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Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
There are thousands of billionaires across the world. But there is only one trillionaire. Elon Musk became the first person to amass a personal fortune of over $1,000,000,000,000—that’s 12 zeros—after shares of his rocket company SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange on June 12.
New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 05/28/2026 - 16:41The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
As tensions between President Donald Trump and Europe continue to simmer, the continent is accelerating its moves to reduce its addiction to US technology.
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 05/11/2026 - 13:25New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 04/23/2026 - 10:24AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 04/22/2026 - 16:12Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 04/16/2026 - 10:14The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office in September 2025 to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC, according to internal emails. The emails show the group routed its filing to Chairman Brendan Carr’s senior counsel, sidestepping career staff who typically review such complai