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Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find (slashdot.org)

2026-05-16 | get Wood Stove Air Purifier → | tags: wood burning, lead pollution, university of massachusetts

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Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots (arstechnica.com)

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How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75% (venturebeat.com)

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The Best Outdoor Deals From the REI Anniversary Sale 2026 (wired.com)

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Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials (news.ycombinator.com)

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 16, #1792 (cnet.com)

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Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California (news.ycombinator.com)

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WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64 (news.ycombinator.com)

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I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator (news.ycombinator.com)

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Switch to plug-in solar? My advice after testing the DIY energy tech at home (zdnet.com)

2026-05-15 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Portable Solar Panel Charger → | tags: plug-in solar, microinverters, utah legislation

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Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Aston Villa vs. Liverpool From Anywhere Live (cnet.com)

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How Far Has NASA’s Perseverance Rover Traveled on Mars? The Answer May Surprise You (gizmodo.com)

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Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss (arstechnica.com)

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Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim — 15GB to require extra security measures, company confirms it is 'testing a new storage policy for new accounts' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-15 | by Kunal Khullar | get Google One Cloud Storage → | tags: google cloud storage, google account, phone number verification

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At Harvard, over 60% of grades given last year were A’s. Now the university is weighing a grade inflation crackdown (feeds.feedburner.com)

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Companies say they can track Starlink users. Should the government be worried? (feeds.feedburner.com)

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Pope blasts the use of AI in warfare, saying it’s leading to a ‘spiral of annihilation’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

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Students Cheating With AI Caused This Ivy League School to Upend a 133-Year-Old Tradition (cnet.com)

2026-05-15 | by See Full Bio | get AI Detection Software Tool → | tags: princeton university, ai cheating, proctoring

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Students Cheating With AI Caused This Ivy League School to Overturn a 133-Year-Old Tradition (cnet.com)

2026-05-15 | by See Full Bio | get AI Detection Software Tool → | tags: princeton university, ai cheating, proctoring

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Stable One UI 8.5 starts making its way to older Galaxy flagships in the US (androidauthority.com)

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6 Enrollment Myths Universities Still Believe — And Why It’s Costing Them Students (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | by Ashish Fernando | tags: university enrollment, data-driven strategies, student mobility

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Save a huge $229 on a two-year NordVPN subscription and get three extra months free — massive 73% saving for privacy-focused VPN with no-logs policy unlocks access to over 7400 servers across 118 different countries for just $83 (tomshardware.com)

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Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does (news.ycombinator.com)

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UChicago offers free tuition for some students as college costs skyrocket, especially for private institutions (feeds.feedburner.com)

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The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover M makes its case. (arstechnica.com)

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The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case. (arstechnica.com)

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Americans Would Rather Have a Nuclear Plant In Their Backyard Than a Datacenter (slashdot.org)

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The promises and pitfalls of personalized health (theverge.com)

2026-05-15 | by Victoria Song | get Personalized Health Monitoring Kit → | tags: pcos, pmos, verge

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When it comes to road safety, quick-build strategies may be better than ‘perfect’ solutions (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | get Reflective Road Safety Tape → | tags: road diets, local government, federal grant