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BBC

  1. Polanski stands by concerns over police response to Golders Green attack
  2. Airlines can cancel flights in advance over fuel shortages under new plans
  3. King's speech was a 'high stakes' moment of US visit, Palace says
  4. Germany troop cuts send wrong signal to Russia, say two top US Republicans
  5. The Iran war has strengthened Ukraine in surprising ways. Could a ceasefire with Russia be closer?
  6. From beds to LED masks, is the red light craze giving us more than just a warm glow?
  7. Two killed and major incident declared after explosion
  8. Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war
  9. Laufey on making jazz cool again (and the fish that brought out her inner rage)
  10. The clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
  11. What death doulas can teach us about dying
  12. Watch: How we reported in -30C temperatures in Canada's Arctic
  13. Miami Grand Prix brought forward because of storm threat
  14. Man charged with murder and sexual assault of 5-year-old Australian girl
  15. Voters will judge Trump on the economy - how is it doing?
  16. Celebrity Traitors line-up announced - 21 famous faces set to enter castle
  17. Struggling High Streets fuel sense of neglect for voters ahead of local elections
  18. Welsh nans befriend pro wrestler on Vegas flight after royal rumble over seats
  19. Rare 400-year-old gown to go on display
  20. 'Dreams do come true': The singer joining female-led soundtrack for Devil Wears Prada
  21. Creating Roo, the missing Winnie-the-Pooh toy, for Camilla's US visit
  22. BBC News app
  23. The Week: The Price Of The Iran War
  24. LIVE at Maida Vale studios… How popular is Donald Trump in the US?
  25. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star in an award-winning musical
  26. What would it cost England and Scotland fans to go to World Cup?
  27. 'I completely blew it' - Wu into final as Allen misses simple black to win
  28. Watford sack boss Still after less than three months
  29. Miami race brought forward by three hours because of storm threat

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app
  2. Tesla starts selling Chinese-made Model 3s in Canada at the EV's lowest price ever
  3. Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
  4. Undead co-op shooters, gorgeous hack-and-slash action and other new indie games worth checking out
  5. AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars
  6. Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini
  7. There's already a way to mount your smartphone to a Steam Controller
  8. LG's 2026 Gram laptop lineup starts at $1,150
  9. It's Bandcamp Friday again
  10. Oura adds more detailed hormonal health insights to its Series 3 and 4 rings
  11. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon
  12. Engadget Podcast: Is the Valve Steam Controller worth $100?
  13. Nissan abandons plans for US EV plant
  14. The Morning After: Instagram will try to penalize 'unoriginal' posts
  15. Netflix has reportedly greenlit a prequel for 'The Crown'
  16. Microsoft's Xbox mode starts making its way to Windows 11 PCs
  17. Toilet maker Toto is here to help with the RAM crisis
  18. Meta says it may withdraw its apps from New Mexico if judge agrees to the state's demands
  19. Modder releases loader to turn the PS5 into a Linux system
  20. Prime Video will stream three Duke basketball games next season

