LIRR riders experiencing hours-long commutes to NYC as train strike enters its third day - CBS News
Updated on: May 18, 2026 / 6:02 PM EDT / CBS New York Editor's note: The LIRR unions and MTA reached a tentative deal to end the strike on Monday evening. Below is our coverage of Day 3 of the strike prior to the announcement.
Swatch shuts stores after crowds queue for new watch - BBC
ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleRumeana JahangirBBCHundreds of people queued outside the Liverpool branch on Saturday morningSwatch has closed its stores in cities across the UK after hundreds of people queued outside branches eager to buy a new limited edition watch. The Swiss firm said it would not open its branches in London "in light of safety considerations for both our customers and our staff".
Cell phone data shows Trump's trade policies are hurting more than just Canadian tourism - Business Insider
The economic effects of President Donald Trump's disruptive approach to foreign policy are coming into sharper focus with a year's worth of data.As expected, a range of numbers like border crossings and hotel bookings show how Trump's trade war has killed off a large segment of Canadian tourism.But new analysis from the University of Toronto's School of Cities now shows that other areas of the economy have taken a major hit as well.Using cell phone data, researchers Karen Chapple, Yihoi Jung, and Jeff Allen documented an average year-over-year decline in Canadian visits to US cities of approximately 42%. That's a much larger hit than the 25% drop previously estimated based on border crossing data."The top 20 cities were a number of big metros that aren't exactly known as, you know, big tourist areas," Chapple told Business Insider.While the drop-offs in Las Vegas and Orlando could reasonably be attributed to less tourism, major commercial hubs like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston also saw significant declines.
OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos - The Verge
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization’s code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher risk ones.