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BBC

  1. Analysis: Andy Burnham's route back to Commons is clearer - but can he win in Makerfield?
  2. Watch: The day Labour's potential leadership race began to heat up
  3. Brutal raid on woman's birthday party highlights rise of Russian vigilante group
  4. 'Don't swim' warnings in place at nearly all of England's official river bathing sites
  5. Five Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives
  6. British Gas pays £20m over prepayment meter force-fitting scandal
  7. Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds
  8. Meningitis cases in Reading are pupils at two schools, UKHSA says
  9. Australia soars into Eurovision final as UK song debuts
  10. Search for new James Bond officially kicks off as auditions begin
  11. Andy Burnham: 'King of the North' with eyes on the top job
  12. At a glance: Starmer fights to stay on as prime minister
  13. Key excerpts from Streeting's resignation letter as he quits as health secretary
  14. The potential challengers to Keir Starmer
  15. Josh Simons stood down for Burnham as Labour was 'imploding'
  16. Royal finances face a cut. But will much really change?
  17. Silicon Valley's seedy side exposed - and four other things we learned in the Musk-Altman trial
  18. 'She is strong and kind': How Italians have reacted to Catherine on her trip
  19. The Highland football team hoping to be the UK's most northerly professional club
  20. Weekly quiz: Which animal delivered the King's birthday card to Sir David Attenborough?
  21. US hotel owners expected a World Cup boom - so far it hasn't happened
  22. UK Eurovision act: The BBC gave me a stress test to check I could cope under pressure
  23. Beckham becomes UK's first billionaire sportsman
  24. AI could put people off tech jobs and hurt the economy, warns Raspberry Pi boss
  25. CIA chief visits Cuba as energy crisis worsens
  26. Zack Polanski did not vote in local elections, Green Party says
  27. Hundreds of comedians unpaid by one of UK's biggest comedy festivals
  28. New Zealand's Māori Queen meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace
  29. New outbreak of Ebola kills 65 in eastern DR Congo
  30. BBC News app
  31. Andy Burnham makes his move
  32. Does Trump need China to end the war in Iran?
  33. The story of how England's 'Golden Generation' unravelled
  34. Why golf is losing its swing as cycling gains momentum
  35. A Bafta-winning story of music and resistance in Auschwitz
  36. Coleman to end 17-year Everton playing career
  37. Final tickets on sale despite Spygate uncertainty
  38. Scheffler shares US PGA lead as McIlroy struggles
  39. Has last-gasp Celtic penalty undermined Hearts' hopes?
  40. Beckham becomes UK's first billionaire sportsman
  41. Carano bout to 'smash' women's fight pay record - Rousey
  42. Sutton's predictions v Blossoms & Songer

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Apple reportedly testing Intel's 18A-P process to make iPhone and Mac chips
  2. The ROG Xreal R1 AR gaming glasses are now available to pre-order for $849
  3. xAI introduces its coding agent called Grok Build
  4. Xbox Elite Controller 3 leaked by Brazilian regulator
  5. The original Doom soundtrack is officially in the Library of Congress
  6. Razer updates the Blade 18 with new chips, a specced-out model costs $7,000
  7. Meta is bringing third-party apps and games to its display glasses
  8. Amazon hurled its Lord of the Rings MMO back into the fires of Mount Doom
  9. OpenAI brings its Codex coding app to mobile
  10. Netflix wants to use generative AI to make animated shorts
  11. The VW ID.Buzz is returning for model year 2027 with a new trim for camping
  12. The HDMI ARC port on your TV has a very specific job
  13. Microsoft's unreleased cloud controller has been spotted in the wild and it's teeny
  14. Spotify and its hosting platforms are adopting Apple's tech for video podcasts
  15. Noble Audio to launch FoKus Apollo Pro headset for $699
  16. The Esports World Cup will reportedly move to Paris from Riyadh
  17. Americans really don't want AI data centers close to their homes
  18. The ChatGPT desktop app for Mac just got hit with a security breach
  19. New Google accounts may only get 5GB free storage — unless you link a phone number
  20. AMD will bring its next-generation FSR 4.1 upscaling tech to older GPUs

