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BBC

  1. What is happening with Keir Starmer’s leadership: At a glance
  2. BBC unmasks key people smuggler in network behind most small boat crossings
  3. No sign of larger hantavirus outbreak, says UN health agency
  4. Green Party admits Polanski may have failed to pay council tax
  5. How driving test booking is changing for learner drivers
  6. US in closely guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland
  7. Pakistan struck a rehab centre and killed 269 Afghans. Their families want to know why
  8. How the Trump-Xi summit could set superpower relations for many years to come
  9. Japanese snack giant switches to black and white packaging as Iran war hits ink supplies
  10. Calls for 'urgent action' on baby-sleep industry after BBC investigation
  11. Zoe Ball confirms she did not get Strictly presenting role
  12. Why a slice of Edinburgh is being bought up by overseas owners
  13. Midwife told us we 'picked a bad day to have a baby' before our daughter died
  14. Russia's shadow fleet ships defying PM's threat and entering UK waters
  15. 'Patients have tried to punch me because of my skin colour'
  16. 'Superhuman' managers shouldn't have to ask for help - Family of ex-Liverpool boss on loss
  17. I led hikers up an Indonesian volcano - and then it erupted
  18. How are countries responding to hantavirus?
  19. Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
  20. Indigenous Australians win record A$150m after billionaire mined without permission
  21. Students at risk if universities go bust, say MPs
  22. Texas accuses Netflix of spying on users, including children
  23. Complaints against judge to be examined in U-turn
  24. Israel passes law to allow death penalty and public trials for those linked to 7 October attacks
  25. Trump says Iran ceasefire is on 'massive life support'
  26. BBC News app
  27. Labour MPs Move Against Starmer
  28. Trump takes his revenge on disloyal Republicans
  29. Scottish mockumentary about two brothers' Eurovision dreams
  30. Spurs drag out safety battle to keep nerves jangling
  31. 'Superhuman' managers shouldn't have to ask for help - Beard's family on loss
  32. Archibald retires from cycling after falling 'in love' with nursing
  33. Southampton ask for more time over spying claims
  34. 'No question mark' over Rohl's Rangers future after board talks
  35. Forty years of the EFL play-offs - choose your favourite memories
  36. Where problems started with 2026 rules & calendar congestion - F1 Q&A

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The Steve Jobs $1 coin goes on sale today starting at $61 for a roll
  2. Lotus will return to combustion engines for its cars
  3. Digg is back again, this time to aggregate AI news
  4. Sony's new wearable air conditioner runs even cooler
  5. Gemini for Google Home will no longer freak out if you ask it how to make a margarita
  6. Daybreak is OpenAI's response to Anthropic's Claude Mythos
  7. Astronomers use the Webb telescope to improve our map of the cosmic web
  8. Texas AG sues Netflix, claiming the streaming service collects user data without consent
  9. iOS end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling today in beta
  10. Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI
  11. OpenADR and Matter are collaborating to let your smart home talk to the grid
  12. Venmo's redesigned app offers more discreet payments by default
  13. OpenAI sued by spouse of FSU shooting victim
  14. Discord's Nitro subscription now includes a slightly nerfed Xbox Game Pass
  15. NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show
  16. Forza Horizon 6 has leaked a week ahead of launch
  17. TikTok is rolling out an ad-free option in the UK
  18. Samsung's Bespoke update is big step towards a useful AI for your fridge
  19. Whoop will soon offer users in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians
  20. GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers' driving data

