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BBC

  1. Firefighters and member of public die in blaze at business park
  2. Ukraine and Russia far apart in direct talks, but prisoner swap agreed
  3. Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza, rescuers say
  4. Prison governor jailed for nine years over relationship with inmate
  5. MPs vote to allow health staff to opt out of assisted dying process
  6. Melania Trump statue goes missing in Slovenia
  7. Salman Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison
  8. Teenager detained in Georgia writes letter asking to see her family
  9. Millions more counted as domestic abuse victims as definition widens
  10. R&B star Chris Brown remanded in custody on nightclub attack charge
  11. Rock band Sleep Token score first UK number one with new album
  12. 'My children go to sleep hungry,' Gazans tell the BBC
  13. Is Britain really inching back towards the EU?
  14. How assisted dying laws across the UK could change
  15. What time is the Eurovision 2025 final and who is in it?
  16. Weekly quiz: Which EastEnders star will be in Celebrity Traitors?
  17. How sports coaches are helping tackle toxic masculinity
  18. Who was Valeria Marquez, the Mexican influencer killed live on TikTok?
  19. Illegal release lynx arrive at their new permanent home
  20. US proposes dropping Boeing criminal charge
  21. Two teens arrested after kittens found 'mutilated'
  22. JSO activists spared jail after Heathrow glue plot
  23. Tesco apologises after software issue hits website and app
  24. Ncuti Gatwa withdraws as UK's Eurovision jury announcer
  25. Frank Skinner gets married after four rejections from his now-wife
  26. BBC News app
  27. Trump’s Big Middle East Trip (Continued)
  28. Diddy On Trial
  29. The inside story of Twitter's growth and difficulties
  30. McLaren still need to 'find a bit more' - Piastri
  31. Everton's new ground named Hill Dickinson Stadium
  32. Salah criticises 'harsh' Alexander-Arnold boos

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The 14 best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2025
  2. Kojima is leaving behind a USB stick with game ideas for after he dies
  3. More Switch games are getting Switch 2 upgrades
  4. FCC approves Verizon's $20 billion merger with Frontier
  5. Apple claims it's not blocking Epic from offering Fortnite in the EU
  6. Microsoft attemps to avoid EU fines by further decoupling Teams and Office
  7. Red Dead Redemption 2 could be coming to Switch 2 this year
  8. Two Blink Mini 2 security cameras are on sale for $38
  9. The best Memorial Day tech deals on gear from Apple, Amazon, Dyson and others
  10. Sigma BF hands-on: Minimal to a fault
  11. Peacock Premium is only $25 for one year right now
  12. Cable giants Cox and Charter agree to $34 billion merger
  13. How Murderbot’s Chris and Paul Weitz adapted All Systems Red for TV
  14. 'Fortnite' is offline on iOS around the world
  15. Acer introduces five new gaming monitors
  16. Google's latest Nest Learning Thermostat is $50 off ahead of Memorial Day
  17. Acer's new Swift Edge 14 AI laptop packs in a matte display and AI features
  18. The Acer Predator Triton 14 AI is now my most anticipated gaming laptop of the year
  19. The Morning After: Sony’s best headphones keep getting better
  20. ProtonVPN deal: Get 66 percent off two-year subscriptions
  21. Grok kept talking about 'white genocide' due to an 'unauthorized modification'
  22. The best noise-canceling headphones for 2025
  23. Engadget Podcast: Who needs Samsung's super-thin Galaxy S25 Edge?
  24. How to cancel subscriptions on iPhone
  25. The best USB-C hub for 2025
  26. The best Apple deals you can get right now: Save on iPads, MacBooks, AirPods and more
  27. TikTok will try to force teens to meditate after 10PM
  28. Meta's 'Behemoth' Llama 4 model might still be months away
  29. Doctors successfully treated a baby with the first ever personalized gene-editing therapy
  30. X is once again selling checkmarks to US sanctioned groups, report says
  31. Here's how the Sony WH-1000XM6 compare to the WH-1000XM5 and AirPods Max
  32. The best wireless headphones for 2025: Bluetooth options for every budget
  33. Stellar Blade heads to PC on June 11
  34. EU tech chiefs believe TikTok is breaking ad transparency rules
  35. UK Parliament opts not to hold AI companies accountable over copyright material
  36. Computex 2025: How to watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang deliver the opening keynote
  37. Extortionists bribed Coinbase employees to give them customer data
  38. Persona 5: The Phantom X is coming to PC and mobile next month
  39. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns on July 17
  40. Toyota announces the bZ Woodland, a rugged all-terrain electric SUV
  41. Sony WH-1000XM6 review: The best headphones just keep on getting better
  42. Android's screen reader can now answer questions about images
  43. Sony's flagship WH-1000XM6 headphones arrive with updated sound and more robust ANC
  44. Meta's smart glasses will soon provide detailed information regarding visual stimuli
  45. The best security camera for smart home newbies is on sale for a record-low price
  46. Grok gave X users its opinion on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, whether they liked it or not
  47. Threads is finally embracing links
  48. Apple’s CarPlay Ultra finally arrives, but it’s exclusive to Aston Martins right now
  49. The EPA is rolling back Biden-era clean water rules
  50. The LA Olympics optimistically names an official 'Air Taxi Partner'

