A small list of news I select mostly daily for those who want to follow world news in a distilled form, as I follow them. You might like to see also the Italian or French edition (not the same news).
News selection for May. 09, 2026
Drones and ancient revolutions in military affairs Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now Millions of students’ personal data stolen in major education breach see also another source and another one (Canva). A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower 60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour Would a falling population really be so bad? Apple is putting cameras in AirPods. What could possibly go wrong? Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ The world is trying to log off U.S. tech The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis Turkey rolls out intercontinental missile with purported 6,000km range Belgium: Europe Would Be “Naive” to Continue Clinging to Old Economic Model Starbucks CEO defends $9 coffee says ‘it’s not a $10 coffee and you get a premium experience’ Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion Male Birth Control Breakthrough: Scientists Find Way To Turn Sperm Production Off and Back On Ultra-processed foods, lifestyle management, and cardiovascular diseases: A clinical consensus statement of the European Society of Cardiology Council for Cardiology Practice and the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology Men now have fewer children than women Dirty Frag Linux Kernel Flaw Allows Local Privilege Escalation, Patch Now EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push just like China. Nazi follow nazis… Nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations, a Columbia Nursing AI-assisted audit finds The Number of Drones Being Deployed to Surveil Anti-Trump Protestors Is Staggering California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology Europol operated ‘shadow’ IT systems without data safeguards: Report Louisiana bill would bring biometric age checks to bars Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened An Introduction to Meshtastic US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support Why The Pentagon Is Quadrupling Missile Production, and Why It Won't Be Enough Russia's machine and tool production growing fast on innovation forced by sanctions Europe funds the Ukraine conflict with debt, Russia with cash The UK government’s plans for 15-minute cities forge ahead – starting in Bristol Another Wall Street Giant Is Plotting Its Escape From Mamdani's New York City: Report Ancient Settlement Older Than The Pyramids Discovered; Rewrites North American History The EU Is Pushing "Driver-Monitoring Cameras" - Here's Why… Saudi Arabia's $1Tn Wealth Fund Opens Shanghai Office As China Ties Deepen You might also be interested in today's press review in French or Italian.