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Grafana says stolen GitHub token let hackers steal codebase (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 GitHub

A look at Apple's ongoing strategy of repurposing binned chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple ordered more A18 Pros for the MacBook Neo amid its popularity (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Apple MacBook

Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin

Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised $300M at a ~$4B valuation, up from $3.1B after raising $153M in August 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18

Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin Iran Insurance

The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 AI

North Atlantic separation: What might follow a NATO divorce (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Google AI

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Lifetime access to 90+ cybersecurity courses is $50 right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18

EU ‘not very relevant' on global stage – ex-foreign policy chief (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Europe

Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 Trump AI Bannon

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18

Moscow to help African nation fight Ebola outbreak (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Africa Ebola

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Smartphones linked to plunging global birth rates – FT (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Three killed in major Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow: What we know so far (PHOTOS, VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Drone Ukraine

Canada reverses top honor after kids' charity co-founder convicted of raping minors (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Canada

The Spoiled Prince of Kiev: Zelensky has deceived and ruined his country with Western help (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

Patriotic protest or hate march? What is ‘Unite the Kingdom'? (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

Trump backs ‘status quo' on Taiwan – US envoy to United Nations (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Trump Taiwan

Russia strikes Ukraine in retaliation for Moscow drone raid – MOD (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Russia Drone Ukraine

Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 India VPN

How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Amazon AI

Food Inflation in America by Product: It Boils down to a Sharp Acceleration on Top of Already Very High Prices (wolfstreet.com)
2026-5-18 U.S. Inflation

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (electrek.co)
2026-5-18

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