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BBC

  1. UK troops at Iraq base shot down Iranian drones, Healey says
  2. What on earth is going on with the oil price?
  3. Woman who kept vulnerable victim as slave sentenced to 13 years
  4. PM says Mandelson appointment was mistake as No 10 denies cover-up
  5. Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions
  6. Jo Malone sued for using her own name in collaboration with Zara
  7. British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles
  8. Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a fit note for mental health concerns
  9. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads Bafta Games Awards nominations
  10. Parents accused of hiding daughter's HIV infection and neglect
  11. Tracking the wave of ship attacks that has choked off Strait of Hormuz
  12. 'What if we're left with ruins?': Doubts creep in for Iranians who supported war
  13. Questions mount for Hegseth over possible US involvement in strike on Iranian school
  14. How Iran war laid bare the world's reliance on Gulf oil and gas
  15. Israel pounds Beirut suburbs after Hezbollah launches rocket barrage
  16. How a lost suitcase led to a two-year £4,500 legal wrangle with Ryanair
  17. My identity was stolen and someone is using it to catfish men - it's terrifying
  18. France's ghost car scandal that allowed one million illegal vehicles onto the roads
  19. 'A furry ball of love' - meet Pickle, ParalympicsGB's 26th team member
  20. Where did fridge-carrying fundraiser's donations go?
  21. The Christian-Muslim couple who are fasting for Lent and Ramadan at the same time
  22. Iconic and a huge challenge - Ruth Jones on her role in Austen-inspired comedy
  23. 'Highly dangerous' remains of Glasgow fire building to be demolished
  24. Wife of rape accused Paul Quinn 'joked about his missing shirt'
  25. Grammarly pulls AI author-impersonation tool after backlash
  26. Sly fox sneaks on to cargo ship in Southampton and arrives in New York
  27. Strictly star Amber Davies takes break from Legally Blonde musical
  28. Hozier, Jessie Buckley and Bruce Springsteen record Shane MacGowan tribute album
  29. Customer sues Costco for tariff refunds
  30. BBC News app
  31. Taking Back Control: Why ‘Agency’ Could Be The Next Big Idea In Politics
  32. Will War In Iran Really End "Very Soon"?
  33. Tobey Maguire stars as Spider-Man in the classic 2002 film
  34. 'Not appropriate' for Iran to be at World Cup - Trump
  35. Abrar signing allays Hundred India-Pakistan concern
  36. Mullins complains about Cheltenham ground after Fact To File withdrawn
  37. No Raducanu or Boulter in GB's BJK Cup squad
  38. Russell accuses Ferrari of selfishness over rules

