- Former Playboy model Holly Madison blasts Hollywood as dark place teeming with ‘leeches’
- Hidden REAL ID hassles facing airline travelers and states to avoid
- Nuclear EMP attack moves to big screen as author reflects on 'invisible lifeline'
- Outcast son in wealthy family's 'Shakespearean' downfall held advantage he didn't realize: author
- Former State Department analyst pleads guilty to embezzling more than $650K
- Texas Gov. Abbott signs $1 billion voucher program into law, capping off win for school choice advocates
- SNL says Trump’s been in office ‘100 years’ while mocking papal ambitions and executive order frenzy
- Tom Cruise, Ana de Armas spotted strolling together in London park on her 37th birthday
- Illegal immigrants charged in brutal murder during California home invasion, robbery
- Elon Musk does not regret work at DOGE, support for Trump: 'Essential' for America to 'reach greater heights'
- Fan who fell over wall onto field at Pirates game 'awake and alert,' GoFundMe says
- Rece Davis clears air after tense on-air clash with fellow ESPN star over Shedeur Sanders' NFL Draft drop
- At least 1 dead after small plane crashes into California neighborhood
- Christina Haack settles divorce from Josh Hall, says she 'can't wait to move on' after third marriage
- Mexican president declines Trump's offer of US troops to help fight drug cartels
- Wearing three AI-powered devices, the $50 Bee Pioneer, $199 Limitless Pendant, and $159 Plaud NotePin, shows how the wearables can be useful but also creepy (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
- Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)
- NYC-based Blooming Health, an online coordination network for social service agencies and aging care providers, raised a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners (Aaron Weitzman/Axios)
- Salt Lake City-based Canopy, which provides a firm-wide operating system for accounting, raised a $70M Series C led by Viking Global Investors (FinSMEs)
- Rhode Island-based Utilidata, which develops AI-enabled smart meters and grid control devices with Nvidia chips for energy utilities, raised a $60.3M Series C (Jeff St. John/Canary Media)
- Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)
- London-based Navro, which develops APIs to enable businesses to send and receive international payments with various payment options, raised a $41M Series B (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)
- Berlin-based Pliant, which helps corporates combine physical and virtual credit cards with automation tools to streamline spending, raised a $40M Series B (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
- Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set-up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)
- Minimus, which offers secure, minimal container images and VMs to let enterprises reduce vulnerability exposure in the development workflows, raised a $51M seed (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
- Doppel, which provides an AI-powered social engineering detection service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B led by Bessemer at a $205M valuation (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
- An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites (Bloomberg)
- Duolingo's "AI-first" announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
- Closing the de minimis exemption cuts into Big Tech ad revenues, as Temu cut US digital ad spending by 31% and Shein by 19% in the two weeks starting March 31 (New York Times)
- Inside Disco Corp, which has a radical HR system where no employee has a boss and manufactures ~75% of the machines used to cut, grind, and dice semiconductors (Financial Times)