Pinboard

  1. Writing that changed how I think about PL
  2. Plain Vanilla Web Development — An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  3. Flattening Rust's Learning Curve | corrode Rust Consulting
  4. Embeddings are underrated
  5. Just fucking use HTML
  6. Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress | TIME — Today, I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. via Pocket
  7. Scraperr - a self-hosted web application that allows users to scrape data from web pages by specifying elements via XPath — https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1dxw3r8/selfhosted_webscraper/
  8. College Professors Are Using ChatGPT. Some Students Aren’t Happy. - The New York Times — In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor? via Pocket
  9. The Easiest, Fluffiest Pancake Recipe From a Pro Who's Flipped Thousands of Them
  10. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms - Google DeepMind
  11. Internet Artifacts
  12. What is HDR, anyway? — It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.
  13. How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS | WebKit
  14. 10k Drum Machines
  15. How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News | Teen Vogue — Alec Karakatsanis's new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News criticizes how the media covers — and enables — policing.
  16. Barbican
  17. Reservoir Sampling
  18. Klarna plans to hire humans again, as new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver | Fortune — stats on success rates with ai
  19. European Union Vulnerability Database — As per the NIS2 Directive, ENISA is mandated to develop and maintain the European vulnerability database.
  20. The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding | by fred benenson | May, 2025 | Medium
  21. Vectorizer - Convert PNGs to SVGs for free. Perfect for Chat GPT generated images - Supersaas.dev
  22. IBM accessibility checkers — Well maintained, no ads.
  23. Observations from people watching
  24. The cryptography behind passkeys - The Trail of Bits Blog
  25. 101 Rules of Effective Living — In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English. 15) Take due credit. You will get blame when do not deserve it.
  26. License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows — Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
  27. I don't like NumPy
  28. F1 at 75
  29. My 2025 high-end Linux PC 🐧 - Michael Stapelberg
  30. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the entire tracking-based advertising industry rely on the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) to obtain “consent” for data processing. This even…
  31. Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America | US news | The Guardian
  32. Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast — via Pocket
  33. How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans | MIT Technology Review — The tool, called Track and built by the video analytics company Veritone, is used by 400 customers, including state and local police departments and universities all over the US. via Pocket
  34. Hyvector
  35. Musk’s apparent power grab at the Copyright Office fractures the MAGA-tech alliance | The Verge
  36. Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users i…
  37. Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System: A Historical and Technical Analysis — HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43968141
  38. Xarray: N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
  39. Coinbase says customers' personal information stolen in data breach | TechCrunch — Crypto giant Coinbase has confirmed its systems have been breached and customer data, including government-issued identity documents, were stolen.
  40. PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem | Hacker News
  41. Bus Stops Here: Shanghai Lets Riders Design Their Own Routes — A new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote on, and activate new bus lines in as little as three days.
  42. Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?
  43. 2025年のz-index設計を考える - Speaker Deck
  44. Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink — ProPublica
  45. Introduction - Model Context Protocol
  46. TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook: 所有小初高、大学PDF教材。
  47. Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work | AP News — Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
  48. PDF to Text, a challenging problem @ marginalia.nu
  49. Creating a static website for all my bookmarks – alexwlchan — feels abandoned
  50. Luke Kanies | AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
  51. Botlzmann machine
  52. RPG in a Box
  53. Libation: Liberate your Library
  54. Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds - CBS News — The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis. via Pocket
  55. Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.
  56. bytedance/deer-flow: DeerFlow is a community-driven framework for deep research, combining language models with tools like web search, crawling, and Python execution, while contributing back to the open-source community.
