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BBC

  1. Why Trump's tariffs aren't really reciprocal
  2. 'I could live 30 years - but want to die': Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far?
  3. Israeli strike on Gaza City school kills 27, health ministry says
  4. 'Grateful and honoured': Tom Cruise pays tribute to Val Kilmer
  5. Lush and Kwik Fit warn tax rise will push up prices
  6. Hezbollah at crossroads after blows from war weaken group
  7. Luton airport expansion approved by government
  8. Prince Harry hopes watchdog will uncover 'truth' in charity row
  9. Ship owner takes legal action over North Sea crash
  10. Man shot dead by police at railway station named
  11. iPhones, pensions and Brexit: Your questions about tariffs answered
  12. Katya Adler: How will EU respond to Donald Trump's tariffs?
  13. 'Nowhere's safe': How an island of penguins ended up on Trump tariff list
  14. What Trump has done - and why it matters
  15. UK draws up list of US products it could hit with tariffs
  16. The unravelling of Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea's 'stubborn and hot-tempered' martial law president
  17. London 'inaccessible' to Gen Z, says film director
  18. Who might buy TikTok as ban deadline looms? Amazon joins bidders
  19. The Papers: 'Tariff turmoil' and 'bland American cheese'
  20. Weekly quiz: Who's playing John Lennon in the new Beatles movies?
  21. 'Nothing we can't do': Gladiators' first hijabi contender aims to inspire
  22. What is live shopping and will it take off?
  23. Parts of UK set to be hotter than Algarve on Friday
  24. US pharma boss calls tariffs a 'pivotal moment'
  25. Brazil to host Prince William's Earthshot Prize
  26. Denmark and Greenland show united front against US 'annexation' threats
  27. Influencers 'new' threat to uncontacted tribes, warns group after US tourist arrest
  28. Labour promises 'change' at local election launch
  29. Harris hawk captured after tormenting villagers
  30. BBC News app
  31. Assisted Dying: The Final Choice
  32. Will Trump’s tariffs start a global trade war?
  33. Tsunoda sixth as Norris fastest in Suzuka practice
  34. Fan jeers and a cupped ear - is Postecoglou feeling the friction?
  35. Shirts, sponsors and bad blood: how Trump's tariffs might affect sport
  36. 'Nonsense to make Stokes white-ball captain'
  37. Top-20 tennis stars ask Grand Slams for more prize money
  38. Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the week?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Microsoft is reportedly walking back some data center plans
  2. Traeger built a smaller Flatrock griddle for smaller outdoor spaces
  3. Hori's Piranha Plant Switch 2 camera is a work of art
  4. YouTube is updating the Shorts video editor to make it a better alternative to TikTok
  5. Verizon just announced a three-year price lock plan, but there are caveats
  6. NVIDIA confirms the Switch 2 has DLSS
  7. 'Careless People' author Sarah Wynn-Williams will testify at a Senate hearing next week
  8. Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 are back on sale for an all-time-low price
  9. Switch 2 hands-on: I think Nintendo's new console is worth the $450
  10. TikTok reportedly faces a €500 million fine for sending private user data to China
  11. The world’s smallest pacemaker is injectable and powered by light
  12. Nintendo Switch 2: Release date, price, new games and everything else you need to know
  13. Donkey Kong Bananza is a brand new 3D platformer for Switch 2
  14. Pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2 for $450 starting April 9
  15. Bang & Olufsen's new Beosound Balance speaker model comes with a marble plinth
  16. Mario Kart World hands-on: The perfect launch game for the Switch 2
  17. Amazon will start launching its Project Kuiper Starlink rival next week
  18. Nikon's Z5 II is the cheapest full-frame camera yet with internal RAW video
  19. The best smartwatches for 2025
  20. What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.
  21. The Switch 2's battery life is shorter than the current Switch
  22. The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5 at $450
  23. Nintendo Switch 2: Everything announced including a new Mario Kart game, new Switch features and more
  24. GameChat is decades late and looks pretty janky
  25. Sonos cut retail prices for its Era 100 speaker and Ray soundbar
  26. Is the $450 Nintendo Switch 2 too expensive?
  27. The Nintendo Switch 2 promises major storage upgrades, but it'll cost you
  28. A Minecraft Movie review: It's good, actually
  29. The Switch 2 was almost called the 'Super Nintendo Switch'
  30. You can pre-order Framework's entry-level 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop on April 9
  31. Amazon reportedly wants to buy TikTok now too
  32. The official Switch 2 accessories include a camera, a GameCube controller and more
  33. Claude’s new Learning mode will prompt students to answer questions on their own
  34. Nintendo is prioritizing Switch Online subscribers in its Switch 2 pre-orders
  35. Ooni debuts Koda 2 and Koda 2 Pro pizza ovens with new burners and Bluetooth smarts
  36. The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 trailer has some serious retro vibes
  37. The Premier League will speed up offside calls with optical tracking tech starting next week
  38. Mario Kart World headed to Switch 2 with 24-player races and an $80 price tag
  39. The best Apple deals you can get right now: Save on AirTags, AirPods, iPads and more
  40. Sony's 2025 Bravia TV lineup includes a new flagship QD-OLED model
  41. Sony adds the Bravia Theater Bar 6 to its Dolby Atmos soundbar lineup (updated)
  42. Super Smash Bros. director's Kirby Air Riders will come to the Switch 2
  43. Hollow Knight: Silksong purportedly arrives this year
  44. FromSoftware's The Duskbloods is a steampunk vampire adventure coming exclusively to Switch 2 in 2026
  45. The Nintendo Switch 2 will play GameCube games
  46. Cyberpunk 2077 and Split Fiction are third-party launch titles for Nintendo Switch 2
  47. Nintendo announces upgraded Switch 2 editions of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom
  48. The Switch 2’s Joy-Cons can double as mouse-like controllers
  49. The Nintendo Switch 2 offers built-in voice chat and screensharing
  50. Nintendo lets Switch 2 players share their games

