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Factory Farming Is Already A Public Health Crisis
Is factory farming a public health crisis? A new study has found that simply living near a factory farm can increase cancer risk

Chartbeat data from 535 US and UK publishers shows growth in traffic from peer-to-peer sharing and push notifications in recent years, as search traffic falls (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publisher-traffic-surging-push-notificati…

Publisher Traffic Is Surging From an Unlikely Source
Push notifications and peer-to-peer sharing have grown dramatically, according to proprietary Chartbeat data shared with ADWEEK

The Waymo effect. More affluent workers in SF are switching from sustainable transit to unsustainable ride-hails, with Mayor Lurie's Waymo boosterism pouring fuel on the fire. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/public-transit-dem…

On Tuesday, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a contested oil and gas leasing plan for its Bakersfield Field Office,
which manages public lands from Fresno to Ventura counties.
Under the approved plan, the BLM is offering up 850,000 acres across the Central Coast to future drilling and fracking. 
The BLM Bakersfield Field Office manages more than 1.2 million acres of public lands and federal mineral estate in Central California.
It supports about 3,5…

Feds Opens Up 850,000 Acres of Central Coast to Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking
Public land now open to leasing includes a parcel next to Cate School in Carpinteria, a public park in Lompoc, and land bordering Lake Cachuma.

The increasingly growing idea of “Google Zero” has me thinking that LMGT or LMGTFY is now pretty outdated.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2026/05/25/google-search-ai-overhaul-leaves-publishers-bracing-for-google-zer…

Google Search AI Overhaul Leaves Publishers Bracing For ‘Google Zero’
Google’s new AI Search experience is triggering fears across the media industry that publishers could lose the traffic lifeline that’s sustained the web for decades.

Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-opens-claude-s…

Anthropic Opens Claude Security Beta as Mythos Access Fight Deepens
Anthropic has published Claude Security today as a public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, turning a February research preview into a product for code scanning and patch workflows. It scans repositories, validates findings, and routes fixes through Claude Code. But the launch lands as the White House pushes back on expanded Mythos access, leaving Anthropic to draw a line between commercial defense and restricted frontier cyber capability for buyers.

In Q2, there were thirteen $1B US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/public/data-billion-dollar-startup-exits-ma-ipo…

Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still sizable startup exits through acquisition or IPO.

NYPR's new CEO Christy Tanner, a CBS News veteran, has eliminated many senior figures, surprising staff and unsettling some of its remaining leaders (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/31/2026/new-york-public-radios-new…

Exclusive: New York Public Radio’s new boss reorganizes the network
In her first four months on the job, Christy Tanner has swiftly eliminated many of NYPR’s seniormost figures.

Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit and Other Stuff and built by an early Twitter staffer, launches with ~500K restored Vine videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/jack-dorsey-backed-vine-reboot…

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.

Digital Content Next files an amicus brief in support of Amazon's Perplexity lawsuit, saying AI agents' unregulated access to content threatens news outlets (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/u

US publishers back Amazon in AI agent access dispute with Perplexity
US news publishers have backed Amazon in its lawsuit against Perplexity, saying unauthorised AI agent access to content should be blocked.