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BBC

  1. Hormuz ships plan paused 50 hours after Trump announced it - what happened?
  2. What is hantavirus and how does it spread? Key questions after outbreak
  3. Oil prices drop and stock markets rise after reports of deal to end Iran war
  4. Airlines cut 13,000 flights in May as jet fuel prices soar
  5. Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded
  6. Strictly Come Dancing: Five pros to leave the show as line-up confirmed
  7. Two people arrested after BBC asylum investigation
  8. Russia ignores Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire and attacks kindergarten
  9. Woman stabbed in heart before explosion, court told
  10. Polanski says he was wrong to claim he was a Red Cross spokesman
  11. Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow
  12. Dressed for succession: What Kim Ju Ae's outfits tell us about North Korea
  13. Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak
  14. How Ipswich Town's promotion to Premier League could help club and county
  15. Removing 30% of my penis saved my life – this is why I let the surgery be filmed
  16. Robot wars - what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future
  17. Spanish superstar Rosalía reaches for heaven as her tour hits London
  18. Four-acre traveller site 'illegally built at weekend'
  19. Rope swing death a 'shocking accident', coroner says
  20. Former council leader jailed for sexually assaulting young men
  21. Man accused of Starmer arson attacks did not know he was PM, court hears
  22. Orphaned baby hippo to be hand-reared by keepers at Kenya sanctuary
  23. BBC News app
  24. Is the US-Iran War Restarting?
  25. Who could lead the Democrats into 2028?
  26. Was Arsenal ecstasy justified or a 'bit too much'?
  27. Wait to name England selector ridiculous - Vaughan
  28. Smaller balls for women's rugby 'worst decision ever'
  29. DeChambeau to focus on YouTube if LIV Golf fails
  30. Where do Bayern's prolific trio rank in greatest front threes ever?
  31. How the FA helped US Soccer build its new home

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. reMarkable's Paper Pure is its new entry-level slate
  2. reMarkable Paper Pure Review: Great hardware held back by bad philosophy
  3. Nuro approved to test its driverless Uber robotaxis on California roads
  4. Pornhub is unblocking UK users who verify their age with Apple
  5. Valve releases design files for its out-of-stock Steam Controller
  6. Apple will pay $250 million for failing to deliver its AI-powered Siri on time
  7. Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access
  8. Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
  9. Remakes of Myst and Riven are coming to PlayStation, Xbox and the Microsoft Store
  10. Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using 'dark patterns' to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds
  11. Apple Intelligence will reportedly let you choose third-party AI models in iOS 27
  12. Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI over chatbots that pretend to be licensed doctors
  13. The next Call of Duty is not coming to PS4 (or presumably Xbox One)
  14. Google Home gains more Gemini-powered camera features
  15. The Steam Controller sold out super quickly and Valve is working on a restock
  16. ChatGPT's new default model is more factual and better at personalization
  17. Book publishers accuse Meta and Mark Zuckerberg of copyright infringement
  18. Alexa+ is now available on a bunch of Bose speakers
  19. Chrome on Android will now let you share your approximate location
  20. Google will livestream The Android Show: I/O Edition on May 12