Pinboard

  1. Watch Global & Local Live TV Online for Free - tv.garden
  2. captrice
  3. GitHub - medialab/xan: The CSV magician — jaygooby starred medialab/xan
  4. public.tableau.com
  5. Go Optimization Guide
  6. Stop syncing everything
  7. Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish
  8. The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital — The case against conversational interfaces via Instapaper https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/ 01 Intro Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in t…
  9. The average college student today — How things have changed
  10. Self Hosting Like Its 2025 ::
  11. Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible | sgnt.ai
  12. How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
  13. 13 Animals Made From 13 Circles
  14. The Egg — “No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
  15. There’s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn’t Mold – The PhCheese
  16. The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
  17. awesome-mcp-servers — A collection of MCP servers.
  18. nuejs.org
  19. Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' — "The risk/benefit calculus of providing free & open access to individual genetic data in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago."
  20. linkding — Focused Optimized for readability, allowing to quickly add and find bookmarks without distractions.
  21. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst — via zarf- Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This is particularly evident in its first release (Macintosh, 1993), which was composed of interconnected ...
  22. How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects – Diff
  23. My unsuccessful journey into Netflix’s ad tier – Six Colors
  24. Tracing the thoughts of a large language model — Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms. We take inspiration from the field of neuroscience, which has long studied the messy insides of thinking organisms, and try to build a kind of AI microscope that will let…
  25. Terms of Service; Didn't Read — Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is an active project to fix the biggest lie on the web. We help you understand the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of websites.
  26. Four AI Superpowers: Where AI Improves Products
  27. The element can now be customized with CSS  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
  28. koreader - Kindle Open Reader — Kindle Open Reader: A document reader for eink devices, supports PDF, DJVU, EPUB, FB2, HTML and much more
  29. The Gen X Career Meltdown - The New York Times — Elizabeth Wurtzel
  30. Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
  31. dfd-tud/deda
  32. FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - Ars Technica
  33. Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian — Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has…
  34. pico.sh: A smol collective — excited by the reception of there are quite a few more services in the pipleine at that we are going to try to release rapidly.
  35. As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next — Late last year, Jan van der Crabben’s AI fears materialized. His World History Encyclopedia — the world’s second most visited history website — showed up in Google’s AI Overviews, synthesized and presented alongside other history sites. Then, its traf…
  36. How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack
  37. Hacker Laws — Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.
  38. Why Is the World Losing Color? - The Culturist
  39. Allocation Mechanisms
  40. Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder | The Guardian
  41. Johannes Enevoldsen - Excitable cells — A demonstration of how reentry tachyarrhythmias can develop in a system of excitable cells.
  42. Unsure Calculator - back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630600 https://github.com/filiph/unsure
  43. What makes an app feel “right” on the Mac? — from Daring Fireball Watts Martin: If we hold things to this list, programs like Nova, MarsEdit, and Apple Pages — canonical Mac-assed Mac apps — all do unsurprisingly smashingly. But Obsidian, the Electron-based program I’m writing in right now, does shockingly well, too. Micr…
  44. Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models — NotebookLM podcast: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5a1940c8-1830-48e3-956f-3b8ede9fe5f9/audio Check out this thread at Thread Reader App. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1905303835892990278.html
  45. How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
  46. Finding the Best Sleep Tracker | karpathy
  47. Why F#? | Hacker News
  48. Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
  49. There is no Vibe Engineering
  50. AI ambivalence | Read the Tea Leaves — Margaret Mitchell
  51. Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison - Composio
  52. The CDC Has Been Gutted | WIRED
  53. US military and cabinet using Signal on personal devices means NSA has to disclose vulnerabilities. — Strong argument.
  54. Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production — Energy storage technology has reached a transformative milestone as the BV100, a miniature atomic energy battery, enters mass production. Popular Mechanic notes that the coin-sized cell from...
  55. Everyone knows all the apps on your phone — Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission. Since 2022, with Android 11, Google removed this access from app developers. Under their new package visibility policy, apps should only see other inst…
  56. Nobel Laureate and Ex-Leader of Costa Rica Says U.S. Revoked His Visa - The New York Times
  57. What to Do
  58. The 50 best things Microsoft has ever made | The Verge
  59. MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together - Ars Technica
  60. Self-contained Python scripts with uv - the.dusktreader blog
  61. Go Optimization Guide | Hacker News
  62. Knight Ride
  63. DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show | WIRED — The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free …
  64. Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books | TechCrunch
  65. Buy Once Software
  66. Amazon Nova - Explore Amazon Nova foundation models — Easy access to generate and summarize text write code and create images for free with the latest AI capabilities from Amazon Nova.
  67. Lex's Games by Lex Friedman — from Daring Fireball My thanks to Lex Friedman for sponsoring this past week at DF to promote Lex.Games, a collection of eight daily word games. Quoting from Friedman’s own description in the sponsored RSS entry at the start of the week: I paid Gruber many thousands of dollars to run this ad …
  68. Why F#? - (think)
  69. About the whole DOGE-will-rewrite Social Security's COBOL code in some new langu - Pastebin.com
  70. iliane5/meridian: Meridian cuts through news noise by scraping hundreds of sources, analyzing stories with AI, and delivering concise, personalized daily briefs.
  71. 6 e-ink Raspberry Pi projects that look amazing — via XDA https://ift.tt/E7arStP
  72. Train & Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi & E-Ink
  73. The DIY Dumbphone Method
  74. GitDiagram
  75. The evolution of graph learning
  76. Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and Storytelling
  77. Argil, no-code AI automations to save hours every week — Create custom automations in a few clicks for every repetitive tasks. Build apps in secondes while leveraging the potential of image and text AI, customized to your data.
  78. reuters.com — via Pocket
  79. Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite | by Netflix Technology Blog | Mar, 2025 | Netflix TechBlog
  80. How To Argue Against AI-First Research — Smashing Magazine — via Smashing Magazine https://bit.ly/3gZh8S2
  81. Apps lighter than a React button - Nue
  82. UI Algorithms: A Tiny Undo Stack | Julik Tarkhanov
  83. Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
  84. A web framework for building products with Python · Plain
  85. AI mediocrity — Cottom on how applications of AI lead to very meh results
  86. A Programmer's Reading List: 100 Articles I Enjoyed (1-50) | Piglei
  87. Gotenberg | Gotenberg
  88. If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born | WIRED
  89. DIY Synths
  90. Introducing the Model Context Protocol Anthropic — Today, we're open-sourcing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim is to help frontier models produce better, more rel…
  91. Self-Hosting like it's 2025 | Hacker News
  92. Are People Bad At Their Jobs....or Are The Jobs Just Bad? — "As a society, we have decided that we want more for less: more convenience, more purchases, more technology, but none of it at prices that render it out of reach. For years, we allowed immediate gratification to blind ourselves to the reality that making something …
  93. Easing Wizard - CSS Easing Editor — Create and customize CSS easing functions with ease and magical precision using Easing Wizard 🧙
  94. macOS Sequoia 15.4 available now, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac — macOS Sequoia 15.4 available now, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac https://ift.tt/e6tGuFH
  95. ‘Finally, someone gets it!’ The TV invention that could revolutionise viewing for disabled people | Television | The Guardian — Television ‘Finally, someone gets it!’ The TV invention that could revolutionise viewing for disabled people There’s been no innovation in accessible TV since the 90s. That’s why we created the pe…
  96. OpenAI adds support for Model context protocol (MCP) — The Model context protocol (aka MCP) is a way to provide tools and context to the LLM. From the MCP docs: MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a…
  97. White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights — It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
  98. AI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024 – Pivot to AI
  99. An Ode to My Family’s E-Bike - The Atlantic — [W]hen our city introduced subsidies on e-bikes, we decided to give one a try. They’re fairly safe, cheaper than cars, and gentle on the environment. Plus, one study shows that they make for some of the happiest commuters. We chose one in a zippy sky blue, with two padded bench s…
  100. Laurence Tratt: Better Shell History Search

