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Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/11/millions-homes-london-essex-and-kent-sinking-climate-crisis-subsidence

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says "AI tools are great" but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list "unmanageable" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’

Hundreds of millions of dollars for securing the White House ballroom cannot be included in a Republican spending bill as currently written,
the Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s proposed immigration enforcement bill includes $1 billion for security measures related to what the administration calls the
“East Wing Modernization Project”
— which includes President Donald Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom
— and other …

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump’s ballroom ruled out of order in Senate
The Senate parliamentarian determined that a proposal to fund $1 billion for White House security cannot be included as written.

Hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump's ballroom ruled out of order in Senate (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/17/hundreds-millions-trumps-ballroom-ruled-out-order-senate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p43#a260517p43

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A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
saved 2019-08-25

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

Obama Presidential Center subcontractors claim they're owed millions and facing financial ruin ahead of grand opening (Michael Dorgan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/obama-presidential-center-subcontractors-claim-their-owed-millions-and-facing-financial-ruin-ahead-of-grand-opening/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p136#a260617p136

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

The Interior Department said on Wednesday that it would pay the energy developer Invenergy hundreds of millions of dollars
to abandon plans to build wind farms in the Atlantic and Pacific,
in the third such deal struck by the Trump administration to cancel offshore wind leases.
Under the agreement Invenergy will voluntarily surrender four leases in federal waters for wind farms that would have been located in the New York Bight, off the Central Coast of California and in th…

Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and others; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-stock-trade-tech-oge.html

Trump went big on tech stocks in first quarter of 2026, new filings show
Trump bought shares of Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Broadcom, Motorola and Dell worth millions, new ethics disclosure filings show.