Pinboard

  1. Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | Distr
  2. 2 Letters from Steve | David Gelphman's Blog — Today (Tuesday) I’m visiting a terminally ill friend in the hospital in San Francisco. I’ve been told that she will likely not survive until this Friday. She had a liver transplant in late February and we all had high hopes but unfortunately she has not recovered.
  3. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
  4. AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills
  5. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  6. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  7. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing — Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?
  8. DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
  9. angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
  10. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  11. Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  12. Why TUIs are back by Alcides Fonseca — https://lobste.rs/s/quulrs/why_tuis_are_back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000028
  13. GitHub - aattaran/deepclaude: Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. — deepclaude Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. Remote control …
  14. Your Container Is Not a Sandbox: The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026
  15. GitHub - Lum1104/Understand-Anything: Claude Code skills that turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about (Multi-platform e.g., Codex are supported). · GitHub — antigremlin starred Lum1104/Understand-Anything
  16. A desktop made for one – Geir's Everything
  17. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic — Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark has written: “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assesse…
  18. Palette Inspiration - Timeless Colors of the Great Masters
  19. How LLMs Distort Our Written Language — LLMs are used by over a billion people globally, and the most frequent use case is to assist with writing. LLMs can provide a huge efficiency boost, but are they actually writing what we want?  Many users recognize the "feel" of LLM prose, but few people realize the extent to which …
  20. Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  21. The Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms
  22. Hand‑drawn QR codes — Seth Larson
  23. 10 Lessons for Agentic Coding
  24. NOIR, Japan's hard-boiled bittersweet answer to OREOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  25. Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide
  26. Links to CSS colour palettes — Links to CSS colour palettes https://bit.ly/4dcFPtw IFTTT, Inoreader
  27. I am worried about Bun | wwj.dev — Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
  28. Alert-driven monitoring | Documentation
  29. What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) — A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders...
  30. AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses • The Guardian — Robert Booth: From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs? A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outpe…
  31. pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more. — https://pyinfra.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26983266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211655 …
  32. How to organize your Obsidian vault using Claude (prompts included) — via the How-To Geek https://ift.tt/UwSjBv9
  33. Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf — I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...
  34. Daring Fireball: Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  35. 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
  36. What fun websites do you know? | Lobsters
  37. acai.sh
  38. Thienan Tran
  39. AI didnt delete your db ; you did
  40. New Orleans relocation: City at greatest danger of sea level rise
  41. How an Alleged Predator Remade the Southern Baptist Convention
  42. What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In? — The crash occurs when we find out how much consumers value AI when they have to pay the full sticker price for the unsubsidized products. If it ends up that we merely have oversupply for the worlds-most-valuable product, then a few companies go bankrupt while the global economy roars forwa…
  43. Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Y8MCo7S
  44. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician | Science — Editor’s summary Computational tools for medical decision support have been advancing over time, mainly by serving as resources for limited applications. Machine learning tools for autonomous interpretation of clinical cases have also be…
  45. Chess Peace - A Peaceful Chess Puzzle Game for iOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  46. AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier | The Guardian — AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier
  47. UK Fuel Price Intelligence
  48. styles.refero.design
  49. Pomiferous home
  50. Fine-tuning LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct with GRPO – Leonie Monigatti
  51. Daring Fireball: Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  52. PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out | Hacker News
  53. Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
  54. Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | Hacker News
  55. Redis array type: short story of a long development -
  56. addyosmani/agent-skills: Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
  57. Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump
