs during a fiery exchange on his HBO show.…

Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch

It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.…

As Kentucky Derby Becomes a Bigger Business, Locals Feel Left Behind

Locals say rising ticket prices and a late start time for the Oaks race on Friday are hurting residents and restaurants. “The only thing I see is greed,” one steakhouse owner said.…

Uttarakhand youth dies by suicide after alleging police harassment in video on social media

The video purportedly shows him describing physical assault by policemen and verbal abuse directed at his parents. He is seen pointing to injuries on his elbow and knee. The police…

Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy

In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene…

Ex-NFL linebacker convicted of $8M Ponzi scheme should have league benefits garnished, feds say

John Robert Leake of Marina Del Ray played for the Atlanta Falcons and briefly for the Green Bay Packers in 2005 and 2006, but by September 2024 had pleaded guilty to federal wire …

Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden 15 years ago today recalls the mission and the 9/11 motivation: ‘I just shot that f–ker in the face’

Everything I had ever known, everything I planned, just changed drastically.…

Scientists discover enzyme that could supercharge Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs

Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered an enzyme called Pap B that will chemically change and update drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy making them stronger and last long…

Dr. Oz names 5 states in fraud crackdown as Trump admin targets Medicaid abuse

Dr. Oz says CMS has written letters to five states as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on Medicaid and healthcare fraud schemes.…

Bryan Kohberger's mother called him 'my angel' and insisted police made a 'really, really bad mistake': book

A new book reveals Bryan Kohberger's mother told FBI agents he was her "angel" after his 2022 arrest for the murders of four University of Idaho students.…

Hospitals and Insurers Are Getting Rich Off Medical Fraud

Polls show Americans are angry -- and rightly so -- at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits.…

California Copied Europe’s Insane Energy Playbook, And Now Residents Are Really Paying The Price

'Expensive warnings'…

Beloved crossing guard killed by alleged drunk driver while helping kids cross the street in Louisiana

A beloved Livingston Parish crossing guard was allegedly struck and killed by a drunk driver while helping children cross the street in Louisiana.…

He Became a Mathematician in Prison. Now, He’s Stuck There.

What is the purpose of keeping Christopher Havens behind bars?…

Don’t toss cannabis leaves: Scientists found rare compounds with medical potential

Florida man busted for threatening beachgoers with drill during fight about chair: ‘I’m going to kill you’

This is not a drill.…

Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026

Opinion: What do medical students think about their education?

“No one's pulling the pieces together”: a conversation with medical students about preventive care education.…

Self-Checkout Is Under Fire Across the Country. Is Theft Really the Reason?

The restrictions are often framed as a crime prevention measure. But the fine print points to a different motivation: adding union jobs.…

Opinion: STAT readers on MAHA activists, perimenopause, and diversity in medical school

“Unfortunately, the resources don't exist to take every flat-earther to the International Space Station to change their mind,” a STAT reader writes.…

Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly?

'Needs to resign': California vice mayor ripped after commenting '86 47' on state GOP's online post

California GOP demands Los Altos Vice Mayor Larry Lang resign over "86 47" posts he made on social media roughly a month after ex-FBI Director James Comey was indicted for the same…

Heather Cox Richardson grades America

How would you grade America’s first 250 years? That’s the question I posed to historian and professor Heather Cox Richardson on this week’s episode of America, Actually — and a que…

“Where Have All the Student Protests Gone?”

It’s become a familiar refrain: something awful happens in the world, and a member of the commentariat asks, “Where are the student protests? Or did those only happen when Biden wa…

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usa…

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.…

America's 'House of Cards' Mentality (with David Frum)

Usually, an assassination attempt outside a dinner with the president would be a HUGE news event.…

Americans aren't sleeping enough. Here's what could help

Nearly a third of Americans get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep a night. A lot of us struggle to get to bed as we power through tasks or get lost in endless scrollin…

Boy, 14, shot dead by Israeli settlers in West Bank amid escalation in violence

AL-MUGHAYYIR, OCCUPIED WEST BANK – A boy’s blood still stained the sidewalk in front of his school, days after an Israeli settler shot him dead…

‘Living in survival mode’: Houston’s embattled immigrant community faces health, climate and petrochemical crises

