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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

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list “unmanageable” (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-18 Linux AI

A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 security update install issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-5-18 AI

A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses (www.wired.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Hackers earn $1,298,250 for 47 zero-days at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Germany

Exploit available for new DirtyDecrypt Linux root escalation flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Linux

Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 Iran

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-18 AI YouTube

The Surprising History of Warm Iranian-Jewish Relations (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-18 Iran

Digitally watched without consent: spyware as a tool of coercive control (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-18

In 2026, a lot of Taiwan's military equipment is just deadweight (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-18 Taiwan

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of ~$1.3M for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio (www.securityweek.com)
2026-5-18 Germany AI

On the Anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians have never been in more Peril (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-18

How White Christian Nationalists are trying to Hijack America's 250th Birthday (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-18 U.S.

Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, following a request by FSB's Chair (www.ft.com)
2026-5-18

Trump and Xi's economic ceasefire is holding – just (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-18 Trump

Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Samsung

Chinese chipmaker CXMT reports Q1 revenue up 719% YoY to ~$7.5B, net profit up 1,688% to $3.6B, and says Omdia ranks it No. 4 in DRAM with a 7.67% global share (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-18 China

Good intentions, invisible outcomes: the place of disability in development (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-18

The real Thucydides Trap is the story we keep telling ourselves (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-18

Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Iran Venezuela

Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable' (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 AI

Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC (betakit.com)
2026-5-18 Startup Quebec Equity

America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 U.S.

A look at Apple's ongoing strategy to repurpose “binned” chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple placed new A18 Pro orders for MacBook Neo amid its popularity (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Apple MacBook

New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 AI New York

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