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Meta is testing clickable links in Instagram captions for verified subscribers
  2. PEGI ratings for game releases in Europe will be age-restricted if they contain loot boxes
  3. Bumble is the latest dating app to add an AI assistant
  4. Soundcore Nebula P1i projector review: An affordable option with accurate color and loud sound
  5. Another longtime Microsoft executive is retiring
  6. Alexa+ can now swear, thanks to a new personality style
  7. BallotGuessr is Geoguessr for budding political pundits
  8. Ukraine allows allies to train AI models on its battlefield data
  9. Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan returns with a Western survival shooter
  10. Claude can now generate charts and diagrams
  11. Honda cancels three EVs that were months away from US production
  12. Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports
  13. Microsoft's Copilot Health can use AI to turn your fitness data and medical records 'into a coherent story'
  14. Uber is shooting for even more upscale clientele with Uber Elite
  15. Rivian's R2 EV arrives this spring with a $58,000 price tag
  16. Disney+ gets its own time-sucking vertical video section
  17. Starfleet Academy is the best first season of a Star Trek show ever
  18. Google’s GFiber internet business is merging with Astound Broadband
  19. Google Maps brings a 3D map to your driving directions
  20. JBL's two new Live headphones offer 80 hours of battery each
  21. The best eco-friendly phone cases for 2026
  22. Uber is piloting a robotaxi service in Tokyo
  23. NVIDIA- and Uber-backed Nuro is testing autonomous vehicles in Tokyo
  24. Google Play will let you try a game before you buy it
  25. I guess this wasn't an Xbox after all
  26. Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers
  27. iPhone Fold rumors: Everything we know right now, including the leaked design, upgrades, price and more
  28. Valve's Steam Machine launches in 2026: Everything we know so far
  29. Valve defends loot boxes in response to New York's lawsuit
  30. TikTok will let you stream full songs in its app if you're an Apple Music subscriber
  31. Microsoft's full screen 'Xbox Mode' will roll out to Windows 11 PCs in April
  32. Microsoft will start providing game studios with Project Helix consoles in 2027
  33. Tembo might just be the world's cutest drum machine
  34. Meta will let kids under 13 use WhatsApp with parent-managed accounts
  35. Most AI chatbots will help users plan violent attacks, study finds
  36. The PS Plus Games Catalog is getting Space Marine 2 and Persona 5 Royal in March
  37. Fortnite's original Save the World mode will be free to play starting on April 16
  38. Rabbit's Cyberdeck is a modern take on a netbook
  39. Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb joins Commodore to help build its community
  40. Looking Glass' Musubi showcases its holographic display in a consumer-friendly package
  41. The 7 best cordless vacuums for 2026
  42. Anthropic is opening an office in DC while battling Pentagon in court
  43. Meta rolls out new features for scam protection
  44. Google starts rolling out Gemini in Chrome to users in Canada, India and New Zealand
  45. Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases
  46. Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
  47. Epic is increasing the price of Fortnite's V-Bucks currency
  48. Amazon wins a temporary injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser
  49. Wordle’s creator is back with a new game, and it’s a real chin scratcher
  50. Here's the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Pinboard

