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/
If you think billionaires should not be deciding our rights and freedoms? Sign now.
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…

Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you! https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you
Ubisoft forces people to connect to the internet before they can play a single player game
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Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/23/hegseth-signal-pentagon-computer/
The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable…

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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor https://www.propublica.org/article/ed-martin-trump-interim-dc-us-attorney-secret-judge-attacks
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and…

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only…