[El Pais] - Toby Muse, author: โ€˜We live in a world that #PabloEscobar could never have imaginedโ€™

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https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-05-30/toby-muse-author-we-live-in-a-world-that-pablo-escobar-could-never-have-imagined.html

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Toby Muse, author: โ€˜We live in a world that Pablo Escobar could never have imaginedโ€™

The author of โ€˜Kilo,โ€™ a seminal book on the machinery that fuels drug trafficking, analyzes the failure of the war on drugs and Trumpโ€™s intervention in the fight against the cartels

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[Fortune] - #Microsoft reports are exposing AIโ€™s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

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Microsoft reports are exposing AIโ€™s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

Fortune

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Rabbi who bulldozed Palestinian homes selected for Israel's national celebration โ€ข FRANCE 24

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop โ€” That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

That Privacy Guy!

[Al Jazeera] - #Argentina MPs approve bill allowing mining in glaciers

Thousands of people have demonstrated against the bill, which scientists and activists say threatens water resources.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/9/argentinas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-mining-in-glaciers?traffic_source=rss

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Argentina MPs approve bill allowing mining in glaciers

Thousands of people have demonstrated against the bill, which scientists and activists say threatens water resources.

Al Jazeera
PRESS REVIEW โ€“ Thursday, May 1: The Spanish papers continue to wonder what โ€“ or who โ€“ was responsible for the Great Blackout that plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness this week. Is renewable energy to blame? Also: US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr alarms medical experts over his plans to impose placebo testing of vaccines. Plus: Steven Spielberg reveals what he thinks is the greatest film of all time.#Americas #PressReview #Health #USA #Vaccines
Press Review - RFK Jr alarms medical experts with vaccine 'placebo testing' plans
Press Review - RFK Jr alarms medical experts with vaccine 'placebo testing' plans

PRESS REVIEW โ€“ Thursday, May 1: The Spanish papers continue to wonder what โ€“ or who โ€“ was responsible for the Great Blackout that plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness this week. Is renewable energy to blame? Also: US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr alarms medical experts over his plans to impose placebo testing of vaccines. Plus: Steven Spielberg reveals what he thinks is the greatest film of all time.

FRANCE 24
After borking my Pixel 4a battery, Google borks me, too

The devil is in the details.

Ars Technica