  1. FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
  2. Agent Safehouse
  3. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
  4. Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering — Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
  5. My Homelab Setup
  6. After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes - Ars Technica
  7. How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research)
  8. How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform — CodeWall.ai
  9. I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either – Aresluna
  10. Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
  11. Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next
  12. Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
  13. andrewyng/context-hub
  14. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft — Hong Minhee on Things
  15. Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? — A leader of the chardet library has "rewritten" it using Claude and issued it under a new licence. The original creator disputes their right to do this.
  16. microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
  17. TerraInk
  18. Daring Fireball: The MacBook Neo — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/txfMApI
  19. Do the Illegible | Ashwin Sundar — Do the Illegible | Ashwin Sundar via Instapaper https://ift.tt/YDCNkQA
  20. U+237C ⍼ is Azimuth · Jonathan Chan — mystery:
  21. The lawyers and scientists training AI to steal their careers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Z4K2xPF
  22. Anthropic Courses — Browse all Anthropic courses
  23. The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Bassim Eledath
  24. Pencil – Design Mode for Cursor
  25. Filesystems are having a moment
  26. I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep
  27. The web is bearable with RSS
  28. ZIP Code First
  29. The DoD spent billions on fruit baskets, pianos, and crab — In the last five days of September alone, the department blew through $50.1 billion on just grants and contracts. For context, only nine other countries spend that much on the entirety of their defense budget per year. It’s also more than the total military budgets …
  30. Getting Started with Common Lisp — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317348
  31. Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties — ProPublica
  32. LEGO's 0.002mm Specification and It's Implications for Manufacturing - Productivity - The Wave
  33. karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
  34. googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
  35. Code Review for Claude Code
  36. tropes.md - Tropes AI tools overuse when writing
  37. We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI | Techdirt
  38. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  39. Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025 - bret.dk — I benchmarked 15 SBCs released in 2025 across every price point. Here's what stood out, what disappointed, and what the year looked like for single board computers.
  41. Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job — The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.
  42. GitHub - kantord/blogtato: A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior · GitHub — kantord/blogtato: A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior https://ift.tt/kdJIUxs cli, rss
  43. The Gervais Principle
  44. msitarzewski/agency-agents: A complete AI agency at your fingertips** - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables. — A complete AI agency at your fingertips** - From frontend wizards to R…
  45. The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition / Andreessen Horowitz
  46. Site Spy - Website Change Tracker | Monitor Any Webpage
  47. Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor | Rahul's Blog
  48. Anthropic is launching a new think tank amid Pentagon blacklist fight | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uZc0ymQ
  49. Why can’t you tune your guitar? | The Ethan Hein Blog — I continue to refine and tighten up my explanation of tuning and temperament systems, one of the least understood music theory concepts out there. Hope this is useful to you. Comments and corrections welcome.
  50. Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages | FT — - a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterised by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” am…
  51. Computational Complexity: Tony Hoare (1934-2026)
  52. No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user — The viral claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 per Claude Code subscriber doesn't survive basic scrutiny. Let's do the actual maths. My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are full of screenshots from the recent Forbes article on Cursor claiming that Anthropic's $200/month Claude…
  53. ruvnet/RuView: π RuView: WiFi DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
  54. Welcome • freemediaheckyeah — The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!
  55. LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the AI Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight | David Noel Ng
  56. GitHub - LionyxML/emacs-solo: A Pure Emacs (no external packages) IDE like configuration.
  57. Britons' attitudes towards technology — In Britain, there is a stark urban-rural divide in how Britons perceive the merits of new technologies. Urban centres, London especially, stand out as being more optimistic about how technology can benefit them.  Rural and post-industrial parts of Britain, and most of Wales and Scot…
  58. AI-powered refund abuse and dispute fraud: The democratization of deception
  59. Zen fascists will control you...
  60. GitHub - BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but ra
  61. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft | Hacker News
  62. Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil
  63. How to Run Local LLMs with Claude Code | Unsloth Documentation
  64. Building Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow()
  65. Never the same game twice – Pathetic Fallacy — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/uAtq2bJ
  66. The Missing GitHub Status Page
  67. You don’t have to if you don’t want to. § Scott Smitelli
  68. Klaus - AI Assistant Hosting
  69. GitHub - nikopueringer/CorridorKey: Perfect Green Screen Keys — Perfect Green Screen Keys. Contribute to nikopueringer/CorridorKey development by creating an account on GitHub.
  70. steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip: Connect to remote ffmpeg servers — Connect to remote ffmpeg servers. Contribute to steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip development by creating an account on GitHub.
  71. Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app — Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.
  72. The Shape of Paris — The Shape of Paris is a balletic short film of skateboarder Andy Anderson zooming, grinding, spinning, and floating around Paris in the summertime. It is also beautifully shot by Brett Novak; Paris has never looked better.
  73. Rebasing in Magit
  74. Company Contacts
  75. When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” — cook your brain on AI
  76. Adactio: Journal—A web font strategy — A well-thought-out approach by Jeremy Keith.
  77. ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large Supported by theguardian.org About this content Alice…
  78. Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
  79. [no title]
  80. How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis': Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows | 404 Media
  81. When People Never See Your App: Designing Brands for the Agentic Economy | Bain & Company
  82. European Tech Map - European Tech Alternatives | GDPR Compliant Software
  83. Fediverse invitation | Stefan Bohacek
  84. Opinion | A.I. Is Changing the Way We Think About Good and Evil - The New York Times
  85. Gemini Embedding 2: our first natively multimodal embedding model (Google) — Like our previous embedding models, Gemini Embedding 2 incorporates Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL), a technique that “nests” information by dynamically scaling down dimensions. This enables flexible output dimensions scaling down from the …
  86. RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG
  87. Notes on Writing Wasm
  88. Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
  89. Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
  90. V-bucks are getting more X-pensive | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uZc0ymQ
  91. Gochujang Caramel Cookies Recipe - NYT Cooking — Next on my list of recipes to try:
  92. My “grand vision” for Rust | Hacker News
  93. reveal.js - The HTML Presentation Framework
  94. How to Audit a Rails Codebase: Legacy App Playbook
  95. Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies | The New Yorker — A Reporter Aloft Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?
  96. GNU and the AI reimplementations -
  97. cmux — The terminal built for multitasking
  98. AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
  99. Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
  100. UK Government Network Graph — Organisations, services and operational dependencies across government

