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BBC

  1. Police assessing Stansted Airport private flights over Epstein ties
  2. Cabinet secretary frontrunner faced multiple bullying complaints
  3. How Jesse Jackson paved way for Barack Obama - and helped change US
  4. 'The search is soul-destroying': Young jobseekers on the struggle to find work
  5. Dual nationals face scramble for British passports as new rules come into force
  6. Ros Atkins on...unanswered Andrew questions
  7. The fallout from Labour's local elections U-turn is not over yet
  8. Cold health alert issued as temperatures fall across the UK
  9. Shein under EU investigation over childlike sex dolls
  10. Reform names Robert Jenrick as pick for chancellor
  11. Patients describe 'culture of abuse' as 15 hospital staff arrested
  12. The 61-year-old Glaswegian whose ice rink moonwalk went viral
  13. Lindsey Vonn 'yet to stand' but returns home to US
  14. USA's Meyers Taylor, 41, becomes oldest individual Olympic champion at a Winter Games
  15. Nine medals up for grabs - Wednesday's guide
  16. The man whose bad break-up gave Madonna her breakthrough hit Like A Virgin
  17. Jesse Jackson: A life in pictures
  18. Adoption breakdown ended my career and relationship – we're told to get on with it
  19. Viral face depuffing tricks - skin experts reveal if they work
  20. How Reddit's human touch is fighting back against AI 'slop'
  21. Why are some students claiming Covid compensation from universities?
  22. How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from years of harm
  23. Iran says 'guiding principles' agreed with US at nuclear talks
  24. Police officer made to feel 'like walking disease' after HIV diagnosis awarded £40,000
  25. Singer and YouTuber who makes music with Furbys and Game Boys picked for UK at Eurovision
  26. Shop owners in Northern Ireland fear violence after paramilitaries demand protection money
  27. Ex-Mail reporter denies making payments for Lawrence information
  28. Five dogs rescued from mountain after falling through snow ledge
  29. BBC News app
  30. Is There A Gen Z Jobs Crisis?
  31. Will the US Supreme Court stand up to Trump?
  32. GB curlers on brink of early exit after Canada defeat
  33. 'A lightning rod for excitement' - Pollock starts in England reshuffle
  34. Six athletes to compete under Russian flag at Paralympics
  35. Arsenal make Saka best-paid player with new five-year deal

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Texas AG sues TP-Link over purported connection to China
  2. Google I/O 2026 is set for May 19 and 20
  3. Netflix is adapting the board game Ticket to Ride
  4. Save up to 81 percent on ExpressVPN two-year plans right now
  5. WordPress adds an AI assistant
  6. Netflix is streaming its first MMA fight on May 16
  7. The first full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu is here
  8. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and The Witcher 3 are coming to Game Pass
  9. Snapchat is rolling out creator subscriptions
  10. Nintendo's Virtual Boy app is now available to download
  11. Amazon's Fire TV redesign is rolling out today
  12. Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack drops to an all-time-low price
  13. The new Anker 45W Nano charger with smart display is $10 off right now
  14. Elevation Lab's AirTag 10-year extended battery case is only $16 right now
  15. The 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card is 33 percent off
  16. Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 is up to $300 off
  17. Pick up a bundle of four first-gen AirTags for only $64
  18. Europe probes Shein's addictive app design and illegal product sales
  19. EU launches second investigation into Grok's nonconsensual image generation
  20. Valve admits Steam Deck availability is affected by memory and storage shortages
  21. The best noise-canceling headphones for 2026
  22. The best Apple Watch in 2026
  23. There's a dedicated channel for Formula 1 in the Apple TV app now
  24. More Rode mics can now connect directly to iPhones and iPads
  25. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will go offline on April 17
  26. The best noise-canceling earbuds for 2026
  27. Apple's Podcasts app now supports HTTP Live Streaming video technology
  28. iPhone Fold rumors: Everything we know so far, including the leaked design, upgrades, price and more details
  29. The Vatican introduces an AI-assisted live translation service
  30. Layers of Fear 3 revealed via a mysterious trailer and poem
  31. Apple's next event is set for March 4
  32. Presidents' Day sales 2026 are live: The best tech deals up to 43 percent off to shop from Apple, Samsung, Anker and others
  33. Apple Presidents' Day sales are live: Get the Apple Watch Series 11 for $299, plus more deals to shop now
  34. The creators of Mixtape want to make a great hangout video game
  35. Monarch Money deal: Get a 50 percent off one of our favorite budgeting apps
  36. ByteDance promises to tighten up its new AI video generator after viral Cruise vs. Pitt clip
  37. The best gaming handhelds for 2026
  38. OpenAI has hired the developer behind AI agent OpenClaw
  39. The best cheap phones for 2026
  40. Hideki Sato, known as the father of Sega hardware, has reportedly died
  41. Terminator Zero showrunner confirms the Netflix anime has been canceled after one season
  42. The official Pokémon pinball machine has an animatronic Pikachu and a Master Ball plunger
  43. Apple may be adding a splash of color to its upcoming budget-friendly MacBook
  44. Tesla CarPlay is coming but it's reportedly being held back by low iOS 26 adoption numbers
  45. Airbnb is testing out AI search with a 'small percentage' of users
  46. Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI
  47. What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona
  48. OpenAI has officially retired the controversial GPT-4o model
  49. Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS
  50. MasterClass deal: It's the last day to get 50 percent off subscriptions