Pinboard

  1. How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
  2. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise | nair.sh
  3. Learning Software Architecture
  4. Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software
  5. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain | Frederick's Perch
  6. On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
  7. If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? — For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
  8. How To Make Your Text Look Futuristic | Typeset In The Future
  9. Meet the Sad Wives of AI | WIRED
  10. Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? — How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory.
  11. GitHub - cactus-compute/needle: 26m function call model that runs on incredibly small devices · GitHub — ff6347 starred cactus-compute/needle
  12. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol – DuckDB — DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, whi…
  13. Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof
  14. Im going back to writing code by hand | k10s devlog
  15. The indie web index directory | theindex.fyi
  16. How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer – Communications of the ACM
  17. anthropics/claude-for-legal: A suite of plugins for legal workflows
  18. The vi family | LPAR
  19. This is what free costs
  20. Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence | Coming Fall 2026 - Googlebook
  21. extremely low frequencies
  22. Open Hardware Repository / CERN KiCad Libraries · GitLab
  23. Just a moment... — Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions via Instapaper https://ift.tt/SCvJYiM
  24. FreeCAD 1.1 Tutorial, For Beginners Who Like Clear Instructions | Hackaday
  25. AI as Social Technology
  26. DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding
  27. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev — Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but…
  28. GitHub - jameslockman/Griffin-PowerMate-Driver · GitHub
  29. GitHub - Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey: YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability · GitHub
  30. Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
  31. How to Test — Unit Tests are a Scam Test Features, Not Code Data Driven Integrated Tests https://lobste.rs/s/8byg23/how_test
  32. Checkmate in Iran: Even Trump knows he screwed up — Brutal takedown.
  33. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (Wix UX) — Jenni Nadler рассказывает о крутой инициативе — команда Wix зарубилась на месяц и переписала тексты всех ошибок в продукте. Они предлагают отличную формулу для хорошего сообщения об ошибке.
  34. You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs — "The math only works if the LLM decreases your maintenance costs, and by exactly the inverse of the rate it adds code. If you double your output and your cost of maintaining that output, two times two means you’ve quadrupled your maintenance costs. If you double your output and ho…
  35. If AI writes your code, why use Python? | Hacker News
  36. S-100 Virtual Workbench
  37. Google’s Aluminium OS revealed in 16-minute leaked video | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/VWcD2AC
  38. Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration - Thinking Machines Lab
  39. The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn
  40. Peekaboo documentation — Peekaboo
  41. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116567532082633303
  42. apfel - Free AI on Your Mac
  43. Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You — An open-source agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are. By Nous Research.
  44. MacBook Neo Processor Benchmarks: A18 Pro CPU vs M1 and M4
  45. Scorched Earth 2000 HTML Port
  46. 30 Tracks Audiophiles Play to Convert Any Skeptic Into a Hi-Fi Believer, as Ranked by Listener Votes | Headphonesty
  47. AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers | MIT Technology Review — People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI — and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. The UW's Meira Gilbert, a doctoral student in the Information School, and Yael Eiger, a doctoral student in computer sci…
  48. “Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers | ScienceDaily — ener
  49. Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
  50. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
  51. Daring Fireball: Nextpad++ — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/L2K3uRP
  52. I stopped paying for ChatGPT and switched to a local LLM that runs on my laptop — Never run out of tokens again.
  53. Spark Mail Adds a Mac CLI and Agent Skills - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/so6Xl7A
  54. GitHub - davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans · GitHub — ff6347 starred davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
  55. A Field Guide to Learning - BiteofanApple
  56. Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise — An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. Some fun css effects (borders, scrolly bits)
  57. what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  58. I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
  59. zero-native | Desktop Apps with Zig + WebView
  60. Learning Software Architecture | Hacker News
