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Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request (r/worldnews)

• Leather_Net_3330: its not even tuesday yet.
• Flimsy_Category_9369: This feels like Groundhog Day at this point
• lastpassonright: This idiot has absolutely no way out of this mess.
• Temporary-Canary-346: Sorry there were attacks scheduled for tomorrow?!?

Bodies of missing Italian divers found in Maldives (r/news)

• ScottScanlon: Sad situation all around, but you can’t pay me enough to be going deep into caves in the ocean.
• Tyrrox: The had an improper gas mix for the depth they went. It’s a sad story but unfortunately even tenured diving professionals get complacent with the dangers.
• ThriftyMegaMan: New YouTube video from like 12 different content creators coming in 3, 2, 1,
• Hefty_Anywhere_8537: I’m a diver, and very nearly died on a 50m nitrox dive in French Polynesia. Traumatic experience, this is so sad and tragic.

Active shooter reported at Islamic Center of San Diego: Police (r/news)

• lostroadrunner22: Its over, both shooters are dead.
• YOSHIMIvPROBOTS: Police say shooters appeared to have killed themselves.
• Brilliant-Concern620: People are celebrating it on YouTube. We are living in sick times.
• Jamie00003: Can you just stop for 5 minutes America?

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth (r/worldnews)

• Catchphrase1228: It’s the bugs again!
• orangelity: Am I to understand that our entire planet’s radar capabilities to provide us with radar information on these types of objects were dependent on only one telescope (which collapsed 6 years ago) and one antenna (which is currently down for extended maintenance)?
• TheOriginalBroCone: Why are redditors so weird about wanting people to die from asteroid strikes? 
• RandomPantsAppear: Getting hit by an asteroid feels like it would fit right in with the 2020s itinerary. 

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? (r/AskReddit)

• xxleoxangelxx: Fast food
• myotheroneders: Fast food. The prices are so stupid that I can go to my locally owned sports bar and get much better food for a comparable price. I can’t justify spending that same amount of money for shitty food.
• garej: Food delivery. Buying a taxi for a burrito is too expensive.
• queenmellyy: Beer/wine/liquor at a restaurant. The drink shouldn’t cost as much as a meal.

TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving. (r/todayilearned)

• Gargomon251: Wait his SON? What the hell did HE do?
• SeaBearsFoam: And that’s where the Thanksgiving tradition of killing one of your family members and putting their head on a spike came from.
• LAAccountant: He was killed by another native.
• Porlarta: Deeply misleading way to talk about King Phillips war.

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META PLANS LAYOFFS IN 3 BATCHES GLOBALLY WEDNESDAY: RTRS (Blind)

• vNFr16: H1bs prioritized?
• xytcyiuo (eBay): Is anyone getting any work done with all this anticipation?
• UQu4gs6Z (Meta): Feeling anxious…
• GasonJ (Marqeta): Are debelopers affected though?

Is AI actually helping you ship faster? (Blind)

• rkigxvwkfi (Netflix): Only slightly in corporate setting because of review/planning/alignment/etc. much much faster for my side projects because i dont need any approval
• mXsM13: Everyone tells me how productive it has made them. I see 5000 line PRs left and right. But what is really being produced? Do any of the big tech sites have anything new and great? Are your releases bigger or better than before? I am just not seeing the end result.
• Ysbsbrb (Google): No because I just work less
• mUEm22 (eBay): coding is only a small part of software engineering. And most people don’t like AI documentation slop.

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (r/technology)

• EntireBig7258: building data centers in phoenix and then being surprised they make it hotter is like building a fireplace in a sauna and wondering why it got warm
• justmitzie: Great idea. Build something that raises temps and also sucks up water. In the desert.
• torgofjungle: Ahh I see we want to remove what little water was left in Phoenix
• Slippery-ape: In Phoenix at that. Where Asphalt remelts.