Amid immigration raids, chemical spills, massive floods and costly healthcare, less-affluent residents of one of the most diverse US cities struggle to pull through Cándido Álvarez…

Teenager died in Dumfries river incident days after 18th birthday

Benjamin Glen died after getting into difficulty on a stretch of the River Nith in his hometown on Thursday evening.…

The United States of Conspiracy

Another assassination attempt on Donald Trump reveals mistrust in the media and conspiracy theories fill the gap.…

‘Deplorable’: ICE hires firm accused of ‘torture’ to track down undocumented children

Exclusive: Contractor denies allegations including ‘enforced disappearance’ and will help locate unaccompanied minors US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) has awarded a c…

Steve Hilton: could this British former Fox News host be California’s next governor?

The race to succeed Gavin Newsom has teetered wildly, and with Democrats in disarray, the Republican ex-Downing Street adviser is leading in the polls. Can he really pull it off? F…

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power - PC Gamer

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computin…

Scaling the physical Singularity: Autonomous 18-wheelers are no longer a 'pilot project'

This isn't just another pilot program. Having a Tier 1 supplier like Bosch provide redundant steering and braking systems specifically for Kodiak’s "driver" indicates that the hard…

Best local AI image generator for my specs? (RTX 2060 6GB, i7-10750H, 16GB RAM)

Hi, I'm looking to get into local AI image generation and I want to know which software/interface would run best on my current laptop one dell G3 3500. I've done some research but …

Cant do biology any more (nudity, gore) can't even do a local security scan, I wont be using cloud services much longer

This is obviously a defensive action being taken against a recent vulnerability, I am not doing anything sus here, these cloud services have been nerfed to uselessness.…

Elon Musk calls himself a fool for giving OpenAI $38 million that became an $800 billion company - the-decoder.com

Elon Musk calls himself a fool for giving OpenAI $38 million that became an $800 billion company the-decoder.com…

We are finally there: Qwen3.6-27B + agentic search; 95.7% SimpleQA on a single 3090, fully local

LDR maintainer here. Thanks to the strong support of r/LocalLLaMA community LDR got very far. I haven't reported in a while because I thought I was not ready for another prominent …

What is The best and expressive AI TTS (running locally?) for voice acting?

I am only doing this for private hobby projects.But I haven’t been up to date with the best TTS? Which one is it? The ones that can show all types of emotions including grunts, etc…

New to local image generation. What model/workflow should I start with?

I’ve been browsing this subreddit and the images here are really impressive.…

I gave Claude Code a $0.02/call coworker and stopped hitting Pro limits — here's the full setup

Was hitting my weekly Pro limit by Wednesday every single week. Tried compact, Sonnet for simple tasks, tighter prompts — nothing worked. Built a simple pattern: CLI scripts that d…

Is it over for locally hosted i2v models ?

I started playing with comfyui and mostly wan 2.2 back in October. Am I right in thinking that no new models of that type have been released since ? It seems all the new wan models…

What is the best all-round local model?

Not for agentic coding but for help in conversational style write-ups like markdown documentation (not code-related). Constraints are 64GB unified memory, obviously local.…

Stop bloating your agent context with MEMORY.md. I built a local cognitive memory MCP instead.

Hey everyone, I’ve been building paradigm-memory , a local-first memory layer for AI coding agents. The motivation is pretty simple: I got tired of agents forgetting project contex…

Apple warns Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages could last for months — local AI boom and memory crunch drive demand beyond Apple’s manufacturing capacity

The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics

Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)

New York Times : Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — …

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is …

Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s

Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast …

Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

Hey HN! I built SimplePDF Copilot: an AI assistant that can interact with the PDF editor. It fills fields, answers questions, focuses on a specific field, adds fields, deletes page…

The Lost Boys: A New Musical: Phenomenal, frightening, and not to be missed

The Joel Schumacher cult classic gets a rock-and-roll revamp. (Get it? Vamp. Because they're vampires.)…

From F1 sets to new Botanicals plants, these are the best new Lego sets of May

We rounded up the best new Lego sets available to purchase as of May 1, including a Lewis Hamilton helmet and Cristiano Ronaldo themed-set.…

Google is finally fixing its most annoying design mistake

I can finally tell Google's apps apart again…