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BBC

  1. Iran says Strait of Hormuz is 'open' but tracking shows few ships moving
  2. 'Staggering' I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM
  3. Chris Mason: Mandelson saga is a messy palaver - and the questions continue to swirl
  4. A man wrongfully served 17 years for rape. Now another man has been convicted
  5. Irish fugitive and alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan arrested in Dubai
  6. Clair Obscur takes top Bafta Games Award but misses out on clean sweep
  7. Nursery worker jailed over death of toddler restrained during nap time
  8. 'I'm the lucky one' - more than one in three young men now live with their parents
  9. No evidence Epsom rape took place as reported, say police
  10. Kanye West concert in Poland cancelled over antisemitic comments
  11. Hope Street actor Finnian Garbutt dies aged 28
  12. Japan comes up with new word for days hotter than 40C after blistering summer
  13. A moment of risk and opportunity: How two ceasefires could boost US-Iran talks
  14. UK and France to lead defensive mission in Strait of Hormuz
  15. Oil prices plunge as Iran says Strait of Hormuz 'open' during ceasefire
  16. Some Iran-linked ships have crossed US blockade, data suggests
  17. Ceasefire with Israel brings respite to Lebanon, but obstacles to peace remain
  18. Key questions facing government over Mandelson checks
  19. How Coventry earned Premier League return after 25 years
  20. Avengers reassemble and Ariana meets the Fockers - Hollywood studios preview new movies
  21. One of Arsenal's greatest unsung heroes - Martin Keown's tribute to Alex Manninger
  22. Mum describes nightmare after son died during nursery naptime
  23. What is Claude Mythos and what risks does it pose?
  24. Weekly quiz: What did Trump say about the Pope?
  25. Kensington Gardens shut after claims of drones near Israeli embassy
  26. Ultra-marathon champion who died running Cape Wrath trail was two weeks away from wedding
  27. Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter Andy Kershaw dies aged 66
  28. Lamborghini among 160,000 cars seized as uninsured driving reaches 17-year high
  29. Conservative US town grapples with potential ICE detention centre
  30. Thousands celebrate open-air Mass with Pope Leo in Cameroon - in pictures
  31. Woman arrested over death of girl found in pond
  32. BBC News app
  33. Have the Democrats found a new strategy to scare Trump?
  34. Mandelson Failed Security Vetting...The Prime Minister Speaks Out
  35. Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas, is on an exciting quest
  36. How Coventry earned Premier League return after 25 years
  37. Bournemouth close to appointing Rose
  38. One of Arsenal's greatest unsung heroes - Keown's tribute to Manninger
  39. Carrick leaves door open for Rashford return
  40. O'Sullivan chasing eighth Crucible title aged 50
  41. Russell 'would understand' if Verstappen leaves F1
  42. Mental stress led to anti-doping charge - Vondrousova

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Engadget

  1. 15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song
  2. The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube
  3. A lot of you panic-bought PCs to avoid RAMaggedon 2026
  4. Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
  5. Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages
  6. NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
  7. Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI
  8. Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era
  9. Anthropic now has a design assistant too
  10. Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
  11. Donut Lab's battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint
  12. TCL's RGB-Mini LED TVs will start at $8,000
  13. Engadget Podcast: Allbirds goes from shoes to AI
  14. The Morning After: Our verdict on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4
  15. PSA: Stop using your Casely Power Pods wireless charger immediately
  16. Reed Hastings is leaving Netflix after 29 years
  17. Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac
  18. Call of Duty movie arrives on June 30, 2028
  19. Blackmagic Camera for iOS now has a companion Watch app
  20. Meta is giving Threads on web a redesign that finally adds direct messages
  21. The European Commission wants Google to share search engine data with competitors
  22. Blizzard just made Overwatch’s best mode much worse
  23. Playdate Season 3 is coming later this year
  24. A first look at Metro 2039 shows how its Ukrainian developer turned the darkness up to 11
  25. OpenAI's latest Codex update builds the groundwork for its upcoming super app
  26. Google Chrome makes it easier to wrangle different tabs in AI Mode
  27. Intel launches new Core Series 3 chips for mainstream laptops
  28. Gemini can now draw on your Google data to personalize the images it generates
  29. The first real trailer for the Street Fighter movie is filled with crowd-pleasing moments
  30. Meta isn't setting its Oversight Board free just yet
  31. Meta Quest headset prices are going up on April 19
  32. Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
  33. Spotify debuts a new UI just for tablets
  34. Canva starts previewing a more powerful version of its AI assistant
  35. DJI Osmo Pocket 4 review: The only vlogging camera you'll ever need
  36. Anthropic will ask Claude users to verify their identities 'for a few use cases'
  37. Amazon MGM's 2026 theatrical slate includes 'Highlander' and 'Spaceballs: The New One'
  38. YouTube now lets you hide Shorts
  39. Opera adds Browser Connector for integrating AI chatbots
  40. Apple and Google are reportedly pointing users to 'nudify' apps
  41. Microsoft's new college deal is a half-hearted answer to the $500 MacBook Neo
  42. Federal jury finds concert business Live Nation is a monopoly
  43. PlayStation Plus April catalog adds include Horizon Remastered, Squirrel with a Gun and Frank Stone
  44. There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
  45. Google unleashes a native Gemini app for the Mac
  46. Recteq X-Fire Pro 825 review: A smart grill that pulls double duty
  47. Snap is laying off 16 percent of its workforce, blames AI
  48. Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy
  49. Traeger debuts Westwood smart pellet grills that start at $700
  50. The Vivo X300 Ultra is a powerful camera phone aimed at videographers