  57. GitHub - apple/ml-fastvlm: This repository contains the official implementation of "FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models" - CVPR 2025
  58. Our narrative prison — The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
  59. Human — Quarter Mile — Human Written by a human [0]. Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic. You would not walk through the streets of this world and hear music or laughter or children playing; no, all you would…
  60. Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale - WarpStream
  61. A Taxonomy of Bugs · Our Machinery — A list of common types of bugs.
  62. 2025-05-11 air traffic control
  63. ICE Used Kids as 'Bait' to Arrest Woman in Worcester, Massachusetts
  64. Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph For Documents with LLM | CocoIndex — CocoIndex now supports knowledge graph with incremental processing. Build live knowledge for agents is super easy with CocoIndex!
  65. A leap year check in three instructions
  66. Warteschlangensimulator | Warteschlangensimulator is a free, platform independent, discrete-event, stochastic simulator which allows to model queueing systems in form of flowcharts. — queue theory
  67. Remarks on AI from NZ - by Neal Stephenson - Graphomane — "Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is also an amputation. I first heard that quote twenty years ago from a computer scientist at Stanford who was addressing a room full of collea…
  68. Introducing OpenMemory MCP — OpenMemory MCP is a private, local-first memory layer with a built-in UI, compatible with all MCP-clients. It ensures all memory stays local, structured, and under your control with no cloud sync or external storage.
  69. google is finally building its own dex: first look at android's desktop mode - android authority
  70. If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? – Pivot to AI — REALLY good point: for those claiming that AI can replace programmers, why not prove it by having AI make contributions to open source projects (where everyone could see how well it works).
  71. Building software on top of Large Language Models
  72. CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers | WIRED
  73. Put your projects on the Web.
  74. Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’ | WIRED
  75. Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app — Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
  76. AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state | The Verge
  77. Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect - The New York Times
  78. GitHub - cofob/autogenlib: Import wisdom, export code.
  79. Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking
  80. Membrane framework — Reliable & scalable multimedia streaming framework for Elixir
  81. Browser Default Styles
  82. Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill — Late last night, House Republicans introduced new language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that will immiserate the lives of millions of Americans by cutting their access to Medicaid, and making life much more difficult for millions more by maki…
  83. Gabbard fires top officials that produced Venezuela gang intelligence - The Washington Post
  84. ype html>Migrating to Postgres. Since early 2022, Motion was on… | by Sean Callahan | May, 2025 | Motion Engineering Blog
  85. Why Bell Labs Worked. - by areoform - 1517 Fund
  86. Introducing Lua for Elixir
  87. We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Lasts Thousands of Years : ScienceAlert — via https://discuss.systems/@irene/114501443477318417
  88. Type-Constrained Code Generation with Language Models — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978357
  89. Vision Language Models (Better, faster, stronger) — Vision Language Models (VLMs) are the talk of the town. In a previous blog post (from April 2024), we talked a lot about VLMs. A major chunk was about LLaVA, the first successful and easily reproducible open-source vision language model, along with tips on how to discover, …
  90. Dead Simple Sites — Minimal Website Inspiration
  91. cua/libs/lumier at main · trycua/cua · GitHub
  92. The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977897
  93. Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war | Hacker News
  94. How Narcissists Climb the Career Ladder Quickly
  95. Starship — The cross-shell prompt for astronauts ☄🌌️
  96. repl.it - Online REPL, Compiler & IDE — https://blog.replit.com/database https://repl.it/
  97. A Matter of Words | The Point Magazine — To come up with a good AI policy for a university, a department or even a household, one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain. And it’s here that we have discovere…
  98. Tensor Core | GPU Glossary
  99. AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt - Ars Technica
  100. We can live well, even though we don’t have a higher purpose | Psyche Ideas — "The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom" ... "In her fiction and theory, Le Guin rejects both nihilism and optimism on the grounds that both defer to a ‘high…