Pinboard

  1. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css — A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.
  2. Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library
  3. Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
  4. MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII — MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
  5. The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
  6. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog — "It wrote an angry hit piece disparaging my character and attempting to damage my reputation. It researched my code contributions and constructed a 'hypocrisy' narrative that argued my actions must be motivated by ego and fear of competition." "Whether by negligence…
  7. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened — Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This repres…
  8. ooh.directory — Here's my latest project: , a collection of hundreds of blogs. I was tired of hearing "no body blogs any more" and wanted to show that there are so. many. blogs! I have loads more blogs and features to add yet, and I hope you find something interesting.
  9. Welcome to Johnny's World
  10. AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It — One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broade…
  11. Stargazing Buddy — Practical Night Sky Observing Guide
  12. i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts — Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts -
  13. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
  14. Introducing Markdown for Agents
  15. How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
  16. Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116080962456717302
  17. Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State — "The Google user agreement, which few users read, does protect the company by stating that images may be stored even in the absence of a subscription." "It is always the case that there are benefits available from relinquishin…
  18. Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
  19. Diffusion of Responsibility — v good
  20. The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026? | by Lukas Niessen | Feb, 2026 | Medium
  21. Matt Shumer on X: "Something Big Is Happening" / X
  22. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You » Danny
  23. Searching for Birds — via nicolas barradeau
  24. Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube — In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes…
  25. Deep Blue — We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work. We’re calling it Deep Blue.
  26. A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor
  27. The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
  28. BLOG: How NOT to Answer the Salary Question - Leon Adato
  29. About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views — > All morning people have been asking me about a blog post by Matt Shumer that has gone viral, with nearly 50 million views on X. > It’s a masterpiece of hype, written in the style of the old direct marketing campaigns
  30. Functional Data Structures and Algorithms. A Proof Assistant Approach
  31. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet - Jeff Geerling
  32. News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns — "Common Crawl and Internet Archive are widely considered to be the 'good guys' and are used by 'the bad guys' like OpenAI," said Michael Nelson, a computer scientist and professor at Old Dominion University. "In everyone's aversion to not be controll…
  33. OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
  34. GitHub - nearai/ironclaw: IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security — IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security - nearai/ironclaw
  35. 0byte
  36. New EU rules to stop destruction of unsold clothes and shoes - Environment
  37. Dana Library Hand
  38. Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format · Gwern.net
  39. wsj.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/izfv5Kc
  40. The Bootstrap | Internals for Interns
  41. theonlyhennygod/zeroclaw: claw done right 🦀
  42. How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt — I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.
  43. Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong — In 2016, when Francisco Estrada-Belli saw Lidar scans of Holmul in north-eastern Guatemala, he realised that “archaeology had changed for ever, there was no going back”. He explained to me how he had laboured for 16 years to map this major city…
  44. Building a TUI is easy now — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509
  45. My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker | aimilios — Another Internet of Shit entry. Interesting idea about having AI reverse-engineer it
  46. microgpt — A GPT you can visualize in your broswer
  47. alibaba/zvec: A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
  48. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code | Christopher Krapu
  49. 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
  50. Rendering the Visible Spectrum
  51. sipeed/picoclaw: picoclaw — 🦐 PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI Assistant inspired by nanobot, refactored from the ground up in Go through a self-bootstrapping process, where the AI agent itself drove the entire architectural migration and code optimization.
  52. Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893411
  53. An AI haters guide to code with LLMs (The How-to) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time — Build Guard-rails Add more tests. Get the LLM to write tests, and to suggest tests to write. The effort required for testing is entirely different now: we have to read the tests and think about them just as much but that’s most of wh…
  54. What the Federal “Surge” Means for Local Police | Stuart Schrader | The New York Review of Books
  55. OpenAI rimuove "safely" dalla missione: profitti contro sicurezza — OpenAI ha rimosso la parola «safely» dalla sua missione mentre si riconfigura in una public benefit corporation con maggiori investimenti (Microsoft, SoftBank) e azionisti privati. L'articolo critica la perdita di priorità sulla sicurezza, segnala cause lega…
