Meta begins 8,000 global job cuts in AI efficiency push
By Kurt Wagner, Riley Griffin and Olivia Fletcher

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more

E-hiking is here. You can tell by my 1,000-watt hips
By Nicole Nguyen

AI is entering the physical realm in a big way. Case in point: I spent Mother’s Day e-hiking with bionic leg boosters. ⌘ Read more

Samsung Chip Workers To Get $340,000 Average Bonus In AI Boom
Samsung is reportedly set to pay chip-division workers an average bonus of about $340,000 after reaching a tentative deal with its union, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). The deal ended a standoff that “could have cost the economy as much as 1 trillion won ($658 million) daily, with losses potentially multiplying to 100 trillion won ($68 billion) if in … ⌘ Read more

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Procès libyen en appel: les premières plaidoiries de la défense se concentrent sur le volet Djouhri
Commission occulte sur la vente d’Airbus à la Libye, 500 000 euros pour Claude Guéant, exfiltration de Béchir Saleh, vente de la villa Mougins… Aucun délit présumé en lien avec ces volets du dossier libyen ne peut être reproché à l’intermédiaire Alexandre Djouhri, d’après son avocat. Il a comparé l’affaire à un «traquenard». ⌘ Read more

Musk’s X admits breaking Australian child safety law, fined $650,000
Elon Musk’s social media company, formerly known as Twitter, failed to comply with an order to detail its child exploitation safeguards. ⌘ Read more

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI
Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend c … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can. ⌘ Read more

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-val … ⌘ Read more

Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerful technology. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. … ⌘ Read more

«L’État druze» de Soueïda, en rupture avec le reste de la Syrie
Depuis la tentative de Damas d’imposer son autorité par la force en juillet 2025, et la mort de 2 000 personnes, Druzes et Bédouins sunnites, une «garde nationale» composite fait office de forces armées. Et le soutien israélien est de plus en plus présent. ⌘ Read more

Passoires thermiques: le nouveau coup de baguette magique du gouvernement
Dans le cadre de son plan d’électrification, l’exécutif annonce qu’il va procéder à une modification du «coefficient d’énergie primaire», qui sert à calculer la performance énergétique des logements. Un «ajustement» qui permettrait de faire disparaître 380 000 passoires thermiques. ⌘ Read more

Waldbrand breitet sich ‚gefährlich schnell‘ aus
In einem Vorort von Los Angeles ist ein Brand ausgebrochen, der sich nach Angaben der Feuerwehr „gefährlich schnell ausbreitet“. Wie die Behörden mitteilten, wurde das Feuer am Montagvormittag (Ortszeit) aus Simi Valley gemeldet, das rund 60 Kilometer nordwestlich der kalifornischen Millionenmetropole liegt. In Simi Valley leben mehr als 100.000 Menschen, für mehrere Gebiete der Stadt ordnete die Feuerwehr eine Evakuierung an. ⌘ Read more

Willis targets agency mergers, 8,700 fewer public service jobs
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has announced a “fundamental overhaul of the public service”, targeting 8,700 fewer core public service jobs by July 2029 alongside a major reduction in the number of government agencies.

In a pre-Budget speech to Business North Harbour, Willis said the Government would reduce core public service numbers to no more than 55,000 full-time-equivalent staff by July 2029 … ⌘ Read more

Meta Layoffs Stress Harsh AI Reality Inside Zuckerberg’s Company
Meta is expected to begin cutting about 8,000 jobs this week as it pours more money into AI infrastructure and looks to “offset” other investments, with additional layoffs reportedly possible later this year. According to CNBC, the morale has worsened inside the company. “Internally, there’s an emerging sense of dread across wide swaths of the comp … ⌘ Read more

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Small Town Fights Over Flock’s AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras
160 miles north of New York City, a man was convicted of manslaughter “with the help of license plate reader technology,” reports a local news station. In the small town of Troy (population: 51,000), the mayor described the cameras as “a critical tool” in that investigation. But locals and city officials “have … ⌘ Read more

How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. … ⌘ Read more

Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes. Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom … ⌘ Read more

BYD Sealion 8 Premium AWD: the $90,000 question
Pros

• Looks pretty sensational
  
• True luxury in the second row
  
• Smooth performance and handling
  

Cons ⌘ Read more

Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
USA Today reports:

Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden gadget’s release was later delayed to October before being pushed back again to … ⌘ Read more

Sarkozy-Kadhafi: le résumé vidéo de la neuvième semaine du procès en appel
Mercredi 13 mai, le parquet général a réclamé la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy pour association de malfaiteurs, corruption, recel de détournement de fonds publics et financement illégal de campagne. Au terme de leurs réquisitions, les avocats généraux ont requis contre lui une peine de sept ans de prison ferme, 300 000 euros d’amende et cinq ans d’inéligibilité. Le résumé … ⌘ Read more

Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves In Fight Against Bears
Japan’s worsening bear problem has created a shortage of handmade “Monster Wolf” robots, which are $4,000 solar-powered scarecrow-like devices with glowing eyes, sensors, and blaring sounds designed to frighten the animals away. “We make them by hand. We cannot make them fast enough now. We are asking our customers to wait two to three months,” company president Y … ⌘ Read more

