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Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (reuters.com)

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Relaxation of US day-trading rules opens door to YOLO trading, higher risk (reuters.com)

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SpaceX Moves Up Vesting Schedule for Employee Shares Before IPO (bloomberg.com)

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Big Tech's $300M election war chest rattles Democrats (ft.com)

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NYC Automated Employment Decision Tools: Frequently Asked Questions (2023) [pdf] (nyc.gov)

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Banks' soaring exposure to trading firms creating inherent fragility, warns S&P (ft.com)

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Elon Musk buys a fifth of his own Cybertrucks (msn.com)

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Lutnick's old firm pumps $10M into super PAC led by Tether executive (citationneeded.news)

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Period property drama as Shakespeare's London house discovered (thetimes.com)

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Why Anthropic and OpenAI are locking up their latest models (economist.com)

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US Moves to Block Illinois Swipe Fee Law During Banks' Appeal (bloomberglaw.com)

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Banks Tally $100B of Private-Credit Loans as Calm Urged (bloomberg.com)

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OpenAI snub shows UK's energy costs are killing industry (thetimes.com)

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Palo Alto Networks Founder Agrees to Buy California Bank for AI Revamp (wsj.com)

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New credit card will tap into borrowers' fossil-fuel rights (americanbanker.com)

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Trump administration admits a glaring error in its NY health fraud accusations (apnews.com)

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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1889) (gutenberg.org)

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Chimpanzees' bloody 'civil war' may offer insight into human conflict (thetimes.com)

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Mayflower hero was sold into slavery, hidden files reveal (thetimes.com)

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Digital Assets Rules Need Clarity (wsj.com)

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Wells Fargo whistleblower award slashed by Wall Street watchdog (ft.com)

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What Is Ghost Murmur? Secretive CIA Tool Linked to Iran Airman Rescue (newsweek.com)

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Top Medical Schools Next Higher Ed Battleground (bloomberg.com)

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Economic Civil War: States Push Laws to Shield Oil Companies from Accountability (propublica.org)

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Insurers' $1T Buildup in Private Credit Is Leaving Regulators in Dust (wsj.com)

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Russian military hackers reroute British internet users' traffic (ft.com)

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Private Credit Exodus Turns Moody's BDC Outlook to Negative (bloomberg.com)

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Grad Students Face Costly Private Loans After Federal Cuts (bloomberg.com)

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China restricts airspace for 40 days in signal of intense military activity (msn.com)

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Chinese pigs fed new menu as Beijing weans farmers off US soy (reuters.com)

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Tokenized Finance [pdf] (imf.org)

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The Endless Goodbye (theatlantic.com)

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Math at Project Gutenberg (April 2026 newsletter) (gutenberg.org)

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A simplified presentation of Einstein's unified field equations (1929) (gutenberg.org)

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Dlarc: The Radio Geek's Doomscrolling Antidote (radioworld.com)

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Microsoft Readies $10B AI Investment Plan in Japan (bloomberg.com)

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Amazon to Apply 3.5% Fuel Surcharge to Third-Party Sellers (wsj.com)

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Company backed by Trump sons to sell interceptors to Gulf states being attacked (apnews.com)

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Blackstone Squeezes Thoma Bravo and Its Ailing Software Company Medallia (bloomberg.com)

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Blue Owl limits redemptions on private credit funds after exit requests (msn.com)

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The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite (thenation.com)

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The Startup That Used AI and OpenClaw to Automate Its Own Developers (wsj.com)

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The Camps Promising to Turn You–Or Your Son–Into an Alpha Male (newyorker.com)

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Death of a refugee left at a doughnut shop by Border Patrol ruled homicide (apnews.com)

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Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent (wsj.com)

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Secret Codes and Yuan Fees Get Ships Through Iran's Hormuz Tollbooth (bloomberg.com)

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The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades (newyorker.com)

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Blackstone, Ares, Rivals Grilled by Congress over Private Credit (bloomberg.com)

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Crypto needs the yield compromise more than banks do (americanbanker.com)

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A spokesperson could not be reached for comment (because she doesn't exist) (ft.com)

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The Everest scandal: poisonings and fraud on the roof of the world (thetimes.com)

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Retro Rewind: A Boring Video Game I Can't Put Down (theatlantic.com)

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The Norwegian Billionaire Who Broke the Iditarod (thenation.com)

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Europe pushes back on some US Military operations as concerns over Iran mount (reuters.com)

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Dark Code (twitter.com/saranormous)

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The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest (newyorker.com)

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Pete Hegseth's broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack (ft.com)

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Private Credit Is Reeling, but New Rule May Allow It into 401(k)s (wsj.com)

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The Last Generation (newyorker.com)

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The hunger for 'content' is keeping us culturally stuck (ft.com)

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The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West (bloomberg.com)

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How to Know Yourself (theatlantic.com)

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Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland (apnews.com)

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Meet The 'Corporate Bro' Making Millions Satirizing Tech Sales (wsj.com)

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The AI Boom Is Missing the Secret Sauce of the 1990s (bloomberg.com)

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Australia's Social Media Ban Runs into a Wave of Teen Workarounds (bloomberg.com)

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Gulf Countries' Frustration with the US Grows as War Wears On (bloomberg.com)

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Red Teaming Would Fix Liberalism's Crisis (bloomberg.com)

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Build America, Buy America law causes construction delays amid US housing crisis (apnews.com)

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Why a company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center, not the sheriff (apnews.com)

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Trump Administration Plans to Require Higher Wages for H-1B Visa Holders (wsj.com)

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What Happens When a Whale Is Born? (newyorker.com)

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Vogue is barking up the wrong tree with lawsuit, says Dogue creator (thetimes.com)

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CoolIT's employees to get cash payouts with $4.75B sale to Ecolab (theglobeandmail.com)

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Should Investors Demand Better Liquidation Terms for SAFEs? (natlawreview.com)

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Russia sending drones to Iran, western intelligence says (ft.com)

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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years (theatlantic.com)

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Justice Department settles lawsuit from Michael Flynn for $1.2M (apnews.com)

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US Army raises enlistment age to 42, eases marijuana rules (oklahoman.com)

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Charting the OpenAI 'Ecosystem' (ft.com)

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How AI Kills at Scale (msukhareva.substack.com)

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What's in a Domain Name? An Explainer on Domain Investing (financialpoise.com)

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Tech system failed to warn ATCs of imminent crash at New York airport (ft.com)

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Behind the Curtain – America's next class war: AI fluency (axios.com)

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Meta Harmed Children, Allowing Adults to Prey on Them (wsj.com)

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Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Partnership After Sora Shuts Down (thewrap.com)

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Red Lobster's Last Gasp (bloomberg.com)

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Have You Paid Your "Intuit Tax"? (thenation.com)

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Misfits wanted: the VC firm looking to back 'unreasonable' founders (ft.com)

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Literary Celebrity, Mussolini Mouthpiece, American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound? (lithub.com)

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SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses before leaving (cnbc.com)

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GSA extends comments on AI clause after industry pushback (fedscoop.com)

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JPMorgan Offers Clients a New Way to Hedge AI Debt Risk (bloomberg.com)

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FedEx has started delivering AI training to over 400k workers (cnbc.com)

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Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move (thestreet.com)

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Re-examining Leon Trostsky's assassination (economist.com)

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Feeder funds fuel insurers' private credit binge (ft.com)

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JPMorgan deploys tech to monitor junior bankers' working hours (ft.com)

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Cyber actors linked to Russia targeting users of messaging apps, FBI says (reuters.com)

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Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight (newyorker.com)