The Next Web

  1. European tech warns Trump tariffs will hit both hardware and software
  2. We rode a remote-driven EV through Berlin. Is this the future of car sharing?
  3. DeepMind’s new research restrictions threaten AI innovation, warns Iris.ai CEO
  4. The day a Russian missile hit a Ukrainian tech giant
  5. Soaring AI energy use sparks call to ‘fundamentally redesign’ computing  
  6. Lucien Engelen: Wellbeing tech is the new battleground for top talent
  7. Airbus to build lander for Europe’s first Mars rover after Russia dropped
  8. Orbital rocket launches from Western Europe for first time
  9. The 5 hottest scaleups in Benelux enter TECH5’s ‘Champions League of Tech’
  10. Landmark digital declaration from EU ministers ignites calls to cut startup regulation

Smashing Magazine

  1. Building A Drupal To Storyblok Migration Tool: An Engineering Perspective
  2. Blossoms, Flowers, And The Magic Of Spring (April 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  3. How To Argue Against AI-First Research
  4. Adaptive Video Streaming With Dash.js In React
  5. Previewing Content Changes In Your Work With document.designMode
  6. Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference?
  7. How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks
  8. How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work
  9. How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis
  10. The Case For Minimal WordPress Setups: A Contrarian View On Theme Frameworks
  11. Sunshine And March Vibes (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  12. The Human Element: Using Research And Psychology To Elevate Data Storytelling
  13. Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction?
  14. How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications
  15. How To Test And Measure Content In UX
  16. Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time
  17. Taking RWD To The Extreme
  18. Integrations: From Simple Data Transfer To Modern Composable Architectures
  19. Look Closer, Inspiration Lies Everywhere (February 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  20. The Digital Playbook: A Crucial Counterpart To Your Design System
  21. Transitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS
  22. Svelte 5 And The Future Of Frameworks: A Chat With Rich Harris
  23. Navigating The Challenges Of Modern Open-Source Authoring: Lessons Learned
  24. An Ode To Side Project Time
  25. On-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications
  26. The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling
  27. Solo Development: Learning To Let Go Of Perfection
  28. Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
  29. Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes
  30. How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing
  31. What Does AI Really Mean?
  32. New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
  33. New Year, New Hopes, New Dreams (January 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  34. The Design Leader Dilemma
  35. Three Approaches To Amplify Your Design Projects
  36. An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines
  37. Mastering SVG Arcs
  38. The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design
  39. Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience
  40. Dreaming Of Miracles (December 2024 Wallpapers Edition)

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Android Phones
  2. The Best Photo Book Service
  3. 10 Floral Gifts (That’ll Never Wilt)
  4. Love Your Candles and Want Them to Last Forever? Buy a Candle Warmer.
  5. The Best Gear for Aging Pets
  6. I Have a Dozen Power Banks at Home. This Is the One I Always Pack.
  7. The Best Outdoor Speakers
  8. Hide Stuff Behind the Curtains—and More Storage Hacks from Our Experts
  9. We Played the Nintendo Switch 2, and You’re Going to Want One. But It’s Expensive.
  10. I Saved More Than 2,000 Pounds of Food Waste From the Landfill With This Simple Composter

Sweethome

  1. Scrubbing Grout Is Annoying. This Tiny $2 Brush Makes It Easy.
  2. Love Your Candles and Want Them to Last Forever? Buy a Candle Warmer.
  3. Small Bedroom Ideas: The Best Ways to Maximize Your Tiny Space
  4. The Best Shovel
  5. Closet Organizing Ideas
  6. The Best Gear for Small Apartments
  7. 5 Cheap(ish) Things for a Cozy Movie Night at Home
  8. The Best Adjustable Wrench
  9. The Best Storage Containers
  10. How to Weatherize Your Home

Hacker News

  1. Anduril Industries banned from recruiting on NixOS forums
  2. An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
  3. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
  4. Building Gearbox Dynamometer
  5. Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
  6. Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years
  7. The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI
  8. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
  9. Overengineered Anchor Links
  10. Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point
  11. Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code
  12. Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
  13. New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers
  14. A university president makes a case against cowardice
  15. Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)
  16. Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library
  17. The cultural evolution of distortion in music
  18. Binary Distribution Rebuilds
  19. What is Local first development
  20. Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform
  21. Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo
  22. John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
  23. Reasoning models don't always say what they think
  24. AI 2027
  25. Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
  26. Sample Size [in Baseball]
  27. How Servo Motors Work
  28. AnimeJs v4 Is Here
  29. How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc
  30. InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux

Ars Technica

  1. Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
  2. DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world
  3. Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
  4. Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
  5. Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray tracing
  6. Monkeys are better yodelers than humans, study finds
  7. Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots
  8. SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster
  9. Feeling curious? Google’s NotebookLM can now discover data sources for you
  10. Employee pricing for all, tariffs on the sticker: OEMs react to tariffs
  11. Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says
  12. A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection?
  13. Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them
  14. Samsung turns to China to boost its ailing semiconductor division
  15. Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too
  16. First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80
  17. RFK Jr.’s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
  18. Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser
  19. Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them
  20. Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins

Digg

  1. 12 Umbrellas That Do Suck
  2. Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Guide
  3. Outdoor Gear You Don’t Need But Will Definitely Want
  4. The Ultimate 
  5. Last
  6. The Chillin’ And Grillin’ Guide
  7. July 4th Is The Best Holiday Of The Year (Yeah, We Said It)
  8. It’s Amazon Prime Day – Here’s How To Make The Most Of It
  9. Somebody Give This Gear A Gold Medal
  10. Fall Essentials You Need Right Now
  11. Random Internet Things You Want In Your Life Right Now
  12. Random Internet Things You Want In Your Life Right Now
  13. 40% Of Smart TVs And Other Big Deal Deals
  14. The Best Gear For The Great Outdoors 
  15. The Best Tech Deals Of The Week 
  16. Some Simple Items You Can Buy That’ll Make Your Life A Lot Easier
  17. This Stuff Makes Holiday Traveling Suck Less
  18. The Best Deals To Snag Before Black Friday Hits
  19. Best Black Friday Tech Deals
  20. Just The Best Black Friday Deals On Everything Else
  21. The Strangest And Most Fun Stocking Stuffers For Under $20
  22. The Most Coveted Nintendo Game Is Bad And Other Facts
  23. Stocking Stuffer Gifts That Do Not Suck
  24. The Best Gifts For People Who Like Food More Than Other People
  25. The Best Gifts For The Tech-Lover In Your Life
  26. 10 Holiday Gifts Under $30 That Won’t Light Your Wallet On Fire
  27. Gifts That Will Make Anyone’s Apartment Not Look Like Shit
  28. Hang The Entire Cosmos On Your Wall
  29. The 10 Best Gadgets From 2016
  30. The Best Gifts Under $50