  58. The Markdown Book: On Writing ⭐️ - Thurrott.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  59. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper | Hacker News
  60. Empty Screenings
  61. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | TechCrunch
  62. mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
  63. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  64. Daring Fireball: Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today — "In that near future, human programmers are likely still to be writing — or at least line-by-line reviewing and approving — code. But as a percentage of all code being generated, that will only be a sliver."
  65. raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt: Build a modern LLM from scratch. Every line commented. Explained like we are five. — Build a modern LLM from scratch. Every line commented. Explained like we are five. - raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt
  66. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day — A beautiful tribute to programming and flow. But then: "I don’t really write code anymore. The main thing now is managing agents. ... But it is not the work I have been doing for thirty years. The shape of it is different. The rhythm is different. ... But the mu…
  67. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent at main · badlogic/pi-mono
  68. Texico | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
  69. Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions - Jim Nielsen’s Blog — Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
  70. Opinion | This Is the Biggest Culprit for High Health Care Spending - The New York Times — Hospital prices and hospital effective monopolies
  71. Strange Ways To Make Cold | Hackaday
  72. Hugging Face Viewer
  73. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy — This is the first "real" use case I've seen where agents are given access to payment methods and buying something on their own. > Starting today, agents can provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid …
  74. Behind Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling, a Clash Over the Reality of Racism - The New York Times
  75. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work (Ars Technica) — Intentional errors can be useful. ... Canaries—from Clancy to AI The canary trap has been used by companies ranging from Tesla to Apple; it was even used to stop the leak of Star Trek film scripts. Though the concept comes from the world of espi…
  76. Alert-Driven Monitoring | Hacker News
  77. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | OpenAI
  78. 外部からアクセス可能なhttpsサイトはドメイン設定後「即」攻撃にさらされる件
  79. PGKeeper: Building the Bouncer We Needed for Postgres — Our database layer has to contend with an onslaught of novel workloads and increased traffic. It was clear we were outgrowing PgBouncer, a lightweight and widely adopted PostgreSQL connection pooler. That led us to build PGKeeper, a new connection and load management se…
  80. There's a free way to use Claude Code — and it's surprisingly simple — Own, don't rent.
  81. “They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”: Alderaan Residents Reflect on Their Support for the Empire as a Large Imperial Installation Enters the System - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  82. Capitalism and Modernity — I almost hesitate to link to this, because AT's obvious agenda here is simply to delegitimize and confuse critics of both capitalism and modernity (and of course the comments are worthless), but the actual content is good, and the alternative would be to link to the original posts on X, which I wil…
  83. Israeli army chief says West Bank troops ‘killing like we haven’t killed since 1967’ | West Bank | The Guardian
  84. - YouTube — Liked on YouTube: The Odyssey | Official New Trailer
  85. 2-D Mathematical Curves — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018034
  86. Cofounder lets you run an entire company with agents
  87. Quantization from the ground up
  88. The best is over - Big Muddy
  89. Apple to Pay $250 Million to Settle Class Action Over Delayed Siri Features - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/aBREShg
  90. Colin Purrington (@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks) — Attached: 1 image In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual. Please share with friends and sneak into any presentation you're giving even if it's completely unrelated to mosquitoes. Mosquito Dunks contain Bacillus thurin…
  91. Aaron Rupar on X: "Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost https://t.co/r7X94PvvCc" / X
  92. Will human minds still be special in an age of AI? We tend to think of intelligence like height – and imagine ourselves being overtaken. That misses the point. — https://archive.is/Ev99s
  93. 9 Accessibility Myths and Pushbacks (And How to Answer Them) - UX Researcher & Designer. — Misconceptions About Disability “Disabled people don’t use our website.” “No one complained about accessibility!” Short-Term Thinking: Responsibility, Cost & Timing “Fixing accessibility is the developers’ job.” …
  94. Around 42,000 people cast mail ballots before Louisiana halted congressional primaries to gerrymander  - Democracy Docket
  95. The Return for These Investors Isn’t Money, It’s More Affordable Housing - The New York Times
  96. Unsloth Qwen3.6 — New coding model of interest if you run AI coding agents locally
  97. Screeching sound of peeling tape | Phys. Rev. E
  98. How to roll your own local AI coding agents • The Register
  99. Our Longing for Inconvenience | The New Yorker
  100. Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/XJqnRvH