Senator Adam Schiff Proposes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Pay for Own Power (r/technology)

• mattreyu: Sorry, what now? Why on earth would power-hungry private companies not have to pay for their own power?
• alchemyDev: How the hell isn’t this already a thing?
• Decimit-: What is this magical idea of the business paying for the things they use??!!!
• FriedWhy: This is outraging! What’s next? Making companies pay taxes? Pay workers livable wages? The left just does not know when enough is enough. /s

314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @antv, echarts-for-react, size-sensor, timeago.js (r/programming)

• SupermarketAntique32: Just another tuesday for NPM
• Maybe-monad: the s in npm stands for security
• dark_mode_everything: Why does this keep happening to us asks only package manager where this keeps happening regularly.
• Independent_Image_59: Is it just me or major CVEs got way too frequent now?

Creator of C++: “AI-generated code isn’t ready - it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate” (r/singularity)

• OrkWithNoTeef: It would take at least two singularities for AI to understand C++ variadic template metaprogramming compiler errors
• jferments: Code that people write using AI tools is not “impossible to validate”. You validate it exactly the same way you validate code written by humans who aren’t using AI tools.
• SgtChrome: Love Bjarne, but mentioning specific problems like that will look shortsighted when, two models down the line, AI will inevitably not make those mistakes anymore.
• AddingAUsername: As someone that (for some reason) likes C++, I can definitely say that using AI is much harder for it and much more micro-intensive. It’s much harder to vibecode etc. so I understand where he is coming from.

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A solar plant in Minnesota planted flowers beneath its panels, and soon monarch butterflies and dozens of new plant species began to appear (r/news)

• Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Finally. Some good news.
• Laniidae_: This is solarpunk and I’m here for it
• CMG30: It’s almost like the push to ban solar on agricultural land is a paid astroturf campaign to delay renewable energy and preserve fossil profits…
• guinnypig: There are a zillion of these solar farms around me. I want this to happen so badly!

2 Navy jets crash during air show in Idaho, 4 crew members eject safely (r/news)

• bassicallyinsane: What a great use of 136 million dollars
• MountainlessBiking: I’m glad when I fuck up at work it’s just an email or something. I can’t imagine the verbal abuse this would cause 
• Rare_Contract_8657: I’d be really interested to see what caused the crash. Was it user error? Equipment malfunction? Glad the pilots are all safe though!
• NigeySaid: I saw the video and I’m still baffled by them all surviving

Latest militant attacks on schools in Nigeria leave more than 80 children missing, officials say (r/news)

• OkBuy4754: Heartbreaking. Nigeria needs real security reform, not just empty promises again.
• IBitePrettyPeople: Religious warfare in the big 2026
• Vepariga: only the weak prey on the defenseless.

Zelenskyy Confirms Ukraine Was Behind Massive Moscow Drone Strike (r/worldnews)

• dimgwar: Tell Cersei,. I want her to know it was me
• CaptCurmudgeon: I love that phrasing – long range sanctions.
• Undernown: This really hammered home how Ukraine allowed Putin to have a safe victory day parade.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? (r/AskReddit)

• SparkyandDolche: The people on the Coldplay “kiss cam.”
• AdeptVeterinarian541: The white lady who called the cops on a black man who was bird watching in a public park and asked her to put her dog on a leash. When she called the police she was screaming about a “black man trying to get me” and he was this nerdy looking guy who watches birds. She had a very lucrative job at Franklin Templeton Investments, she was fired.
• NOT-packers-fan2022: The FBI agent that did the back flip in a bar, dropped his gun, grabbed it, negligent discharge, someone was hit but lived, arrested, prosecuted and terminated.
• cageytalker: That woman who tweeted that she was flying to Africa and she hoped she didn’t get AIDS. She turned off her phone and when she landed, she saw that her life exploded.

TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was “too good” and classified him as an advantage player. (r/todayilearned)

• WelshBathBoy: This is why the house always wins, making perfectly sensible game play ‘against the rules’. Counting cards is just using a bit of deduction by keeping tabs of the cards played - hardly cheating.
• wrighteghe7: This is such a hilarious rule. What kind of fucking game is it where its “cheating” if you win at it and why people play it still?
• I_Never_Use_Slash_S: Guess he wasn’t acting in The Accountant.
• SorryAboutLater: How can you tell if someone is counting cards? Can you just kick anyone out for winning and accuse them of this.

