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BBC

  1. Millions of drivers mis-sold car finance to receive average £829 in compensation
  2. Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 after allegations over 'historic relationship'
  3. Mills' abrupt sacking creates another headache for the BBC
  4. What was the 1970s oil crisis, and are we heading for something worse?
  5. Travelodge investigating more reports of strangers accessing rooms, says CEO
  6. Beatrice and Eugenie won't be at royal Easter service
  7. Shock, sadness and relief in town at centre of Australia's seven-month police manhunt
  8. Easter bank holiday weekend set to be busiest on roads in four years
  9. Sophie Turner injury halts filming on Tomb Raider TV show
  10. Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy
  11. Arnold Schwarzenegger awarded honorary degree in Belfast
  12. How the US could try to seize Iran's Kharg Island
  13. Fuel rations and free buses: How countries are responding to rising oil prices
  14. Photos show heavily damaged US radar jet at Saudi base
  15. How will car finance compensation payments work?
  16. Euphoria season three trailer: Everything we know so far
  17. Meet the primary school pupils teaching speeders a lesson at Kids Court
  18. I turned down MMA fighter on a night out - so he punched me
  19. Will crash shake golf from its dependency on Tiger Woods?
  20. Teaching union votes against plans for new Year 8 reading test
  21. Most Syrian refugees expected to return home in three years, German chancellor says
  22. Barbie Dream Fest in Florida to issue refunds after fan complaints
  23. Partner of Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons arrested in Dubai
  24. Why Kris Jenner's picture has become a good luck charm on Chinese social media
  25. Bananas galore in Orkney after store orders 38,000 by mistake
  26. Teen admits £140k cosmetics shoplifting spree
  27. BBC News app
  28. Why Josh Simons Resigned From Government
  29. What is RFK doing to vaccines for children in America?
  30. De Zerbi in advanced talks to become Spurs manager
  31. Tuchel not angry over England withdrawals
  32. Why Sky's TV picks are causing a massive headache for match-going fans
  33. Five Euro 2028 tickets 'cost same as World Cup parking space'
  34. Watch: Monday Night Club
  35. Fit-again McGinn was 'petrified' he would miss World Cup
  36. Will crash shake golf from its dependency on Woods?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription service with exclusive features
  2. OkCupid settles FTC case on alleged misuse of its users' personal data
  3. 50 years of Apple pushing tech forward, for better or worse
  4. Uber to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur hailing app to ramp up its luxury travel efforts
  5. Microsoft's research assistant can now use multiple AI models simultaneously
  6. This year's Xbox Games Showcase is set for June 7
  7. Project Hail Mary is already Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever
  8. Bethesda is shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30
  9. The Avatar fighting game will release on July 2 for PC and consoles
  10. Bluesky's next product is an AI assistant that helps build custom social media feeds
  11. Watch the trailer for Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell anime series
  12. Austria is pursuing a social media ban for kids under 14
  13. The White House app is just as weird and unnecessary as you'd expect
  14. Meta's next AI glasses are reportedly designed with prescription lenses in mind
  15. NASA pauses its lunar Gateway plan, a comet reverses its spin and more science news
  16. Wanderstop developer Ivy Road is shutting down
  17. Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out
  18. Verizon waives late fees for federal workers affected by partial DHS shutdown
  19. Kash Patel's personal email account was accessed by hackers linked to Iran
  20. Mark Zuckerberg offered to 'help' Elon Musk with DOGE in 2025
  21. Meta will fund seven new natural gas plants to power its biggest data center yet
  22. European Commission confirms data breach
  23. Crunchyroll is now available as a channel in the Apple TV app
  24. If you live in Georgia, there's a new exhibit you can visit celebrating Apple's 50th anniversary
  25. It looks like we're finally getting an Ocarina of Time remake
  26. The original Hollow Knight just got an update to fix a glitch with a final boss
  27. The AI Doc explores how we can survive an uncertain AI future 
  28. The PS5 is getting more expensive... again
  29. Engadget Podcast: Can Microsoft fix Windows 11 by dumping AI?
  30. The Morning After: Sony and Honda’s debut EV is dead before it even arrived
  31. Fender Mix review: Well-designed headphones that just fall short of greatness
  32. MLB The Show 26 is turning me into more of a baseball fan
  33. RGG's Stranger Than Heaven game will span five time periods
  34. Court temporarily blocks US government from labeling Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk'
  35. Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps
  36. Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
  37. X moves the ashes of TweetDeck behind its $40 Premium+ subscription
  38. Ugh, Netflix is raising prices
  39. Judge tosses out X's advertiser boycott lawsuit
  40. Blumhouse's horror-centric cozy game Grave Seasons will be released on August 14
  41. Dispatch is coming to Xbox this summer
  42. Stalker 2 is getting its first DLC, Cost of Hope, this summer
  43. Google begins rolling out Search Live globally
  44. Hades 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on April 14
  45. The EU is investigating Snapchat over possible child protection breaches
  46. Serious Sam: Shatterverse will hit Xbox platforms this year
  47. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction
  48. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated articles
  49. EU says Pornhub and others failed to stop minors accessing adult content
  50. AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 chip features an incredible 208MB of on-chip cache

