CBS’s new MAGA-friendly anchor triggers staff revolt: ‘He completely lost the room’
CBS News’ newly appointed primetime anchor Tony Dokoupil, hand-selected by Trump-friendly network chief Bari Weiss, has gotten off to an awkward start — and behind
Trump brutally mocked on CNN over bizarre Gold Card sales claim: ‘Guy might be dishonest’
A couple of political pundits broke into laughter when they heard President Tweety McTreason claim that he sold $1.3 billion worth of gold cards, his
World Cup final tickets go on sale for $2.3m each
Tickets for this summer’s football World Cup final have gone on sale for more than $2m each.
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.
Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, cancelling 6,000 open roles, and planning additional cuts for H2 2026.
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stacks, deploying pre-trained AI agents into air-gapped and compliance-restricted environments. One
Gartner: Global IT spending to grow by 13.5% this year
Global IT spending is expected to rise this year to $6.31 trillion, according to a new forecast from Gartner, a 13.5% increase compared to 2025.
Apple may be the only laptop vendor to grow in 2026
Chinese market research firm Sigmaintell expects Apple to be the only company to see growth in the laptop market this year. Overall, Sigmaintel predicts global notebook shipments
Iran war live: Lebanon truce extended; Trump says time not on Tehran’s side
Death toll from Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza has reached 72,568 with 172,338 injured: Gaza’s Health Ministry.
US professors sue university over arrest during pro-Palestine protest
Philosophy professor Noelle McAfee says university failed to protect students and staff in crackdown on protests.
US soldier charged with using Polymarket to bet on Nicolas Maduro abduction
The suspect, 38-year-old Gannon Ken Van Dyke, allegedly made $400,000 from insider knowledge of the Venezuela attack.
‘A landmark moment for the field’: FDA approves first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness
A gene therapy made by Regeneron is the first treatment of its kind approved for genetic hearing loss.
‘Strong, undeniable public examples of something positive’: Astronaut Chris Hadfield on why Artemis II hit him hard, and why we need to send a guitar to the moon
Astronaut Chris Hadfield discusses the value and risks of space travel, his emotional response to the Artemis II mission, and his love of music ahead
‘Kraken’ octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean
A close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.
How Artemis will help the U.S. create a moon base
How Artemis will help the U.S. create a moon base