  56. Running My Own XMPP Server » Danny
  57. The story of the Triforce, a short-lived arcade platform based on the Nintendo GameCube, though mostly developed by Sega and Namco
  58. jsattler/BetterCapture: The macOS screen recorder for the rest of us - always free and open source with a native look and feel 📺
  59. Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
  60. Do Not Outsource Judgement. AI Is a Power Tool, Not a Substitute… | by Dan Crews | Feb, 2026 | Medium — If individual contributors appear 10× faster while reviewers and leaders must slow down 100× to ensure nothing breaks, something is wrong. Even worse, it seems like most of senior leadership across the industry doesn’t eve…
  61. The Promptware Kill Chain - Schneier on Security
  62. Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI | Amplify Partners — Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI | Amplify Partners https://ift.tt/wEyYK60 ai, audio
  63. GitHub - mickamy/sql-tap: Watch SQL traffic in real-time with a TUI
  64. The Linker | Internals for Interns
  65. Fragments: February 13
  66. I Gave Claude Access To My Pen Plotter | Harmonique
  67. bobeff/open-source-games: A list of open source games.
  68. My colleague Julius
  69. Software Quality Collapse: When 32GB RAM Leaks Become Normal — Apple Calculator leaks 32GB RAM. VS Code leaks 96GB. CrowdStrike crashes 8.5M computers. How we normalized catastrophe—and the $364B spent avoiding the fix.
  70. Just a moment... — This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy https://ift.tt/y5bdPcp engineering, design, inspiration, creatvity, construction, architecture
  71. Flashpoint Archive
  72. Font Rendering from First Principles — Font Rendering from First Principles
  73. The Story of Wall Street Raider - A 40-Year Odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam
  74. My Skill Makes Claude Code GREAT At TDD
  75. Top 7 Small Language Models You Can Run on a Laptop - MachineLearningMastery.com
  76. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (2026/02/15) — We are delighted to announce the official release of Qwen3.5, introducing the open-weight of the first model in the Qwen3.5 series, namely Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. As a native vision-language model, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B demonstrates outstanding results across a full range of be…
  77. The end of books coverage at the Washington Post — "The maximalism and somewhat uncompromising presumption of a newspaper, with its warren of sections and columns and byways, is a quiet reproach to its audience’s most parochial instincts. Its mission is not to indulge existing tastes but to challenge them — to create a certa…
  78. UE mira a eliminare lo scroll infinito: primo intervento DSA contro il design 'addictive' — La Commissione europea accusa TikTok di design che crea dipendenza e chiede di disattivare lo scroll infinito, imporre pause di utilizzo e modificare i sistemi di raccomandazione. È la prima applicazione del Digital Services Act sui r…
  79. markdown.new - 将 URL 转换为简洁、LLM 友好的 Markdown --- markdown.new - 将 URL 转换为干净、LLM 友好的 Markdown
  80. Data Engineering for Large Models: Architecture, Algorithms & Projects — In the era of large models, data quality determines the upper bound of model performance. Yet systematic resources on LLM data engineering remain extremely scarce — most teams are still learning by trial and error. This book is designed to fill that ga…
  81. Life Under a Clicktatorship - Can We Still Govern? — “Pick any federal agency, and you can find examples of poster brains making important decisions. This trend is likely to only get worse as digital natives enter key government roles. And there are likely a host of other ways these patterns are undermining the professional …
  82. Font Review Journal
  83. another uninnocent, elegant fall - Anonymous - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Seven scandals in the life of Ilya Rozanov.
  84. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  85. I fixed Windows native development | Hacker News
  86. Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage - Ars Technica
  87. maths-cs-ai-compendium: Learn maths, computing, and artificial intelligence with intuition. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036063
  88. GitHub - TechPaula/LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design
  89. Why I’m not worried about AI job loss
  90. AI is going to kill app subscriptions — The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies.
  91. Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
  92. [2602.12670] SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks — Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
  93. I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960675 https://lobste.rs/s/7iford/i_started_programming_when_i_was_7_i_m_50_now
  94. 90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (Interconnected) — 90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (Interconnected) https://ift.tt/frPqTOD culture, data, environment, productivity, recycling, technology, tools, trends
  95. Wishcessibility — accessibility aria web web-design LLMs LLM WesGaddis@gmail.com
  96. Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel | PC Gamer
  97. Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar | Hacker News
  98. OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant — * https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent * https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks/ * https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks…
  99. PCB Rework and Repair Guide - PCB-Rework-and-Repair-Guide.pdf
  100. Breaking the spell of vibe coding | Hacker News — help daxfohl 6 hours ago | next [–] I think it all boils down to, which is higher risk, using AI too much, or using AI too little? Right now I see the former as being hugely risky. Hallucinated bugs, coaxed into dead-end architectures, security concerns, not being famil…

