Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount…

Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family…

Under Pete Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/hegseth-chaos-pentagon.html
The defense secretary’s inner circle is in disarray, and distrust is growing among civil servants and senior military officials.…

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_crosswalk_button_hacking/
Video: AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done
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Elon Sounds Extremely Depressed After Tesla Profits Plunge 71% https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013
The oligarch said he'll scale back his involvement in DOGE but will remain throughout Trump's presidency.…

The 'Sift' strategy: A four-step method for spotting misinformation https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240509-the-sift-strategy-a-four-step-method-for-spotting-misinformation
Pioneered by digital literacy experts, the "Sift" strategy is a technique for…

84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record https://apnews.com/article/coral-reef-bleaching-climate-change-fdbeddf7ae3ccc9d7cf85d1c3267e581
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs…

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The Trump Administration’s War on Children https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child…

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/windows_10_ltsc/
: Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options
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Fight the billionaire takeover - Greenpeace International https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/
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Using their vast fortunes, they weaken regulations…

Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants Shouldn’t Get Trials Before Deportation https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/trump-undocumented-immigrants-trials-deportation.html
The president claimed that countries were sending their prisoners to the United…

Fix It, Then Pass It On: iFixit Joins Forces with Back Market https://www.ifixit.com/News/109306/fix-it-then-pass-it-on-ifixit-joins-forces-with-back-market
Let’s say your phone starts slowing down. Battery life’s tanking. The screen’s got a few, uh, character…

Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences” https://www.propublica.org/article/us-department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff issued the…

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote…

Anti-trans posts pass muster under Meta’s new hate-speech rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/23/meta-oversight-board-trans-content-moderation-hate-speech/
Meta leaders Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg told the social media company’s Oversight…

Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/world/europe/ukraine-cease-fire-talks-london.html
Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire plan would freeze territory along the current front lines of the…

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-fines-apple-meta-breaking-europe-digital-markets-act-dma/
The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets…

Trump's executive orders target colleges like Harvard, DEI in education https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-orders-education-9fb7e1f707f0df93e3b28d4eff984d04
President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America’s colleges and the accreditors…