New Scientist

  1. Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
  2. Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans
  3. Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungrier than sugar
  4. We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust
  5. A revolutionary new understanding of autism in girls
  6. A bestseller is born: How Zuckerberg discovered the Streisand Effect
  7. Ozempic weight loss is deemed less praiseworthy than lifestyle changes
  8. The best retro games console is the one you played at age 10
  9. Extreme weather could disrupt China's renewable energy boom
  10. Why pilots are worried about plans to replace co-pilots with AI
  11. How nothing could destroy the universe
  12. The best new science fiction books of April 2025
  13. Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins
  14. Ice-monitoring drones set for first tests in the Arctic
  15. It is time to close the autism diagnosis gender gap
  16. The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks
  17. Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of vegetables
  18. Weekend workouts can be as valuable as exercising throughout the week
  19. US government fired researchers running a crucial drug use survey
  20. NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more
  21. The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought
  22. Do Ozempic and Wegovy really cause hair loss?
  23. Aged human urine is a pungent pesticide as well as a fertiliser
  24. Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food from tourists
  25. US bridges are at risk of catastrophic ship collisions every few years
  26. Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before
  27. Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside a black hole
  28. Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin
  29. Dramatic cuts in China’s air pollution drove surge in global warming
  30. Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal
  31. Does aspirin have potential as an anti-cancer drug?
  32. Microdosing weight-loss drugs is on the rise – but does it work?
  33. What the research says about the benefits of low-intensity cardio
  34. The unexpected impacts of a society transformed by weight-loss drugs
  35. What do GLP-1 drugs really tell us about the brain's reward system?
  36. GLP-1 drugs are only the start – the powerful drugs to expect next
  37. Stunning new animated series tells the story of a cure-all mushroom
  38. Why exercise is more important than ever when taking weight-loss drugs
  39. Are Trump's cuts to science the end of the endless frontier?
  40. Measles is spreading across the US – here is what you need to know
  41. The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm
  42. Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters pay their dues?
  43. Camera trap spots endangered elephant mother and calf on the move
  44. Mike Berners-Lee's solution for the polycrisis may be just too hard
  45. Distracted by your phone? Putting it out of reach may not help
  46. Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'
  47. Flourishing microalgae could offset emissions as the planet heats up
  48. Quantum computers are on track to solve knotty mathematical problems
  49. How toilet waste is being rebranded as a valuable resource
  50. We've spotted auroras on Neptune for the first time
  51. Rats come one step closer to becoming snobby and pretentious
  52. What is vibe coding, should you be doing it, and does it matter?
  53. In the city, anyone can be a naturalist-explorer
  54. A controversial book about human diversity shows how biology unites us
  55. Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies
  56. Pregnancy’s lasting effects on different parts of the body revealed
  57. The Ozempic era is only just beginning
  58. Why do giraffes have spots? Not for the reason you might think
  59. An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy
  60. Mathematician wins 2025 Abel prize for tools to solve tricky equations
  61. We may have found the edge of quantum theory – what’s beyond it?
  62. Wood made transparent using rice and egg whites could replace windows
  63. Sharks aren’t silent after all
  64. Fake pills ease PMS symptoms even when you know they're placebos
  65. Leading AI models fail new test of artificial general intelligence
  66. Floating wood could help us refreeze the Arctic seas
  67. Foie gras made without force-feeding thanks to molecular mimicry
  68. Ex-UK cyber chief says asking Apple to break encryption was 'naive'
  69. Smartphones may be beneficial to children – if they avoid social media
  70. Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200
  71. How a surprising twist on rewilding could help settle our carbon debt
  72. Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
  73. Greenland has gained over 1600 km of new coastline as glaciers retreat
  74. Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
  75. We’re finally learning how perimenopause profoundly changes the brain
  76. Why you don't need to worry about 'over-potting' your plants
  77. Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?
  78. Psychology is revealing how to have a better relationship with money
  79. What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us
  80. New Scientist recommends Weather Girl, an electrifying one-woman show
  81. Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation
  82. Relics in Tutankhamun’s tomb hint he invented elaborate burial rites
  83. Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology
  84. NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
  85. Classrooms decorated like woodlands seem to slow myopia progression
  86. Why you should slow down your brain’s ageing – and how to do it
  87. German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe
  88. A radical new idea for how our ancestors invented stone tools
  89. AI can forecast the weather in seconds without needing supercomputers
  90. Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
  91. What happened when one woman set out to improve her personality
  92. Monkeys choose babysitters based on who has more parenting experience
  93. Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process
  94. Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to eat leaves
  95. Scientists push back against US attacks on science at physics summit
  96. Why particle physicists are going wild for a record-breaking neutrino
  97. Is this new Lego model a nod to the terrifying idea of mirror life?
  98. An early-warning system for climate 'tipping points' is an awful idea
  99. Tattoos are being linked to some cancers. Are they really a risk?
  100. This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