Pinboard

  1. Where the goblins came from | OpenAI — Why it matters Depending on who you ask, the goblins are a delightful or annoying quirk of the model. But they are also a powerful example of how reward signals can shape model behavior in unexpected ways, and how models can learn to generalize rewards in certain situations to unrelate…
  2. Who Owns the Code Written by LLMs?
  3. 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
  4. styles.refero.design
  5. How an Oil Refinery Works - by Brian Potter
  6. Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): a 732-byte Linux LPE — straight-line, no race, no per-distro offsets. Same Python script roots Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE since 2017. Page-cache write bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses container boundaries. Found by Xint Code.
  7. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  8. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
  9. I can never talk to an AI anonymously again (Kelsey Piper) — AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you? The Argument Apr 21, 2026 Several advanced AI models, in particular Claude Opus 4.7, have demonstrated the ability to deduce the author of relatively small excerpts of text. Recently, Matt Ygle…
  10. Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.
  11. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I actually did to get it working in my home :: Giles' blog
  12. Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
  13. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  14. The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’ | The MIT Press Reader — An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans.
  15. I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It | by Mike Carson | Apr, 2026 | Medium
  16. pi.dev
  17. FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
  18. You can beat the binary search – Daniel Lemire's blog
  19. Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines
  20. Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks | Metin's Blog
  21. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library | Semgrep
  22. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
  23. Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions - Xint
  24. GitHub - Lum1104/Understand-Anything: Claude Code skills that turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about (Multi-platform e.g., Codex are supported). · GitHub — antigremlin starred Lum1104/Understand-Anything
  25. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  26. Honker | Honker
  28. ZetaLib/The Gay Jailbreak/The Gay Jailbreak.md at main · Exocija/ZetaLib
  29. Full-Text Search with DuckDB
  30. Just a moment... — Cursor Camp https://ift.tt/jzVXu6E fun, games
  31. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home | Hacker News
  32. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic — Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark has written: “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assesse…
  33. Claude for Creative Work Anthropic
  34. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
  35. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
  36. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
  37. NetHack 5.0.0 | Hacker News
  38. The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 446, With MG Siegler — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MaGARrW
  39. Oh no I've said too much, I haven't said enough - lc2l — Ilya sits down carefully and takes Shane’s hand. “I am going to ask you something, and I want you to try not to freak out, okay? Take a breath, think about it.” That sounds… serious. “The Centaurs are having a barbeque,” Ilya says. “I would like to go, and I would li…
  40. What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond. — https://archive.li/lIhVg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949616
  41. The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer | jacobharr.is — "If you are on a software team using AI in your processes or products, it might be worth regularly asking yourself what it would mean if the LLM went away? Would this be a critical failure that would doom your operations or something that you can fix? Is the LLM being used fo…
  42. Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
  43. Warm Burnout: warm color theme for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Ghostty, and more — The theme suite for developers who already burned out but still have deadlines.
  44. Home | Laws of UX
  45. How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were — Lots of stats here about the parenting gap; may be good to use in the motherhood penalty section of 100a in liberalism. Pdf of this is in possible readings.
  46. サプライチェーン攻撃の対策 - kawasima
  47. Solar Eclipse Map
  48. Flue — The Agent Harness Framework
  49. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
  50. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician | Science — Editor’s summary Computational tools for medical decision support have been advancing over time, mainly by serving as resources for limited applications. Machine learning tools for autonomous interpretation of clinical cases have also be…
  51. mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
  52. Techniques for better software testing | Antithesis — https://lobste.rs/s/ygpiza/techniques_for_better_software_testing
  53. Running Adobe’s 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser – pagetable.com
  54. Artemis II Photo Timeline — An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.
  55. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone • The Register
  56. I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different | WIRED
  57. Apple results analysis: Net-net over the moon
  58. The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity | The MIT Press Reader
  59. The Social Edge of Intelligence - The Ideas Letter — AI doesn’t really “think.” Rather, it remembers how we thought together. And we’re about to stop giving it anything worth remembering.
  60. GitHub - microsoft/lib0xc: Safe(ish) C programming library · GitHub — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834
  61. Parachute — Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.
  62. GitHub - yogthos/chiasmus: Chiasmus is an MCP server that gives language models access to formal verification · GitHub
  63. DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
  64. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning — A scientific theory of deep learning is starting to take shape. It explains how neural networks learn and behave using simple, testable ideas. This new theory helps us understand training, performance, and common patterns in deep learning.
  65. Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores - The New York Times — From MS, ST: "The Maryland bill is a blueprint for entrenching surveillance pricing, with sweeping carveouts that (1) preserve the practice through promotional pricing offers, loyalty program benefits, temporary discounts or reten…
  66. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  67. warpdotdev/warp: Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
  68. How people ask Claude for personal guidance Anthropic
  69. The Greatest Act of Optimism - Acewithapaintbrush - Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir [Archive of Our Own] — The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they n…
  70. How an oil refinery works | Hacker News
  71. Mapped: Every Country’s Fertility Rate as Births Decline Worldwide
  72. Gen Zers' snail-mail subscription clubs are making thousands a month
  73. [2502.09192] Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits LLM research
  74. Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
  75. designdotmd.directory — the directory of design.md files for coding agents
  76. Taylor - Tmux Display Popup
  77. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  78. Anonymous: and never get dizzy — “Uh, hello,” Ilya says when the cat rises up on its legs and stretches, back bending and paws curling down. Its ears flick and it gives him a dour sort of mwor in return. Witches have familiars, Ilya knows that. And this is a perfect spot for a familiar to be, on the stoop of the witch's hous…
  79. talkie: an LM from 1930 — talkie is a 13-billion-parameter language model trained on pre-1931 text. Read our introductory blog post. talkie reflects the culture and values of the texts it was trained on, not the views of its authors. It can produce outputs that are inaccurate or offensive. Here, we moderate talkie’s outputs …
  80. Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation
  81. Theo - t3.gg on X: "Fun fact - if you have a recent commit that mentions OpenClaw in a json blob, Claude Code will either refuse your request or bill you extra money. This is an empty repo, I'm just calling Claude Code directly. Insanity. https://t.co/JKt — Discover a critical bug in Claude Code's handling of specific keywor…
  82. The Spanish ‘Bikini’ Sandwich Tastes Even Better Than Grilled Cheese—but Is Just as Easy To Make
  83. Meta lost 20 million users last quarter | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/1GmHlke
  84. Glenn Meder (@GlennMeder): "🧵 THREAD 1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on. Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else. This is it. This is the line. This i
  85. oss-security - Re: CVE-2026-31431: CopyFail: linux local privilege scalation — Openwall Products Services Publications Resources What's new Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news [] [] [day] [month] [year] [list] Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:52:37 +0100 Fr…
  86. Radicle: the sovereign forge
  87. Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting — In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
  88. Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed | The New Republic
  89. Artificial Religion: On AI, Myth, and Power | Books Gateway | MIT Press — "How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place. "Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relation to AI, we must first look at the religious …
  90. Why Law Is Law-Shaped — LawVM
  91. wsj.com — You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry https://www.wsj.com/tech/blackberry-qnx-software-cars-bf2a2280 via-IFTTT, via-Instapaper at May 1, 2026 at 08:18PM
  92. AI traffic grows but retail sites lag in AI search visibility
  93. google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. — A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a…
  94. Leicester’s stunning Premier League win 10 years on, recalled by Ranieri and his fellow Foxes | Leicester City | The Guardian — Training ground fun, rock star fans and a Christmas party in Copenhagen were ingredients in the rank outsiders’ triumph, sealed on 2 May 2016
  95. I installed a small LLM on my Mac laptop — here's why I can't go back | Tom's Guide — As you’re typing, Cotypist will suggest what your next word should be. Hit tab, and it autofills the word. That sounds like a minor boon for productivity, but it doesn’t take long to build up some speed while tapping away and hitting Tab ev…
  96. I think I just vibe coded Lil Finder Guy onto my Mac - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  97. your fleeting heart by Anonymous (Adult, 12,424 words) — “Wha’ happened?” Shane mumbles. Ilya presses the call button for the nurse. “You took a bad hit during the game. We are at hospital.” Shane frowns. “What game?” he asks, and then, “Who are you?” Ilya blinks back the panic rising in his throat. “Shane, what the fuck?…
  98. The struggle to get hold of medication in England is set to get worse
  99. 🤖 Acetaminophen Quietly Beats Ibuprofen on Safety, and Drug Labels Won't Tell You Why — Despite its narrow lethal-dose window, acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people because ibuprofen's COX inhibition systemically damages stomach, heart, and kidneys. The FDA's per-drug mandate and liability fears aro…
  100. [2604.15597] LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