Pinboard

  1. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  2. Good sleep, good learning, good life
  3. Pretty Fish — A Better Mermaid Diagram Editor
  4. Saying Goodbye to Agile — Software's "Agile moment" has been and gone.
  5. Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
  6. Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
  7. www.dbreunig.com — Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now https://ift.tt/vT2Djty cybersecurity, ai, security
  8. The Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Internet Archive — On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 22-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announ…
  9. Make tmux Pretty and Usable - A Guide to Customizing your tmux.conf - Ham Vocke
  10. FontSelf
  11. What is jj and why should I care? - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
  12. Things you didn't know about indexes
  13. Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought | Oceans | The Guardian — The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists call…
  14. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality | lisyarus blog
  15. God sleeps in the minerals (some extremely pretty rocks)
  16. We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs — We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs https://ift.tt/c0ZboO6 ai, retail, research, future, ethics
  17. Every train, a note. — "Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years. On the platforms they are hot, screaming, full of complaint. This is the music inside the noise. Th…
  18. They See Your Photos
  19. Automate work with routines
  20. Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic — Error: HTTP 429: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.
  21. My AI-Assisted workflow | maiobarbero.dev — How I built a structured AI-assisted development workflow as a Tech Lead, where the real work happens before a single line of code is written.
  22. 5NF and Database Design | Database Design Book
  23. Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit | 404 Media — Matthew Gault, 04/14/2026 An audit found that Google, Microsoft, and Meta often ignore users' requests to opt out of tracking cookies, breaking California privacy laws. These companies set tracking cookies even wh…
  24. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
  25. Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
  26. Top (Modern Common Lisp with FSet)
  27. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. — According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and we’re struggling to keep up.
  28. https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman — A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman — cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy. Based on the viral observation that caveman-speak dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing technical substance. So we made it a one-line install.
  29. delphitools: Handmade Developer Tools
  30. All elementary functions from a single operator — A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, , and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here we show that a s…
  31. Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch — Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes. Now 59, Jacobs knows that these cassettes are going to degrade over time, so he …
  32. Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents
  33. The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity - by Denis Stetskov — "How long can the average human hold that line? And the worst part: validating or trusting, the engineer owns the outcome either way. When production goes down at 3 AM, it’s your name on the commit. Your PR that got merged. Your incident report. There is no versi…
  34. GitHub Stacked PRs | GitHub Stacked PRs
  35. Most people can't juggle one ball — LessWrong — TLDR: A complete guide to juggling, from zero to siteswap notation, by someone who juggles in nightclubs. …
  36. The paper computer « the jsomers.net blog
  37. Why the AI backlash has turned violent - by Brian Merchant — "And why it's probably only going to get worse from here."
  38. The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
  39. No one can force me to have a secure website — "This is like when I go to buy a beer and the guy sends me away because my driver's license expired. Do you think that I GOT YOUNGER in the time since it was valid?"
  40. The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
  41. American English Dialects — Диалекты английского в Северной Америке
  42. Guide world
  43. I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation - daverupert.com — If we need anything more than an approximation, a language model might not be the right tool for the job.
  44. Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work — "Mythos Preview’s success on one cyber range indicates that is at least capable of autonomously attacking small, weakly defended and vulnerable enterprise systems where access to a network has been gained. However, our ranges have important difference…
  45. How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack | Steve Hanov's Blog
  46. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
  47. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  48. DaVinci Resolve – Photo | Blackmagic Design
  49. The secrets of the shinkansen • Works In Progress — Works in Progress and Benedict Springbett: Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and the United States just 0.25 per…
  50. Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website — It only takes ONE to ruin a reputation. I will never trust Backblaze: apparently they started excluding things (.git folders, your Dropbox folder) from the list of what gets backed up without even really telling anyone.
  51. From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online — From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online https://ift.tt/uD2kFyb music, concerts, archive, bootlegs
  52. Getting the Flock out — I wrote to Flock’s privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program: I am a resident of California. As such, and because you are subject to the CCPA, delete all information about me, my vehicle, and other household members from all of your databases. I do not give you permission to c…
  53. Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking"  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
  54. Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug.
  55. Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart – Sophie Alpert
  56. Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive | Hacker News
  57. How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon's Clutches | Lifehacker — Now that Amazon is no longer supporting Kindles sold before 2013, it's the perfect time to jailbreak your Kindle, remove ads, and add customization features.
  58. The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/li6rxfM
  59. The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine — AI is now helping mathematicians solve problems much faster than before. Experts say AI will change how math is done but will not replace human mathematicians. Many hope AI will uncover new discoveries while challenges remain for education and research culture.
  60. Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie | Steve Hanov's Blog
  61. Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
  62. Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
  63. Six Characters // a.s
  64. www.sofahq.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/HuD1ACy
  65. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008) | Hacker News
  66. My adventure in designing API keys
  67. (500) https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/ — RT @kakashiliu: 1/ 一篇來自 2016 年很棒的文章，講解 microprocessor 的演進過程，從 pipeline 和 ILP 講起，一路涵蓋到 superpipeline，superscalar，VLIW，branch prediction，SMT，並講解遇到的困難和解法，
  68. Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0 — TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy!
  69. Little LaTeX Pearls — Over the course of the LaTeX-typeset papers I’ve written during grad school, there are some tricks and macros I’ve carried with me all throughout. Here’s a small catalogue of some of the generally applicable ones.
  70. Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/pFXH07P
  71. What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? - Ars Technica — For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.
  72. rtk — CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
  73. GitHub - google/magika: Detect file content types with deep learning
  74. Things you didn't know about indexes | Lobsters
  75. AP Exclusive: Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns | AP News
  76. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  77. We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem. - The New York Times
  78. I went to school with Graham Platner. Here's a look at his success — Juxtapose that with the analysis of Trumpism — its root causes and how to address them — that Platner offered to the crowd in Fryeburg. “People, when their lives begin to deteriorate, are going to look for folks to blame, and if we don’t have the actual ans…
  79. apfel - Free AI on Your Mac
  80. Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/wO0cV9h
  81. Flighty Airports Meltdown Map
  82. Zellij
  83. Type Scale Tool – Craft Precise Typography, Get CSS Fast
  84. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess — Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.
  85. Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'œil Tableaux — Colossal
  86. Laurence Tratt: Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777897 https://lobste.rs/s/q6j2fu/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c https://old.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/1sm90x5/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters/
  87. Netflix ruined its Apple TV app by switching to a custom video player - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MCXUAj8
  88. GitHub - saffron-health/libretto: The AI toolkit for building and maintaining browser automations · GitHub
  89. The AI Great Leap Forward
  90. From Hierarchy to Intelligence | Sequoia Capital
  91. YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/wO0cV9h
  92. Mark’s Magic Multiply
  93. AgentSeal/codeburn: See where your AI coding tokens go. Interactive TUI dashboard for Claude Code and Codex cost observability.
  94. Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) — Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
  95. China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall | Vale.Rocks — "The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large. It is censored, regulated and structured quite differently. It is controlled and managed, rather than organic and sprawling. From the outside looking in, it feels like an e…
  96. China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world — “Why was it possible to build capacity exceeding global demand by double in such a short time?” asked Li Dongsheng, the chair of television and solar conglomerate TCL. “The key reason is the distortion of resource allocation and inappropriate local go…
  97. The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
  98. Using Claude Code: session management and 1M context | Claude
  99. The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind - Viktor Cessan
  100. Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yCuR0Yt