Slashdot

  1. Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans
  2. Windows 11 Tests Taskbar Icons That Scale Up and Down Like On a Mac
  3. Google's NotebookLM AI Can Now 'Discover Sources' For You
  4. Massive Expansion of Italy's Piracy Shield Underway
  5. Louvre Museum In Paris to Discontinue Nintendo 3DS Audio Guides
  6. DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World
  7. Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand Growth
  8. US Stock Markets See Worst Day Since Covid Pandemic
  9. Intel, TSMC Tentatively Agree To Form Chipmaking Joint Venture
  10. Microsoft's Miniature Windows 365 Link PC Goes On Sale
  11. Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen
  12. Climate Crisis On Track To Destroy Capitalism, Warns Top Insurer
  13. Climate Firm That Partnered With Meta, Microsoft Goes Bankrupt
  14. Intel Refreshes Iconic Brand
  15. AV1 is Supposed To Make Streaming Better, So Why Isn't Everyone Using It?

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Reader Submitted: Softech'ture: Rethinking Fabric Waste
  2. Blackwing's Overbuilt Pencil Sharpener Cuts a Curved Point
  3. Fanttik's Mini Chainsaw: A MoMA-esque Version of Stihl's?
  4. Designey Open-Ear Headphones Provide a "Soundstage" Effect
  5. A Portable Motion Control Device for Product Videography
  6. The PixLens: An IRL Pixelator
  7. A Manual Pre-Drilling, Screwdriving & Hook Driving Tool
  8. UI Experimentation: A Keyboard That Doubles as a Massive Trackpad
  9. An Ergonomic Scoop that Dispenses Ice Cream in Cylinders
  10. Extreme Furniture Design: Paul Cocksedge's Three-Foot Tall Marble "Bookmark"
  11. From Italy, a Minimalist Leather Phone Case
  12. Designing a Better Soldering Station, Garnering $500,000 in Pledges
  13. A Brief History of Cargo Pants, and an Extreme 18-Pocket Modern Version
  14. The Very Last Call - Really
  15. Seventh Time's the Charm? The Ring Mouse Offers Finger-Borne Gesture Control

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, April 4
  2. Americans See Lots of Reasons to Worry About AI, Pew Survey Finds
  3. Nintendo Switch 2 vs. Switch 1: Every Detail Compared
  4. Tax Refund Subject to Change? 3 Ways the IRS Can Change It
  5. These Fruits and Vegetables Have the Best (and Worst) Edible Yield
  6. Zelle App Is Gone. Use These Alternatives to Send Money Digitally
  7. Marvel Rivals Season 2 Starts Next Week, Devs Drop Big News
  8. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 4, #193
  9. What You Need to Know About Schedule I, Steam's Top-Selling Game About Selling Drugs
  10. TikTok Ban: Is Time Running Out?
  11. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 4, #663
  12. How Much Will iPhone and Other Apple Prices Increase With 'Liberation Day' Tariffs?
  13. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 4, #397
  14. Nintendo Switch 2: Every Reveal About the Console, New Games, Price, Release Date
  15. Today's Wordle for April 4 Could Break Your Win Streak: Here's the Answer
  16. Best Quest 3 and Quest 3S Accessories: We’ve Played Hundreds of Hours and These Are Our Top Picks
  17. Amazon Sets Launch Date for Project Kuiper's Deployment of 27 Satellites
  18. Nintendo Switch 2 Live Updates: Preorder Info, GameCube Previews and More
  19. Tariffs Explained: Impacts for You as Trump Confirms Worldwide Tariff Wave
  20. No More Broadband Delays as State Legislators Urge DC to 'Get Out of the Way'
  21. GIF or JIF? Bee-zos or Bay-zos? How Do You Pronounce These Tech Terms?
  22. Best Smart Locks of 2025: Tested and Reviewed
  23. Chase Is Now Blocking Some Zelle Charges. This Is What You Need to Know
  24. Keeping Your Cast-Iron Skillet Clean Is Easy With the Right Materials
  25. If Your Washer Smells Terrible, It Might Be Mold. Here's How to Fix It

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Superman’s latest trailer introduces his team of robot assistants
  2. Steve Jackson Games says tariffs are a ‘seismic shift’ for board games
  3. Trump’s tariffs mean you’ll pay more for all gadgets
  4. The best fitness trackers to buy right now
  5. Google’s regular Pixel 10 will reportedly get worse (but more) cameras
  6. PSA pauses card grading submissions from outside the US
  7. Trump’s tariffs put the iPhone in a tough spot
  8. Here are the best iPad deals you can get
  9. TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like Notes app
  10. Windows 11 tests taskbar icons that scale up and down like on a Mac