Pinboard

  1. Anatomy of a Claude folder
  2. Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) — Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
  3. The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/qH2Sgiy
  4. Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
  5. AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
  6. Japan now has a special desk for people who work at home with a pet cat[Photos] | SoraNews24 -Japan News- — Discover Japan's innovative solution for remote cat owners: a dedicated workspace designed for feline companionship. Find inspiration and practical ideas to enhance your own pet-friendly home office.
  7. How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days - Fast Company
  8. jai
  9. jsongrep is faster than {jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, jql}
  10. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  11. Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki
  12. Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people - Markus Unterwaditzer
  13. chenglou/pretext — layout and demos without css
  14. I Decompiled the White House's New App — The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
  15. Thoughts on slowing the fuck down — Companies claiming 100% of their product's code is now written by AI consistently put out the worst garbage you can imagine. Not pointing fingers, but memory leaks in the gigabytes, UI glitches, broken-ass features, crashes: that is not the seal of quality they think it is. And it's defini…
  16. On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse — > Read against the speech itself, Lorde's argument seems less concerned with whether antitrust law can break up monopolies and more with whose knowledge counts, who gets to define the problem, and what gets systematically erased when liberation …
  17. Claude Code Cheat Sheet
  18. From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures | Andros Fenollosa
  19. Sand Under a Microscope - Magnified Sand Photos
  20. Architecture is how things evolve – how they’re allowed to evolve.
  21. We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America — I often find myself thinking about the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who argued in the introduction of After Virtue that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the…
  22. how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site
  23. CSS is DOOMed - Rendering DOOM in 3D with CSS | Hello my name is Niels Leenheer
  24. Make MacOS 26 consistently bad (unironically) | La Vita Nouva
  25. www.semicolonandsons.com/articles/scaling-a-monolith-to-1m-loc-113-pragmatic-lessons-from-tech-lead-to-cto
  26. heerich.js — Interactive Guide
  27. Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent — Retrieval pipelines typically operate in a single pass, which poses a problem when the information required to answer a question is spread across multiple documents or requires intermediate reasoning to locate. In practice, many real-world queries require multi-hop ret…
  28. paperclipai/paperclip: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
  29. Studio: i chatbot AI che ignorano istruzioni umane sono in forte aumento — Uno studio del Centre for Long-Term Resilience, finanziato dall’AI Safety Institute, ha raccolto quasi 700 casi reali di chatbot e agenti (Google, OpenAI, X, Anthropic) che ignorano istruzioni, evadono salvaguardie e adottano comportamenti ingannevoli…
  30. マリウス . Hold on to Your Hardware — via @eamon@social.coop boost of https://masto.hackers.town/@lmorchard/116110713766204271
  31. whoami.wiki
  32. Awesome Git Diffs with Delta, fzf and a Little Shell Scripting — Nick Janetakis
  33. The Cognitive Dark Forest — The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.
  34. Pretext Demos
  35. Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash — A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
  36. Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco - The New York Times
  37. Speaking of Voxtral | Mistral AI — Voxtral TTS: A frontier, open-weights text-to-speech model that’s fast, instantly adaptable, and produces lifelike speech for voice agents. "can clone voice from 5 second samples"
  38. Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org
  39. BreezePDF — Edit PDFs Easily and Securely — A powerful, privacy-first PDF editor that runs in your browser or locally on your computer. Add text, signatures, merge, split, export to DOCX — 39+ features, completely free and offline. Files never touch our servers.
  40. The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs | Older people | The Guardian
  41. building a digital doorman — A lightweight AI agent that answers questions about my work by reading actual code. Architecture, security, and model selection decisions.
  42. What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames — The bigger picture I’m working toward is a canonical definition of the dataframe. Petersohn et al. made the best attempt I’ve seen with their data model and algebra. Category theory adds algebraic structure on top. It says the schema-changing operations decompose into three …
  43. GitHub - Michaelliv/markit: 🖍️ Convert anything to markdown. Mark it. · GitHub — 🖍️ Convert anything to markdown. Mark it. Contribute to Michaelliv/markit development by creating an account on GitHub.
  44. 1st1/lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in markdown.
  45. Impeccable: The missing upgrade to Anthropic's frontend-design skill — Impeccable: Design skills for AI coding tools https://ift.tt/laKnNpv ai, tools, design, ai.skills
