Alex Dobrenko

 🤖📰 If the threat of AI was a Marvel villain, it’d have to be Ultron. Which would make the news organizations currently considering forming a coalition to deal with AI… The Avengers?

✈️❌ Today is projected to be the busiest day at US airports since before the pandemic, with an estimated 2.8 million travelers. And if the past week is any indication, these folks should expect to run into some issues.

🌏 Around the world: Norway’s Hornelen mountain (Europe’s highest sea cliff) recently opened three new climbing routes, the French government deployed 40K police officers as major cities experienced a third straight night of protests, & more

⚖️🎓 Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Together, the two rulings mean that US colleges and universities can no longer explicitly consider a prospective student’s race in their admissions process.

🔥 It’s Friday, June 30th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎛️ The Stream Deck Mobile 2.0 turns your iPhone into a six-button control panel that can automate your mundane, repetitive tasks on the computer -->

☀️🧲 After several years of downtime, the Sun is now entering a particularly active period for solar flares – which experts say have the potential to throw the entire world back into the analog age.

🌏 Around the world: A newly-discovered painting in the ruins of Pompeii depicts a possible ancient ancestor of pizza, protests broke out across Paris after a 17-y/o driver was shot and killed by police, and more.

🚨💰 The DOJ has its lasso out again (yeehaw!). Yesterday, the agency announced that it’s charged 78 individuals with $2.5 billion in healthcare fraud as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort.

🔥 It’s Thursday, June 29th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🛞🎤 Ryan Seacrest will take over as Wheel of Fortune's new host starting next year. Seacrest will replace Pat Sajek, who recently retired after 41 seasons in the role --> 

📝 Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was able to commit suicide in a Manhattan prison cell in 2019 due to “numerous and serious failures” by the employees who worked there, per a new report from the DOJ Inspector General.

🪪 Costco is about to channel Netflix and clamp down on membership sharing.

🌏 Around the world: All South Korean citizens will become a year or two younger starting today, Canada has already set a record for most carbon emitted from wildfires in a given year, and more.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, June 28th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖 Only one in three US adults have used an AI-powered tool, per a new poll out from The Verge and Vox →

🚀🌌 The European Space Agency will soon channel its inner Darth Vader and turn to the dark side. And by that we mean launch its new Euclid space probe, which will study the mysterious “dark universe” – aka dark energy and dark matter – in more detail than ever before.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, June 27th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

💊💰 Based on the results of two recently published studies, a series of effective weight loss pills developed by pharma giants like Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer could soon be available to the public. And Wall Street is pretty stoked.

❌🤖 Google just launched “Perspectives,” a new tab of search results that’s made up entirely of human-generated content around the web →