  61. First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/oVhTl63
  62. AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. Cook — For the last few years, our industry has been told a story: AI will personalize its way out of accessibility, deterministic design is dead, diagnosis can replace systems thinking, and structural work no longer needs to be done. None of it is true. AI ca…
  63. ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir — The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
  64. The 100 best novels of all time | Fiction | The Guardian
  65. And did those feet in ancient time: walking Britain’s oldest paths | United Kingdom holidays | The Guardian
  66. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model | Hacker News
  67. Overview - Agent Skills
  68. The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord — "Is Rust a good fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: probably not (unless your team is …
  69. GitHub - tqbf/mdv: Markdown Viewer · GitHub — ff6347 starred tqbf/mdv
  70. The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome
  71. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable | Hacker News
  72. The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop | TBIJ
  73. GitHub - antirez/ds4: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal · GitHub
  74. Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy | Chris Pietschmann — This reminds me of just how much different things were, and helped me crystallise some thoughts on how much the industry has changed.
  75. PenAndInkPrincess: strike-slip tectonics — “You are planning to rob me or what?” He hears Rozanov call, and he can’t help but smile slightly even as he rolls his eyes, closing the door to the linen closet and feeling strangely lighter than when he opened it, reassured that he’s just trying to read into a blank page, that tod…
  76. Meta launches Instants, a new iPhone app and Instagram feature for ephemeral sharing - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  77. Exclusive: Broadcasters urge EU to tighten rules for Big Tech in smart TV standoff | Reuters
  78. Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
  79. Luis Garicano on EU vs. US economics — "A lot of the value of American technology dominance shows up in equity, not in wages. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon together are worth $21 trillion, more than the entire combined stock market value of all European stock markets. Around 60 percent of US equity is …
  80. AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier | AISLE — Navigate the evolving AI cybersecurity landscape. Discover practical strategies and key insights to secure your AI systems against emerging threats on this jagged frontier.
  81. The Civil Commission’s Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence - Silenced NO More
  82. Shaping the future of AI interaction by reimagining the mouse pointer — Google DeepMind — Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome and beyond.
  83. Floci — Fast, Free AWS Emulator — Floci is a fast, free, open-source AWS emulator built with Quarkus Native. Starts in 24ms, uses 13 MiB at idle. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack — no auth token, no restrictions, ever.
  84. Software Internals Book Club
  85. Where Are All The Data Centers?
  86. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
  87. Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/cFSiTBv
  88. wsj.com — from Daring Fireball Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-service number. (There was a link to custom…
  89. The Agent Skills Directory
  90. The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly - The Atlantic — The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly https://ift.tt/bIqT85B ai, society, politics, future, work, economy, automation, labor
  91. GitHub - Raiper34/spooty: Self-hosted spotify downloader · GitHub — Raiper34/spooty: Self-hosted spotify downloader https://ift.tt/EeOCk1Y spotify, music, open.source, tools
  92. SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  93. From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era - Creative Commons
  94. openai/privacy-filter: OpenAI Privacy Filter — OpenAI Privacy Filter is a bidirectional token-classification model for personally identifiable information (PII) detection and masking in text. It is intended for high-throughput data sanitization workflows where teams need a model that they can run on-premises that is fast, co…
  95. Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/cFSiTBv
  96. Video transcript: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline | MIT Office of the President | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  97. my love's ugly bloom - Anonymous - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane sends him a text that says 'thinking about your cock' with a picture of his rippling abs, and even though Ilya really appreciates the abs, all he can think about is the faint bruise blooming on Shane's ribs, and whether it hurts him very badl…
  98. Subvert - The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
  99. How forced arbitration agreements stripped Americans’ rights to sue | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/cFSiTBv
  100. Everest’s worst disaster has never ended. Jon Krakauer is still living it.