  46. How Apple Could Have (Maybe) Saved the Mac Pro - 512 Pixels — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/ywCkhH8
  47. GitHub - dmars8047/handymkv: A tool to simplify use of MakeMKV and the HandBrakeCLI tool. · GitHub
  48. Should QA exist? — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540929
  49. Miscellanea: The War in Iran
  50. GitHub - axeldelafosse/loop: Dead-simple Bun CLI that runs Codex and Claude Code in a loop. · GitHub — axeldelafosse/loop: Dead-simple Bun CLI that runs Codex and Claude Code in a loop. https://ift.tt/KJUYeRg ai, codex, claude.code, programming
  51. TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
  52. Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
  53. New study says AI is giving bad advice to flatter its users | AP News — Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce harmful behaviors, according to a new study that explores the dangers of AI telling p…
  54. Flighty Airports Meltdown Map
  55. CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
  56. Daring Fireball: Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/86MUZWL
  57. National Grid: Live Status
  58. We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco
  59. Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/86MUZWL
  60. My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
  61. Microsoft Rust Training Books: Beginner, advanced, expert level Rust training material — https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1s1vj7u/microsoft_rust_training_books_beginner_advanced/
  62. Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code — marciopuga shared a new plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code. It features a unique /foresight function. Some users discussed its difference from similar tools and noted the documentation style is hard to read.
  63. The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning — A write-up of the Trivy vulnerability and how one can exploit repositories using GitHub and GitHub Actions to point actions to an attacker-controlled SHA due to SHAs not being tied to the main repository.
  64. Introducing Apple Business — a new all-in-one platform for businesses of all sizes - Apple — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/86MUZWL
  65. Omma
  66. simonw/claude-code-transcripts: Tools for publishing transcripts for Claude Code sessions — Tools for publishing transcripts for Claude Code sessions
  67. You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life
  68. GitHub - bjarneo/cliamp: Terminal Winamp
  69. Building a guitar trainer with embedded Rust - Orhun's Blog
  70. bigoish - Rust
  71. [2603.20639] Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion — “Every prior intelligence explosion—primate sociality, human language, writing, institutions—wasn't an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware. It was the emergence of a new socially aggregated unit of cognition. … The scaling frontier isn't just bigger models. I…
  72. Client Challenge — Artificial-intelligence models will supposedly take over the world, but AI innovator Luc Julia tells Nature that they’re little more than glorified pocket calculators.
  73. Your Debounce Is Lying to You
  74. Kin - Everyday tools. No strings.
  75. From Ikigai to Wabi-Sabi: 8 Japanese Philosophies for Purposeful Living — From ikigai to wabi-sabi, explore eight Japanese philosophies we can all apply in pursuit of a more intentional existence.
  76. Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
  77. "Collaboration" is bullshit.
  78. Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For | Techdirt
  79. AllSky7.net
  80. What if AI doesn’t need more RAM but better math?
  81. You can’t spell “machinery hurtful to commonality” without AI | LibrarianShipwreck
  82. I Can't See Apple's Vision
  83. Debunking zswap and zram myths — zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.
  84. BrettTerpstra.com - The Mad Science of Brett Terpstra: My ultimate keyboard-driven Mac utility list
  85. Here’s what Verge readers are buying during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/1wgOZPC
  86. Opinion | Technology Weakens Our Minds. We Can Fix This. - The New York Times
  87. Gasoline prices around the world, 28-Feb-2022 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com
  88. The Ozempicization of Everything — Biohacking, gambling, and war
  89. The internet is already over - by Sam Kriss — Our God is a devourer, who makes things only for the swallowing.
  90. A jury said Instagram and YouTube are defective — now what? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/1wgOZPC
  91. Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. | Psychology Today — cognitive atrophy cognitive foreclosure
  92. ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It.
  93. Stripe Projects | Provision and Manage Services from the CLI
  94. Chats where you truly own your data.
  95. Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says — Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission
  96. Linux is an interpreter
  97. Somebody’s watching me – Adventures in Cellular Location services | Nick vs Networking
  98. War on Iran | Phenomenal World
  99. Rank the best Apple products from the last 50 years | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/ywCkhH8
  100. "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks" -- GitHub - itigges22/ATLAS: Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization — A.T.L.A.S Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization A.T.L.A.S achieves 74.6% LiveCodeBench pass@1-v(k=3) with a frozen 14B model on a single consumer GPU -- up f…