Pinboard

  1. This is what free costs
  2. Learn AI Layer by Layer — An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles. Rob Ennals
  3. Local AI Needs to be the Norm - unix.foo — Local AI Needs to be the Norm https://ift.tt/ICDgAzs ai, local, open.source
  4. Think Linear Algebra — Think Linear Algebra
  5. The indie web index directory | theindex.fyi
  6. Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be) — (This website looks to have that “acoustic” flavor of someone whose special interest is Wi-Fi.) “Wi-Fi’s first weakest link -- your client devices: Wi-Fi throughput to a Wi-Fi 5 wireless client device using an 80 MHz channel will likely max out at around 650 Mbps (±60 Mbp…
  7. matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
  8. You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs — "The math only works if the LLM decreases your maintenance costs, and by exactly the inverse of the rate it adds code. If you double your output and your cost of maintaining that output, two times two means you’ve quadrupled your maintenance costs. If you double your output and ho…
  9. Thariq on X: "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" / X
  10. Just Fucking Use Go - Blain Smith
  11. Mythos finds a curl vulnerability | daniel.haxx.se
  12. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro — We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I am fortunate to have been given access, producing a piece of PhD-level research i…
  13. Im going back to writing code by hand | k10s devlog
  14. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix multiplication from Gflop/s to Tflop/s | Cocoa with Love
  15. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev — Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but…
  16. Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
  17. The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
  18. If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? — For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
  19. Mythical Man Month
  20. Internet Archive Switzerland
  21. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES — Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. It has been resolved. We take security seriously. Please see previous 14 incident reports for
  22. How to Access Court Records, by State: How to Access Court Records, by State A crowdsourced field guide to finding state court records
  23. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  24. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  25. Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different | Dochia CLI Blog — Designing idempotency for an API is way harder than you probably think. The article lists specific issues like second request comes while first is still running or second request is different from the first.
  26. Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You — An open-source agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are. By Nous Research.
  27. Playwright Accessibility Testing: What axe and Lighthouse Miss | David Mello
  28. GitHub - rohitg00/agentmemory: Persistent memory for AI coding agents · GitHub
  29. Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago — Henri-Charles Guérard, Composite print of Japanese masks and a death’s-head (1888), from the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Public domain. “Wanna see a dead body?”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/
  30. GitHub - antirez/ds4: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal · GitHub
  31. Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
  32. Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.
  33. GrapheneOS: "Apple and Google are gradually…" - GrapheneOS Mastodon
  34. Theme Builder — Zed
  35. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  36. Augment
  37. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux | Hacker News
  38. Learning Beyond Gradients
  39. Pi-Zero RAM Website
  40. Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
  41. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS — For different values of the text-stroke-width, browsers will automatically draw outlines of the character, The larger you set the stroke width, the thicker the outline will get, while still maintain its original shape. The next step is to use different colors and put them in order.
  42. Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration - Thinking Machines Lab
  43. Dusk • Restoring light to a classic adventure — Dusk as Zelda PC clone based on the Zelda for GameCube/Wii https://twilitrealm.dev/faq/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fQ4ZB-wvk&t=21s COVID Project - When we started the decomp project in August 2020, it was hard to imagine ever finishing, much less seeing it be use…
  44. Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways - The New York Times, May 2026
  45. 36 Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History
  46. OpenAI's WebRTC Problem - Media over QUIC
  47. Mojo Programming Language — Mojo combines the usability of Python with the performance of C, unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models. Mojo is a new programming language that bridges the gap between research and production by combining the best of Python syntax with systems program…
  48. Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data | Reuters
  49. I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left | Hacker News — People don’t seem to realize how simple pricing can be made for the user. I switched to digital ocean too, and it’s great. I think people think it’s not really engineering if it’s not complicated, so they stick with these insane AWS/GCP/Azure setups. But it’s not…
  50. Opinion | Biggest Con of All: The Genuinely Staggering Scale of Trump's Robbery | Common Dreams
  51. On forking the Web
  52. Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI — Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence.
  53. Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/YUcIl4S
  54. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binaryAndrew Quinn's TILs
