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Hormuz Crisis: France declares Energy Sovereignty (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-3 France Energy

Iran War Redraws the Gulf: Old Rivalries, New Rifts (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-3 Iran

An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (www.nist.gov)
2026-5-3 China AI

A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (www.semafor.com)
2026-5-3 Boston Dynamics

Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-5-3 AI

Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-3 France

Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 China Iran

Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (mashable.com)
2026-5-3 Google

Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 NASA

Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3 Ban

Avoid “Lifestyle Creep” at All Costs (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-5-3

Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 YouTube

Critrical cPanel flaw mass-exploited in "Sorry" ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-3

WATCH Popular Russian TV host take a stab at Italy's PM over economy and immigration (www.rt.com)
2026-5-3 Russia Italy Immigration

RT crew films Israel striking Lebanon despite US-mediated truce (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-3 Israel Lebanon

Prof. Schlevogt's Compass No. 57: Liquidating tomorrow – When states kill possibility, not persons (www.rt.com)
2026-5-3

Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 Trump

The $19B "Nuclear AI" Energy Startup That Couldn't Sign a Single Client (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Energy Startup AI

Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Drone

An investigation finds Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-3 Iran

What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren't All About AI? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 AI Layoffs

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 China AI

An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem - by Asking AI (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 AI Mathematics

Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3

Ukrainian strike kills two teenagers in Russian region – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-5-3 Russia Ukraine

Ukrainian MP calls on Zelensky to fire Umerov over Mindich tapes (www.rt.com)
2026-5-3 Ukraine

Costumed Crowd 'Speedruns' Scientology Building For Social Media Trend (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Social Media

Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3

To the Trump Administration: Beware the So-Called Moderates (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-5-3 Trump

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