The Next Web

  1. Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in China. They are learning to be the junior partner.
  2. Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.
  3. China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
  4. The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.
  5. Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.
  6. Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.
  7. The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
  8. Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its first week
  9. Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents.
  10. Why a Canadian bank is trying to predict earthquakes with quantum computers

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. 33 Exclusive Deals on Our Favorite Mother’s Day Gifts
  2. The Best Wi-Fi Mesh-Networking Systems
  3. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  4. The Best Diaper Pail
  5. Window AC Units Are Loud. This One Masks NYC Noise and Almost Feels Like Central Air.
  6. Spring Skin-Care and Beauty Sales Are Here. These Are the Deals We Love.
  7. The Best Gifts We’ve Ever Given Our Moms
  8. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  9. 7 Cheap(ish) Things to Improve Your In-Flight Experience
  10. The Best TVs

Sweethome

  1. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  2. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  3. Our Favorite Curtains
  4. This $28 Garden Tool Cut My Weeding Time in Half
  5. The Quiet Luxury of a Collapsible Laundry Basket
  6. A Tiny Luxury That Makes Taking Out the Garbage Less of a Chore
  7. The Best Squatty Potty and Other Toilet Stools Worth the Floor Space
  8. The Best Cordless Fans
  9. Keeping Houseplants Alive and Happy When You’re Away Is Easier Than You Think
  10. The Best Flashlight

Hacker News

  1. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
  2. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
  3. Dav2d
  4. Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
  5. Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK
  6. Do_not_track
  7. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
  8. Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
  9. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
  10. Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
  11. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
  12. Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels
  13. Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
  14. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
  15. Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service
  16. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
  17. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
  18. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
  19. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
  20. Because it doesn't have to
  21. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
  22. Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
  23. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
  24. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores
  25. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share
  26. Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services
  27. Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)
  28. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
  29. The USB Situation
  30. Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16