The Next Web

  1. Bill Ackman moves into Microsoft, with the size to be disclosed today
  2. Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
  3. Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement
  4. STT Global Data Centres lines up a $500m Mumbai listing, in front of a crowded 2026 IPO queue
  5. Samsung offers to talk; the union says June, after the strike
  6. Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do
  7. Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says
  8. Jury deliberations to begin in OpenAI nonprofit trial after Musk skips closing for Beijing
  9. Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.
  10. Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. How to Choose the Best Language Learning App for Your Next Trip
  2. 4 Easy Ways to Make Sure No One Can Read Your Text Messages
  3. This $22 Grill Press Helped Me Finally Crack the Code to Ultra-Thin Smash Burgers
  4. The Huckberry Mediterranean Turkish Towel Might Just Be the Perfect Beach Towel
  5. The Best Portable Chargers and Power Banks for Phones and Tablets
  6. I Went Used-Camera Shopping in Tokyo With a Legendary Collector. Here’s What I Learned.
  7. The Best Swim Goggles for Adults and Kids
  8. The Best AV Receivers for Most People
  9. The Best Gaming Keyboards
  10. The Best Portable Air Conditioner

Sweethome

  1. The Best Portable Air Conditioner
  2. The Huckberry Mediterranean Turkish Towel Might Just Be the Perfect Beach Towel
  3. The Ring Alarm Security System Does Almost Everything Well. These 7 Accessories Make It Even Better.
  4. The Best Gear to Outfit a Vacation Rental or an Airbnb
  5. The Best Utility Knife
  6. Most Vegan Leather Is Plastic. Here’s Why You Might Still Want It on Your Sofa.
  7. How to Clean Your Grill
  8. The Best Duct Tape
  9. Put Down the Weed Whacker. Pick Up a Sickle.
  10. The Best Leaf Blower

Hacker News

  1. RelaxAI – UK sovereign LLM inference at 80% cheaper than OpenAI/Claude
  2. Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  3. Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
  4. Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
  5. Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management
  6. A few words on DS4
  7. UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
  8. Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
  9. RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
  10. First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
  11. Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data
  12. New Nginx Exploit
  13. Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
  14. Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
  15. Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
  16. Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
  17. Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
  18. Claude for Legal
  19. Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux
  20. HDD Firmware Hacking
  21. What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?
  22. RISC-V Router
  23. How Claude Code works in large codebases
  24. New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
  25. OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control
  26. More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
  27. LLM Policy for Rust Compiler
  28. Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool
  29. WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
  30. Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

Ars Technica

  1. Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
  2. Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
  3. Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
  4. Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
  5. Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
  6. Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption
  7. Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
  8. Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
  9. Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.
  10. Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
  11. Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño
  12. Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget
  13. Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit
  14. Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed
  15. FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum
  16. Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA
  17. Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers
  18. AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
  19. The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell's "whip"
  20. NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain

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New Scientist

  1. Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists
  2. Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
  3. Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
  4. 3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert
  5. Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'
  6. Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar
  7. Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
  8. Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years
  9. Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth
  10. Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum
  11. Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
  12. Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories
  13. New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI
  14. PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move
  15. Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?
  16. Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
  17. Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests
  18. A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
  19. The story of the first human tool: the humble container
  20. Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
  21. Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer
  22. Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
  23. David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
  24. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  25. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  26. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  27. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  28. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
  29. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  30. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
  31. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
  32. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
  33. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
  34. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
  35. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  36. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
  37. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
  38. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
  39. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  40. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  41. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  42. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  43. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  44. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  45. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  46. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  47. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  48. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  49. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  50. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  51. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  52. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  53. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  54. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  55. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  56. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  57. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  58. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  59. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  60. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  61. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  62. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  63. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  64. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  65. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  66. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  67. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  68. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  69. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  70. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  71. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  72. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  73. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  74. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  75. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  76. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  77. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  78. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  79. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  80. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  81. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  82. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  83. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  84. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  85. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  86. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  87. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  88. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  89. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  90. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  91. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  92. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  93. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  94. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  95. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  96. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  97. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  98. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  99. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  100. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