The Next Web

  1. Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries
  2. Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades
  3. Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo
  4. Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection
  5. Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts
  6. NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius
  7. Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure
  8. Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
  9. EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
  10. Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

Smashing Magazine

  1. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  2. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  3. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  4. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  5. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  6. Getting Started With The Popover API
  7. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  8. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  9. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  10. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  11. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  12. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  13. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  14. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  15. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  16. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  17. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  18. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  19. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  20. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  21. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  22. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  23. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  24. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  25. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  26. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  27. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  28. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  29. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  30. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  31. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  32. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  33. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  34. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  35. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  36. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  37. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  38. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  39. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  40. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Travel Underwear
  2. My Dogs Kept Interrupting My Work Calls. This Toy Chilled Them Out.
  3. These Lego-Like Bricks Make Building a Raised Garden Bed a Snap
  4. The Best Leaf Blower
  5. The Best Things to Get for Your New Laptop
  6. The Best Splitting Axes for Firewood
  7. Our Favorite Bath Trays
  8. How to Organize a Linen Closet
  9. The Best Portable Laptop Charger
  10. The Best Accessories for Your USB-C Laptop

Sweethome

  1. These Lego-Like Bricks Make Building a Raised Garden Bed a Snap
  2. The Best Leaf Blower
  3. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  4. The Best Bathroom Rugs and Bath Mats
  5. The Best Shower Curtains
  6. The Best Bath Towel
  7. Our Favorite Bath Trays
  8. How to Organize a Linen Closet
  9. 11 Wirecutter-Approved Home Upgrades That Look Permanent but Peel Right Off
  10. Stop Using So Much Laundry Detergent

Hacker News

  1. Malus – Clean Room as a Service
  2. Bubble Sorted Amen Break
  3. Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication
  4. Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust
  5. The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects
  6. ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
  7. Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once
  8. US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (2025)
  9. Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)
  10. Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in C
  11. Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English
  12. Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war
  13. The Cost of Indirection in Rust
  14. Dolphin Progress Release 2603
  15. Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics
  16. Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography
  17. Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion
  18. Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
  19. Scrt: A CLI secret manager for developers, sysadmins and DevOps
  20. Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer
  21. Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history
  22. Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
  23. WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations
  24. DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration
  25. Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
  26. Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due
  27. Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)
  28. The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
  29. 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
  30. Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)

Ars Technica

  1. Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs
  2. Perplexity's "Personal Computer" brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer
  3. Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar
  4. Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
  5. Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense
  6. Rivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV
  7. We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
  8. Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles
  9. Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI
  10. Remembering the 30-year-old computer game that introduced me to Star Wars
  11. How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
  12. Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android
  13. Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it's unpopular
  14. FCC chair blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation
  15. 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns
  16. Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?
  17. Windows 11's Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April
  18. "Use a gun" or "beat the crap out of him": AI chatbot urged violence, study finds
  19. Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers
  20. A glimpse into tuner culture: Fast and Furious exhibit at the Petersen