The Next Web

  1. NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural
  2. SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn
  3. Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul
  4. Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre
  5. LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence
  6. Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026
  7. Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn
  8. Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round
  9. Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours
  10. Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days

Smashing Magazine

  1. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  2. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  3. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  4. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  5. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  6. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  7. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  8. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  9. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  10. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  11. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  12. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  13. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  14. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  15. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  16. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  17. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  18. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  19. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  20. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  21. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  22. Getting Started With The Popover API
  23. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  24. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  25. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  26. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  27. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  28. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  29. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  30. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  31. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  32. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  33. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  34. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  35. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  36. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  37. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  38. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  39. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  40. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Wirecutter

  1. 25 Exclusive Deals on Our Favorite Mother’s Day Gifts
  2. Find Your Perfect Swimsuit
  3. The Best Pulse Oximeter for Home Use
  4. This New Film Camera Is a Blast From the Past
  5. 13 Little Luxuries Wirecutter’s Travel Experts Take on Trips
  6. The Best Thermos
  7. Everything You Need to Get Started Learning Origami
  8. Wirecutter Deals, Explained
  9. Spring Skin-Care and Beauty Sales Are Here. These Are the Deals We Love.
  10. How to Clean a Travel Mug or Water Bottle

Sweethome

  1. The Best Smart Water-Leak Detector
  2. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  3. The Matic Is a Whole Different Kind of Robot Vacuum
  4. How to Clean Bathroom Tile and Grout
  5. How to Clean a Travel Mug or Water Bottle
  6. The Best Hair Dryer
  7. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  8. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  9. Our Favorite Watering Cans
  10. The Best Robot Lawn Mower

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
  2. The bottleneck was never the code
  3. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
  4. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
  5. StarFighter 16-Inch
  6. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”
  7. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)
  8. The next great software company won't sell software
  9. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
  10. Knitting bullshit
  11. Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI-Native Growth Toolkit
  12. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
  13. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
  14. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
  15. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)
  16. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
  17. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
  18. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
  19. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds
  20. Write some software, give it away for free
  21. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
  22. Three Inverse Laws of AI
  23. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
  24. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
  25. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
  26. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
  27. Make some art with your phone sensors
  28. Why most product tours get skipped
  29. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases
  30. I'm scared about biological computing

Ars Technica

  1. Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!
  2. More than just an SUV? Rivian is working on more R2 variants.
  3. OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
  4. Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean
  5. Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license
  6. Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
  7. RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin
  8. Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls
  9. Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million
  10. How do you design a $30,000 electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks.
  11. Charlize Theron is a bewitching Circe in Odyssey trailer
  12. Musk's Europe gamble: Will others follow the Dutch and approve FSD?
  13. DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google
  14. Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website
  15. "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
  16. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work
  17. Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
  18. GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it
  19. F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works
  20. AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

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New Scientist

  1. Hantavirus: Where has the deadly cruise ship outbreak come from?
  2. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  3. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  4. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  5. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  6. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  7. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  8. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  9. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  10. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  11. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  12. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  13. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  14. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  15. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  16. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  17. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  18. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  19. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  20. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  21. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  22. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  23. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  24. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  25. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  26. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  27. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  28. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  29. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  30. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  31. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  32. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  33. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  34. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  35. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  36. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  37. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  38. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  39. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  40. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  41. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  42. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  43. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  44. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  45. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  46. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  47. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  48. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  49. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  50. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  51. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  52. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  53. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  54. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  55. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  56. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  57. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  58. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  59. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  60. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  61. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  62. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  63. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  64. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  65. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  66. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  67. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  68. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  69. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  70. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  71. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  72. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  73. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  74. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  75. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  76. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  77. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  78. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  79. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  80. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  81. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  82. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  83. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  84. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  85. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  86. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  87. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  88. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  89. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  90. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  91. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  92. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  93. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  94. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  95. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  96. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  97. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  98. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  99. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  100. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

Slashdot

  1. White House App Is a Terrifying Security Mess
  2. CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit 'Depressing' New Record
  3. Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla
  4. Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri
  5. Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In 'AI-Native' Restructuring
  6. Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals
  7. Moving To Mainframe Can Be Cheaper Than Sticking With VMware
  8. Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches
  9. US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux
  10. Oscars Bans AI Actors and Writing From Awards
  11. VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits
  12. 'Notepad++ For Mac' Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original
  13. How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet
  14. Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto
  15. OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. How to Make Your Own Camping Cutlery: This Chopsticks Maker
  2. A Pickup-Truck-Style Service Robot
  3. These Beautiful FSB 1292 Door Handles are by Foster + Partners Industrial Design
  4. More Defensive Urban Design: Venice's Anti-Public-Peeing Architecture Features
  5. MVE-Collection: An Architect and Designer Make Furniture out of Construction Site Waste
  6. A Tensegrity-Based Side Table Made out of Pipes
  7. An Airline Pilot's Disappearing Staircase References Work
  8. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  9. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  10. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine
  11. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-20-26 to 4-24-26)
  12. Drill Design's Wall Hanger Channels Enzo Mari
  13. In This Transylvanian City, the Buildings Have Eyes
  14. Industrial Design Student Project Turned Commercial Furniture
  15. Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Pays Homage to Everyday Holes