  55. LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length — A meaningful text can be hidden inside another, completely different yet still coherent and plausible, text of the same length. For example, a tweet containing a harsh political critique could be embedded in a tweet that celebrates the same political leader, or an ordinar…
  56. fathah/hermes-desktop
  57. Mahjong: a Visual Guide
  58. The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop | TBIJ
  59. DataCenter.FM - background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959513
  60. [2604.15597] LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
  61. Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground - The New York Times
  62. These 5 VS Code features completely changed how I work
  63. Venmo finally takes privacy seriously | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/YN1qB06
  64. so you must like me for me - Chapter 1 - alasse - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane wants to figure out if he's gay before he gets drafted—and no, the way he felt when Ilya Rozanov smirked at him with a cigarette between his lips in Saskatchewan has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, the random guy he hooks…
  65. robbinscinquefoil - Operation O Canada, or The Hollander-Rozanov Method of Soft Launching a Marriage - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — “Can’t hang out tonight, Hayd. I have plans.” “Bullshit,” Hayden responds. “You never have plans.” Objectively, this used to be true. Nowadays Shane has many, …
  66. 227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"
  67. op7418/guizang-ppt-skill: guizang-ppt-skill
  68. How AI Mode and AI Overviews help you explore the web — For many searches, people are increasingly seeking out advice from others. To help you find the most helpful insights to explore further, AI responses will now include a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media, and other firsthand sources. W…
  69. LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate — Discover how LLMs can subtly alter your documents and learn practical strategies to prevent data corruption. Safeguard your work with expert insights and actionable tools.
  70. Trump Let Polluters Sidestep Clean Air Act Rules With Just an Email — ProPublica
  71. The Brutalist Report
  72. Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable - The New York Times — What employees typed into their computer, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked. The goal was to capture employee data so Meta’s artificial intelligence models could learn “how people ac…
  73. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | Hacker News — soganess 5 hours ago | next [–] Getting so close to good! I consider Gemma 4 31B (dense / no MoE), the new baseline for local models. It's obviously worse than the frontier models, but it feels less like a science experiment than any previous local model I…
  74. Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter | Amusing Planet — Emerich Juettner, a frail old immigrant living alone in a shabby New York apartment, quietly printed one-dollar bills on a cheap hand press. He was, by almost every conventional standard, terrible at counterfeiting. And yet he succeeded for nearly a decade. B…
  75. Shunting-Yard Algorithm Animation — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084547
  76. pi.dev
  77. You've put solar on the roof - but will you get the returns you expect? | RNZ News
  78. affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. — Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hacka…
  79. I will never use AI to write code — a critique of AI and programming with it. It's irreverent, perhaps over the top, but still a ripping good read. There is some some highly quotable stuff in this piece.
  80. Guardian Blind Dates: 18 Years of Data
  81. I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs - Susam Pal — Don't modify URLs for your users.
  82. the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
  83. Cox vs Sony: la sentenza che ridefinisce la responsabilità per pirateria online — La Corte Suprema ha escluso la responsabilità di Cox per le violazioni commesse dagli utenti, stabilendo che la responsabilità secondaria richiede l'intento di indurre o di “personalizzare” il servizio per l'infrazione. La decisione tutela ISP …
  84. Printing Press - Print the best agent-designed CLI of all time
  85. Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz — "Iran is initiating steps to take full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz."
  86. A blog about various stuff.: I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left.
  87. (1) Do Teachers Need Advanced Degrees? - Cremieux Recueil
  88. The man with an army of Yarbo robot lawn mowers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/16zJh3q
  89. AI-driven layoffs aren't generating the returns companies expected, study finds | Fortune — AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds
  90. styles.refero.design
  91. The Boring Internet | Terry Godier — The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
  92. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount — Walton-GSV-Gallup survey finds young people are feeling angrier about AI, cautious about integrating AI in the classroom
  93. Gutenprint Printer Drivers
  94. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | Hacker News
  95. Stanley Tucci: We're losing our joy for food - it's time to bring it back - BBC News
  96. Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki — Today I'm releasing whoami.wiki as an open source project. The encyclopedia is yours, it runs on your machine, your data stays with you, and any model can read it. The project is early and I'm still figuring a lot of it out, but if this sounds interesting, you can get started here and t…
  97. Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 🐀🧀
  98. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux • Stephen Brennan
  99. GitHub - crynta/terax-ai: Lightweight (7MB) AI terminal emulator (ADE) built in Rust & Tauri & React · GitHub — via GitHub Public Timeline Feed https://ift.tt/We967Lg
  100. 30 Tracks Audiophiles Play to Convert Any Skeptic Into a Hi-Fi Believer, as Ranked by Listener Votes | Headphonesty