The Next Web

  1. Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access
  2. Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
  3. Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
  4. Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator
  5. Volvo’s parent Geely is selling a $15,000 electric SUV with massaging seats and 600 km of range
  6. Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with new Anthropic partnership
  7. Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing
  8. Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps
  9. ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal cord stimulation implant
  10. EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers

Smashing Magazine

  1. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  2. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  3. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  4. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  5. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  6. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  7. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  8. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  9. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  10. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  11. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  12. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  13. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  14. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  15. Getting Started With The Popover API
  16. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  17. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  18. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  19. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  20. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  21. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  22. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  23. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  24. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  25. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  26. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  27. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  28. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  29. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  30. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  31. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  32. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  33. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  34. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  35. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  36. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  37. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  38. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  39. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  40. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Kids Water Shoes and Waterproof Sandals
  2. How to Clean Vinyl Records
  3. The Best Audiophile Headphones for Everyday Use
  4. The Best VR Headset
  5. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera
  6. This Gigantic Pull-Up Bar Is a Beast to Store. But It’s the Best of Its Kind.
  7. Our Favorite Ways to Protect and Show Off Your Vinyl Records
  8. The Best Bug Repellents
  9. The 39 Best Gifts for Teachers
  10. The Best Over-the-Range Microwave

Sweethome

  1. How to Clean Vinyl Records
  2. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera
  3. How to Buy a Leather Couch That Will Last
  4. The Best Air Conditioner
  5. The Best Digital Photo Frame
  6. The Perfect Keychain Doesn’t Exi—
  7. The Best Gardening Gloves
  8. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop My Spouse From Leaving Wet Sponges in the Sink?
  9. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop People From Throwing Poop Bags in My Garbage Can?
  10. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop My Mom From Buying Dollar-Store Junk?

Hacker News

  1. Claude Design
  2. A simplified model of Fil-C
  3. All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
  4. Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
  5. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
  6. I'm spending 3 months coding the old way
  7. How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain
  8. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
  9. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
  10. NASA Force
  11. Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4
  12. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
  13. Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
  14. I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
  15. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded
  16. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
  17. Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe
  18. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
  19. Introducing: ShaderPad
  20. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
  21. Ban the sale of precise geolocation
  22. The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [video]
  23. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
  24. Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished
  25. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
  26. Iceye Open Data
  27. Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box
  28. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD
  29. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
  30. The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

Ars Technica

  1. US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"
  2. Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"
  3. Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
  4. $25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options
  5. Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
  6. Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
  7. Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer
  8. Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion
  9. Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
  10. Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch
  11. Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
  12. After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars
  13. Lucasfilm drops The Mandalorian and Grogu final trailer at CinemaCon
  14. Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time
  15. OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
  16. As they got close to the Moon, Artemis II astronauts were eager to land
  17. Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
  18. Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media
  19. New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background
  20. The Ukraine war's deep impact on Metro 2039’s development, story

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New Scientist

  1. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  2. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  3. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  4. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  5. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  6. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  7. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  8. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  9. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  10. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  11. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  12. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  13. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  14. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  15. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  16. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  17. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  18. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  19. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  20. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  21. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  22. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  23. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  24. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  25. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  26. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  27. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  28. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  29. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
  30. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
  31. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
  32. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
  33. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
  34. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
  35. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
  36. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
  37. The man who ruined mathematics
  38. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
  39. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
  40. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
  41. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
  42. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
  43. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
  44. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
  45. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
  46. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
  47. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
  48. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
  49. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
  50. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
  51. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
  52. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
  53. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
  54. Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
  55. Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
  56. The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
  57. Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine
  58. Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
  59. Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?
  60. A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries
  61. Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon
  62. Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'
  63. We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
  64. The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health
  65. How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
  66. Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid
  67. How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo
  68. Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
  69. Bumblebees surprise scientists by showing a sense of rhythm
  70. Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
  71. We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
  72. I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes – on purpose
  73. What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex
  74. Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon
  75. Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
  76. Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?
  77. The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close
  78. Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex
  79. The best new popular science books of April 2026
  80. Virus from marine animals is causing weird eye problems in people
  81. Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain
  82. Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid
  83. The best new science-fiction books of April 2026
  84. New fibre-optic record allows 50,000,000 movies to be streamed at once
  85. The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
  86. Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
  87. The best kind of olive oil for brain health
  88. The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light
  89. Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
  90. How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing
  91. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
  92. The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
  93. Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet
  94. I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water
  95. How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics
  96. We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet
  97. AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
  98. Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
  99. Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
  100. Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