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Tokenmaxxing is a problem and it makes actual legitimate workers look bad. (Blind)

• wDEN53 (Booking.com): more tokens = more hallucinations, just wait for this shit to blow up in a really bad way, then, perhaps, this obsession will settle
• ca\$ (Capital One): I token max by doing my actual job. I don’t have time to waste an AI budget I just have too much work to do. Routinely I run 10 claudes at a time
• gritwest (Careem): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ~ Goodharts Law
• rav444m3 (Microsoft): It’s also an asshole move. There’s a real physical cost to AI and it’s incredibly wasteful with physical infrastructure

Microsoft AI vs. Microsoft CoreAI WLB (Blind)

• gmKY75 (Microsoft): I’d say it’s team dependent but generally coreAI is more relaxed. MAI has at least 4 days RTO, coreAI is 3
• extmem (Meta): MAI is higher pay and CoreAI is just Microsoft pay
• nzwswing79: Layoffs expected, no wonder both are toxic
• HAw!qwtz (Microsoft): Internal transfer from Azure to MAI, any salary increase?

Google L7 or OpenAI L5? (Blind)

• &=(1«31) (OpenAI): OpenAI is an incredible place to work. Far far better than Google.
• ventiventi: OpenAI for sure. You want to join Google in 2005 rather than Google in 2026
• djskdbejeo (Apple): TC for l5 OpenAI should be 1.5M. They cut your rsu in half
• xrhaig8 (Google): Until Altman is gone from OAI I would choose Google, guy is a walking lawsuit.

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (r/technology)

• notanfan: The researcher explained that they “just can’t come up with an explanation beside the fact that this was intentional. Also for whatever reason, only windows 11 (+Server 2022/2025) are affect, windows 10 is not.”
• New-Ranger-8960: There has never been a better time to ditch Microsoft products and services
• asdf_lord: Operating systems are too important to be closed source.
• Mama_Office_141: Snowden leaks told us this in 2013. The whole world should be moving away from American software like France is doing

An AI hate wave is here (r/technology)

• freshairequalsducks: Needs more hate tbh
• Laserdollarz: AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets. 
• hypernsansa: Should’ve started earlier, if you ask me
• unwelcome_flesh_sack: Let it build into a hate monsoon which covers the earth. Fuck these billionaire assholes trying to create a cyberpunk dystopia.

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ (r/technology)

• Sweaty_Rub4322: Is this the only way to even get your application looked at at this point?
• williamgman: LinkedIn = Facebook for work.
• gplusplus314: The actual article is garbage. Anyone find the actual prompt injection example?
• ScheduleNo5736: This is genuinely brilliant AND terrifying at the same time ngl

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Maldives military diver dies while trying to recover scuba diving victims in underwater cave: Officials (r/news)

• Fitdoc50: I really hope I don’t die in an underwater cave. How to prevent this?
• shoulda-known-better: I thought the first rule was don’t go back for people in cave diving
• girusatuku: What is the #1 cause of death among cave divers? Cave diving. What is #2? Retrieving the bodies of those who died from #1.

Humpback whale released after spectacular rescue effort found dead (r/news)

• KimJongFunk: So many marine biologists and veterinarians advised against moving this whale but the social media uproar demanded action and this is what happened. RIP Timmy :(
• FrankieTheD: Once a whale at the point it’s disoriented and beaching its pretty slim odds right? Remember a few cases in the news it rarely works out
• Masterweedo: Sadly, I didn’t expect any other outcome.

At least 3 killed, numerous residential buildings hit in mass drone attack on Moscow region (r/worldnews)

• xmuskorx: Ukrainian telegram channels are posting oil infrastructure burning in Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk (basically a suburb of Moscow)
• BionicShenanigans: Can you imagine hearing this a couple years ago? Ukraine has the initiative
• Sonyguyus: How dare Ukraine invade the country that invaded it first!

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike (r/news)

• Humble_Diner32: I, a long time union member and a third generation union worker, stand with them. Let’s unionize the American workforce.
• RoyalZeal: I stand with the workers, if they were being taken care of they wouldn’t be striking.
• paleo2002: The LIRR is the largest commuter train system in North America? That’s sad. I thought NJT or something in California would be larger.

What industry is actually a complete scam, but everyone accepts it? (r/AskReddit)

• Embarrassed_Ask8293: Ticketmaster
• boomlakshmi: Wedding industry
• bigfatgeekboy: Time shares. Payday loans.