The Next Web

  1. Exclusive: Swiss startup picks Rotterdam for green aviation fuel plant
  2. Gaming billionaire named UK’s richest person under 40 in tech-heavy wealth list
  3. Bunq CEO warns closed minds are pushing Dutch entrepreneurs away
  4. Nuclear waste could power Europe for decades. This startup plans to prove it
  5. Europe must ‘get real’ on tech sovereignty and stay open, warns industry group
  6. 5 impressive feats of DeepMind’s new self-evolving AI coding agent
  7. NATO backs Welsh startup building space factory for ‘supermaterials’
  8. TNW Backstage goes Double Dutch on tech humour
  9. Helsing’s AI submarine joins Europe’s growing ocean drone fleet
  10. Neuralink rival Inbrain will ‘never’ take brain implants beyond healthcare

Smashing Magazine

  1. Building A Practical UX Strategy Framework
  2. Fewer Ideas: An Unconventional Approach To Creativity
  3. Smashing Animations Part 2: How CSS Masking Can Add An Extra Dimension
  4. Integrating Localization Into Design Systems
  5. Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot
  6. Smashing Animations Part 1: How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS
  7. Masonry In CSS: Should Grid Evolve Or Stand Aside For A New Module?
  8. How To Launch Big Complex Projects
  9. WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation
  10. Make Every Day Count (May 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  11. How To Turn Your Figma Designs Into Live Apps With Anima Playground
  12. UX And Design Files Organization Template
  13. “Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio
  14. Boosting Up Your Creativity Without Endless Reference Scrolling
  15. Building An Offline-Friendly Image Upload System
  16. What Does It Really Mean For A Site To Be Keyboard Navigable
  17. Fostering An Accessibility Culture
  18. Inclusive Dark Mode: Designing Accessible Dark Themes For All Users
  19. Gild Just One Lily
  20. Using Manim For Making UI Animations
  21. How To Build A Business Case To Promote Accessibility In Your B2B Products
  22. Building A Drupal To Storyblok Migration Tool: An Engineering Perspective
  23. Blossoms, Flowers, And The Magic Of Spring (April 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  24. How To Argue Against AI-First Research
  25. Adaptive Video Streaming With Dash.js In React
  26. Previewing Content Changes In Your Work With document.designMode
  27. Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference?
  28. How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks
  29. How To Build Confidence In Your UX Work
  30. How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis
  31. The Case For Minimal WordPress Setups: A Contrarian View On Theme Frameworks
  32. Sunshine And March Vibes (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  33. The Human Element: Using Research And Psychology To Elevate Data Storytelling
  34. Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction?
  35. How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications
  36. How To Test And Measure Content In UX
  37. Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time
  38. Taking RWD To The Extreme
  39. Integrations: From Simple Data Transfer To Modern Composable Architectures
  40. Look Closer, Inspiration Lies Everywhere (February 2025 Wallpapers Edition)

Wirecutter

  1. Your Grilled Veggies Deserve Better. You Just Need the Right Tools.
  2. The Best Bike Pump
  3. The Best Foam Rollers
  4. 9 Gifts That Say ‘I’m Fun at Parties’
  5. The 30 Best Deals From REI’s Annual Anniversary Sale 2025
  6. The Best Linen Sheets
  7. The Best Trekking Poles
  8. The Best First Phones for Kids
  9. The Best Blender
  10. The Best Online Fax Services

Sweethome

  1. The Best Bike Pump
  2. The Best Prime Day Deals on Vacuums, Air Purifiers, and Other Things to Keep Your House Clean
  3. The Best Emergency Preparedness Supplies
  4. The Fire Extinguisher, Smoke Detector, Carbon Monoxide Detector, and Other Safety Essentials You Need in Your Home
  5. The Top Tools for Earthquake Preparedness
  6. The Best Fire Extinguisher
  7. Our Favorite Scented Candles
  8. The Best Lego Flower and Plant Sets
  9. The Best Sewing Machine
  10. The Best Leaf Blower

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
  2. X X^t can be faster
  3. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  4. The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
  5. MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
  6. A Research Preview of Codex
  7. New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
  8. The first year of free-threaded Python
  9. Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R
  10. Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes
  11. Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring – Founding Engineer (ML × SWE)
  12. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
  13. Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection
  14. Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python
  15. Tower Defense: Cache Control
  16. What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?
  17. Material 3 Expressive
  18. Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors
  19. The fastest Postgres inserts
  20. Sci-Net
  21. Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
  22. Ground control to Major Trial
  23. LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler (2023)
  24. Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
  25. Returning to My Roots in Hardware
  26. The Awful German Language (1880)
  27. Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences
  28. Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico
  29. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
  30. You Don't Have a Right to a Bank Account

Ars Technica

  1. Google to give app devs access to Gemini Nano for on-device AI
  2. The remarkable timeline of a custom gene-editing therapy to save a newborn
  3. OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding
  4. Forgive me Volvo, I was wrong: The 2025 V60 Cross Country review
  5. Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean
  6. Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial
  7. The 2025 VW Tiguan caters to US tastes at an affordable price
  8. Nintendo says more about how free Switch 2 updates will improve Switch games
  9. xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
  10. Drop Duchy is a deck-building, Tetris-like, Carcassonne-esque puzzler
  11. Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket.
  12. The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch
  13. FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials
  14. After latest kidnap attempt, crypto types tell crime bosses: Transfers are traceable
  15. Microsoft’s Surface lineup reportedly losing another of its most interesting designs
  16. Tesla changes lease policy, didn’t use old cars as robotaxis
  17. Telegram bans $35B black markets used to sell stolen data, launder crypto
  18. With US out, WHO director says it’s running on budget of a local hospital
  19. Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
  20. Renewable power reversing China’s emissions growth