Slashdot

  1. Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources
  2. NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions
  3. Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping
  4. Mozilla 'Thunderbolt' Is an Open-Source AI Client Focused On Control and Self-Hosting
  5. Amazon's New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading
  6. OpenAI Starts Offering a Biology-Tuned LLM
  7. Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB
  8. Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics
  9. US To Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone In Philippines
  10. Reed Hastings Is Leaving Netflix After 29 Years
  11. Intel's New Core Series 3 Is Its Answer To the MacBook Neo
  12. Sperm Whales' Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds
  13. 'TotalRecall Reloaded' Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database
  14. OpenAI's Big Codex Update Is a Direct Shot At Claude Code
  15. Is Linux Mint In Trouble?

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-13-26 to 4-17-26)
  2. Industrial Design Research: Form Studies for Writing/Drawing Utensils, by BKID
  3. Mario Tsai Studio's Modular Star System of Lighting
  4. Ralf Jacobs' Incredible Harmonograph: Furniture That Can Draw Patterns
  5. Iyo Hasegawa's Wrench-Based Furniture
  6. An '80s Objet D'esign: Oliver Michl's Expanding Architect's Lamp
  7. Strange Alternative to Beach Umbrellas: A Giant Windsock
  8. A Remote-Controlled, Daisy-Chainable Pan & Tilt 360-Degree LED Light
  9. Experimental Furniture Design by Raw-Edges Design Studio
  10. The Insane Entrance Door to (A)void Café in Prague
  11. In France, Lunch Delivered Via Steampunk-Like Contraptions
  12. A Low-Tech Sliding Shutter System from Pre-Industrial Japan
  13. A Handsome Two-Compartment Bathroom Waste Bin
  14. Dyson Finds Another Application for Its Tech: Powerful Handheld Fans
  15. Hyundai Unveils Chinese-Market-Specific Concept Vehicles

CNET

  1. One Rumored Color for the iPhone 18 Pro? A Rich Dark Cherry Red
  2. AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says
  3. This New Air Purifier Filter Can Remove Cannabis Smoke Odor, Just in Time for 4/20
  4. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 18, #572
  5. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 18, #1042
  6. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 18 #776
  7. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 18, #1764
  8. OpenAI Has a New AI Model Built for Biology and Science
  9. Apple and Google Broke Their Own Rules by Promoting 'Nudify' Apps, Report Says
  10. Could Your Next Phone Be a Foldable? New Tech and a Possible Apple Model Makes It More Likely
  11. Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta AI Smart Glasses Are Now HSA and FSA Eligible
  12. Was This Game Just On Sale? Steam May Show Price Shifts Over the Past 30 Days
  13. Casely Is Recalling Wireless Power Pods Over Fire and Burn Risks, Again
  14. The Race for Fashion Smart Glasses Is On
  15. Play Hades 2, the Award-Winning Sequel, on Xbox Game Pass Now
  16. There's Good (and Very Bad) Coffee at the Grocery Store. I Tested 20 Bags to Find the Best
  17. YouTube Will Let You Turn Off Shorts, but Only on Mobile
  18. Anthropic Introduces First Design Tool to Claude
  19. Moms Recommend: The Best Smart Baby Monitors of 2026
  20. Micro RGB TVs Were Everywhere at CES, but TCL's QM8L Could Put Them to Shame
  21. One Month With the MacBook Neo and Feeling the Limits
  22. Tyrese Maxey Has a Second Job to Help Make Watching the NBA Playoffs Easier
  23. Coachella Week 2: How to Watch Justin Bieber, Karol G for Free This Weekend
  24. Smartphone Prices Are Still Climbing. Here Are 3 Ways to Get Around That
  25. I Wore the Whoop Band and the Apple Watch for Months and Found the Best Fit

Reddit

The Verge

  1. OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
  2. Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?
  3. Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces
  4. Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists
  5. This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
  6. Our new favorite budget phones
  7. The best budget smartphones you can buy
  8. Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus
  9. The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price
  10. Ghost orchid in the machine