Wired

  1. The 39 Best Movies on Hulu This Week (April 2025)
  2. The Trump Tariffs Are How Everything Works Now
  3. It Might Be Time to Ditch Your Emotional Support Hoodie
  4. We Played With the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s Refined but Unsurprising
  5. Audio-Technica ATH-CKS50TW2 Earbuds Review: Max Power
  6. 12 Best Umbrellas (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  7. Want to Look at Your Phone Less? Just Cover Your Screen
  8. Top KitchenAid Promo Codes and Coupons
  9. H&R Block Coupons and Deals: 20% Off Tax Prep in 2025
  10. Trump’s Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry
  11. Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades
  12. Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins
  13. The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok
  14. Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say
  15. This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence
  16. Sony’s Latest Bravia Home Theater Gear Gets Bolder, Brighter
  17. Nintendo Switch 2: Price, Release Date, and All the New Games
  18. The Best Mushroom Coffee, WIRED Tested and Reviewed (2025)
  19. This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics
  20. ‘Adolescence’ Creator ‘Went Very, Very Deep’ in the Manosphere. Its Appeal Scared Him

LifeHacker

  1. How to Play Original Switch Games on the Switch 2
  2. The Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Smartwatch Is $170 Off
  3. The Nintendo Switch 2 Might Be Compatible With the Webcam You Already Own
  4. Apple's Latest Update May Be Installing Previously Deleted Apps on iPhones
  5. Nine Ways to Make Your DIY Paint Job Look Professional
  6. The 50 Best '80s Movies You Can Stream Right Now
  7. Garmin's Paid-Tier AI Doesn't Seem to Be Doing Much
  8. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds
  9. Google Will Reduce Battery Capacity for the Pixel 9a, and There’s Nothing You Can Do About It
  10. These Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Are $179 Right Now
  11. All the Gardening Tasks to Tackle in April
  12. These Are The Biggest Skywatching Events in April
  13. 'Yassou' Makes Veggie-Forward Greek Cooking Accessible
  14. The Switch 2's Mouse Controls Are Nintendo at Its Most Playful
  15. The Nintendo Switch 2 Is Boring, and That’s OK
  16. This App Can Search Maps and Addresses Right From the Menu Bar
  17. You Should Grow Snacking Peppers Instead of Bell Peppers
  18. I Wore Two Oura Rings to See If the Finger You Use Actually Matters
  19. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in April
  20. Six Ways to Use Landscaping to Enhance Your Home’s Security
  21. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Kindle Paperwhite Kids
  22. We Finally Know What the Nintendo Switch 2 (and Its Games) Will Cost
  23. Your Apple Watch Alarm Doesn’t Have to Be Silent
  24. The Four Best Alternatives to Zelle
  25. It Takes 50 Hours to Earn the Right to Preorder a Switch 2 From Nintendo
  26. The Zelle App Shut Down, but Zelle Lives On
  27. Fake Online Car Dealership Scams Are More Convincing Than People Think
  28. 'Text Lens' Can Copy Any Text From Your Mac's Screen
  29. All the Games Coming to the Nintendo Switch 2
  30. Runway Says That Its Gen-4 AI Videos Are Now More Consistent
  31. This Nintendo Switch OLED Is $250 Right Now
  32. Everything We Know About the Switch 2's Design and Specs
  33. Why I Pay for Kagi, the Ad-Free Google Search Alternative
  34. PowerToys Now Converts Videos and Audio Too
  35. This Free App Brings Back the Windows 2000, XP, or Vista Taskbars
  36. The 30 Best Original Shows Streaming on Max Right Now
  37. How to Lock Down Your Phone When Crossing the U.S. Border
  38. You Can Grow a Mini Fruit Tree on Your Patio
  39. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: This Bose Smart Soundbar
  40. Some Tech Is Still More Than Half Off After Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  41. iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 Sneakily Enable Automatic Updates on Your iPhone and Mac
  42. Apple Just Released Hundreds of Security Patches for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
  43. You Should Be Freezing Chickpea Liquid
  44. What to Expect From the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct
  45. How to Discover Which Apps Drain Your Laptop’s Battery the Most
  46. My Favorite Fitness Watch Is Getting Walking Workouts and a Smart Alarm
  47. Gemini 2.5 Pro Is Google’s Most Powerful AI Model Yet, and It’s Already Free
  48. ChatGPT's Viral Image Generator Is Now Available to Everyone
  49. What You Gain (and Lose) by Using Ad Blockers
  50. What Is a Browser Cache, Anyway?
  51. What VPNs Can Do (and What They Can't)
  52. How Passwords Managers Work (and Why You Should Finally Start Using One)
  53. The Best Internet Browsers for Protecting Your Privacy (and the Worst One)
  54. This 10th Gen Kindle Oasis Is $130 Right Now
  55. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The Most Influential Hoax in American History
  56. The 'Real' History of April Fools' Day (and Why It Isn’t Funny Anymore)
  57. You Can Get Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac on Sale for $43 Right Now
  58. You Can Get a Lifetime License to Windows 11 Pro for $15 Right Now
  59. The Best Tech You Can Still Grab for Under $50 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  60. T-Mobile Class-Action Payouts Are Just About on Their Way
  61. My Favorite Portable Projector Is $70 Off Right Now
  62. This Kodak Printomatic Instant Print Camera Is on Sale for $60 Right Now
  63. Here Are All the New Features in iOS 18.4
  64. This Refurbished 2020 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $440 Right Now
