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Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

According to an internal memo, Meta plans to begin its sweeping layoffs on May 20.

TechCrunch Tech • 11m

Mayor Whitmire vows to save Blue Santa program, says HPD officers received overtime pay for participation

Organizers for the annual holiday toy drive announced its end because it can no longer receive resources from the city, which faces a projected budget deficit of $174 million.

Houston Public Media Local • 12m

Investors are worried about private credit’s close ties to software stocks. So, why is money flooding into these ETFs?

Some investors are shunning private-credit funds, but billions of dollars are still flowing into funds with a big software exposure.

MarketWatch Top Stories Business • 13m

Introducing GPT-5.5

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Hacker News Tech • 18m

‘The Lord has taken care of me’: I’m 74. I went from earning $14 an hour to retiring with $3.4 million. Here’s how I did it.

“I have always thought that I did not have any real talents or skills.”

MarketWatch Top Stories Business • 18m

Tesla is in a no-win situation as it faces the ire of its earliest customers

The company plans to replace old vehicle computers in a plan that one analyst said seemed “expensive and perhaps not even sensible.”

MarketWatch Top Stories Business • 18m

Giant, kraken-like octopuses may have ruled the Cretaceous deep

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

Science News Science • 19m

Women in Spring learn to take their power back with self-defense training against attackers

Violence against women is a problem we don’t talk about enough—until it hits someone we know. But the numbers already tell the story: globally, nearly one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence.

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Music to our ears! Jordan HS senior Jaiden Suh volunteers sharing his love of music at nursing homes and hospitals

KPRC 2 and American Furniture Warehouse are surprising 20 deserving high school seniors with scholarships in 2026.

KPRC 2 Click2Houston Local • 26m

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Mayor Whitmire vows to save Blue Santa program, says HPD officers received overtime pay for participation

Houston Public Media 12m

Women in Spring learn to take their power back with self-defense training against attackers

KPRC 2 Click2Houston 24m

Music to our ears! Jordan HS senior Jaiden Suh volunteers sharing his love of music at nursing homes and hospitals

KPRC 2 Click2Houston 26m

‘It just doesn’t fit’: Residents in a small city near Galveston oppose major coastal development

Houston Public Media 57m

Justice Department's watchdog is reviewing compliance with the law mandating Epstein files release

KPRC 2 Click2Houston 1h

Federal authorities arrest 2 dozen Mexican Mafia members and associates in California

KPRC 2 Click2Houston 2h

Average US long-term mortgage rate slips to 6.23%, its third weekly drop

KPRC 2 Click2Houston 2h

Meet the Artemis Generation — students studying space in the new era of exploration

Houston Public Media 4h

LPGA is keeping with tradition at the first major. But it’s a pool, not a pond in Houston

Houston Public Media 4h

Data centers, clean energy are hot topics at annual EarthX conference

Houston Public Media 4h

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Trump tells BBC that King's visit could 'absolutely' help repair relations with UK

BBC US & Canada 43m

Author details the spy network that took on America's post-WWII Nazi groups

NPR U.S. News 1h

My five-minute phone call with President Trump

BBC US & Canada 1h

Can a mentalist trick Trump? Oz Pearlman will try in a room full of journalists

NPR U.S. News 1h

Warner Bros shareholders approve Paramount's $111bn takeover

BBC US & Canada 2h

'Pictures don't do it justice' - Giant ice chunks ram into Michigan homes

BBC US & Canada 2h

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Dozens of Mexican mafia members arrested in California crackdown

The Guardian World 37m

Trump tells BBC that King's visit could 'absolutely' help repair relations with UK

Huge chunk of glacier blocks Everest route in peak climbing season

Warner Bros shareholders approve Paramount's $111bn takeover

South African police chief suspended over $20m health contract

More than 500 people killed in Tanzania election violence, inquiry finds

US-Kuwaiti journalist held in Kuwait over social media posts acquitted, lawyers say

Two trains collide head-on in Denmark, leaving five critically hurt

MrBeast's company sued by ex-employee over sexual harassment claim

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Investors are worried about private credit’s close ties to software stocks. So, why is money flooding into these ETFs?

MarketWatch Top Stories 13m

‘The Lord has taken care of me’: I’m 74. I went from earning $14 an hour to retiring with $3.4 million. Here’s how I did it.

MarketWatch Top Stories 18m

Tesla is in a no-win situation as it faces the ire of its earliest customers

MarketWatch Top Stories 18m

Spirit Airlines is close to getting a bailout. What’s in it for U.S. taxpayers?

MarketWatch Top Stories 1h

I’m 56. My home has $400,000 in equity. If I lose my job, should I do a reverse mortgage?

MarketWatch Top Stories 1h

I will inherit my parents’ $1.5 million estate. Do I fire the adviser who charges a 3% fee?

MarketWatch Top Stories 1h

A long life isn’t cheap: Underestimating your longevity will cost you

MarketWatch Top Stories 1h

Don’t dip into your 401(k) for emergency cash without weighing these costs

MarketWatch Top Stories 1h

Here’s what American Airlines’ CEO just said about a possible merger with United

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The chip sector is on a historic tear, fueled by some unsuspecting stocks

MarketWatch Top Stories 2h

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Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

Introducing GPT-5.5

Hacker News 18m

Ikea’s new inflatable chair doesn’t look like an inflatable chair

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

Hacker News 31m

Great news, the Moto G Stylus is no longer teeming with bloatware

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

Hacker News 49m

Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming

Apple's M4 Mac mini, including the $599 one, is gradually becoming impossible to buy

Ars Technica 1h

Keychron’s customizable V1 mechanical keyboard is back down to $45

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons

Ars Technica 1h

Bluesky now supports better quality photos

Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of U.S. employees

Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats

Ars Technica 1h

DJI’s new Lito Series beginner drones start at less than $400

Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch

Ars Technica 1h

Incident with Multple GitHub Services

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets

Meta is revamping its cross-app management system

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data

Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures

X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees

To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

BMW bumps the 7 Series for 2027, adds all-new battery

Ars Technica 3h

Salmon raises $100M in equity and debt to bring digital credit to underbanked Filipinos

Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

Ars Technica 3h

Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack

Netflix can’t seem to follow up its biggest shows

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign

Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco

Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

Labor unrest at Samsung may worsen memory chip supply issues

Tesla drops Musk’s $29B ‘interim’ award after Delaware court restored larger pay package

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Giant, kraken-like octopuses may have ruled the Cretaceous deep

Science News 19m

NASA Welcomes Jordan as 63rd Artemis Accords Signatory

NASA Breaking News 47m

Clouds of water ice thread stellar nurseries in the Milky Way

Science News 1h

Liquid Lifeline: NASA Tech Could Create IV Fluid In Space

NASA Breaking News 1h

NASA Releases Powerful LAVA Software to US Aerospace Industry

NASA Breaking News 2h

NASA’s Chandra Finds Young Stars Dim Quickly

NASA Breaking News 3h

Some plants can feed on dust that lands on their leaves

Science News 3h

AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter

ScienceDaily Top Science 4h