Wired

  1. OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  2. Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
  3. AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
  4. Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance
  5. MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged
  6. Coolfly Aura Review: More Angles, Fewer Advantages
  7. Best Bluetooth Speakers (2026): JBL, Sonos, Bose, and More
  8. The Best MagSafe Accessories (for Android, Too!): Chargers, Wallets, and More
  9. How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They’re Going?
  10. Canyon Spectral:ON CF 8 Electric Mountain Bike: Beginner-Friendly, Under $5K
  11. The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex
  12. Nothing Phone (4a) Pro Review: A Close Second
  13. The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
  14. Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them
  15. 6,000 Meters Under the Pacific, Japan Seeks Independence From China on Rare Earths
  16. Nike Promo Codes and Deals: 30% Off
  17. Foreo Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off
  18. H&R Block Coupon: 25% Off DIY + Tax Pro Assist
  19. 50% Off Blue Apron Promo Codes | April 2026
  20. TopResume Free Review, Discounts & Packages for 2026

LifeHacker

  1. Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
  2. If X Isn't Working, It's Not Just You
  3. Netflix Is About to Launch Its Vertical Video Feed
  4. Starbucks’ New ChatGPT Integration Is a Potential Privacy Nightmare
  5. This Android Setting Makes It Easy to Manage All Your App Permissions
  6. What You Can Expect to Pay to Get Into Fitness
  7. This Tech Announcement Was so Bad, the Company Apologized
  8. This Sonos Soundbar With Alexa Is 46% Off Right Now
  9. Yesterday's Bluesky Outage Was No Accident
  10. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  11. This Arlo 2K Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera Is on Sale for $25
  12. Gemini Can Now Create AI Images Using Your Own Photos and Videos
  13. You Can Get Windows 11 Pro on Sale for Just $13 Right Now
  14. This Flash Sale Offers a One-Year BJ's Membership With Gas Discounts for Just $15 Right Now
  15. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Yellowstone’
  16. This Anker Solix Portable Power Station Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  17. This Subscription-Free Eufy Outdoor Camera Kit Is $150 Off Right Now
  18. This 3-Day Flash Sale Is Cutting the Price of AdGuard to Just $11
  19. The New Google Pixel 10a Is Already $50 Off
  20. Whoop Wants to Test Your Blood
  21. An Audit Found That DuckDuckGo's VPN Doesn't Track User Activity
  22. This 55-inch Samsung OLED TV Is $600 Off Right Now
  23. These Four Apple Intelligence Features Might Be Coming in iOS 27
  24. Everything We Know About Google's Upcoming Smart Band
  25. I'm Reading a 900-Page Novel on an E-Reader the Size of My Library Card, and It's Going Great
  26. How the 3-3-3 Rule Helped Me Stick to an Exercise Routine
  27. The Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Earbuds Are 40% Off
  28. 10 Shows Like 'Industry' You Should Watch Next
  29. Your First Pull-Up Is Just the Beginning
  30. There's Finally a Way to Block YouTube Shorts on Both iPhones and Androids
  31. Seven Samsung Galaxy Settings You Don’t Get on Other Android Phones
  32. Bluesky Continues to Have Connectivity Problems
  33. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  34. This Three-Stage Air Purifier Is 69% Off Right Now
  35. Google’s New Gemini App for Mac Comes With Two Key Benefits (and One Drawback)
  36. This 55-Inch LG OLED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  37. Google Is Finally Taking a Stand Against 'Back Button Hijacking'
  38. Spotify Just Partnered With One of Amazon's Best Bookselling Rivals
  39. These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are on Sale for $110 Right Now
  40. Why Everyone Is Suddenly Into ‘Combat Training'
  41. This $7 Epoxy Putty Saved My Home From Thousands in Water Damage
  42. These Smart Cameras Will Toss Treats to Your Pets While You’re Away, and They’re 48% Off Right Now