  65. Seven Ways to Save More Money on a DIY Home Renovation Project
  66. Why I Always Leave My Pizza Dough in the Fridge for Three Days
  67. This 2019 iPad With Beats Flex Headphones Is on Sale for Just $160 Right Now
  68. Oura’s ‘AI Advisor’ Is Out of Beta Testing, but Is It Worth Using?
  69. You Can Get a 1-Year Sam's Club Membership for $25 Right Now
  70. How to Try Out Windows' New 'Blue Screen of Death'
  71. Watch Out for This Info-Stealing Malware on Windows
  72. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Arc Soundbar
  73. The Acer Chromebook Plus 514 Is at Its Lowest Price Right Now
  74. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Incels and the 80/20 Rule
  75. Google Just Added Some AI Features to Its Vacation Planning Tools
  76. What's New on Prime Video in April 2025
  77. You Can Now Make WhatsApp the Default Calling and Messaging App on Your iPhone
  78. The 60 Best Classic Movies You Can Stream Right Now
  79. The Best Deals on Tech That Are Still Live After the Spring Sale Season
  80. This Powerful, Portable Speaker Is $70 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  81. 11 Low-Cost, High-Impact Upgrades You Should Do Immediately After Buying a Home
  82. These Are My Favorite Kitchen Appliance Deals During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  83. The Best Fitness Watches for Every Kind of Runner
  84. Amazon's Biggest Kindle Is $75 Off Right Now
  85. The Sleep Earbuds I Use Every Night Are $30 Off Right Now
  86. You Can Finally Turn the Page on Some Kindles Without Tapping the Screen
  87. These Dutch Ovens Are Less Than $70 Right Now (Including My Favorite One)
  88. Facebook's New Friends-Only Feed Lets You Scroll Like It's 2008
  89. Suction Isn't the Only Thing That Matters When Choosing a Robot Vacuum
  90. The Best Deals on Fitness Equipment in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  91. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Dangbei Freedo Portable Projector
  92. Google's First-Gen Pixel Watch Is at Its Lowest Price
  93. This Action Camera With Accessories Is Now Under $200
  94. This Subscription-Free, Solar-Powered 4K Security Camera Kit Is at Its Lowest Price
  95. A Three-Year Subscription to Surfshark VPN Is Less Than $70 Today
  96. You Can Get Discounted Bundles of Music, Movies, and Books at Amazon and Target
  97. This Is the Best Robot Vacuum-Mop Combo I've Used, and It's 45% Off Right Now
  98. The Best Deals on Fitness Trackers and Smartwatches During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  99. This M4 Mac Mini Deal Is the Cheapest Way to Get Apple's Newest Chip
  100. This Is the Air Fryer I Use Every Day, and It's 40% Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
  2. Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth
  3. For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
  4. Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
  5. Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
  6. Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance
  7. When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
  8. Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs
  9. Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
  10. Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
  11. Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox
  12. EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
  13. System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy
  14. Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
  15. UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend
  16. On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia
  17. Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier
  18. OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers
  19. OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission
  20. Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
  21. Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs
  22. Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
  23. Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus
  24. Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'
  25. Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat
  26. Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat
  27. Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry
  28. Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz Alphawave
  29. For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections
  30. Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
  31. One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101
  32. Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options
  33. Speech now streaming from brains in real-time
  34. Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes
  35. North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers
  36. Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work
  37. Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival
  38. Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer
  39. Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block
  40. To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences
  41. Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake
  42. FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion
  43. Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
  44. Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it
  45. Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough
  46. Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users
  47. Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech
  48. UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill
  49. Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'
  50. RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