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New Scientist

  1. Toxic waste is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode landfills
  2. Could a $125 billion investment fund halt global deforestation?
  3. What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans
  4. Risk of a star destroying the solar system is higher than expected
  5. An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend
  6. Remarkable photos highlight the haunting resilience of nature
  7. Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us
  8. Are entangled qubits following a quantum Moore's law?
  9. Baby with rare disease given world-first personal CRISPR gene therapy
  10. Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book
  11. Physicists reveal the secret to chopping onions without crying
  12. How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds
  13. Who needs Eurovision when we have the Dance Your PhD contest?
  14. Promises to improve nature are being broken by English house builders
  15. When it comes to crime, you can't algorithm your way to safety
  16. A doe-eyed look at space exploration is inadequate for the zeitgeist
  17. China's CO2 emissions have started falling – is this finally the peak?
  18. Norovirus vaccine pill protects against winter vomiting bug
  19. Exquisite new-to-science frog species has golden legs and odd habits
  20. Are democratic countries like the UK just climate hypocrites?
  21. The complexity of female sex hormones calls for more science, not less
  22. One half of the moon is hotter than the other
  23. Fossil tracks rewrite history of animals leaving water to live on land
  24. Surprising insights into the causes of PMDD promise better treatments
  25. Earth is heading for a second year above 1.5°C climate goal
  26. Chemists discover 'anti-spice' that could make chilli peppers less hot
  27. Smart device can measure how much milk breastfed babies really drink
  28. Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics
  29. The FBI is getting new technology to see through walls
  30. The wild idea that we all get nutrients from the air that we breathe
  31. Massive wildfires in Canada helped keep the world cooler in 2023
  32. Parkinson's disease could be detected by listening to someone's voice
  33. Migraine drug that treats headache also eases symptoms like dizziness
  34. The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at the heart of physics
  35. Go-to migraine drug actually does nothing to relieve vertigo symptoms
  36. How ancient humans survived a global climate disaster 8200 years ago
  37. Alien megastructures would likely self-destruct before we spot them
  38. New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push
  39. All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuffed out upon death
  40. What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out
  41. Why physicists keep trying to get rid of space-time entirely
  42. Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?
  43. What 7 fiendishly hard puzzles tell us about the nature of mathematics
  44. Nothing is stronger than quantum connections – and now we know why
  45. How to harness your emotions for a happier, calmer life
  46. Climate drama Families Like Ours deserves to be a word-of-mouth hit
  47. Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why it’s hard to say
  48. AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay
  49. The everyday ways climate change is already making our lives worse
  50. Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy?
  51. Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' with humans
  52. Major US cities like New York and Seattle are sinking at a rapid rate
  53. Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?
  54. Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)
  55. Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the size of golfballs
  56. These photos reveal the unique agricultural system of the Maya people
  57. Marcus du Sautoy's new book is good on maths, less so on the arts
  58. Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don't know where
  59. The maths that tells us when a scientific discovery is real – or not
  60. Record heat in 2023 and 2024 may just have been natural variability
  61. What if we could experience life as another species?
  62. The birds upending our idea of shared parenting
  63. Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers
  64. Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe
  65. Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them
  66. An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of the vagus nerve
  67. Dementia cases are rising faster in China than the rest of the world
  68. 99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplored by humans
  69. Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it anyway
  70. Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all complex life
  71. Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records
  72. England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited plants. Hooray!
  73. A clean energy source may be lurking beneath mountain ranges
  74. Chronic pain could be eased by learning to regulate negative emotions
  75. Landslide rescuers to get help from rapid analysis of seismic data
  76. Ireland's iconic megalithic tombs may have had an unexpected function
  77. Shingles vaccine linked with lower risk of many common heart problems
  78. US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
  79. Psychedelics may boost mental health by dampening inflammation
  80. Quantum computers don’t always need more qubits – just add chaos
  81. Can running too far be bad for your health?
  82. Drugs like Wegovy can be effective at treating fatty liver disease
  83. How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health
  84. How a simple walk can bust stress, boost cognition and fight diseases
  85. The 'impossible' particle hinting at the universe's biggest secrets
  86. The world, the universe and us: We're relaunching our weekly podcast
  87. This sensational novel shows what climate fiction can be
  88. Bitter argument breaks out over controversial theory of consciousness
  89. Disastrous back-to-back heatwaves and droughts surge across Eurasia
  90. Tiny rewards can protect the grid from a surge in electric vehicles
  91. Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe
  92. Innovative antivenom may work against the world's deadliest snakes
  93. Extreme heat poses Spanish-style blackout threat to UK electrical grid
  94. Brain signals can change the gut microbiome in as little as 2 hours
  95. Best evidence yet that dolphin whistles are like a shared language
  96. Captivating images expose a 'staged version' of nature
  97. Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life
  98. Our cells can divide in a completely unexpected way
  99. Hijacked cicadas play music like a cyborg loudspeaker
  100. Meta, Amazon and Google accused of 'distorting' key AI rankings