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New Scientist

  1. How worried should you be about your BMI?
  2. Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?
  3. Chemistry may not be the 'killer app' for quantum computers after all
  4. Why drug overdose deaths have suddenly plummeted in the US
  5. How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history
  6. We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
  7. Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?
  8. Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors
  9. A miniature magnet rivals behemoths in strength for the first time
  10. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
  11. King penguins are thriving in a warmer climate, but it may not last
  12. Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector
  13. Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
  14. Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasant smells
  15. Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
  16. Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strandings
  17. I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia
  18. Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets
  19. Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind
  20. Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab
  21. What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer
  22. Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
  23. Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?
  24. Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
  25. A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing
  26. 'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
  27. How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
  28. The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
  29. SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
  30. The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
  31. Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift
  32. Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
  33. Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it
  34. Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
  35. The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide
  36. We must close the 'shocking' knowledge gap in women's health
  37. A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one
  38. A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist
  39. Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant
  40. The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe
  41. NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time
  42. Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
  43. Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how to reduce it
  44. The best new popular science books of March 2026
  45. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
  46. The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
  47. New Scientist recommends real-world stealth game LANDER 23
  48. Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut
  49. Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape
  50. How worried should you be about microplastics?
  51. Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months
  52. Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
  53. How to convey amounts of snow to Canadians: use polar bears
  54. What to read this week: Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke
  55. The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
  56. Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought
  57. Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
  58. Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?
  59. Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors
  60. Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations
  61. Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction
  62. Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself
  63. Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousness in his new book?
  64. Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2
  65. Can magnesium supplements improve sleep, energy and concentration?
  66. Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?
  67. First drone passengers may be combat casualties and criminals
  68. Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?
  69. Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour
  70. People who eat a lot of fibre spend more time in deep sleep
  71. The best new science fiction books of March 2026
  72. Why the sleep industry has got us worrying about the wrong things
  73. Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
  74. Inside the company selling quantum entanglement
  75. The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it
  76. How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war
  77. Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi
  78. The Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of farts
  79. It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
  80. NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover
  81. Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people
  82. Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life
  83. How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?
  84. Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit
  85. 'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'
  86. Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
  87. New Scientist recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals
  88. We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up inside
  89. Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?
  90. When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers
  91. Amazing sneak peek of NASA's spacesuit tests as moon mission nears
  92. Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida
  93. Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy
  94. How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
  95. Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?
  96. Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too
  97. AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
  98. What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot
  99. SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks
  100. Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken

Slashdot

  1. Anthropic's Claude AI Can Respond With Charts, Diagrams, and Other Visualschat
  2. Google Maps Gets Its Biggest Navigation Redesign In a Decade, Plus More AI
  3. Atlassian CEO Cites AI Shift When Announcing Plan To Shed 1,600 Jobs
  4. Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia
  5. Reducing Europe's Nuclear Energy Sector Was 'Strategic Mistake', EU Chief Says
  6. Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds
  7. GFiber and Astound Broadband To Join Forces
  8. Why Falling Cats Always Seem To Land On Their Feet
  9. Researchers Discover 14,000 Routers Wrangled Into Never-Before-Seen Botnet
  10. Microsoft's 'Xbox Mode' Is Coming To Every Windows 11 PC
  11. Grammarly Disables Tool Offering Generative-AI Feedback Credited To Real Writers
  12. Swiss E-Voting Pilot Can't Count 2,048 Ballots After USB Keys Fail To Decrypt Them
  13. Binance Sues WSJ, Panicked By Gov't Probes Into Sanctioned Crypto Transfers
  14. Nvidia Is Planning to Launch Its Own Open-Source OpenClaw Competitor
  15. YouTube Expands AI Deepfake Detection To Politicians, Government Officials, and Journalists

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Reader Submitted: Inorganic Growth - Transforming Urban Village Demolition Debris Into 3D-Printed Urban Furniture
  2. An Extreme Bent Plywood Chair
  3. A Cardboard Box That Requires No Glue nor Packaging Tape
  4. A Chair That Scooches In and Out For You
  5. A Designey Tri-Rotor Drone
  6. Prototyping Shots of Isokon's Bent Plywood Join Collection
  7. Industrial Design Student Work: A Sneaker with Lasting, Flexible Titanium Soles
  8. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Irene Guerrieri on Design That Unlocks Imagination
  9. Joe Colombo's BOB Desktop Organizer Now Back in Production
  10. Tetris-Style Lockers Make Room for Longer Objects in Limited Space
  11. The Designey WK Bath Stool
  12. From Michael Hilgers, Three Examples of Beautifying and Increasing the Utility of Existing Objects
  13. Touch Sensitive Earbuds Suck, but Loop's Earplugs Have a Physical Dial Interface
  14. A Laptop Concept with a Palm-Rest Screen You Can Sketch On
  15. Core77 Weekly Roundup (3-2-26 to 3-6-26)