Slashdot

  1. SpaceX Unveils Sweeping Starship V3 Upgrades
  2. Musk Accused of 'Selective Amnesia', Altman of Lying As OpenAI Trial Nears End
  3. UK Antitrust Regulator Is Officially Investigating Microsoft Office
  4. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up To Eliminate 'Dead Zones' Across US
  5. Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax
  6. Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years
  7. Princeton Will Supervise Exams For First Time In 133 Years Because of AI
  8. US Clears H200 Chip Sales To 10 China Firms
  9. Anthropic Forms $200 Million Partnership With the Gates Foundation
  10. Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
  11. Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring
  12. Mystery Microsoft Bug Leaker Keeps the Zero-Days Coming
  13. Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe
  14. OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With 'Jackass' Trophy For Challenging Musk
  15. Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence

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Core77

  1. Completely Flush Fasteners with a Surprising Mechanism
  2. Luisa Ruge, Industrial Designer Pioneering Animal-Centered Design
  3. ICP's Climbing Walls: Attractive, and Designed to be Easy to Install
  4. Outside-the-Box Design: The Barbican's Unusual Bathroom Sinks
  5. Brilliant Portable 3D-Printed Chess Set for Tradespeople
  6. Japanese Snack Packaging Goes Black & White, Due to Iran War
  7. DEOS Architecture's Chunky Old-Growth Oak Seating
  8. Making the Invisible Visible
  9. Production Minimalism: Vestre's June Bench
  10. Luxury…Towel Rods
  11. New York Design Week Is Here, May 14–20
  12. A Clever Add-On Spout for Camping Vessels
  13. David Chipperfield Design's Plywood Bathtub
  14. Alessandro Stabile's Beautiful Areo Chair for Kristalia
  15. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-4-26 to 5-8-26)

CNET

  1. Asus and Xreal's $849 Gaming Display Glasses Are Available for Preorder
  2. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, May 15
  3. T-Mobile vs. Verizon: Is It Time to Choose a New Carrier?
  4. 9 Foods That Taste Better When Cooked in the Air Fryer
  5. Did Chrome Just Install a Massive AI Model on Your Device Without Telling You? Yes, Probably
  6. We Got Chatbots to Turn Over Personal Information. How to Keep Yours Safe
  7. Microsoft Copilot Can Collect Data From Your Edge Browser Tabs to Get to Know You
  8. I Drove Hyundai's Hydrogen-Fueled Nexo. It's Perfect, Just Not for the US
  9. Instagram's New Instants Feature Is Annoying. Here's How to Turn It Off
  10. Samsung Will Reportedly Unveil Galaxy Glasses in July in London
  11. Best Peloton Alternatives if You Enjoy Indoor Cycling
  12. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch the Keynote and What to Expect
  13. You Can Now Make Apps on Meta Display Glasses if You Want To
  14. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 15, #599
  15. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 15, #803
  16. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 15, #1791
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  18. GTA 6: Preorder Rumors, Release Date, Pricing, Locations and More
  19. Madonna, Shakira and BTS Teaming Up for FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show
  20. The Fitbit Air's Bare-Bones Design Is Hiding a Much Bigger Strategy
  21. Motorola Razr Fold Review: One Hell of a First Impression
  22. Dell Is Out With an Alienware Laptop You Have a Better Chance of Affording
  23. Google I/O 2026: What Google's AI Past Tells Us About Its Future
  24. We Tested 33 New Phones to See Which Charge Fastest and Crown 2 Winners
  25. Why 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' is the Perfect Sequel video

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The Verge

  1. Honda’s hybrid future starts with new Accord and RDX prototypes
  2. Closing time
  3. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond got its first big discount
  4. Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
  5. Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy
  6. Leaked images reveal Xbox Elite 3 controller with mysterious new buttons
  7. OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
  8. Meta’s summer sale drops Ray-Ban’s new smart glasses to record-low prices
  9. Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
  10. Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