Slashdot

  1. Vision Pro Owners Face Weight of Buyer's Remorse
  2. Broadcom Employee Data Stolen By Ransomware Crooks Following Hit on Payroll Provider
  3. Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole
  4. Clean Energy Just Put China's CO2 Emissions Into Reverse For First Time
  5. US, UAE Unveil Plan For New 5GW AI Campus In Abu Dhabi
  6. China Launches First of 2,800 Satellites For AI Space Computing Constellation
  7. Dark Matter Formed When Fast Particles Slowed Down and Got Heavy, New Theory Says
  8. Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT
  9. Do You Trust Mark Zuckerberg To Solve Your Loneliness With an 'AI Friend'?
  10. YouTube Crackdowns on AI-Generated Fake Movie Trailers
  11. Apple Keeps Fortnite in App Store Limbo
  12. FBI: US Officials Targeted In Voice Deepfake Attacks Since April
  13. Microsoft May Have Killed the Surface Laptop Studio
  14. Netflix Will Show Generative AI Ads Midway Through Streams In 2026
  15. Anthropic's Lawyer Forced To Apologize After Claude Hallucinated Legal Citation

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-12-25 to 5-16-25)
  2. Industrial Design Case Study: Tactile Helps Milwaukee Perfect Their Digital Level
  3. Design Opportunity: Create a Better Portable Tufting Frame
  4. The Pivotal Helix: A Cute, Goofy-Looking Personal Electric Flying Machine
  5. Fun Floating Furniture by Bote
  6. Freitag Creates a Completely Monomaterial and Recyclable Bag Line
  7. An In-Room Mosquito Tracking Device That Lets You Easily Kill Them
  8. Hozo Designs a Better Cordless Ultrasonic Cutter
  9. Acrobatic Artist Bastien Dausse's Low-Tech Wall-Walking Invention
  10. Peter Ivy's Gorgeous Rokkakei Hand-Blown Glass Pendant Lamps
  11. The Origins of the First Mass-Market Tool Chest
  12. How Metal Objects Used to First be Made Out of Wood
  13. Laurids Gallée's Tralucid Stools, Both Crisp and Blurry
  14. Automatic Photo Timestamp/Location-Stamp Apps for Keeping Track of Projects
  15. An Interesting Twist on the Sunken Living Room

CNET

  1. Verizon Wins FCC Approval for $20 Billion Frontier Merger: What This Means for Fiber
  2. Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Music and More in 2025
  3. Should You Change Your Password After the Steam Leak? This Cybersecurity Expert Says Yes
  4. Nintendo Store Levels Up in San Francisco: A First Look Inside the Ultimate Fan Experience
  5. Ziploc, Rubbermaid Sued for Microplastics Exposure. Are Plastic Food Containers Safe to Use?
  6. This Humane Spray Is the Only Thing That Keeps Mice Out of My House
  7. Weighing Yourself at Home? Try This Trick for Precise Results
  8. Fortnite Is Offline on iOS. Here's Why Apple Is Blocking Its Return
  9. Don't Get Sick on Your Next Trip. Try Our Wellness Team's Essentials for Healthy Travels
  10. Charter and Cox Have Announced a $34.5 Billion Merger
  11. The Real Cost of Owning a Gas Fireplace
  12. Spring Cleaning for Tech: How to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free
  13. Best Cheap Vacuums for 2025: Our Best Lab-Tested Performers for Less Than $300
  14. Best Squat Racks of 2025
  15. Nothing Teases New Over-Ear Headphones That Are 'Better Than AirPods Max' but Cost Much Less
  16. AI-Voiced Darth Vader Can Swear, Say 'Skibidi Toilet' in Fortnite: How to Find It
  17. Is It Cheaper to Hire Movers or Do It Yourself? Let's Find Out Together
  18. Premier League Soccer: Stream Chelsea vs. Man United Live From Anywhere
  19. How Trump Plans to Change Tax Credits for Solar Panels, EVs and More
  20. Installing a VPN on Linux? Here are the Easiest Methods
  21. Generative AI: Everything to Know About the Tech Behind Chatbots Like ChatGPT
  22. Best Internet Providers in Seattle, Washington
  23. I've Been Tracking Tariff Price Impacts Every Day, and Here's What I've Found
  24. Best Home Equity Loan Rates for May 2025
  25. Out of Breath Going Up Stairs? We Found Out Why and How to Make It Easier

Reddit

The Verge

  1. xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts
  2. Spotify is sorry that it revealed how many people listen to your podcast
  3. Bungie caught stealing artwork again
  4. ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent
  5. 8BitDo’s new all-button arcade controller is just 16mm thick
  6. The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair
  7. Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI
  8. Microsoft says its Azure and AI tech hasn’t harmed people in Gaza
  9. Capcom goes for deep cuts with latest fighting game collection
  10. HBO’s no good very bad rebrand