The Next Web

  1. Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door
  2. UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store
  3. Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
  4. Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
  5. Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
  6. The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
  7. TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
  8. Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed
  9. Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
  10. Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre

Smashing Magazine

  1. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  2. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  3. Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly
  4. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  5. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  6. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  7. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  8. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  9. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  10. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  11. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  12. Getting Started With The Popover API
  13. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  14. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  15. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  16. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  17. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  18. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  19. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  20. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  21. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  22. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  23. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  24. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  25. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  26. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  27. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  28. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  29. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  30. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  31. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  32. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  33. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  34. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  35. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  36. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  37. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  38. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  39. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  40. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

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Hacker News

  1. How to turn anything into a router
  2. Bird brains (2023)
  3. Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
  4. OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it
  5. CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
  6. A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity
  7. Build123d: A Python CAD programming library
  8. Do your own writing
  9. Take better notes, by hand
  10. FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data
  11. Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
  12. An NSFW filter for Marginalia search
  13. ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
  14. Proactively Parasocial
  15. The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
  16. New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements
  17. You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine
  18. I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era
  19. I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
  20. Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents
  21. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models
  22. Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
  23. DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
  24. The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle
  25. Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)
  26. Copilot edited an ad into my PR
  27. VHDL's Crown Jewel
  28. 15 Years of Forking
  29. From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab
  30. C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report

Ars Technica

  1. F1 in Japan: Oh no, what have they done to all the fast corners?
  2. After 16 years and $8 billion, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work
  3. Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production
  4. What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.
  5. Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC
  6. Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
  7. Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
  8. Causality optional? Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition
  9. How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
  10. Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
  11. With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
  12. Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure
  13. Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it
  14. AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
  15. Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says
  16. DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked
  17. Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
  18. No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations
  19. Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop
  20. Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture

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New Scientist

  1. AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
  2. The Turin Shroud bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
  3. Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first 
  4. The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light
  5. Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
  6. How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing
  7. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
  8. The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
  9. Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet
  10. I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water
  11. How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics
  12. We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet
  13. Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
  14. Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
  15. Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars
  16. New Scientist recommends documentary Molly vs The Machines
  17. Rare Andean bear captured in stunning photograph
  18. First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn
  19. Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes
  20. Computer finds flaw in major physics paper for first time
  21. A variety of jungle animals all use one type of tree as a latrine
  22. The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever
  23. Temperature gets a new definition using a quantum device
  24. How big is a 'shedload'? Let's ask the nuclear physicists
  25. What to read this week: the persuasive How Flowers Made Our World
  26. Meta and YouTube fined $3 million for harming mental health
  27. The brain's cleaning system can be boosted to rid Alzheimer's proteins
  28. Oldest known dog extends the genetic history of our canine companions
  29. Landmark experiment reveals a big unexpected problem with cloning
  30. Ancient bones reveal vivid details of a Neanderthal elephant hunt
  31. Cancer-causing chemical found to be leaking from gas cookers
  32. Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun
  33. Cystitis or tooth decay could trigger dementia just a few years later
  34. Antimatter has been transported by road for the first time
  35. How AI shook the world's largest meeting of physicists
  36. Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'
  37. Are humans degenerating genetically and getting dumber as a result?
  38. Genetic clues tell the story of Neanderthals' decline
  39. Warmer ocean is driving the Antarctic sea ice 'regime shift'
  40. Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break
  41. 'Zombie' cells created by transplanting genomes into dead bacteria
  42. Security credentials inadvertently leaked on thousands of websites
  43. Inside the world’s first antimatter delivery service
  44. This neuroscientist says some psychopaths wish they were nicer
  45. A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler
  46. You can now buy a DIY quantum computer
  47. What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven
  48. Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together
  49. We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
  50. Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved
  51. Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth
  52. A negative attitude towards ageing is making you age faster
  53. New Scientist recommends Cirque du Soleil's insect-themed OVO show
  54. How worried should you be about ultra-processed foods?
  55. Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
  56. Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages
  57. Rebecca Solnit: 'The great majority of people want climate action'
  58. Probiotic cream that ramps up heat production could prevent frostbite
  59. Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe
  60. Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time
  61. It's time to monetise the moon! Definitely! Maybe?
  62. Maggie Aderin's dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong
  63. Boosting the blood-brain barrier could avert brain damage in athletes
  64. Neanderthals may have treated wounds with antibiotic sticky tar
  65. Will war in the Middle East accelerate the clean energy transition?
  66. The mystery of how volcanic lightning happens has been solved
  67. Ice core reveals low CO2 during warm spell 3 million years ago
  68. Psychedelics may be no better than antidepressants for depression
  69. Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights
  70. Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old mystery
  71. Social media is a defective product
  72. Your partner probably wakes you up at night without you even realising
  73. The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group
  74. 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system
  75. The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life
  76. Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future
  77. AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it
  78. How a midlife tune-up could help prepare you for a healthy old age
  79. Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
  80. What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?
  81. Why are we so obsessed with protein? A new book looks for answers
  82. A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
  83. Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
  84. Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births
  85. The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert
  86. We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they’re here anyway
  87. Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasant smells
  88. New Scientist recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird
  89. Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?
  90. A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland
  91. The race to solve the biggest problem in quantum computing
  92. How worried should you be about your BMI?
  93. Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?
  94. Chemistry may not be the 'killer app' for quantum computers after all
  95. Why drug overdose deaths have suddenly plummeted in the US
  96. We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
  97. Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?
  98. Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors
  99. A miniature magnet rivals behemoths in strength for the first time
  100. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history