The Next Web

  1. Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb
  2. How the uninvestable is becoming investable
  3. The European Parliament pulls back AI from its own devices
  4. AI FOMO: Where the “I” is not just intelligence, but I, the human
  5. X goes quiet again
  6. What my CS team was missing
  7. Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
  8. Munich 2026: A security conference where tech isn’t an afterthought
  9. Stanhope AI raises $8M to build adaptive AI for robotics and defence
  10. Anthropic’s $30B raise is about more than money

Smashing Magazine

  1. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  2. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  3. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  4. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  5. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  7. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  8. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  9. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  10. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  11. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  12. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  13. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  14. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  15. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  16. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  17. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  18. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  19. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  20. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  21. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  22. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  23. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  24. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  25. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  26. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  27. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  28. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  29. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  30. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
  31. Older Tech In The Browser Stack
  32. Effectively Monitoring Web Performance
  33. Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties
  34. Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  35. How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot
  36. Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  37. JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators
  38. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)
  39. AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
  40. How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Handheld Gaming Console
  2. The Best Robot Mop-Vac Combos
  3. The Best Homebrewing Kit for Making Beer
  4. My Favorite Place to Hang a Curtain Is From the Ceiling
  5. The Best Kids Sleeping Bags
  6. My Secret to the Crispiest Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
  7. The Best Mattresses for 2026
  8. The Best Presidents’ Day Sales, Including Exclusive Deals on Mattresses, Bedding, and Sleep Essentials Still Live
  9. How Ski Patrollers Stay Warm
  10. Ring Denies Rumors That Its Footage Is Used by ICE. Here’s What to Know.

Sweethome

  1. My Favorite Place to Hang a Curtain Is From the Ceiling
  2. The Best Mattresses for 2026
  3. The Best Shower Mat
  4. This Hand-Washing Detergent Has Saved Me Thousands on Dry Cleaning Bills. And There’s No Rinsing Required.
  5. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera
  6. Friendship Ended With Simple Green, Now Krud Kutter Is My Best Friend
  7. Our Favorite Tapered Candles
  8. The Best Washing Machines (and Their Matching Dryers)
  9. This AI-Powered Photo Frame Turns Your Words Into Art (or Slop)
  10. Confused About When to Disinfect or Sanitize at Home? Here’s a Cheat Sheet.