Wired

  1. We Hand-Picked the 24 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale
  2. OpenAI Launches an Agentic, Web-Based Coding Tool
  3. The Best Gifts for Book Lovers (2025)
  4. The Best Motorola Phones (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  5. No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts
  6. Does Your City Use Chlorine or Chloramine to Treat Its Water?
  7. Shark CryoGlow Review: Chill Out
  8. Microsoft Surface Pro 12 Review: Beautiful and Baffling
  9. The Best Ergonomic Mouse (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  10. 10 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
  11. The 11 Best Mattress Toppers We’ve Slept On (2025)
  12. The Middle East Has Entered the AI Group Chat
  13. EA Tried to Stop an ‘Anti-DEI Mod’ for ‘The Sims 4’—but More Keep Surfacing
  14. The 35 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (May 2025)
  15. The Hottest Topic at This Year’s Pornhub Awards? Censorship
  16. A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
  17. Sony WH-1000XM6 Review: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones
  18. US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer
  19. The Best Hearing Aids of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
  20. The 13 Best TVs We’ve Reviewed, Plus Buying Advice (2025)

LifeHacker

  1. You Can Safely Delete These Preinstalled Apps From Your Samsung Galaxy
  2. How to Plant the Perfect Kitchen Garden in a Small Space
  3. The Coinbase Hack Compromised One Million Customers' Information
  4. SoundCloud Just Updated Their Terms of Service After AI Policy Backlash
  5. What's New on Hulu in June 2025
  6. What's New on Disney+ in June 2025
  7. ‘Bread Baking for Beginners’ Will Give You All the Confidence You Need
  8. Why Did X’s Grok AI Keep Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
  9. Apple Maps' Restaurant Recommendations Just Got a Little Bit Fancier
  10. How to Use the New Discord Overlay (or How to Turn It Off)
  11. YouTube Ads Are About to Get Even More Annoying
  12. You Can Now Quickly Crop and Edit Photos Before Sharing Them on Android
  13. This Site Can Turn Your Browser Into a Wall of TVs
  14. 18 Must-Watch Anime Series on Netflix
  15. This Ikarao Portable Karaoke Machine Is More Than $100 Off
  16. How to Stock a 'Tariff Pantry'
  17. Garmin Is Launching Its Long-Awaited Forerunner 570 and 970 Watches
  18. Apple's 'Next-Generation' CarPlay Is Finally Here (In Limited Capacity)
  19. TikTok Is Adding Three New Accessibility Features
  20. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 75-inch Hisense U6HF Series Fire TV
  21. 25 of the Best Prime Video Original Movies
  22. This Arlo 2K Indoor Security Camera Is Less Than $30 Right Now
  23. This Ring Floodlight Camera Is at Its Lowest Price Right Now
  24. How to Choose Between a Juicer and a Blender
  25. When You Need Different Shoes for Different Types of Runs (and When One Pair Is Fine)
  26. Here's How the Tariffs Are Impacting the Price of Gaming
  27. 'Aura Farming,' 'Huzz,' and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  28. I Love This Speaker That Turns Any Song Into a Karaoke Track, and It’s $50 Off Right Now
  29. Warner Bros. Discovery Just Reversed That Terrible ‘HBO Max’ Branding Decision
  30. Don’t Fall for These Eight Deceptive Marketing Terms
  31. Five Hidden Windows App Switcher Secrets
  32. You Don't Need to Panic Over the Latest Steam 'Leak'
  33. Google Might Be Removing the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Button
  34. 18 Netflix Settings Everyone Should Know About
  35. You Can Safely Remove All These Preinstalled Apps From Your iPhone
  36. Microsoft’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ Update Fixes Seven Zero-Day Exploits
  37. Whoop Has Changed Their Upgrade Policy
  38. These Ryobi Cordless Tools Are up to 69% Off at Home Depot Right Now
  39. Microsoft Will Now Support Office Apps on Windows 10 Until 2028
  40. This AI Video Generator Is Spreading Malware
  41. You Can Now Claim a Payout From the 23andMe Data Breach
  42. These Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are Over 50% Off Right Now
  43. 40 Apple TV+ Original Series You Should Be Watching
  44. Update Your iPhone to Make Sure FaceTime's Mute Button Actually Works
  45. Your Spotify AI DJ Is Now Taking Verbal Requests
  46. How (and Why) to Connect Your Apple Watch to Your Peloton
  47. How to Make Your First ‘Ninja Slushi’ (Without Ruining It)
  48. Six Strategies to 'Tariff-Proof' Your Home Renovation Project
  49. I Created These Spreadsheets to Help Me Play Video Games (and Yes, This Is a Cry For Help)
  50. iOS Is About to Get a Lot More Accessible
  51. The JBL Xtreme 4 Outdoor Speaker Is $130 Off
  52. iOS 19 Will Make It Easier to Sign Into Public Wifi on Multiple Devices
  53. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Galaxy S25 Edge Preorders
  54. Google Just Unveiled a New Look for Android
  55. Google Is Putting Gemini AI Into Smartwatches, Cars, and TVs
  56. Google Is Expanding Its Use of AI to Protect You From Scams
  57. Letterboxd Will Soon Let You Stream Select Movies On Demand
  58. Why You Should Take the Peloton FTP Test (Even Though It’s Awful)
  59. I’ve Tested Robot Vacuums for Years, and Here’s What They Can (and Can’t) Do
  60. The Switch 2 Has Two Great New Features for Battery Health and Security
  61. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Fake Jasmine Crockett Videos
  62. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Are $50 Off Right Now
  63. 11 of the Most Common Venmo Scams (and How to Avoid Them)
  64. I'm a Marathon Runner, and This Is My Favorite Running Gear for Warm Weather
  65. These Vegetables Require Less Water Than Most
  66. Everything Samsung Just Announced About the Galaxy S25 Edge
  67. These 10 ‘Gut Health’ Trends Will Do Nothing for Your Gut Health
  68. Gemini’s ‘Canvas’ Feature Is Surprisingly Great for Word Processing and Coding
  69. Nintendo Will Brick Your Switch If It Detects Pirated Games
  70. The Five Best Egg Replacements I've Used for Baking (so Far)
  71. Use 'Noir' to Force Dark Mode in Safari
  72. Almost Every Model of Beats Headphones Is on Sale Right Now
  73. The First Five Settings to Change on Your Boox Palma
  74. What You Should Hoard Before Tariff Price Increases Kick In
  75. Why You Need Multiple Savings Accounts
  76. The First Smartphone to Get Google's AI Video Generator Isn't a Pixel
