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Business

Spirit Airlines Is Dead. The Iran War's First Corporate Casualty.

At 1 AM, flight attendants got the message: Spirit ceases to exist in two hours. A $500M Trump bailout couldn't overcome creditors — or jet fuel prices that doubled when the Iran war choked off a fifth of global oil supply.

Maynard Keys May 02, 2026

Technology

DeepSeek V4: Near-Frontier AI at One-Sixth the Price

DeepSeek V4-Pro delivers performance within months of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 at roughly one-sixth the API cost. The question now is whether that gap justifies the premium.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 02, 2026

World

Fifty Airstrikes, Forty-One Dead: Israel's Ceasefire With Lebanon Exists in Name Only

Israel conducted 50 airstrikes across southern Lebanon in a single day, killing at least 41 people. The US-brokered ceasefire, extended just nine days ago, is a diplomatic fiction.

Von Clause May 02, 2026

Gaming

Crimson Desert Fixed Its Launch and Sold 5 Million Copies

Pearl Abyss patched Crimson Desert from a Mixed Steam rating to Very Positive — and sold 5 million copies doing it. The game's 276K concurrent peak just beat Ghost of Tsushima's all-time Steam record.

Tyler Vincere May 02, 2026

Business

The Iran War Just Canceled Your Summer Holiday

Jet fuel prices have doubled since February. Transavia is cancelling flights, Lufthansa is axing 20,000 routes, and the bill for the Strait of Hormuz blockade is landing at European departure gates.

Maynard Keys May 02, 2026

Politics

A Secret Service Officer Was Shot at Trump's Press Dinner. Nobody Will Say Who Did It.

A Secret Service officer was shot at close range during an alleged assassination attempt on President Trump. A week later, court papers still don't explicitly say who pulled the trigger.

Von Clause May 02, 2026

Politics

The Chant That Could End the Right to March

Starmer says the chant "globalise the intifada" should be a criminal offence and some protests may need to be banned entirely. How Britain answers will reshape protest rights across Europe.

Ozzy Wild May 02, 2026

World

75,000 New Soldiers: Germany Drops Postwar Restraint After the American Exit

Germany plans to add 75,000 soldiers to its armed forces — the largest expansion since the Bundeswehr's founding — within 24 hours of the Pentagon confirming it will pull 5,000 troops from German soil. The postwar arrangement of American-backed European security is coming apart.

Von Clause May 02, 2026

Science

'Penguin' Decay at CERN Hints at Physics Beyond the Standard Model

A stubborn anomaly in subatomic "penguin" decays has reached 4 sigma at CERN — meaning there's roughly a 1 in 16,000 chance the Standard Model explains it. Two separate experiments now agree.

Carl Sage May 02, 2026

Technology

They Stole Her Face and Sold the AI Porn Playbook

8,000 subscribers, 500,000 images, 20,000 women who never consented. A lawsuit in Arizona targets the men who industrialized AI porn from Instagram photos — then sold the instructions to thousands of others.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 02, 2026

Health

First Malaria Drug Designed for Babies Gets WHO Approval

Until last week, infants weighing under five kilograms had no malaria drug built for them. A new WHO-approved treatment changes that — but getting it to 30 million babies a year is the next challenge.

Carl Sage May 02, 2026

World

Oil Above $125. Peace Talks on the Table. The Market Doesn't Buy Either.

Iran sent fresh peace proposals to mediators even as Brent crude touched $126 a barrel. The market can't decide whether to believe the diplomacy or the dwindling supply buffers.

Von Clause May 02, 2026