CNET

  1. GFiber Is Merging With Astound Broadband, Likely Expanding to More Areas
  2. AI Chatbots Are Making People All Think the Same, Study Says
  3. Oil Is Over $100 a Barrel: Here Are 6 Ways to Keep Your Heating Costs Low
  4. Stop Rinsing Your Dishes Before They Go in the Dishwasher. Plus 11 Other Tips
  5. Amazon Expands Health AI Access for Virtual Health Care
  6. Claude Showed Me How to Change a Tire Step by Step With This New Feature
  7. These Are the 9 Hidden Apple Watch Health Features You Haven’t Used Yet
  8. A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Just Made a Fiery Return to Earth
  9. The Absolute Best Horror Movies on Hulu
  10. Physical AI Is Already Here. How It Works and What's Coming Next
  11. 44 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Now
  12. Copilot Health Is Microsoft's Doctor-Built Spin on Medical AI
  13. Gemini Rolls Out Ask Maps to Make Google Maps More Interactive
  14. The Genius Way to Get Restaurant-Quality Grilled Cheese at Home
  15. Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: Privacy Display Proves Hardware Still Matters in an AI World
  16. Best VPN for Torrenting 2026: Keep Your Downloading and Uploading Activity Private
  17. The Fastest Way to Open Any App Is Hiding on the Back of Your iPhone
  18. Spring Cleaning? Start With This 4-Pile System to Fix Your Closet
  19. We Did the Math: These 7 Kitchen Tools Pay for Themselves
  20. How to Enable RCS Messaging on Your iPhone in a Few Easy Steps
  21. Stop Rinsing After Brushing Your Teeth. Here's Why You Should Wait Instead.
  22. Is it Gauche to Use a Wine App at a Restaurant? Here's What a Sommelier Says
  23. The Internet Is Wrong: You Can't Speed Up a Smart TV That's Slow
  24. Which Meal Kits Are the Best Value? We Analyzed Recipes From 7 Services to Find Out
  25. Best Home Security Cameras With Lights for 2026

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild
  2. Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale
  3. Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
  4. Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around
  5. Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices is retiring, triggering a shakeup
  6. PEGI’s new age ratings will restrict FC 27 to kids over 16
  7. WordPress launches an in-browser website creator
  8. Rivian R2 prices revealed: you’re going to have to wait longer for that $45,000 version
  9. Dyson’s new stain-spotting AI robovac is now available
  10. Honda cancels Zero Series EVs, citing ‘extremely challenging’ situation

Wired

  1. Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
  2. US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access
  3. These Excellent Computer Speakers Are $100 Off
  4. How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks
  5. Essential Gear for an Emergency Kit—for Cars or Go-Bags
  6. Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Interface
  7. 10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic
  8. Sennheiser RS 275 TV Headphone Bundle Review: Awesome Tech, OK Headphones
  9. Best Massage Guns of 2026: Hyperice, Therabody, and More
  10. Apple MacBook Pro Review (M5 Max, 16-inch): The Fastest MacBook Yet
  11. How to Watch the Oscars (2026)
  12. The Best Large TVs (Best Over 75 Inches): Samsung, LG, and More
  13. AeroPress Coffee Is Superb When I’m Traveling, but I Use Mine Even When I Stay Home
  14. Booking.com Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 20% Off
  15. Expedia Coupons and Deals: Up to 75% Off Select Trips
  16. Birdfy Discount Code: Save Up to 40% on Smart Bird Feeders
  17. What to Do in Dumbo If You’re Here for Business (2026)
  18. The South Carolina Measles Outbreak Is Slowing Down
  19. How the Iran War Could Jack Up Prices on Store Shelves
  20. Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