  77. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Peloton Bike and Bike+
  78. Apple's Siri Settlement Emails Are Now Rolling Out to Affected Users
  79. Beware These REAL ID Scams
  80. The Best Ways to Protect Your Strawberries From Pests and Disease
  81. How to Update Your Computer’s BIOS or UEFI (and When You Should)
  82. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: YouTube's Animated Kitten Horror
  83. This Apple Watch Series 10 Is at Its Lowest Price Right Now
  84. Why I Always Roast My Rhubarb
  85. 10 Podcasts for People Who Love (and Miss) 'Heavyweight'
  86. Two-Factor Authentication Can Fail You, but You Can Make It More Secure
  87. How to Join the Beta for the USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ App
  88. Why You Shouldn't Worry About Your 'Gut Health'
  89. The Real History of Mother's Day Is Surprisingly Dark
  90. How to Choose a High-Yield Savings Account
  91. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  92. The Best Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts for Moms Who Like to Cook
  93. It’s Time to Start a Tariff Emergency Fund
  94. Why Google Maps Is Asking for Permission to See Your iPhone Screenshots
  95. Google Messages Will Soon Let You Delete Messages for Everyone
  96. 20 of the Best Apple TV+ Original Movies
  97. How to Quit 'Revenge Spending'
  98. 'Cotypist' Adds Autocomplete to All Your Mac Apps
  99. How Claude AI's New Web Search Compares to Gemini and ChatGPT
  100. The Amazon Fire TV Stick HD Is $20 Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
  2. Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice
  3. Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
  4. Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider
  5. Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
  6. AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
  7. Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
  8. How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
  9. UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land
  10. Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
  11. Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
  12. Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe
  13. Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive
  14. Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters
  15. Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India
  16. Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
  17. DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M
  18. NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
  19. Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing
  20. Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
  21. Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%
  22. Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores
  23. Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU
  24. Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore
  25. Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
  26. Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and'
  27. Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
  28. 70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
  29. Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
  30. The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
  31. A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
  32. Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos
  33. Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer
  34. Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock
  35. Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training
  36. AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss
  37. GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help
  38. Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion
  39. Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant
  40. RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
  41. The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
  42. Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play
  43. Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off
  44. Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers
  45. Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
  46. VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals
  47. Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket
  48. Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security
  49. Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search
  50. C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards

TechMeme

  1. Spotify adjusts its "plays" metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
  2. Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be modified to comply with export controls, after a report said it is planning a research center in Shanghai (CNBC)
  3. OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
  4. Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations (Alexander Martin/The Record)
  5. Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationship between the tech industry and the press, media outlets' licensing deals with AI companies, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism ...)
  6. Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
  7. Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators (Reuters)
  9. Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow ~20% YoY to ~$186B, vs. 29% in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B+ MAUs across its apps (Bloomberg)
  10. Charter Is in Talks to Combine with Rival Cox Communications (Michelle F Davis/Bloomberg)
  11. Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the US App Store and the game on iOS will be "offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
  12. Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B more in the US as it seeks to boost local supply, more than doubling its investment to $7.5B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
  13. US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for more evidence on tech-related visa petitions, like H-1Bs and O-1s (Lauren Goode/Wired)
  14. Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open a rift with China hawks in his administration over concerns that US chips sent to the Gulf end up in China (Bloomberg)
  15. Meta says Facebook and Instagram face "an epidemic of scams"; current and former staff say Meta is reluctant to impede its ad business, which grew 22% in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)