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- Spotify tests Apple's resolve with new pricing update in the EU
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- The best gifts for teachers
- The Morning After: Testing the Rabbit R1's AI assistant skills
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- The best MacBook accessories for 2024
- Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids
- The best ereaders for 2024
- Threads has 150 million monthly users
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- PUBG will take a nostalgia-infused trip back to its first map in May
- JetBlue's in-flight entertainment system just got a watch party feature
- Threads is testing automatic archiving for posts
- WhatsApp is enabling passkey support on iOS
- The White House wants a zero-emission freight industry by 2040
- PBS Retro is a new FAST channel playing just the classics
- Rabbit R1 hands-on: Already more fun and accessible than the Humane AI Pin
- Google has delayed killing third-party cookies from Chrome (again)
- Joe Biden signs the bill that could ban TikTok in the United States
- Steam closes an early-access loophole in its refund policy
- Qualcomm is expanding its next-gen laptop chip line with the Snapdragon X Plus
- Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
- FTC bans employers from using noncompete clauses
- The best gifts for grads under $50
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- The Morning After: Senate passes the bill that could ban TikTok
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- Senate passes bill that could ban TikTok
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- Tesla previews ride-hailing experience ahead of August robotaxi unveil
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- Amazon’s updated grocery delivery program has some strings attached
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- Apple will host a virtual event on May 7th, ahead of WWDC
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- The Morning After: Meta teases a limited-edition Quest headset inspired by Xbox
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- Microsoft's lightweight Phi-3 Mini model can run on smartphones
Pinboard
- We Need To Rewild The Internet
- The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
- Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
- Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things — > Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
- AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
- Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
- This is a teenager
- Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time - Microsoft research — single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.
- Calculus Made Easy - Silvanus P. Thompson (1910) — http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27991120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38057837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081541
- 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9 – Map Happenings — from Daring Fireball James Killick, writing on Map Happenings: Today, I’d like to tell you about the Etak Navigator, a truly revolutionary product and the world’s first practical vehicle navigation system. [...] Nearly everything about the Etak Navigat…
- MarkdownDown - Convert any page to markdown
- Oh the Humanity
- Quill - Your powerful, rich text editor — Over two years of working on @quilljs, it has finally reached 1.0.
- Stop Acting Like You're Famous
- Prologue | Calculus Made Easy
- COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest | CBC Radio — I hope this is overblown, because it is terrifying.
- symbol.wtf
- Everything We Can't Describe in Music | Hazlitt
- Amazon ebooks: Are the Mikkelsen twins running a scam? Here’s our investigation - Vox
- Puzzles - JRMF
- Tips on how to structure your home directory
- The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
- My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — MY COMMENTS ARE IN THE GOOGLE DOC LINKED IN THE DROPBOX I SENT IN THE SLACK
- Meta Llama 3
- How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
- How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English | Technology | The Guardian — The article discusses the exploitation of African workers in the development of chatbots and the emergence of AI-ese, a distinct language used by AI assistants. It highlights the experiences of Mophat Okinyi, a former content moderator…
- MKBHDs for everything • Stratechery — Ben Thompson (who started offering subscriptions to his site ten years ago, and has done pretty well from it): when I publish something I’m not happy with, I have trouble sleeping. When tech companies or investors or anyone else is mad, I am free to not pay them any attention. Brownle…
- anthropics/anthropic-cookbook: A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude. — A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude. - anthropics/anthropic-cookbook
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers | Phillip Tennen
- Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests — Setting up PostgreSQL for tests is crucial for achieving performance and reliability. In this article, I'll explain how to set up PostgreSQL for tests and discuss some common pitfalls to avoid.
- Udio | Make your music
- Clap Or AI Gets It - Aftermath
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- How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright | WIRED — When the USCO granted Shupe’s request for copyright, it did not address the disability argument put forth but agreed with the appeal’s other argument. Shupe could be considered the author of “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial in…
- The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
- Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist
- They're Looting The Internet
- Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir – Sean Moriarity — I ended up creating an end-to-end example which used Nx, OpenAI APIs, and ElevenLabs to create an in-browser home automation assistant
- Chinese AI companies develop chatbots of dead loved ones - Rest of World — “Resurrecting” the dead has become a popular application of generative AI in China. It’s one element of an AI gold rush in the country, as entrepreneurs race to invent new consumer-facing apps on top of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. While…
- Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips | Open Culture — “Calvin and Hobbes showed me, as it’s shown so many young readers, that there’s a way out: not through studiousness, not through politeness, and certainly not through following the rules, but through the…
- Some of the best free fonts | Clearleft — For future reference. I also saw Literata suggested. (via @Robb@front-end.social)
- 术语类型
- Scale of the Universe
- “read, write, own” web — the web before platformization was the place where users owned, wrote and also read.