Wired

  1. A Woman Was in the US Legally. She Was Deported Anyways
  2. The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket
  3. Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
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  19. The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
  20. We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. The Hisense CanvasTV Is a Great Alternative to Samsung's 'The Frame,' and Now It's $500 Off
  3. This Is Every Android Getting AirDrop Support This Year
  4. How to Actually Start Eating Healthy
  5. 10 Shows Like 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' You Should Watch Next
  6. This 55-Inch Samsung OLED TV Was Already a Great Value, and Now It's Over $550 Off
  7. Instagram's New Snapchat Clone Makes It Too Easy to Send Disappearing Images to All Your Friends
  8. Five Built-In Chromebook Apps You Should Definitely Be Using
  9. This Samsung Gaming Monitor With Adjustable Stand Is $90 Off Right Now
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  11. You Could Get up to $100 in This Google Class Action Lawsuit
  12. The Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are on Sale for $160 Right Now
  13. Amazon’s Feature-Packed Echo Dot Max Is $25 Off Right Now
  14. Mark Zuckerberg Just Teased New Smart Glasses Ahead of Meta Connect
  15. Google Announced a Bunch of Security Upgrades for Android This Week
  16. It Just Got Harder to Get Apple's Educational Discount
  17. The Beats Pill Is My Go-to Portable Speaker, and It's on Sale for $100 Right Now
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  19. Three Things I Already Like About the Fitbit Air
  20. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $300 Off Right Now
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  30. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The 'Missing Scientists' Conspiracy Theory
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  32. Google Just Announced a New Laptop Platform Called 'Googlebooks'
  33. Google Wants to Improve Its Social Media Reputation With Android 17
  34. Google Just Announced 'Gemini Intelligence' at The Android Show: I/O Edition
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  37. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Outlook User Should Know
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  50. This Wearable Insta360 Action Camera Bundle Is Nearly $90 Off Right Now
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  52. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  53. 10 Hacks Every Google Meet User Should Know
  54. The Fitbit App Is Losing All These Features
  55. You Can Get $35 in Google Store Credit If You Preorder the Fitbit Air
  56. These Are The Best Ways to Rid Your Gmail Inbox of Spam
  57. Here’s My Ultimate Checklist for Training and Running a Race With a Garmin Watch
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  59. 10 Shows Like 'Beef' You Should Watch Next
  60. Your Instagram Conversations Won’t Be so Private Anymore
  61. Nintendo Is Raising the Price of the Nintendo Switch 2
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  64. Canvas Has Been Hacked, and Is Apparently Being Held for Ransom
  65. 10 Hacks Every Zoom User Should Know
  66. This 100-Inch Hisense QLED TV Gets Super Bright, and It's $1,200 Off Right Now
  67. I’m a Weightlifter, and This Is How I’m Training for a Hyrox Race
  68. What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
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  70. ChatGPT Can Now Reach Out to a 'Trusted Contact' After Conversations Concerning Self-Harm
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  72. Google Chrome Finally Added This Privacy Feature for Android Users
  73. The Fitbit Air Is Real, and It May Actually Be a Whoop Killer
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  83. You Might Be Eligible for a Cut of Apple's $250 Million AI Settlement
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  86. You Should Still Fact-Check the 'Expert Advice' in Google's AI Summaries
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TechMeme

  1. Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors have underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
  2. Kioxia reports record Q4 earnings of ~$3.8B, forecasts Q1 operating profit of ~$8.2B, and says it is planning a US listing; Kioxia shares are up 300% YTD (Bloomberg)
  3. A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era (Bloomberg)
  4. London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
  5. UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a $26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
  6. Alphabet sold $3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates (Atsuko Fukase/Bloomberg)
  7. In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 (Anthropic)
  8. Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
  9. Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round (George Hammond/Financial Times)
  10. Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (Forbes)
  11. Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)
  12. California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a new 7.25% tax on web-based software sales, targeting $1.1B in state and local tax revenue in the upcoming budget year (Bloomberg)
  13. Gemini reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to $50.3M, vs. $47.9M est., announces a $100M capital injection from Winklevoss Capital Fund; GEMI jumps 22%+ after hours (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
  14. Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
  15. Cerebras shares closed up 68% at $311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised $5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of $67B (Bloomberg)