Ars Technica

  1. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
  2. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
  3. Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
  4. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
  5. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
  6. Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
  7. Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
  8. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
  9. Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
  10. Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
  11. GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
  12. Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered.
  13. Virgin Galactic reveals new ship, but it's running out of time and cash
  14. Apple may take "several months" to catch up to Mac mini and Studio demand
  15. Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
  16. Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts
  17. There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
  18. Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general
  19. US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold
  20. Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine's sights

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  2. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  3. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  4. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  5. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  6. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  7. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  8. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  9. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  10. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  11. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  12. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  13. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  14. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  15. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  16. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  17. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  18. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  19. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  20. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  21. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  22. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  23. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  24. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  25. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  26. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  27. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  28. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  29. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  30. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  31. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  32. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  33. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  34. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  35. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  36. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  37. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  38. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  39. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  40. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  41. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  42. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  43. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  44. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  45. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  46. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  47. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  48. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  49. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  50. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  51. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  52. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  53. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  54. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  55. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  56. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  57. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  58. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  59. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  60. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  61. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  62. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  63. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  64. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  65. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  66. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  67. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  68. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  69. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  70. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  71. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  72. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  73. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  74. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  75. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  76. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  77. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  78. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  79. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  80. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  81. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  82. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  83. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  84. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  85. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  86. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  87. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  88. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  89. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  90. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  91. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  92. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  93. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  94. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  95. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  96. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  97. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  98. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  99. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  100. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer

Slashdot

  1. Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby
  2. Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began
  3. Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise
  4. Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'?
  5. The $19B "Nuclear AI" Energy Startup That Couldn't Sign a Single Client
  6. Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims
  7. What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren't All About AI?
  8. An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem - by Asking AI
  9. Costumed Crowd 'Speedruns' Scientology Building For Social Media Trend
  10. Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries
  11. Linux Percentage of Steam Users Doubled in One Year
  12. Marvel, DC, Game Publishers Launch Rival Events Saturday for Free Giveaways
  13. GameStop Is Preparing Offer For eBay
  14. New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test
  15. Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  2. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  3. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-20-26 to 4-24-26)
  5. Drill Design's Wall Hanger Channels Enzo Mari
  6. In This Transylvanian City, the Buildings Have Eyes
  7. Industrial Design Student Project Turned Commercial Furniture
  8. Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Pays Homage to Everyday Holes
  9. An Unusual Architectural Detail from Scandinavia: Open Downspouts
  10. Clever Use of Materials: Making a Child-Safe Axe-Throwing Set-Up
  11. Snap-Off Blades were Inspired by Chocolate Bars and Broken Glass
  12. Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders
  13. HomeDec Furniture's Unusual Take on a Space-Saving Table
  14. An Over-the-Top Modular Storage Box
  15. Hi-Tech, Designey Food Storage: B!POD's Food Vacuum System

CNET

  1. Samsung Messages Is Going Away in July: Save Your Texts Before It Disappears
  2. Fruit Flies Are Here. An Entomologist Explains How to Get Rid of Them
  3. You Could See a Pickle Emoji on Your Device in 2027
  4. I Found 7 of the Best A24 Movies That Are Free to Stream
  5. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 3, #1779
  6. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 3 #791
  7. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 3, #1057
  8. Prime Video: The 16 Absolute Best Movies to Watch
  9. Disney Parks in 2026: Leia, Luke and Han Hit Galaxy's Edge
  10. Heybike's Latest Foldable Commuter Bike Has Kept My Car in the Driveway for Weeks. It's Now $500 Cheaper
  11. How to Clean Your AC Filters This Spring Before the Summer Heat Hits
  12. Premier League Soccer: Stream Arsenal vs. Fulham From Anywhere Live
  13. Turtlebox Ranger Bluetooth Speaker Review: Quality Sound With a Magnetic Personality
  14. The Best Online Flower Delivery Services for Mother's Day, Tested and Reviewed
  15. Google's New Travel Features Are Here in Time for Summer
  16. 'Past Lives,' 'Training Day,' 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' and More Movies You Can Stream for Free in May
  17. Tested: 4 Security Cameras With the Best Battery Life Possible
  18. Trump Phone Looks Different, Has No Launch Date and Isn't Made in America
  19. Turns Out the Wrist Might Not Be the Best Place to Track Your Health
  20. The Best LED Face Masks for Pampering Mom This Mother’s Day
  21. Love Wordle? Here Are 10 Similar Games to Try in 2026
  22. TVs Are Getting Uncomfortably Bright, and This is Why
  23. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, May 2
  24. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 2, #585
  25. MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts Make Typing and Browsing So Much Better