- Meta AI: Ask Meta AI anything
- nalgeon/redka: Redis re-implemented with SQLite
- Google’s newly formed platforms and devices team is all about AI - The Verge
- TBM 271: The Biggest Untapped Opportunity — The biggest source of waste is not low performers or having too many employees. The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists. The number of skilled pragmatists in any given company is much larger than people realize and, therefore, represents a HUGE opportunity. But …
- Introducing AltStore PAL | Riley Testut
- GitHub - 1buran/rHttp: REPL for HTTP
- Embrace the weird
- Welcome to v0.app
- Untitled (https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html) — New straighforward approach to teaching quantum mechanics
- Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains | UCR News | UC Riverside
- Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker — As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.
- Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam – KGOnTech
- Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude | Hacker News
- Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract - The Verge
- Cyc: history's forgotten AI project - by I. A. Fisher
- Eating light: Finnish startup begins making food ‘from air and solar power’ | Food & drink industry | The Guardian — Maker hopes solein, protein grown with CO2 and electricity, will cut environmental impact of farming. Nothing appears remarkable about a dish of fresh ravioli made with solein. It looks and tastes the same as …
- Podcast AP — With PodcastAP, users on the Fediverse can search for and follow Podcast and Music feeds with their Mastodon or Pleroma account
- Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions | Scientific American
- An Electric New Era for Atlas | Boston Dynamics
- icons.run - 85,000+ open source icons via cdn
- Waxy.org: The Playdate Story
- Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer · Ryan Marcus — Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Fall '23). Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.
- Meta and Lavender
- Incredibly Creamy Blueberry-Lemon Mousse (No-Bake!) | The Kitchn — f
- Are the Kids Alright When They Grow Up?
- 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story | WIRED
- This Web of Ours, Revisited - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design — via Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design https://bit.ly/3UPcZYy
- Blurmatic: Add Depth of Field to Screenshots — via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086793
- Domino Computer Puzzle
- Mike Swanson's Blog • Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Projection
- Limitless — Go beyond your mind’s limitations: Personalized AI powered by what you’ve seen, said, and heard.
- How to use NHS data for scientific research – without creating a privacy nightmare
- randar-explanation/README.md at master · spawnmason/randar-explanation — "Randar" is an exploit for Minecraft which uses LLL lattice reduction to crack the internal state of an incorrectly reused java.util.Random in the Minecraft server, then works backwards from that to locate other players currently loaded into the world. …
- Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom — The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories.
- » The Curse of Monkey Island The Digital Antiquarian — April 19, 2024 at 09:10AM
- VC&G | » Tech Time Capsule: Early 1990s Clip Art Captured an Era
- “Infectious diseases are not good for children” - revisiting history and the “hygiene hypothesis”. — It’s weird to me that most of this needs to be said but I appreciated the hygiene hypothesis update (it didn’t do well).
- Bicycles of World War II - The Atlantic
- Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) - Daily Nous
- supabase/index_advisor: PostgreSQL Index Advisor
- AI Index Report, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
- Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol
- FireCrawl — Turn any website into LLM-ready data.
- On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
- Why don’t rich people eat anymore? | Dazed
- Quill v2 – Rich text editor | Hacker News
- Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
- How to Upgrade Your 'Unsupported' PC to Windows 11 | Lifehacker
- wireviz/WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses — Tutorial and example gallery See the tutorial page (https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz/blob/master/tutorial/readme.md) for sample code, as well as the example gallery (https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz/blob/master/examples/readme.md) to see more of what WireViz can do.
- Nothing Brings ChatGPT to Its Ear Wireless Earbuds and Android Phones — Nothing's Ear and Ear A wireless earbuds will be among the audio products to take advantage of a ChatGPT integration that also finds its way into Nothing OS and Nothing-branded smartphones.
- AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now
- Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — My grandfather died this year, but you wouldn’t know it. In fact, he preferred you didn’t. Ray Harrell came up as the youngest of eight in the Cataloochee…
- PamPam — PamPam https://ift.tt/taFEs6C maps, curation, tools, via:densediscovery
- Use Your Potions and Scrolls · Jerry Liu
- Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract - The New York Times — via NYT > Israel News https://nyti.ms/3o4Y88O
The Next Web
- How OpenAI and Microsoft reawakened a sleeping software giant
- UK mulls fresh controls on ‘sensitive tech’ after China cyber attack claim
- How to build strong, cross-cultural remote teams
- ‘Just like meaty sausages!’ Europe hosts first cultivated meat tasting
- 4 in 10 translators are losing work to AI. They want remuneration from devs
- The UK’s second commercial quantum computer has come online
- TNW Podcast: Caroline Viarouge on EIT Manufacturing and EU-UK collaboration
- China still ASML’s biggest market, but falling sales cause drop in profit
- In biggest-ever election year, tech platforms are wide open for voter manipulation
- Air taxi firm raises $110M, plans to launch commercial service in 2026
Smashing Magazine
- How To Work With GraphQL In WordPress In 2024
- Converting Plain Text To Encoded HTML With Vanilla JavaScript
- How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals
- Sliding 3D Image Frames In CSS
- Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers
- Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research
- The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps
- Iconography In Design Systems: Easy Troubleshooting And Maintenance
- Infinite-Scrolling Logos In Flat HTML And Pure CSS
- Colorful Blossoms And Rainy Days (April 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
- How Developers Can Strengthen Their Mental Health Amidst High-Pressure Projects
- The Future Of User Research: Expert Insights And Key Trends
- Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript
- Crafting Experiences: Uniting Rikyu’s Wisdom With Brand Experience Principles
- Now Shipping: Success At Scale, A New Smashing Book by Addy Osmani
- Sketchnotes And Key Takeaways From SmashingConf Antwerp 2023
- Event Calendars For Web Made Easy With These Commercial Options
- Success At Scale: Last Chance For Pre-Sale Price
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- The End Of My Gatsby Journey
- Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1)
- Waiting For Spring (March 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
- Reporting Core Web Vitals With The Performance API
- A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit
- Vanilla JavaScript, Libraries, And The Quest For Stateful DOM Rendering
- A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People
- Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users
- How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design
- A Practical Guide To Designing For Children
- How To Draw Radar Charts In Web
- Frequently Heard In My Beginning Front-End Web Development Class
- Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
- A Guide To Designing For Older Adults
- When Words Cannot Describe: Designing For AI Beyond Conversational Interfaces
- 29 Days Of Inspiration (February 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product
- A Simple Guide To Retrieval Augmented Generation Language Models
- CSS Blurry Shimmer Effect
- The AI Dilemma In Graphic Design: Steering Towards Excellence In Typography And Beyond
- The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property
Wirecutter
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- Hop Water Isn’t Trying to Be Beer. That’s Why We Like It.
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- How One Small Startup Is Tackling Apple’s Big AirPods Problem
- The Best Camping Chairs
- The Best Water Quality Test Kit for Your Home
- The Best Non-Contact Voltage Tester
- The Best Tricycles
- Ask Wirecutter: What Are the Best Buy-It-for-Life (and Beyond) Products?
- The Best Sandals
- The Secret to Making Your Kitchen Great for Cooking and Entertaining: Smart Lighting
- The Best Baby Wraps and Slings
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- Which MacBook Should I Buy?
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- I’m Particular About My Toothpaste. This One Is Nearly Perfect.
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- Ask Wirecutter: My Family Uses Scratched Nonstick Pans. Is That Bad?
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- Kitchen Compost Bins We Love
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- The Top 10 Tools for Earthquake Preparedness
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- The Best Smart Assistive Devices for People With Disabilities
- The Best Indoor Security Camera
- The Best Humidifier
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- Apple’s HomePod Is a Good Smart Speaker. But the Mini Is Better for Most People.
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- What’s the Best Vacuum for Pet Hair?
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- The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
- 10 Great Ideas to Declutter Your Home’s Small Entryway
- The Best Patio Umbrella and Stand
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Hacker News
- A useful front-end confetti animation library
- Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
- Serious flaws in SQL (1990)
- David Frankel is a man on a mission against robocalls
- You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
- More on x86 – The Chip Letter
- TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
- Autotuner: How to Speed Up Your Rails App
- Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog
- Cogram (YC W22) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
- HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties
- Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
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- Chime Design and Build
- The "it" in AI models is the dataset
- Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings (2019)
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- Progress Quest: the original idle game
- Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
- Desperately Trying to Fathom the Coffeepocalypse Argument
- How Penelope Fitzgerald became a late blooming novelist
- Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets
- 40 Years of Sopwith
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- The evolution of stupidity (and octopus intelligence)
- Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine
- I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton
- Automated Stitching of Chip Images
- JSR Is Not Another Package Manager
- The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages
Ars Technica
- Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apple’s M3
- Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
- Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
- A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists
- We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy
- Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
- Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
- Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes
- No more refunds after 100 hours: Steam closes Early Access playtime loophole
- Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time
- Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion
- The Fall Guy spotlights its amazing stuntmen in meta marketing video
- US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
- Elite: Dangerous’s real-money ship sales spark “pay-to-win” outrage
- SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch
- Mercedes’ electric G-Wagon is more capable than the gas version
- Hackers are using developing countries for ransomware practice
- Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions
- Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?
