Twitter is officially X.com now (www.theverge.com)
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)
May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....
Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker bashes Pride Month, tells women to stay in the kitchen (touchdownwire.usatoday.com)
Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker criticized Pride Month and suggested women should stay in the kitchen during a commencement address....
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions (www.cnbc.com)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Russian Copium Banner for May 9 Victory Day - Su-30SM over the Pentagon. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape (www.gamespot.com)
I don’t think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I’m letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
Malaysia plans 'orangutan diplomacy' to boost palm oil sales (www.dw.com)
Malaysia intends to present orangutans to nations that import its palm oil. The move aims to allay concerns that palm oil production is often linked to the destruction of the endangered apes’ habitats....
Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko dies in war with Russia (www.usatoday.com)
Israel to close Al Jazeera news network in the country (www.cnn.com)
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com (mastodon.social)
Trump vows to fight 'anti-white feeling' in US. His allies have a plan (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the U.S. will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life....
Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20240520 UPDATE: I just ran winupdate on an ancient win10 surface and after the same 643 error two more times, and running through all the available updates, it’s now reporting I’m up to date. yippee....
Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza, weapons experts say | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion, with police carrying riot shields bursting into a building that protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. On the other side of the country, clashes broke out early Wednesday between...
Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads (apnews.com)
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)
Facebook Has Lost $1 Billion Every Month On VR Since June 2022 (kotaku.com)
Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampment on UCLA campus (abc7.com)
South Korean military set to ban iPhones over ‘security’ concerns (www.straitstimes.com)
LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms (www.ign.com)
RIP. I hope the levels were backed up.
Trump trial: Prosecutors withhold witness lineup from former president’s team (gazette.com)
Prosecutors made the unusual decision this week to remain almost entirely mum about the order in which they planned to call their first witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York....