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million
  2. Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices
  3. Aura’s delightful Aspen photo frame is on sale for $30 off this weekend
  4. Anker’s discounted 2-in-1 USB-C cable is a great way to spend $15
  5. Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM
  6. The things we’re building
  7. Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off
  8. Microsoft tests redesigned Windows 11 Run menu with dark mode and more
  9. Apple raises the Mac Mini’s starting price
  10. All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman

Wired

  1. 15 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers and Gardeners (2026)
  2. How to Track Your Luggage (2026): AirTag, Pebblebee, CaseSafe
  3. Best Travel Tote Bags for Every Kind of Excursion (2026): Away, Le Pliage, Topo Designs
  4. KitchenAid Artisan Plus Stand Mixer Review: Tiny Additions, Big Difference
  5. Coway Airmega Mighty2 Review: The Sequel Is Better Than the Original
  6. Limited Time: TurboTax Full Service Coupons This May
  7. Ulta Promo Codes: Up to 50% Off in May
  8. Top Rover Promo Codes and Referral Deals for May 2026
  9. Castlery Promo Code: 15% Off in May 2026
  10. Skullcandy Discount Code: 30% Off | May 2026
  11. Shark Promo Code: $100 Off | This May
  12. Tovala Family Meals Review: Good Food, Lots of Salt
  13. What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US
  14. 8 Best Travel Adapters (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  15. Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
  16. Apple AirPods Max 2 Review: The Best Over-Ears for iOS
  17. Ottocast Cabin Care Wireless CarPlay Adapter Review: Tiny Tracker
  18. A Professional Bike Fitting Will Make You Want to Ride Even More
  19. How to Buy a Bike That’s the Right Size for You
  20. An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers

LifeHacker

  1. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  2. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  5. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  6. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  7. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  8. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  9. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  10. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  11. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  12. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  13. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  14. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  15. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  16. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  17. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  18. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  19. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  20. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  21. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  22. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  23. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  24. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  25. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  26. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  27. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  28. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  29. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  30. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  31. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  32. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  33. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  34. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  35. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  36. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  37. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  38. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  39. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  40. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  41. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  42. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  43. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  44. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  45. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  46. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  47. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  48. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  49. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  50. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  51. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  52. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  53. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  54. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  55. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  56. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  57. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  58. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  59. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  60. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  61. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  62. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  63. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  64. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  65. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  66. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  67. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  68. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  69. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  70. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  71. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  72. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  73. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  74. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is
  75. This Google Pixel Watch 4 Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  76. These Third-Generation Apple AirPods Are $50 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  78. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  79. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  80. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  81. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  82. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  83. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  84. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  85. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  86. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  87. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  88. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch
  89. 10 Hacks Every Android Auto User Should Know
  90. 10 Hacks Every Brave Browser User Should Know
  91. Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?
  92. This Massive 75-inch QLED TV Is $450 Off Right Now
  93. Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks
  94. This Garmin Smartwatch With a 10-Day Battery Is $110 Off Right Now
  95. What's New on Netflix in May 2026
  96. 5 Hacks Every Nike Run Club User Should Know
  97. This Eufy Home Security Bundle Is $400 Off Right Now
  98. I Keep This Solis Pocket Wifi in a Travel Bag, and You Should Too
  99. You Can Get These New Sony Noise-Canceling Earbuds on Sale for $65 Right Now
  100. This Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $100 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’
  2. Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise
  3. Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
  4. UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
  5. Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
  6. ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs
  7. Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred
  8. Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
  9. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
  10. CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos
  11. That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry
  12. First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
  13. Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
  14. OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
  15. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
  16. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
  17. UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
  18. Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
  19. Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
  20. DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
  21. User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
  22. Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
  23. Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
  24. ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
  25. The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
  26. Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue
  27. Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
  28. Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
  29. FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'
  30. Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation
  31. Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet
  32. Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines
  33. French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency
  34. Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool
  35. AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud
  36. Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI
  37. SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy
  38. Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
  39. Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes
  40. Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005
  41. What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia
  42. Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day
  43. Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
  44. Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
  45. Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
  46. Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
  47. Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
  48. Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
  49. Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
  50. Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz

TechMeme

  1. Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (David Keohane/Financial Times)
  2. A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
  3. An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)
  4. A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
  5. Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
  6. Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)
  7. Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (Javi West Larrañaga/Reuters)
  8. Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC "continues to sharpen its focus"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
  9. Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
  10. Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
  11. Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (Reuters)
  12. A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (Victor Swezey/Bloomberg)
  13. Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
  14. Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (Bloomberg)
  15. Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 (The Information)