- Fragments of bird flu virus genome found in pasteurized milk, FDA says
Digg
- Play 'Really Bad Chess'
- A Guy Who Doesn't Want Kids In Pubs, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
- People Desperately Want These Things — Until They Get Them
- This Is One Of The Last Remaining Alcoa Care-Free Homes In The US. Take A Look Around
- You Almost Certainly Don't Know These Two National Flags
- Am I Wrong To Be Upset That My Boyfriend Still Sleeps In The Same Bed As His Ex, And Other Advice Column Questions
- How The Human Lifespan Compares To Other Mammals, Visualized
- Teacher Reveals How Her Students React To Learning Her Last Name Is Surprisingly Raunchy
- These Five Old-School Docs Continue To Blow People's Minds Today
- Only In America Can This Happen To You While Thrift Shopping
- Look On The Bright Side... Nobody Has Worse Luck With Photos Than This Poor Man
- These People Were Alive During The Victorian Era — Here's The Warning They Had For The Future
- Nine Scientific Breakthroughs Humanity Is On The Verge Of Making
- Why Americans Won't Do The One Thing That Would Bring Down High Prices
- Countries With The Biggest Increases In Happiness Since 2010, Ranked
- The US States With The Highest Cancer Rates, Mapped
- You Are Fifty Times More Likely To Develop Cancer Living In This Part Of America
- This Table Is Now A Loved Attraction In Vietnam — Here Are The Americans Responsible
- How Long It Would Take A Hacker To Brute Force Your Password In 2024, Ranked
- The Biggest Difference Between Strip Clubs In America And Japan
- Mister Rogers Answers A Fan's Burning Question About If He's Ever Lost His Temper
- People Are Still Pissed Off About These Eight Injustices
- America's Booziest And Driest Counties, Mapped
- His Girlfriend Found Him An Odd Guitar While Thrift Shopping — How It Sounds Is Mystical
- Young People Got These Tattoos Believing They Were Temporary — Now The Company Has Been Forced To Change Policy
- A Co-Worker Stole My Story And Passed It Off As Her Own, And More Of This Week's Best Work Drama
- The Countries Where Happiness Has Declined The Most Since 2010, Ranked
- Drew Carey Slams On The Brakes Mid-Show To Deliver An Explicit Stand-Up Bit About Seeing Phish Live
- The Bromance In These Action Movies Is Off The Charts
- This Beautiful Arkansas Town Is Home To Healing Waters And Natural Hot Springs
New Scientist
- How cannabis gets you high and alters your perception
- Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
- Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems
- Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon than we thought
- Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated into sound
- Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome better than medicine
- Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening to music
- Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more energy
- Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back to charging points
- Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth of marine life
- Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise food and water
- Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever
- Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever
- Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years
- Quantum-proof encryption may not actually stop quantum hackers
- Ancient Maya burned their dead rulers to mark a new dynasty
- What is cloud seeding and did it cause the floods in Dubai?
- Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight climate change
- Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
- Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neuromorphic computer
- Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier
- A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare than you think
- Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields and lock up CO2
- Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week
- Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
- Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's how they move
- How to destroy a black hole
- Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don't add up
- Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers
- A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
- Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
- Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to map Earth’s innards
- Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody infusions
- Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species
- Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks
- Why AIs that tackle complex maths could be the next big breakthrough
- Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?
- Physicists created an imaginary magnetic field in real life
- The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined
- Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail
- See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches
- ‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps
- Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major greenhouse gases
- Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong
- Water purifier is powered by static electricity from your body
- A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
- Embryos pause development when nutrients are low — and now we know how
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Wired
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LifeHacker
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The Register
- Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6
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TechMeme
- A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
- An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack)
- The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
- Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is "revisionist history" and a bid to boost his AI company (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
- Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)
- National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
- SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech (Nikkei Asia)
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- China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance (Reuters)
- Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was in May 2020 (James Hunt/The Block)
- Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets (George Steer/Financial Times)
- Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
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