Hacker News

  1. Claude Sonnet 4.6
  2. Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
  3. Using go fix to modernize Go code
  4. Gentoo on Codeberg
  5. Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
  6. So you want to build a tunnel
  7. Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring
  8. GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
  9. Async/Await on the GPU
  10. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
  11. Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
  12. Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
  13. I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D
  14. HackMyClaw
  15. Chess engines do weird stuff
  16. Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
  17. Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible
  18. Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps
  19. Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
  20. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024)
  21. Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts
  22. Don't pass on small block ciphers
  23. Assistant to the Regional Manager
  24. Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
  25. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
  26. Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript
  27. Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs
  28. Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
  29. Four Column ASCII (2017)
  30. Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File

Ars Technica

  1. Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
  2. Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds
  3. What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?
  4. RAM shortage hits Valve's four-year-old Steam Deck, now available "intermittently"
  5. Warner Bros. rejects Paramount again but asks for "best and final offer"
  6. There's a lot of big talk about sovereign launch—who is doing something about it?
  7. Here's the fun, action-packed trailer for Mandolorian and Grogu
  8. Ford is focusing on efficiency to make its 2027 $30,000 EV pickup affordable
  9. EU launches probe into xAI over sexualized images
  10. Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
  11. Looks a lot like an electric station wagon: the 2026 Toyota bZ Woodland
  12. 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
  13. Get ready for new Macs and iPads: Apple announces "Special Experience" on March 4
  14. Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, cops say
  15. ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art”
  16. A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
  17. Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables
  18. Sideways on the ice, in a supercar: Stability control is getting very good
  19. Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month
  20. Ancient Mars was warm and wet, not cold and icy

Digg

New Scientist

  1. The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human
  2. Giant viruses may be more alive than we thought
  3. Dream hacking helps people solve complex problems in their sleep
  4. The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved
  5. Psychedelic reduces depression symptoms after just one dose
  6. We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
  7. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
  8. Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update
  9. Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed
  10. Intermittent fasting probably doesn’t help with weight loss
  11. Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
  12. Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?
  13. Why adding cross training into your exercise routine is the way to go
  14. How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' really is
  15. Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel
  16. Your BMI can't tell you much about your health – here's what can
  17. These 5 diets could add years to your life even if you have bad genes
  18. World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century woman's lungs
  19. Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
  20. Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain
  21. First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
  22. CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
  23. New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
  24. Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
  25. Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
  26. RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
  27. Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
  28. Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
  29. Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
  30. The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
  31. This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
  32. Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
  33. 'Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers': a new way to measure ice
  34. What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick
  35. Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake
  36. Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
  37. Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
  38. Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time
  39. Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
  40. Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
  41. Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
  42. Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
  43. How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
  44. Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
  45. Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
  46. 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
  47. Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician
  48. Physicists can now take control of 'hidden' friction in devices
  49. Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change
  50. Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
  51. Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
  52. Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?
  53. Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science
  54. Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer
  55. The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point
  56. Weakening ice shelf has caused crucial Antarctic glacier to accelerate
  57. Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts
  58. The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing
  59. Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight
  60. Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
  61. New Scientist recommends 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  62. Moving inductions to early morning could shorten labour by 6 hours
  63. Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions
  64. A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture
  65. Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards
  66. The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
  67. Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns
  68. Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination
  69. Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer
  70. Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain
  71. Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
  72. How to live a meaningful life, according to science
  73. Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
  74. Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers
  75. Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic
  76. Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation
  77. A social network for AI looks disturbing, but it's not what you think
  78. Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials
  79. Forever chemical TFA has tripled due to ozone-preserving refrigerants
  80. Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer
  81. Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
  82. The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
  83. Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
  84. Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
  85. Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell
  86. Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?
  87. A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
  88. It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban
  89. Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms
  90. CRISPR grapefruit without the bitterness are now in development
  91. Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
  92. The best new popular science books of February 2026
  93. Bored of snakes and ladders? Some maths can help bring back the fun
  94. Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
  95. A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea
  96. The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it
  97. Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?
  98. Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?
  99. Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
  100. The best new science fiction books of February 2026

Slashdot

  1. The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
  2. Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months
  3. Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years
  4. A YouTuber's $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney's $40M Thriller at the Box Office
  5. Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud
  6. Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s
  7. 99% of Adults Over 40 Have Shoulder 'Abnormalities' on an MRI, Study Finds
  8. China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own
  9. Mazda Finally Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst
  10. 'Software Isn't Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be'
  11. Valve's Steam Deck OLED Will Be 'Intermittently' Out of Stock Because of the RAM Crisis
  12. Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
  13. EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears
  14. Secondhand Laptop Market Goes 'Mainstream' Amid Memory Crunch
  15. The Music Industry Enters Its Less-Is-More Era

