Salem Media agrees to be acquired by The Christian Community Foundation, doing business as WaterStone, in a deal that will take Salem Media private (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/waterstone-agrees-to-buy-salem-media/
Donald Trump signed orders on Monday that slashed the size of two national monuments in southern Utah by more than 90%
to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region.
The proclamations reduced the
Bears Ears National Monument to 121,100 acres from 1.36 million acres,
and cut the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to 181,500 acres from 1.87 million acres.
In a data breach notification published on its Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany websites, the German discount supermarket chain Lidl said an IT security incident at one of its IT service providers affected some of the data stored by Lidl Online Shop customers.
https://www.
Belfast unrest: 'Racists and groups allied to the far right are now unified across Europe' - Spotlight - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260612-belfast-unrest-racists-and-groups-allied-to-the-far-right-are-now-unified-across-europe
VICTORY: Trump Administration Agrees to Restore Pride Flag at Stonewall National Monument (Lambda Legal)
https://lambdalegal.org/newsroom/us_20260413_victory-trump-administration-agrees-to-restore-pride-flag-at-stonewall/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p30#a260414p30
"Arctic warming alters weather patterns across the globe"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/373422/anthropic-claude-personality-changes-model-language…
Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/digg-tries-again-this-time-as-an-ai-news-agg…
A wildfire erupted in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley on Monday afternoon, with three to five acres burning near 1500 Alamo Pintado Road. Forward progress was stopped by 4:45 p.m., but the initial estimate was that the fire could reach 20 acres. Numerous structures were briefly threatened by the Alamo Fire, which appears to have started near the historic Buttonwood Farm & Vineyard.