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The month's top story

Disney to close its "Star Wars" hotel that opened last year

The final guest stay will be September 30, so anyone who booked a reservation for beyond that date should contact Disney.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Google keeps failing its Nest customers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Sports

    First Rust code in the Windows 11 kernel

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. Vice files for Bankruptcy

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Bank Failures Visualized

    observablehq.com · 1 outlets

  3. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

    fdic.gov · 1 outlets

  4. I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

    blog.benjojo.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Venture Predation

    papers.ssrn.com · 1 outlets

  5. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  6. Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

    cbsnews.com · 1 outlets

  7. Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

    questdb.io · 1 outlets

  8. Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research

    bristol.ac.uk · 1 outlets

  9. The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  10. Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 45 stories

  1. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. 100K Context Windows

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

    ag.ny.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

    lost-at-sql.therobinlo · 2 outlets

  4. Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Windows on Btrfs

    lilysthings.org · 1 outlets

  6. Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Technology 611 stories

  1. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  2. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

    nytimes.com · 6 outlets

  3. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    cs.stanford.edu · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. How to set your domain as your handle

    arxiv.org · 3 outlets

  2. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  3. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

    subtls.pages.dev · 1 outlets

  4. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  5. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

    eff.org · 2 outlets

  6. Datomic is Free

    blog.datomic.com · 1 outlets

  7. OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form

    nitrokey.com · 2 outlets

  8. It's A(door)able

    ncase.me · 1 outlets

  9. MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

    boringreport.org · 1 outlets

  2. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

    beepberry.sqfmi.com · 1 outlets

  2. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

    github.com · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software

    scrapscript.org · 1 outlets

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