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1201.

Congress Could Require EV Drivers to Pay $130 a Year for Road Maintenance (cnet.com)

2026-05-19 | by See Full Bio | get EV Road Tax Sticker → | tags: build america 250 act, transportation, infrastructure bill

1202.

Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (news.ycombinator.com)

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1203.

The Onion’s next move after buying InfoWars? A documentary called ‘Birth of a Nation,’ says CEO Ben Collins (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | tags: the onion, infowars, ben collins

1204.

Max-severity flaw in ChromaDB for AI apps allows server hijacking (bleepingcomputer.com)

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1205.

Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map (news.ycombinator.com)

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1206.

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash can slash enterprise AI costs by more than $1 billion a year (venturebeat.com)

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1207.

The economic power of narrative storytelling (feeds.feedburner.com)

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1208.

A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | by Kyle Dickman | tags: los alamos, maniac computer, fermi–pasta–ulam–tsingou

1209.

Democrats preview how they’d go after the Ticketmaster settlement if they regain power (theverge.com)

2026-05-19 | by Lauren Feiner | get Ticketmaster Anti-Trust Guide → | tags: ticketmaster, live nation, antitrust

1210.

Verified by Spotify is expanding to podcasts, so you can avoid low-quality slop (androidauthority.com)

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1211.

Spotify is launching verification badges for podcasts to help listeners avoid AI slop (engadget.com)

2026-05-19 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Podcast Verification Badge Sticker → | tags: spotify, verification badges, ai voice cloning

1212.

In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites (arstechnica.com)

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1213.

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1 channel sound card: A decent 2026 upgrade for analog audio (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX → | tags: creative sound blaster, audigy fx pro, logitech z906

1214.

The First Reactions to ‘Masters of the Universe’ Are Here (gizmodo.com)

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1215.

Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated Podcasts (slashdot.org)

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1216.

Meet the children’s literature startup that wants to unseat Scholastic as the king of the book fair (feeds.feedburner.com)

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1217.

Europe Tests Laser Links As Satellite Comms Outgrow Radio (slashdot.org)

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1218.

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | by Matt Owen | get Fender S-Style Guitar Pickguard → | tags: fender, stratocaster, lsl instruments

1219.

PlayStation Exclusives Aren't Coming To PC Anymore (slashdot.org)

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1220.

Amazon's Alexa can now generate podcasts on whatever topic you want. But, will anyone listen? (techspot.com)

2026-05-18 | get Echo Dot (5th Gen) → | tags: amazon alexa, washington post, jeff bezos

1221.

Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE (news.ycombinator.com)

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1222.

loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get Loopmasters Sample Pack → | tags: livecoding, music, ide

1223.

We let AIs run radio stations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get AI Radio Station Software → | tags: andon labs, ai radio stations, gpt-5.5

1224.

9to5Mac Daily: May 18, 2026 – Apple Card promo, Siri rumors (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-18 | by Seth Kurkowski | get Apple Card Monthly Planner → | tags: apple card, siri, 9to5mac

1225.

Spotify’s recent sudden downtime may have been political payback, not just a routine outage (androidauthority.com)

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1226.

Google’s latest Gemini test could frustrate free users fast (androidauthority.com)

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1227.

How to Watch a House-Sized Asteroid Make an ‘Extremely Close’ Approach to Earth Today (gizmodo.com)

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1228.

Travis Knight Sounds Like He Just Gets ‘Masters of the Universe’ (gizmodo.com)

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1229.

Fuel Tank Breaches Expand Scope of Iran's Cyber Offensive (darkreading.com)

2026-05-18 | by Elizabeth Montalbano | get Cybersecurity USB Defense Kit → | tags: attacks, critical, critical infrastructure

1230.

What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is (news.ycombinator.com)

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