TechMeme

  1. President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if it approves the sale of TikTok's US operations; the app faces an April 5 divestment deadline (Annmarie Hordern/Bloomberg)
  2. US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his deputy Wendy Noble (Washington Post)
  3. Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers a travel-focused credit card and a travel app, raised a $40M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $72M (The Economic Times)
  4. Report: Brazil's antitrust regulator is investigating Apple over ATT, saying Apple collects user data "under more favorable conditions", after Meta complained (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
  5. Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with advocates, raised a $60M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, after a $14M Series A in August 2024 (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)
  6. OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada until the end of May 2025, intensifying competition with Anthropic in higher education (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
  7. TikTok tests TikTok for Artists, which provides musicians with analytics tools for fan engagement, in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
  8. An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
  9. A researcher says changes in X's web app suggest that X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles, with prices ranging from $10K to $500K+ (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
  10. Sources: the EU is preparing to penalize X this summer for breaking the DSA, including via product change demands and a fine that a source says could be $1B+ (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
  11. Microsoft starts selling its $350 Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, after its November 2024 debut (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
  12. Amazon is testing a "Buy for Me" button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app (Emma Roth/The Verge)
  13. France says the EU's second response to President Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, like those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft (Euractiv)
  14. Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture that will operate Intel's chipmaking facilities; TSMC will take a 20% stake (Qianer Liu/The Information)
  15. Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key risk areas: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, with a focus on the first two (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)