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Nendo Founder Oki Sato's Comic Strip is Hilarious
  2. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Montana Cherney on Design's Ripple Effects
  3. An Attractive, Functional Furniture Piece for Humans and Cats
  4. A Smart Production Hack for Welding a Pegged Grid
  5. Using Fusion? Apply for the 2026 Autodesk Fusion Prize
  6. Ronan Bouroullec's Cast Iron Trivet Necklace
  7. Footwear Startup Aims to Produce Injury-Reducing Sneakers
  8. Remedial Design: Apple TV's "I Couldn't Hear the Dialogue" Feature
  9. A Clever, Low-Tech, No-Robots Design for a Passive Tennis Partner
  10. Good Low-Tech Design: This Vet Care Meds Chart
  11. Next-Gen Composite Materials: Using Flax Rather than Carbon Fiber
  12. Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-2-26 to 2-6-26)
  13. Industrial Design Case Study: Nihaarika Arora's Jewelry Stand for the MoMA Design Store
  14.  Multi-Level Granny Cart Provides Way Better UX
  15. Industrial Design Student Work: Making Existing Bistro Chairs More Comfortable

CNET

  1. The Year of the Agent: OpenAI Strikes Deal With OpenClaw Founder
  2. Apple MacBook Rumors: New M5 MacBook Pros Could Arrive March 4
  3. Google Pixel 10A Rumors: Wednesday Reveal, New Colors, Preorders
  4. Google Sued by Former NPR Host Over NotebookLM AI Voice
  5. Pinterest Lets Your Control How Much AI Slop You See. Here's How to Tone It Down
  6. Computers Powered by Light Could Help AI's Energy Problem
  7. Anthropic Says Its Newest AI Model Is Getting Pretty Good at Using a Computer
  8. 'High Potential' Season 2: When Is the Next Episode Coming?
  9. Want to Cook Directly on Your Countertop? The Hidden Induction Stove Is Coming
  10. You Can Download the First iOS 26.4 Developer Beta on Your iPhone Right Now
  11. Champions League Playoff Soccer: Livestream Monaco vs. PSG Live From Anywhere
  12. Get Rid of a Cold Within Days With These Vitamins and Supplements
  13. I 3D Printed My Own Dyson Attachments (and They Actually Work)
  14. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: Launch Date Revealed for Rumored S26 Lineup
  15. These Superfoods Will Keep Your Vision Sharp as You Age
  16. Why I Don't Blindly Trust Google's 'Verified' Badge When Shopping for VPNs
  17. Do You Owe Taxes on Social Security? How to Figure It Out in Minutes
  18. How to Convert Any Recipe for the Air Fryer in Minutes
  19. How to Use 200+ Alexa Voice Commands to Control Your Entire Smart Home
  20. My Galaxy A17 Review: Samsung's $200 Phone Does It All... Slowly
  21. AI Is Taking Over Social Media, but Only 44% of People Are Confident They Can Spot It, CNET Finds
  22. 7 Foods That a Nutritionist Recommends for Better Sleep
  23. The Best Electric Kettles of 2026: Budget, Gooseneck, Stylish and Speedy
  24. 10 Kitchen Tools Nutrition Experts Recommend for Sticking With Your Healthy Eating Goals
  25. KBIS 2026: Live Updates From the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Google announces dates for I/O 2026
  2. Here are the best Apple Watch deals available right now
  3. Now Pixel 9 phones can transfer files with AirDrop, too
  4. Apple is reportedly planning to launch AI-powered glasses, a pendant, and AirPods
  5. WordPress’ new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts
  6. The best Presidents Day deals you can still grab
  7. This backup camera cleaner hides behind your license plate
  8. Alienware’s fast 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is 23 percent off
  9. Ford is fighting against physics to build affordable EVs
  10. Your next laptop could be a foldable phone

Wired

  1. The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Traveling Are $50 Off
  2. Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns
  3. The Curling Controversy at the Winter Olympics Isn’t What You Think
  4. Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents
  5. The Simplest Android App for Scanning Documents
  6. AI Digital Twins Are Helping People Manage Diabetes and Obesity
  7. The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
  8. Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid Mattress Review: Going for Gold and Good Sleep
  9. Amazon Props Up Misleading, Junky Laptops No One Should Buy
  10. The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess
  11. Inside the App Where Queer Gooners Run Free
  12. Sony LinkBuds Clip Review: Solid Buds, Premium Price
  13. Makers Are Building Back Against ICE
  14. The Nothing That Has the Potential to Be Anything
  15. The Best Samsung Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
  16. Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe
  17. 9 Best Windows Laptops (2026): WIRED-Tested Laptops to Buy
  18. CurrentBody LED Hair Growth Helmet Review: Baby Hairs Abound (2026)
  19. AI, Fancy Footwear, and All the Other Gear Powering Olympic Bobsledding
  20. Best Apple Watch (2026): Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3

