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Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping, an AI-powered personal shopper that blends Alexa+'s context with deep product knowledge to personalize searches, compare items, show price history, set price alerts, automate carts and orders, and even shop across the web—available now in the US on the Amazon Shopping app/website and Echo Show, with a week-long rollout and no Prime required.
Instructure paid a ransom to the ShinyHunters gang after Canvas was breached twice, returning data for about 275 million users across 8,800 institutions and promising no extortion of customers. The monetary amount wasn’t disclosed, the deal arrived before a May 12 deadline, and Canvas environments are back online as investigators continue forensic work and security hardening.
Trump’s border-wall expansion in the Arizona desert damaged a rare Indigenous intaglio—a roughly 200‑foot ground etching resembling a fish and thought to be at least 1,000 years old—after heavy machinery cut a 60–70‑foot swath inside Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. The project’s DHS waivers to bypass environmental and Indigenous protections have alarmed Native communities and conservationists as hundreds of miles of barriers are rapidly built across the border, prompting calls for accountability and greater site protection.
China’s official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in April, beating expectations and signaling expansion, but growth cooled from March as new orders slowed. The non-manufacturing PMI contracted, while a private PMI jumped to 52.2—the strongest since December 2020—driven by solid demand and new product launches. Export orders rose, though input prices remained elevated due to oil amid Middle East tensions.
Pride of Detroit keeps its whimsical tradition alive by running a fully randomized 2026 NFL mock draft, drawing 32 players from a hat and assigning them to teams in draft order. The piece highlights plausible pairings (e.g., Jeremiah Love to the Titans) and noted misses for Detroit (like Carnell Tate) while reflecting on past years and inviting reader input on preferred matches.
NFL coaches evaluating the 2026 quarterback class view the group as fading from the hype, with Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza standing out as the top prospect likely to be a franchise starter, while Ty Simpson, Drew Allar, Garrett Nussmeier and Cade Klubnik draw mixed reviews on accuracy, system fit and development. Carson Beck is seen as a reliable backup option, and Cole Payton is a potential developmental piece. Overall, it’s a ‘beauty in the eye of the beholder’ class, prompting teams to eye 2027 prospects like Arch Manning, Dante Moore, C.J. Carr and Julian Sayin for the quarterback need.
The New York Mets extended their 10-game losing streak with a 4-2 defeat to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, highlighted by a sixth-inning three-run homer from Carson Kelly off Freddy Peralta after a 1-1 tie, following Mark Vientos’ early homer for the Mets. New York’s offense has gone quiet during this slide, and a late unearned run couldn’t muster a comeback, as the Mets’ season spirals in an ugly stretch.
Startups are turning videos of people doing chores (filmed by gig workers who can earn up to $25/hour) into training data for robot control software, using footage of laundry folding, dishwashing, and more to teach robots how to interpret sensor input and decide movements. The approach blends human videos, teleoperation, and simulated data to scale robot learning, a process that experts say is data-intensive and costly, with real-world deployment still years away.
Warner Bros. used CinemaCon to preview its upcoming slate, spotlighting Tom Cruise’s transformative turn as Digger, J.J. Abrams’ The Great Beyond, and a Clayface project, among other announced titles that signal a bold, multi-year lineup.
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview can identify vulnerabilities across systems and autonomously develop exploits, a capability the company says will force a cybersecurity rethink. It’s being tested with Project Glasswing among a limited group of tech giants to give defenders a head start, but experts are divided: some see it as a real threat that could accelerate exploit chains and zero-click attacks, while others view it as hype. Regardless, the rollout is framed as a wake-up call to move toward secure-by-design software and machine-scale defenses rather than relying solely on patching and reaction.
A green fireball was reported over northwest Ohio at about 4:52 a.m. Thursday, with video and sightings from Fostoria, Maumee, Swanton and Perrysburg, plus reports across southern Michigan and western Pennsylvania. This marks the third meteor-related sighting in the region in a little over two weeks, following a March 17 Medina County event described by NASA as a seven-ton small asteroid and a March 24 fireball over the Great Lakes. UToledo astronomer Michael Cushing notes that tiny space rocks constantly enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up; when larger they can produce a sonic boom, though no boom was reported this time. No immediate National Weather Service update was available.)
Salesforce will skip base salary raises for directors and above this year, opting to boost stock grants and bonuses for top performers; pay details will be revealed during performance reviews that begin later this month, with more directors receiving stock grants, higher average grants, and a 103% funded bonus pool, in a move aligned with a broader tech pivot toward equity-based compensation amid a roughly 37% drop in Salesforce stock over the past year.
Dayton James Webber, a professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee, is charged with first- and second-degree murder after allegedly shooting a man during an argument in a car near La Plata, Md. After the shooting, he reportedly pulled over and asked passengers to help remove the victim, then drove off with Wells still in the vehicle. The body was found hours later, and Webber was arrested after seeking treatment at a hospital; he’ll be extradited to Charles County to face charges.
Microsoft is facing consumer backlash over its aggressive Copilot AI integration across Windows 11, prompting a pledge to trim Copilot entry points in apps like Notepad, Snipping Tool, Photos, and Widgets and to focus on more useful, well-crafted features; critics warn of AI bloat and security risks, while users consider Linux or Apple’s MacBook Neo as alternatives amid Windows 12 rumors and ongoing update issues.
The Interior Department announced a $1 billion settlement with TotalEnergies to stop development of two offshore wind farms off New York and North Carolina, directing the funds toward oil and gas projects amid national-security concerns.