LifeHacker

  1. The 1TB M5 MacBook Pro Just Got Its Biggest Discount Ever
  2. Even Google Maps Has an AI Assistant Now
  3. WhatsApp Just Launched Preteen Accounts (With Parental Controls)
  4. This Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition Is Nearly 20% Off Right Now
  5. This Massive 100-Inch Hisense TV Is $500 Off Right Now
  6. The Five Coolest Houseware Innovations I Saw at The Inspired Home Show's 'Inventors Corner'
  7. I Went to 'The Inspired Home Show' As a New Homeowner, and It Forever Changed How I'll Shop
  8. Why Sweating a Ton Doesn't Mean You Got a Good Workout
  9. Microsoft Will Soon Let You Use Any Windows 11 PC Like an Xbox
  10. Everything We Know so Far About Amazon's Upcoming Spring Sale
  11. You Can Get Both Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Pro for Just $50 Right Now
  12. How the Government Uses Advertising Data to Track People (and What You Can Do to Limit It)
  13. These Smart Glasses Can Be Used As a Private HD Screen, and They’re $50 Off Right Now
  14. How to Avoid Injury While Using Runna Training Programs
  15. You Can Already Save $50 on the New M4 iPad Air
  16. 10 Hacks Every iPad User Should Know
  17. Five Hacks Every Fitness Watch User Should Know
  18. This Sony OLED TV Is $200 Off Right Now
  19. This Saltwater-Resistant Soundcore Speaker Is Nearly 50% Off
  20. You Can Get a One-Year BJ's Membership for Just $20 Right Now
  21. Blink's New 2K Outdoor Camera Five-Pack Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  22. A Lifetime Subscription to Babbel Is on Sale at a Huge Discount Right Now
  23. Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' for March Addresses Two Zero-Day Flaws
  24. What 'Lift With Your Legs' Really Means
  25. You Can Get ClearVPN, an Easy, Beginner-Friendly VPN Setup, on Sale for Just $20 Right Now
  26. You Can Get Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 on Sale for Just $50 Right Now
  27. H&R Block Deluxe + State 2025 Is 50% Off Before the Tax Deadline
  28. 10 Hacks Every NotebookLM User Should Know
  29. 10 Hacks Every Laptop Gamer Should Know
  30. Apple May Launch These Three 'Ultra' Products in 2026
  31. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  32. The Garmin Forerunner 965 Smartwatch Is 33% Off Right Now
  33. You Can Get These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds for 40% Off
  34. Meta Is Buying Moltbook
  35. Here Are the New Features Coming in iOS 26.4
  36. 10 Revolutionary Movies You Should Watch After 'One Battle After Another'
  37. Five Fixes to Try If Push-Ups Hurt Your Wrists
  38. These Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are $220 Off Right Now
  39. This Outdoor-Ready JBL Bluetooth Speaker Is Over 20% Off Right Now
  40. These Stylish Marshall Headphones Are Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  41. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Alysa Liu and 'Goonbait'
  42. How I Use My iPhone's Focus Modes to Stop Getting Distracted at the Gym
  43. Bigfoot, 'Distorted Face,' and Six More New Emoji Coming to Your iPhone
  44. Peloton Rides Can Finally Sync to Your Garmin Account
  45. Everything We Know About WhatsApp's Paid Subscription Service
  46. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 Is Under $300 Right Now
  47. How Anyone Can Score Apple's Educational Discount
  48. This Scam Impersonates the Official Claude Code Website to Spread Malware
  49. The Best Headphones I’ve Ever Tested Are $60 Off Right Now
  50. Here’s What’s in Garmin’s 218-Page Countersuit Against Suunto
  51. The MacBook Neo Outperforms These M-Series MacBooks
  52. This Three-in-One Belkin Charging Pad Is Nearly 75% Off Right Now
  53. 10 Hacks Every Dark Web User Should Know
  54. This Arlo Outdoor Camera Two-Pack Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  55. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  56. This Handheld Atari Console Comes With 200 Old-School Games, and It's $50 Off
  57. These Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  58. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  59. These Bowers & Wilkins ANC Headphones Are Nearly 60% Off Right Now
  60. This Premium ASUS OLED Gaming Monitor Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  61. How to Track Your Sleep With an Apple Watch
  62. 10 Hacks Every Whoop User Should Know
  63. This Compact Samsung Soundbar/Subwoofer Combo Is on Sale for $140
  64. Yep, Amazon Is Down
  65. Best Buy Has the Best Preorder Deals on the New MacBook Lineup
  66. 10 Tools and Gadgets That Make Lawn Care Way Easier
  67. Virtually Ride Any Route in the World With This New TrainingPeaks Feature
  68. 15 Features Missing From the MacBook Neo
  69. A Four-Pack of These Samsung Tracking Tags Is $45 Right Now
  70. The M3 iPad Air Is $150 Cheaper After the Launch of the M4
  71. Apple Won't Say What Bugs It Patched With iOS 26.3.1
  72. 20 Vampire Movies You Should Watch After 'Sinners'
  73. 10 Hacks Every TikTok User Should Know
  74. How NotebookLM's New 'Cinematic Video' Tool Works
  75. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  76. This Amazon Fire TV Surround-Sound System Is Over $200 Off Right Now
  77. How to Use the ‘80/20’ Rule for Running
  78. The MacBook Neo Is Here to Disrupt the Personal Computing Market
  79. Walmart Has a Preorder Deal on the New M4 iPad Air
  80. Here's What's New in Google's Big March Pixel Drop
  81. Apple Is Bringing Back One of Safari's Best Features
  82. Your Android Phone Will Soon Be Able to Help Airlines Find Your Lost Luggage
  83. The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air Just Dropped in Price Following the M5 Announcement
  84. I Ditched Duolingo for Babbel and I'm Actually Learning Instead of Chasing a Streak
  85. The MacBook Neo Isn't the Only Low-Cost Mac Worth Buying
  86. 10 Hacks Every Amazon Fire TV User Should Know
  87. The Pixel's Beloved 'Now Playing' Widget Finally Has a Dedicated App
  88. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  89. 25 of the Best Hulu Original Series You Should Be Watching
  90. Update Your Android ASAP to Patch These 129 Security Flaws
  91. Apple March Event Live Blog: MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, M5 Macs, and More
  92. These Are the Best Kinds of Exercise for Losing Weight
  93. You Can Now Customize Your Calling Card on Android
  94. Here’s What’s Happening (and Not Happening) With Smart Rings in 2026
  95. 10 Hacks Every Bluesky User Should Know
  96. You Can Get a $200 Amazon Gift Card With the New Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
  97. I Tried Meta AI's Shopping Assistant, and I Won't Be Using It Again
  98. This ASUS OLED Gaming Monitor Is $200 Off Right Now
  99. You Can Now Import Your ChatGPT Data to Claude for Free
  100. You Can Preorder the New Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and Get Up to a $30 Amazon Gift Card