LifeHacker

  1. Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App
  2. Google's Pixel Watch 3 Is Still a Great Fitness Watch, and It’s $129 Off Right Now
  3. These Workout-Ready Beats Earbuds Are On Sale for $135 Right Now
  4. Apple Music Will Soon Let You Generate Playlists With AI
  5. This High-Capacity Anker Power Bank Gives You 200W Portable Charging for Just $80
  6. Apple's Next macOS Update Could Extend the Lifespan of Your MacBook's Battery
  7. 10 Shows Like 'Ponies' You Should Watch Next
  8. How DuckDuckGo's New Encrypted Voice AI Chat Compares With ChatGPT and Gemini
  9. This Shortcut Solves the Biggest Issue With Finding Messages on Your iPhone
  10. Four Ways to Recover Your 'Lost' Work in Microsoft Word
  11. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is a 'Bebot Girl'?
  12. These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
  13. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals During Early Presidents Day Sales
  14. No, a Sauna Isn't a Substitute for Exercise
  15. OpenAI Actually Shut Down GPT-4o
  16. These Malicious AI Assistants in Chrome Are Stealing User Credentials
  17. These Viture Luma Pro Smart Glasses Are Cheaper Than Ever During Amazon's Early Presidents Day Sale
  18. You Can Pick Up a Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite for $115 During Amazon’s Early Presidents Day Sale
  19. The Easiest (and Cheapest) Ways to Turn Your Attic Into Useful Storage Space
  20. 10 Hacks for Hanging Pictures Perfectly Every Time
  21. This Rugged Action Camera Is Nearly $90 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  22. Ring Just Ended Its Controversial Partnership With Flock Safety
  23. This Premium Sony Soundbar Is More Than 50% Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  24. Claude Has a Surprisingly Great Way to Add Multiple Appointments to Your Calendar at Once
  25. 12 Shows Like 'Silo' You Should Watch Next
  26. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  27. The Best Tech Deals in Amazon's Early Presidents Day Sale
  28. YouTube Finally Released an App for the Apple Vision Pro
  29. Samsung Will Give You Up to $900 If You Trade Your Phone in for a Galaxy S26
  30. When You Need to Do 'Activation Exercises' (and When You Don't)
  31. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $800 Off During an Early Presidents Day Sale
  32. Apple and Google Just Made It Easier to Switch Between iPhone and Android
  33. The Steam Deck Is Completely Sold Out Right Now, and Valve Hasn't Told Us Why
  34. Apple Just Patched Its First Zero-Day Security Vulnerability of 2026
  35. Apple's Big AI Siri Plans Are Once Again Delayed
  36. My Favorite Smart Lock Bundle I Use at My Own Home Is Down to $93 During This Early Presidents Day Sale
  37. AI Chatbots Are Even Worse at Giving Medical Advice Than We Thought
  38. These Noise-Cancelling JBL Headphones Turned Me Into an Audio Snob
  39. This Apple Watch Series 9 With Cellular Connectivity Is 25% Off Right Now
  40. The Samsung Galaxy S25 FE Is $200 Off Right Now
  41. Two Years Later, Is the Apple Vision Pro Even Worth It
  42. The Telegram App Has a New Look, and a Weird New Feature
  43. TikTok's First US-Exclusive Feature Is a Local Feed That Wants Your Location Data
  44. How Deep Should You Squat?
  45. The Premium Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Is on Sale for $368 Right Now
  46. Apple Just Released iOS 26.3 With These New Features
  47. This Aggressive Spyware Is Targeting Both Android and iOS Devices
  48. This Budget-Friendly Asus Gaming Monitor Is 25% Off Right Now
  49. These Skullcandy Headphones Are Over 50% Off Right Now
  50. How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
  51. Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday Update Fixes Six Zero-Day Exploits
  52. How to Get Access to T-Mobile’s Free Live Translation Beta
  53. The Best Kitchen Gadgets to Make Cooking Weeknight Dinners So Much Easier
  54. These Shokz Open-Ear Earbuds Are Over 30% Off Right Now
  55. How to Browse the Dark Web
  56. Claim Your Payout From the 23andMe Data Breach Before It's Too Late
  57. The 2024 Kindle Scribe With Premium Pen Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  58. These Nothing Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  59. The 25 Horniest Horror Movies of All Time
  60. What to Do If (or When) Your Email Is Leaked to the Dark Web
  61. Discord Might Force You to Prove Your Age to Avoid Losing Features
  62. Don't Buy a Power Station During an Emergency, Buy One When It's Half Off (Like Right Now)
  63. WhatsApp's Web App Is Getting a Huge Upgrade
  64. Here's How Long You Should Rest Between Workout Sets
  65. The 'Batman: Arkham Shadow' Meta Quest 3S Bundle Is on Sale
  66. Bluesky Finally Has Drafts
  67. This LG 77-Inch OLED TV Is Half Off Right Now
  68. AI-Generated Playlists Are Coming to YouTube Music
  69. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Snow Fake?
  70. This New iOS 26 Feature Helps Eliminate Text Spam
  71. This Eero Pro Mesh Wifi System Is $100 Off Right Now
  72. This Blink Mini Indoor Camera Two-Pack Is on Sale for $45 Right Now
  73. Google Is Rolling Out Two New Ways to Remove Your Sensitive Data From Search
  74. 25 of the Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now
  75. You Can Opt Out of Ads on ChatGPT, but It Might Not Be Worth It
  76. This Popular AI Chat App Exposed 300 Million Private Messages
  77. Your Browser's Extensions May Be Reading Your Passwords
  78. YouTube TV Will Soon Offer a Cheaper, Sports-Only Plan
  79. The AirPods Pro 2 Are $100 Off Right Now