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Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years
A Bitcoin holder reportedly recovered 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000 with the help of Anthropic’s Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they changed their wallet password while “stoned” and forgot it, unable to regain access for more than 11 years. Tom’s Hardware reports:
After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks a … ⌘ Read more

Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring
Cisco’s stock soared 17% after the company announced it will cut nearly 4,000 jobs as it shifts investment and staffing toward higher-growth AI opportunities. CNBC reports: CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the latest round of job cuts will begin on May 14. Cisco is the latest company to announce head count reductions tied to AI. “The companies … ⌘ Read more

Procès libyen en appel: le parquet général réclame sept ans de prison contre Nicolas Sarkozy
Les trois magistrats représentant l’accusation ont requis une peine de sept ans de prison ferme, 300 000 euros d’amende et une inéligibilité de cinq ans contre l’ancien président. Des peines de prison, ferme ou avec sursis, ont également été réclamées contre ses ex-ministres Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux et Éric Woerth. ⌘ Read more

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Jugée pour tentative d’escroquerie, Sophia Chikirou conteste les accusations, le parquet les minimise
Accusée d’avoir tenté d’escroquer la webtélé Le Média qu’elle dirigeait en 2018, la députée LFI était jugée mardi à Paris. Le parquet, qui a reconnu que ce n’était «pas l’affaire du siècle», a requis 50 000 euros d’amende. ⌘ Read more

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7-Octobre: un nouveau rapport accuse le Hamas de violences sexuelles «systématiques» et «à grande échelle»
La commission créée spécifiquement pour enquêter sur les crimes sexuels du Hamas a rendu un rapport de 300 pages, fruit de 430 entretiens, auditions et réunions et du visionnage de 10 000 photographies et séquences vidéo. ⌘ Read more

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A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed
A Georgia data center developed by QTS used nearly 30 million gallons of water through two unaccounted-for connections before residents complained about low water pressure and the county utility discovered the issue. “All told, the developer, Quality Technology Services, owed nearly $150,000 for using more than 29 million gallons of unaccounted-for water,” … ⌘ Read more

L’ancienne ministre Caroline Cayeux condamnée pour fraude fiscale
L’ex-maire de Beauvais, éphémère ministre d’Emmanuel Macron en 2022, a plaidé coupable dans l’enquête ouverte sur une minoration de son patrimoine de plus de 11 millions d’euros. Elle a été condamnée à dix mois de prison avec sursis, 100 000 euros d’amende et vingt-quatre mois d’inéligibilité. ⌘ Read more

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Netlify and found more than 5,000 of them that had v … ⌘ Read more

En Dordogne, un renard mal-aimé… et des initiatives pour enrayer le massacre
Plus de 500 000 renards sont tués en France chaque année. Parce qu’il figure sur la liste des espèces «susceptibles d’occasionner des dégâts», l’animal est en danger en permanence. Cette réglementation, en cours de réévaluation, est vivement contestée. Notamment en Dordogne, où des personnes s’engagent pour préserver le goupil. ⌘ Read more

Messe, Éric Ciotti et goodies: à Nice, le tour de force de l’enseignement privé catholique
Mercredi 6 mai, plus de 2 000 enseignants et enseignantes des établissements catholiques privés sous contrat étaient réunis à Nice par le diocèse. Présenté comme une «journée pédagogique», l’événement a viré à la démonstration de force. ⌘ Read more

145 000 euros en quatre ans et demi: les notes de frais très parisiennes de l’Occitane Carole Delga
La présidente du conseil régional d’Occitanie collectionne les déplacements en avion et les nuits d’hôtel haut de gamme à Paris. Des dépenses essentiellement liées à ses fonctions à la tête de l’association Régions de France. ⌘ Read more

Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
NewtonsLaw writes: According to Realtor.com, a California startup called Span plans to partner with Nvidia, PulteGroup, and other homebuilders to equip new homes with mini-data centers, so as to relieve the need to build and power much larger traditional centers. The article states the company “can install 8,000 XFRA units ab … ⌘ Read more

Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches
A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK’s Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The Register reports: The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes ma … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars
Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets – worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars’ Tatooine. “To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets … had been identified in the universe,” reports the Guardian. “More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun.” The Gua … ⌘ Read more

Asus Zenbook A16 (2026) Review: Savor the Power, Ignore the Beige
This $2,000 Asus laptop delivers breathtaking performance thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, but at the cost of nearly everything else. ⌘ Read more

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Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the suspect took $195,000 from the bank’s vault and fled before the police arrived. A detective interviewed witnesses and reviewed the bank’s security footage. But with no leads, the … ⌘ Read more

[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window
By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.1-rc1
and closed the 7.1 merge window, 12,996 non-merge changesets had been
pulled into the mainline repository; just over 9,000 of those arrived after
the first-half summary was written. These
changes were more driver-oriented than those seen earlier, but still also
included many new features across the kernel as a whole. ⌘ Read more

Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone’s Location Data
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres:

Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location … ⌘ Read more

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. ⌘ Read more

US Special Forces Soldier Arrested For Polymarket Bets On Maduro Raid
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro to notch more than $400,000 in profits on P … ⌘ Read more