May 2026
First Brands’ creditor sues BDO over car parts maker’s collapse
Hedge fund Black Diamond claims at least $70mn in damages against audit firm Source link
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter Hit the Dance Floor on ‘Bring Your Love’
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter have teamed up for their collaborative song “Bring Your Love,” the lead single off the former’s upcoming album “Confessions II.” Madonna takes first verse duties before passing it to Carpenter on the single, which has touches of house and disco. “Bring your love ’cause you cannot shake me / Bring your…
All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19
Scientists equipped Escherichia coli (example pictured) with ribosomes that lacked the amino acid isoleucine.Credit: James Cavallini/Science Photo Library All life on Earth depends on the same molecular alphabet: 20 amino acids that cells string together to make proteins. But now, scientists have reengineered bacteria to run a core part of their cellular machinery with just…
Vote in our L.A. Sports Hall of Fame
Welcome to the Sports Report, our weekday morning newsletter covering L.A. sports. To sign up to receive it via email (it’s free), go here. The Sports Report Hall of Fame Those of you who read the Dodgers Dugout newsletter know that for the last few years, we have done a Dodgers Dugout Hall of Fame,…
Chinese spy agency warns nation’s young people against dropping out
‘Foreign forces’ blamed for rising number of disaffected youths who are quitting their careers to ‘lie flat’ Source link
Celestica crams 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single switch • The Register
If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica’s latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis. The networking vendor this week began taking orders for its DS6000 family of switches, which are aimed primarily at high-performance computing applications like AI training and inference. The switches will be offered in…
A tour of Brazil’s wildly polarised politics
Lula’s voters and Bolsonaro’s voters don’t agree on much. But they all hate the corruption that plagues Brazil Source link
US lawmakers vote to reduce science spending – but reject Trump’s massive cuts
President Trump’s proposal for huge cuts to a number of key science agencies was rejected by a Congressional panel Thursday. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Members of the US House of Representatives signaled that they would again reject a proposal by the administration of US President Donald Trump to slash science spending. But the bill advanced by…
Lakers’ loss to Rockets pushes them close to worst kind of history
There have been 160 times an NBA team has led a series three games to none. There have been 160 times that team has won the series. Marvel in that statistic. Appreciate its power. Wax in its endurance. Embrace its existence. Because the Lakers are two losses from blowing it to bits. Lakers guard Austin…