The Next Web

  1. China is earning roughly $500m an hour from exports, and AI-related goods are doing the heavy lifting
  2. Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation
  3. ServiceNow lines up $4bn bond sale to refinance Armis acquisition debt
  4. Ursula Von der Leyen pushes EU-wide social-media age protections for children
  5. The US Commerce Department deletes website details of Microsoft, Google, and xAI security-test deal
  6. Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation
  7. Texas AG sues Netflix over alleged spying and addictive design
  8. Prosus targets $3.6bn from Just Eat in European food-delivery push
  9. Duch Ditto raises €7.6M for patient-side AI summaries of medical appointments
  10. Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Trekking Poles
  2. The Best Coolers
  3. After a Mat, These Cork Blocks Are the Yoga Props Worth Investing In
  4. The Best Gas Stoves and Ranges
  5. The Best Vibrators
  6. Why We’ve Recommended Briggs & Riley’s Baseline Luggage for Over 10 Years
  7. Sorry, You Really Can’t Wear Your Favorite Bra Every Single Day
  8. The Best Mini Desktop PCs
  9. The Best GPS Dog Collars and Pet Trackers
  10. The Best Hair-Removal Creams

Sweethome

  1. Put Down the Weed Whacker. Pick Up a Sickle.
  2. The Best Leaf Blower
  3. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  4. The Best Smart Window Shades, Blinds, and Curtains
  5. The Best In-Wall Smart Outlet
  6. The Best Folding Tables
  7. This Steamy Grill Brush Makes Me Excited to Clean My Grill
  8. The Best Portable Air Conditioner
  9. The Matic Is a Whole Different Kind of Robot Vacuum
  10. How to Clean Bathroom Tile and Grout

Hacker News

  1. Learning Software Architecture
  2. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
  3. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
  4. Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room
  5. They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
  6. If AI writes your code, why use Python?
  7. Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC
  8. UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
  9. Claude Platform on AWS
  10. Extremely Low Frequencies
  11. Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
  12. Software Internals Book Club
  13. Optimize for change not application performance
  14. I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
  15. I hate soldering
  16. Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy
  17. Boriel BASIC
  18. Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
  19. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware
  20. Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory
  21. Interaction Models
  22. Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production
  23. HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver
  24. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
  25. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers
  26. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated
  27. Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?
  28. When semiconductor materials misbehave
  29. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
  30. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

Ars Technica

  1. Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
  2. Audi has a new Q9 flagship coming soon: Here's its interior
  3. After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029
  4. Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months
  5. Passengers from hantavirus ship arrive in US; 3 people in biocontainment
  6. Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.
  7. iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more
  8. Samsung made a “mockery” of Dua Lipa by putting her picture on TV boxes, lawsuit says
  9. Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
  10. F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s?
  11. A promising Indian launch startup nears its first orbital test flight
  12. Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits
  13. Do you take after your dad’s RNA?
  14. Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
  15. The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
  16. Manufacturing qubits that can move
  17. Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
  18. ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
  19. Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
  20. The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained

Digg

New Scientist

  1. A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
  2. The story of the first human tool: the humble container
  3. Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
  4. Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer
  5. Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
  6. David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
  7. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  8. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  9. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  10. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  11. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
  12. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  13. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
  14. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
  15. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
  16. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
  17. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
  18. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  19. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
  20. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
  21. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
  22. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  23. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  24. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  25. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  26. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  27. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  28. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  29. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  30. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  31. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  32. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  33. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  34. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  35. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  36. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  37. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  38. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  39. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  40. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  41. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  42. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  43. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  44. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  45. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  46. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  47. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  48. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  49. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  50. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  51. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  52. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  53. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  54. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  55. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  56. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  57. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  58. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  59. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  60. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  61. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  62. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  63. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  64. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  65. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  66. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  67. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  68. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  69. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  70. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  71. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  72. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
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  75. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  76. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  77. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  78. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  79. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  80. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  81. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  82. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  83. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  84. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  85. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  86. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  87. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  88. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  89. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  90. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  91. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  92. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  93. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  94. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  95. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  96. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  97. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  98. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  99. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  100. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis

Slashdot

  1. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial
  2. A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed
  3. Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator
  4. CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
  5. Anthropic's Bug-Hunting Mythos Was Greatest Marketing Stunt Ever, Says cURL Creator
  6. GM Cutting Hundreds of Salaried IT Workers As It Trims Costs, Evaluates Needs
  7. iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5
  8. Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the 'Next Industrial Revolution'
  9. Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time
  10. Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store
  11. Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts
  12. Linux Kernel Starts Retiring Support for AMD's 30-Year-Old K5 CPUs
  13. Ford's Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago
  14. Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
  15. Most Polymarket Users Lose Money, While Top 1% Claim 76.5% of Gains, Study Finds

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Core77

  1. New York Design Week Is Here, May 14–20
  2. A Clever Add-On Spout for Camping Vessels
  3. David Chipperfield Design's Plywood Bathtub
  4. Alessandro Stabile's Beautiful Areo Chair for Kristalia
  5. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-4-26 to 5-8-26)
  6. A Concrete Weed Grinder
  7. Grabo Finds Yet Another Market for Their Portable Suction Cups: Riggers
  8. A Mid-Century Modern Classic: Hans J. Wegner's Daybed with Hidden Storage
  9. When Bathroom Scales were Leather-Clad
  10. Industrial Design Student Work: A Collapsible Touring Bicycle with 3D-Printed Components
  11. A Fold-to-Assemble Spiritual Successor to Braun's AB 20 Clock
  12. Industrial Designer with a Sense of Humor: Alberto Essesi's "Oops" Lamp
  13. How to Make Your Own Camping Cutlery: This Chopsticks Maker
  14. A Pickup-Truck-Style Service Robot
  15. These Beautiful FSB 1292 Door Handles are by Foster + Partners Industrial Design

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 12, #596
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  5. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, May 12
  6. Android Owners: You Could Get Part of Google's $135 Million Data Settlement
  7. 'Fourth Wing' TV Series Ordered by Prime Video
  8. Prime Video Shoots for Assassins and Steamy Titles With New TV Show Pickups
  9. 'The Rings of Power': Here's When Season 3 Hits Prime Video
  10. I Tried Two Leading Dog DNA Tests on My Rescue Pup. Here's What They Revealed
  11. Meta Sued by California County Over Alleged Scam Ads on Social Media
  12. The 14 Best Electric Toothbrushes for Keeping Your Pearly Whites Clean
  13. 14 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Today
  14. Big Glass, Power Doors and Phone Chargers That Don't Suck: Audi Previews Q9 Interior
  15. Can Air Purifiers Combat Pet Dander? What Our Testing Revealed
  16. Scientists May Have Discovered 27 Star Wars-Like Planets With Two Suns
  17. How to Use AI to Plan the Camping Trip You Really Want
  18. Thistle Is the Best, More Affordable Sakara Life Alternative We've Tested
  19. Apple's Next Vision Pro Headset Is Reportedly Years Away
  20. Texas Sues Netflix for Alleged Data Collection of Children Without Consent
  21. What Is Earthshine? Spot the Lunar Marvel in the Skies This Week
  22. Don't Procrastinate: Get Back 15GB of Free Gmail Storage While You Can
  23. Wordle Heads to Television With a New Primetime Game Show on NBC
  24. Logitech's Rumored Folding Mouse Is Like a Little Flip Phone
  25. Samsung Featured Dua Lipa on Its TV Packaging. Now, She's Suing for $15M

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The Verge

  1. These new Roombas are smaller and cheaper
  2. Sony upgraded its wearable AC so it’s cooler and better at hugging your neck
  3. OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos
  4. Yarbo says it will remove the intentional backdoor from its robot lawn mower
  5. Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to
  6. Govee’s new portable smart lamp is on sale for the first time 
  7. Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket
  8. Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone
  9. Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying
  10. Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