CNET

  1. Mindtrip's AI Flight Agent Wants to Solve the Messy Travel Plans Search Engines Can't
  2. 59 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
  3. Ultrahuman Put Its Ring Pro on Kickstarter for Up to 43% Off
  4. I Watched 'Harry Potter' Inside an 87-Foot Dome. Here's What It Was Like
  5. Remarkable's New Tablet Wins Me Over for Writing and Sketching. And My Kid Loves It, Too
  6. Latest on the Memory Shortage, New AI Rules for Oscars, and Custom Passes for iOS 27 | Tech Today video
  7. Would You Trust This Companion Robot With Your Grandma? CNET Families Gave It a Try
  8. Best Cellphone Plans of 2026: Our Top Picks
  9. What Dermatologists Think About At-Home Microcurrent Devices
  10. Best Family Phone Plans for 2026
  11. Best Ring Video Doorbells of 2026: Ring's Newest AI and More
  12. Utah's Ban on Using VPNs to Circumvent Age Verification Begins Today
  13. Before iOS 26.5, Here Are All the Features iOS 26.4 Brought to Your iPhone
  14. Best Wi-Fi Wireless Speaker for 2026
  15. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 6, #1060
  16. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 6, #1782
  17. Online Job Scams Are on the Rise, and Gen Z Is Struggling With Them, Study Says
  18. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, May 6
  19. 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2 Finale Explained: [Spoiler]'s Cameo and Predictions for the MCU
  20. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 6 #794
  21. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 6, #590
  22. Apple Will Pay $250M to Settle Allegations It Misled iPhone Buyers About AI
  23. Forgot Your Wi-Fi Password? Here's How to Find It on Mac and Windows
  24. Despite Previous Integration Failure, Etsy Launches Its App in ChatGPT
  25. 4 Electric Toothbrush Mistakes You Should Avoid for a Whiter Smile

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Blink bumps its budget buzzer to 2K
  2. Google’s AI search summaries will now quote Reddit
  3. It’s time to let my iPhone Mini go
  4. The Remarkable Paper Pure is the best digital notepad I’ve ever used
  5. Remarkable’s next E Ink digital notepad skips the color screen
  6. Energizer’s new coin batteries won’t cause ingestion burns if swallowed
  7. Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle
  8. The clippening
  9. Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
  10. Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Wired

  1. A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York
  2. Zest Maps Is the AI-Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
  3. 7 Best Digital Notebooks (2026): reMarkable, Kobo, Kindle
  4. ReMarkable Paper Pure Tablet Review: Back to Basics
  5. Best Indoor Security Cameras (2026): For Homes and Apartments
  6. Best Webcams (2026): My Honest Take After Testing the Best
  7. Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri's AI Features
  8. Focal Mu-So Hekla Soundbar Review: Dolby Atmos With 1 Speaker
  9. Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Link
  10. Smeg Forte Stand Mixer Review: Big Power, Mixed Results
  11. Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
  12. Best Carry-On Suitcases (2026): Away, Rimowa, Tumi
  13. The Best Bed Frames, Tested in Our Own Rooms (2026)
  14. Boycotts Hurt Tesla’s Sales. Now, Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
  15. The Motley Fool Promo Code: Save Up to $200 on Stock Advisor May 2026
  16. 1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in 2026
  17. Bose Promo Code: 40% Off for May 2026
  18. Hydrow Discount Code: Save Up to $150 | May 2026
  19. AirDoctor Coupon Codes: 40% Off | May 2026
  20. Expedia Coupons: 75% Off