  43. These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data
  44. I Tried Binge, the Letterboxd Alternative That I Now Like More Than Letterboxd
  45. Should You Supplement With Creatine?
  46. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Was the Artemis II Mission Fake?
  47. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is 38% Off Right Now
  48. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is $400 Off Right Now
  49. I Used This Wall Edger to Paint My Stairs, and I'm Never Going Back
  50. A Lifetime Subscription to Babbel Is on Sale at a Huge Discount Right Now
  51. These Wireless, Noise-Canceling JBL Earbuds Are on Sale for Just $40 Right Now
  52. 10 Hacks Every Apple Music User Should Know
  53. Turn Your Laptop Into a Three-Screen Setup With This Portable Display Add-On
  54. I Replaced My Phone's To-Do App With This Reusable Smart Notebook, and It Rules
  55. You Can Get Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for Just $28 Right Now
  56. Trump Mobile's 'T1 Phone' Might Actually Be Released Soon
  57. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $250 Off Right Now
  58. I Upgraded From the Garmin Forerunner 165 to the 970, and It Was Worth the Cost for Me
  59. How to Hide Sensitive Info From Your Notifications
  60. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Squid Game'
  61. 10 Shows Like 'Scarpetta' You Should Watch Next
  62. Samsung Just Quietly Raised the Prices of These Smartphones and Tablets
  63. You Can Get This Cordless Shark Indoor/Outdoor Fan on Sale for Just $80 Right Now
  64. How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon's Clutches
  65. 10 Hacks Every Spotify User Should Know
  66. I Tried Tubi in ChatGPT and Didn't Hate It
  67. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is More Than $150 Off Right Now
  68. Samsung’s Latest Flagship TV Is Over $350 Off Right Now
  69. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold Is $300 Off Right Now
  70. Why Your Back Hurts, and What You Can Do About It
  71. Microsoft Is Killing Outlook Lite
  72. Amazon Big Spring Sale 2026 Live Blog: All the Best Deals From Apple, Kindle, Garmin, and More
  73. The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Are on Sale for $199
  74. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  75. The Samsung Galaxy Watch Can Finally Measure Blood Pressure in the U.S.
  76. Elon Musk's XChat Claims to Offer 'Private' Messaging (but Is Reserving the Right to Collect Your Data)
  77. This Is Your Chance to Get the AirPods Pro 3 for $200
  78. This Dual Screen E-Ink/LCD Smartphone Is One of the Most Ill-Conceived Tech Products of the Year
  79. Apple May Be Working on Multiple Styles and Frames for Its First Smart Glasses
  80. The Samsung S26 Ultra Is Already $200 Off
  81. This Blink Security Bundle Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  82. The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Smart Glasses Are 25% Off Right Now
  83. You Can Now Customize the Keyboard on Your Samsung Galaxy
  84. The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'You the Birthday' Mean?
  85. Seven Ways Gaining Muscle Benefits Your Health
  86. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  87. 10 Hacks Every Google Pixel Owner Should Know
  88. 10 Hacks Every Apple Maps User Should Know
  89. Why You Should Spray Your Shoes With Permethrin This Summer
  90. Roblox 'Plus' Is Here, but It's Only for the Hardcore Spenders
  91. OpenAI Just Cut ChatGPT Pro's Price in Half
  92. YouTube Is Raising Prices for Premium Subscribers
  93. Eight Things You Should Never Share With an AI Chatbot
  94. Google Is Now Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption for (Some) Gmail Users
  95. Microsoft Is Removing Copilot Buttons From These Windows 11 Apps
  96. T-Mobile Will Give You a Free iPhone 17e Right Now, No Trade-In Necessary
  97. Why You Can't Trust 'Runfluencers'
  98. You Can Finally Edit Your Instagram Comments, but There’s a Time Limit
  99. Why You Should Be Using Vertical Tabs in Your Browser
  100. 10 Hacks Every Threads User Should Know