Wired

  1. The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI
  2. Epson Lifestudio Grand Plus Review: Rich Colors, Gemini Support
  3. Beatbot Pool-Cleaning Robots Are on Sale
  4. What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin
  5. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off May 2026
  6. Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for May 2026
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  8. 30% Off Canon Promo Codes | May 2026
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  18. Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
  19. Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
  20. The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance

LifeHacker

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  2. This Google Pixel 9 Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  3. Apple Just Made Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  4. iOS 26.5 Just Dropped, and It Includes One Very Annoying New iPhone Change
  5. Finding Studs Used to be Torture Until I Spent $12 on a StudPop
  6. Here's How Apple Plans to Change Liquid Glass in macOS 27
  7. The Sleep Earbuds I Use Every Night Are $80 Off Right Now
  8. Venmo's New App Design Comes With a Great Privacy Update
  9. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Omoggle'?
  10. This Wearable Insta360 Action Camera Bundle Is Nearly $90 Off Right Now
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  12. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  13. 10 Hacks Every Google Meet User Should Know
  14. The Fitbit App Is Losing All These Features
  15. You Can Get $35 in Google Store Credit If You Preorder the Fitbit Air
  16. These Are The Best Ways to Rid Your Gmail Inbox of Spam
  17. Here’s My Ultimate Checklist for Training and Running a Race With a Garmin Watch
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  20. Your Instagram Conversations Won’t Be so Private Anymore
  21. Nintendo Is Raising the Price of the Nintendo Switch 2
  22. These Soundcore ANC Earbuds Are 50% Off Right Now
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  24. Canvas Has Been Hacked, and Is Apparently Being Held for Ransom
  25. 10 Hacks Every Zoom User Should Know
  26. This 100-Inch Hisense QLED TV Gets Super Bright, and It's $1,200 Off Right Now
  27. I’m a Weightlifter, and This Is How I’m Training for a Hyrox Race
  28. What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
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  32. Google Chrome Finally Added This Privacy Feature for Android Users
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  38. 10 Hacks Every DuckDuckGo User Should Know
  39. What Is Hyrox, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Doing It?
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  42. ‘Lowkenuinely,’ ‘Bruzz,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  43. You Might Be Eligible for a Cut of Apple's $250 Million AI Settlement
  44. One of the Best Budget Ultrawide Gaming Monitors Is on Sale for $700
  45. You Can Get a Budget Surface Laptop and Lifetime License to Microsoft Office for Just $260 Right Now
  46. You Should Still Fact-Check the 'Expert Advice' in Google's AI Summaries
  47. The Beats Fit Pro ANC Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
  48. 15 Shows Like 'Widow's Bay' You Should Watch Next
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  60. I Ran a 10K With a Top-of-the-Line Garmin on One Wrist and a Budget Model on the Other, and Here's What Happened
  61. Reddit Is Blocking Its Mobile Site for Some Users, but There's a Fix
  62. Google Is Hosting 'The Android Show' Outside of I/O for the Second Year in a Row
  63. How Android’s Tasker App Stacks Up Against Apple Shortcuts (and How to Use Each One)
  64. How to Train to Run Faster (Not Just Farther)
  65. These Beats ANC EarBuds Are $75 Off Right Now
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  75. Here's How to Save Your Samsung Messages Conversations Before the App Shuts Down
  76. I Let Alexa+ and Gemini Power My Smart Home, and They Were Both Great
  77. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Le Snack Demon'?
  78. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $120 Handheld Device
  79. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  80. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
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The Onion

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TechMeme

  1. Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (New York Times)
  2. eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (Bloomberg)
  3. Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (Cade Metz/New York Times)
  4. Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join (Bloomberg)
  5. Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese-made cellular modules, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
  6. Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
  7. Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (Assaf Gilead/Globes)
  8. A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
  9. Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return (Qasim Nauman/New York Times)
  10. Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (Financial Times)
  11. The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review (Wall Street Journal)
  12. AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
  13. Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (The Information)
  14. The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)
  15. Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin coding agent, and more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)