LifeHacker

  1. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is $700 Off Right Now
  2. The 2023 Google Pixel Fold Is 75% Off Right Now
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  5. These TVs Are Part of the Roku/TCL Class Action Lawsuit
  6. My Favorite Travel Headphones Are $150 Off
  7. The New Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $300 Off
  8. I Ran a 10K With a Top-of-the-Line Garmin on One Wrist and a Budget Model on the Other, and Here's What Happened
  9. Reddit Is Blocking Its Mobile Site for Some Users, but There's a Fix
  10. Google Is Hosting 'The Android Show' Outside of I/O for the Second Year in a Row
  11. How Android’s Tasker App Stacks Up Against Apple Shortcuts (and How to Use Each One)
  12. How to Train to Run Faster (Not Just Farther)
  13. These Beats ANC EarBuds Are $75 Off Right Now
  14. This Samsung Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  15. This Bose Wireless Outdoor Speaker Is $50 Off Right Now
  16. My Three Favorite Garmin Features to Use on Race Day
  17. 10 Hacks Every Apple Notes User Should Know
  18. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  19. Apple Is Finally About to Make Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  20. You Can Already Save $80 on the New M4 iPad Air
  21. The New AirPods Max 2 Are $40 Off Right Now
  22. You Might Get Some Money From This PlayStation Store Lawsuit
  23. These Are the Best Apps to Track Your Flights
  24. Here's How to Save Your Samsung Messages Conversations Before the App Shuts Down
  25. I Let Alexa+ and Gemini Power My Smart Home, and They Were Both Great
  26. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Le Snack Demon'?
  27. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $120 Handheld Device
  28. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  29. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  30. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  31. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  32. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  33. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  34. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  35. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  36. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  37. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  38. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  39. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  40. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  41. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  42. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  43. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  44. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  45. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  46. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  47. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  48. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  49. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  50. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  51. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  52. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  53. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  54. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  55. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  56. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  57. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  58. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  59. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  60. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  61. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  62. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  63. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  64. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  65. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  66. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  67. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  68. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  69. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  70. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  71. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  72. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  73. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  74. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  75. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  76. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  77. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  78. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  79. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  80. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  81. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  82. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  83. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  84. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  85. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  86. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  87. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  88. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  89. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  90. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  91. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  92. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  93. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  94. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  95. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  96. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  97. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  98. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  99. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  100. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. The UK FCA says it is investigating PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa for alleged anti-competitive behavior, in a rare antitrust investigation by the regulator (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
  2. Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add "a preview of perspectives" from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as "Expert Advice" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
  3. Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging less than Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab, ahead of a wider launch later in 2026 (Hannah Levitt/Bloomberg)
  4. Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY, while R&D jumped 34% YoY (CNBC)
  5. Nvidia invests $500M in Corning, which will grow its US optical connectivity capacity by 10x and expand its US fiber production capacity by 50%+; GLW jumps 15%+ (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
  6. reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display, responsiveness, and design, but no backlight or typing, and some software issues (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
  7. Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are pressing ahead with fundraising (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg)
  8. A profile of David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto adviser since December 2024, who is ruthlessly devoted to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
  9. Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  10. Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech for Nvidia, creating 3,000+ jobs (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
  11. OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
  12. Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, above $1.01B est., GTV up 13% YoY to $10.29B, and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M, as users focus on affordability (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
  13. Crypto miner Hut 8 signs a lease worth $9.8B+ over 15 years to provide computing power to a "high-investment-grade company" at its Nueces County, Texas campus (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
  14. Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit (Financial Times)
  15. Doc: SpaceX proposes spending $55B to begin building a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, and estimates total capital expenditures could hit $119B (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)