  80. YouTube Music Just Put Lyrics Behind the Paywall
  81. The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  82. The Dark Side of the Modern Male Body ‘Ideal’
  83. When to Exercise With Light Weights (and When to Use Heavy Weights)
  84. Ring's 'Search Party' Feature Is Creepy, but You Can Disable It
  85. Five Ways to Make Your Phone Charge Faster
  86. This Study's List of the Most Invasive AI Browser Extensions Includes a Few You Probably Use
  87. Scammers Are Sending Fake Invites With Malware
  88. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Is Jeffrey Epstein on Fortnite?
  89. These New Beats Earbuds Are at Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  90. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  91. 25 of the Best Romantic Comedies Streaming on Netflix Right Now
  92. How EU Regulators Might Change TikTok
  93. 10 Fitness Hacks Every Apple Watch User Should Know
  94. How to Create a Sleep Routine That's Perfect for You
  95. Is Virtual Reality Really Dead?
  96. These Bone Conduction Headphones Are Great for Outdoor Runs, and They're Just $90 Right Now
  97. It’s Fine, You Can Lift in Running Shoes
  98. This Substack Data Breach May Have Compromised Nearly 700,000 User Records
  99. That Political 'Call to Action' Might Actually Be a Scam
  100. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and You Can Get This Massive 98-Inch One for $800 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale
  2. AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD
  3. AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas
  4. Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds
  5. React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components
  6. European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools
  7. Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper
  8. Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
  9. £111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'
  10. All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job
  11. US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
  12. Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid
  13. Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware
  14. CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price
  15. UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
  16. Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
  17. Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog
  18. GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept
  19. MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost
  20. Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors
  21. AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances
  22. Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
  23. Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
  24. Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks
  25. You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
  26. KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI
  27. X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load
  28. Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
  29. Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch
  30. Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
  31. FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line
  32. NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results
  33. Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface
  34. Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?
  35. Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress
  36. Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK
  37. DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch
  38. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
  39. Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed
  40. Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
  41. Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative
  42. US appears open to reversing some China tech bans
  43. OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents
  44. Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ
  45. GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down
  46. Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station
  47. If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?
  48. Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
  49. How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them
  50. Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

TechMeme

  1. Source: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x+ and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
  2. Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark (The Information)
  3. Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini, Android, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
  4. Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
  5. Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
  6. Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)
  7. Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  8. Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (Anthropic)
  9. Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
  10. Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
  11. CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
  12. Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
  13. SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
  14. Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
  15. Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Bloomberg)