The Onion

The Register

  1. White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms
  2. Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline
  3. Operating Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud
  4. Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M
  5. Musk makes the Macrohard joke again
  6. Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward
  7. Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92
  8. NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag
  9. CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild
  10. Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge
  11. Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration
  12. Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions
  13. Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator
  14. Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles
  15. So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue
  16. Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying
  17. Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11
  18. Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon
  19. China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds
  20. Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI
  21. Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban
  22. Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants
  23. Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm
  24. Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows
  25. Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers
  26. NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans
  27. DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source
  28. ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case
  29. Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns
  30. Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh
  31. Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system
  32. Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half
  33. Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you
  34. Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
  35. Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards
  36. Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study
  37. Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not
  38. EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later
  39. Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy
  40. Post Office's £142M subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill reviewed by watchdog
  41. Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it
  42. AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before
  43. Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower
  44. Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse
  45. Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war
  46. AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure
  47. Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack
  48. Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages
  49. AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook
  50. Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations

TechMeme

  1. Emil Michael says Anthropic's Claude models would "pollute" the DOD's supply chain because they have "a different policy preference" that is baked in (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
  2. Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
  3. A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
  4. Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
  5. Michael Dell says "I don't think a company can dictate to a sovereign government what it does with its tools", responding to a question on the Anthropic feud (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
  6. Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
  7. Paris-based Waiv, which uses AI to enable more precise testing of cancer, raised $33M after spinning out of AI diagnostics and drug discovery platform Owkin (Martin Coulter/Sifted)
  8. Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta (Emma Roth/The Verge)
  9. Sources: Greenoaks founder Neil Mehta is pitching an endowment-type fund to Silicon Valley billionaires to influence CA politics, aiming to raise $100M to $500M (Bloomberg)
  10. Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only "Sassy" option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
  11. European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
  12. Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  13. Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)
  14. BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
  15. Bumble jumps 30%+ after reporting Q4 revenue above estimates and unveils an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)