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CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
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CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

Trump White House puts preschool funding first on its list of "woke programs" to be eliminated.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cuts-to-Woke-Programs-Fact-Sheet.pdf

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remain active and affect air quality in parts of Canada and the US, according to officials.
Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week.
About 17,000 people there were evacuated by Saturday, along with 1,300 in Alberta.
About 8,000 people in Saskatchewan had been relocated as leaders there said the number could climb.
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Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.

»Wieso ich künftig keine Carsharing-Autos mehr fahre«
Spoiler:
Auto falsch abgestellt, abgeschleppt und er soll zahlen. Das Ganze passierte nicht einmal, nicht zweimal, sondern dreimal. 🤦‍♂️
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heise | Smart Plugs und Home Assistant: Kaffeemaschine, Flurlicht und Co. automatisieren
Smarte Zwischenstecker lassen sich in Home Assistant integrieren, was wiederum praktische Automationen erlaubt. Wir liefern Beispiele.

Wendelstein 7-X stellt neuen Fusionsrekord auf
In der Forschungsanlage Wendelstein 7-X ist ein Rekord gelungen. Die Forscher werten das als Fortschritt auf dem Weg zur kommerziellen Nutzung der Kernfusion.
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Nach Zugunfall: Prüfer warnen vor systematischem Problem mit Flüsterbremsen
Anwohnern sind die Flüsterbremsen lieb, in der Schweiz sollen sie einen schweren Unfall verursacht haben. Was die Deutsche Bahn dazu sagt.

Astronomen klären Entstehung des heißen Gasriesen Wasp-121b
Der Exoplanet Wasp-121b umkreist seinen Stern in einer sehr engen Bahn. Entstanden ist er jedoch viel weiter weg, wie Forscher herausgefunden haben.