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Anthropic hiring is basically closed to the public (Blind)

• texasholde (Apple): Have you tried messaging a recruiter? That got me an interview without a referral.
• purefect (Everpure): Nah, they’re just closed to ex-Amazon workers.
• nzwswing79: I self reject before any anthropic job get posted

Stock up 17%. Cisco still firing people… (Blind)

• fj8ne7hs1 (Transformco): Cisco is not the company it once was a decade ago.
• greatful19 (Apple): I worked hard at Cisco 20+ years back! Glad I kept some of the old espp stocks!
• LegRooom (Google): I don’t know why people still ‘work hard’. Do the bare minimum and enjoy your time with your family.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support (r/technology)

• number1dipshit: Good! What kinda bullshit is that? You pay for a product and they just make it obsolete unless you break some rules? Fuck amazon
• CondiMesmer: If a company ends support, they should legally be required to open source and let it be flashed.
• killerrin: Just waiting for the EU to crack down on them…any day now.

Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead (r/technology)

• tc100292: Palantir dies when?
• Zeraru: Palantir’s business model is Supervillainy as a Service.
• electrobento: Palantir is an enemy to humanity.

America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why | Fortune (r/technology)

• bigfuzzydog: Someone tell that to my CEO who just this year brought us back to the office full time
• Toby-Finkelstein: Seems like a complete market failure because so many companies are cutting WFH
• DontAsk0205: Yet companies keep mandating RTO. The worst part is that there’s no reasoning with the people who make these decisions.

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‘Point of no return’: 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin (r/worldnews)

• asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf: When even Switzerland joins support for an international tribunal you should be able to see the writing on the wall.
• The-marx-channel: Putin’s place should be in the Hague
• Golden–: Yeah, this is meaningless unless you actually plan to arrest and prosecute him.

Mass casualty incident’ after explosion near Maine lumber complex (r/news)

• DNAturation: Sounds like a fire started and turned into a sawdust explosion.
• HorrorAd6729: Unbelievably dangerous situation. Reports indicate a wood shaving silo exploded while crews were already on the scene fighting a warehouse fire, which is why so many firefighters are among the 11 injured. Sending 10 patients to a Level 1 trauma center and calling multiple maydays shows just how catastrophic the blast was. Grateful that all mill staff were safely accounted for, but this is a massive blow to Mid-Coast Maine.
• b0xturtl3: Don’t forget most firefighters in Maine are volunteer.

Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest (r/news)

• mastermidget23: Reading the article, this pos went to the protest masked up with gun, literally on camera talked about how he was going to try to get them all to gang up on him to arrest them, while he had people in the distance film for evidence. Fucking psychopaths with no self awareness like Rittenhouse going to protests just to make them dangerous and still think of themselves as “the good guys”.
• OhNoIBoffedIt: Other cops are like “you’re supposed to be in uniform when you commit crimes, dude.”
• Iribumkiak: He is just going to get another police job in another jurisdiction.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? (r/AskReddit)

• obligated_existence: The hole in the ozone layer. One of our biggest (and only) global environmental success stories.
• Longwell2020: Clean water
• chickenmcdruggets: Anything solved by vaccines

TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (r/todayilearned)

• StaleSunTease: hongwu turned into one of the most paranoid emperors in chinese history and she’s basically the only reason his purges didn’t get even worse.
• Own_Bar2063: This did not stop him from having a huge harem of Korean and Mongolian concubines, and from them he had 26 sons and 16 daughters.
• derpdelurk: I would also be devoted to someone that provided breast cakes.

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I hate the engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI. I also want to be one of them. (Blind)

• RnBnG (Uber): Ignore anyone trying to troll, it’s normal to grapple with a contradiction like this. I have prep notes on both Anthropic and OpenAI’s processes Well, if I’m being honest, I only have Anthropic but I am planning on getting my hands on info about Open AI howver I can.
• dhcuvsk (Amazon): Engineers are not doing much. It’s the researchers that are pushing the model breakthroughs.
• SqgE48 (Spotify): The problem is not the engineers… they are just doing their work, the problem is capitalism and the fact that now companies that dominate the fucking economy can do the same with way less.

Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)

• rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
• XqXe67: Yet people will be clamoring to join the second they post a job.
• BB-18 (Google): What a POS company

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (r/technology)

• darkrose3333: This country needs to rewrite its employment laws. Companies shouldn’t be able to layoff just to get a temporary bump on the books. Stop destroying peoples’ lives just so number go up you sick fucks
• Majestically-Silver: As someone who was affected by one of their layoffs last year and is still looking for work, fuck them.
• HoosierRed: Hey just remember that Tech is there to exploit you, not to carry us all into a better age.

The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly (r/technology)

• Syzygy2323: I’m just waiting for the AI bubble to burst so I can buy RAM and SSDs again without taking out a second mortgage.
• RidetheSchlange: An AI backlash would not be ugly. It would be warranted.
• Luna-D-reams: “Why is everyone so mad at me? I’m only trying to take everyone’s jobs, water, and electricity!”

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.” (r/technology)

• Severus-Snape-DaGod: Data centers should be required to finance and build their own power generation instead of shifting those costs onto residents.
• King_Kung: I’m pretty sure we could reverse it if we really wanted to
• Curious_Maximum_639: Irreversible because corporations only increase prices.

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US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad (r/news)

• Mutopiano: It’s always the ones you most suspect.
• Hrekires: Normally I wouldn’t care about consensual behavior between adults but considering Border Patrol would kill US citizens for less… please kindly fuck off.
• IlVeroStronzo: This guy just went to do abroad what he can’t do back home legally or for cheap lol

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial (r/news)

• southendgirl: Is this an Onion article?
• TheGooch01: Fucking head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.
• Ok_Pollution7093: VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at endangered Hawaii monk seal’s head (r/news)

• Nv2U: First time I’ve seen “US agents arrest…” in a headline lately and been happy.
• brispence: I’m sure there would be a line of people waiting around the island to throw a rock at this chud’s head.
• Hnl2Nrt2025: I believe there are some local people in lockup ready to greet him

CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US (r/news)

• Xsiah: Over 3000 people in the US have had measles this year - how about you monitor them and everyone they’re infecting with their stupidity, or the stupidity of their parents.
• Flash_ina_pan: K, hopefully it doesn’t spread. I don’t think I could stand dealing with the absolute shitbirds a national medical emergency tends to bring out, again.
• Loose_Clock4873: Are we supposed to drink bleach yet?

US man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC (r/news)

• dotBombAU: They are doing this all over the world.
• xdeltax97: This is everywhere unfortunately
• Haunting_Explorer376: No shit. There was a expose on the one in Vancouver a few years ago

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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)

• fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
• tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
• yacdiz (Microsoft): LinkedIn has over 20k employees. To be reduced to 5k

Getting ready to be cut (Blind)

• gahhqbuau (Synopsys): Amazon managers should be banned from joining other companies.
• luvrboi (Amazon): Once you’re PIPed it’s already over, my boy. Take the time looking for a new gig now. Line up the last day either a new gig and severance, with a lil break in between. Chefs kiss. Good luck
• flqc47 (Amazon): Dont let them define you. Pip doesn’t mean you are not good at all. Some mgr is just a selfish, mediocre person. The env not a good fit for you. Your luck begins from now!

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI (r/technology)

• marvbinks: Get ready for the lowest test scores in 133 years!
• In-All-Unseriousness: I bet someone tries to sneak in with smart glasses.
• Munchingmarshmallows: There are schools that have unproctored finals???

‘A’ Grades Are Suddenly Everywhere Since the Arrival of ChatGPT (r/technology)

• aiodigitalfootprint: So glad I graduated college before the ChatGPT boom. I feel so incredibly lucky
• Modem_Sound_67: but in terms of actual mastery of the content… probably closer to ‘F’
• LucentG: Education will need to adapt, stricter testing environments and a higher expectation from students in demonstrating their knowledge in all other assignments and grading avenues.

Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (r/technology)

• generalsilliness: Let’s get rid of the poor. They can be replaced by AI now. It’s not profitable to waste resources on them.
• anyparties: What if we had, hold on what’s it called again, affordable housing instead?
• redditobserverone: Why don’t the tech billionaires build them on their sprawling properties.