The Onion

The Register

  1. Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors
  2. Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams
  3. CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack
  4. Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker
  5. Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems
  6. Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades
  7. NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission
  8. Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned
  9. Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug
  10. Would you like fries with that terminal?
  11. Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks
  12. Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching
  13. Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283
  14. IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure
  15. Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day
  16. IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google
  17. Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say
  18. Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers
  19. NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes
  20. Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal
  21. Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban
  22. North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist
  23. If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID
  24. DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses
  25. Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband
  26. Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars
  27. Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews
  28. Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned
  29. Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue
  30. Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod
  31. Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed
  32. Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine
  33. Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy
  34. Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall
  35. Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive
  36. Server-room lock was nothing but a crock
  37. QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different
  38. Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan
  39. Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment
  40. Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online
  41. Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
  42. Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time
  43. Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits
  44. Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top
  45. Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP
  46. Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
  47. Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
  48. Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption
  49. Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms
  50. Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

TechMeme

  1. Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (Financial Times)
  2. White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been "productive and constructive"; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting (Axios)
  3. A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
  4. Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
  5. Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
  6. Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
  7. Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees (Reuters)
  8. Figma stock closed down 6.84% on Friday after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
  9. In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board (Martin Peers/The Information)
  10. Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than $50B, with Nvidia participating (Bloomberg)
  11. A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
  12. World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
  13. Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
  14. Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  15. China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share (Ivan Lam/Counterpoint Research)