Florida Republicans reject plan to weaken childhood vaccine requirements

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/gop-led-florida-house-junks-desantis-plan-to-ease-vaccine-mandates/

Just minutes into a special session on Tuesday, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced that the Republican-led chamber would not take up a proposal from DeSantis to allow children to opt out of certain school vaccination requirements. The move effectively killed the proposal, which had been backed by the Senate.

The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/googles-privacy-maze-how-gemini-traps-you-and-your-data/

Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/

In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta ended its contract with the firm.

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in-years-surfaces-the-world-scrambles/

CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.

There is no male loneliness epidemic. It doesn't exist.

There's only a mass unmarked grave of men of died emotionally at seven years old and kept walking.

https://blog.mindlair.fr/the_male_loneliness_epidemic-en.html