Slashdot

  1. Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses'
  2. Microsoft Copilot Is Now Injecting Ads Into Pull Requests On GitHub
  3. Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due To SSD Shortage
  4. Tech CEOs Suddenly Love Blaming AI For Mass Job Cuts
  5. New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges
  6. Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs
  7. Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State
  8. Will Social Media Change After YouTube and Meta's Court Defeat?
  9. Is It Time For Open Source to Start Charging For Access?
  10. 'Project Hail Mary': Real Space Science, Real Astrophotography
  11. World's Smallest QR Code - Smaller Than Bacteria - Could Store Data for Centuries
  12. This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power
  13. Bluesky's Newest Product: an AI Tool That Gives You Custom Feeds
  14. Amazon Gambles on $4B Push Into America's Rural Areas, May Soon Carry More Parcels Than USPS
  15. Apple Now Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK. Could the US Be Next?

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. The Anello Chair: Space Age Meets Danish Modern Meets Japanese Craftsmanship
  2. Takolink: A Large Extra Screen for Your Phone
  3. Design Overkill: Casio's "Luxury" Calculators
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (3-23-26 to 3-27-26)
  5. PETec's Beefy, Drill-Driven Height-Adjustable Mobile Workbenches
  6. A Subtle, Surprising Table-to-Seating Transition
  7. The Surprising Origin of this Toyota Award's Form
  8. Furniture Using Indigenous Volcanic CMUs as Ballast
  9. Nestout's Water-Resistant Cap Lets You Charge in Wet or Dusty Conditions
  10. This Design Award Is Also A Mold. Why?
  11. 1950s Swiss Industrial Design: Armin Wirth's Nesting Aluflex Chairs
  12. A 3D-Printed Two-Person Alternating-Direction Rocking Chair
  13. Industrial Designer Mike Jacobs' Slick, Playful Chess Clock
  14. The Tokyo College of Cycle Design
  15. Good Design or Bad Design? This Ladder Safety Feature

CNET

  1. It's the Final Days of the Amazon Spring Sale, and We're Tracking More Than 140 of the Absolute Best Deals
  2. 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2: When to Stream Episodes 2 and 3
  3. AI Agents Are Increasingly Evading Safeguards, According to UK Researchers
  4. McAfee Review 2026: Solid Protection, Mediocre Performance
  5. Avira Review 2026: Decent Antivirus and Excellent Device Optimization, but Privacy Is Lacking
  6. Bitdefender Review 2026: One of the Best Antivirus Options on the Market
  7. AVG Antivirus Review 2026: Affordable Protection With a Catch
  8. Malwarebytes Review 2026: One of the Best Cybersecurity Suites on the Planet
  9. Best Antivirus 2026: A Tight Race, but Two Providers Lead the Pack
  10. Norton Review 2026: Solid Antivirus With Great Safe Browsing Tools and Parental Controls
  11. 7 Common Takeout Items That Are Ruining Your Local Recycling System
  12. Hackers, Begone: The Ultimate Guide to Securing Your Home Wi-Fi and Router
  13. How We Test Cordless Vacuums
  14. Exclusive Lab Testing on 100 Cordless Vacuums Shows a Surprising Link Between Battery Life and Price
  15. Best Cordless Vacuums: Our Newest Award Winners Deliver Great Performance for the Price
  16. The Best LED Face Masks of 2026 for More Collagen, Less Inflammation
  17. How to Track Flights Directly From Your iPhone's iMessages App
  18. KitchenAid Adds 3 Clever New Features to Its Iconic Stand Mixer
  19. Happy Birthday, Apple! CNET Reminisces on 50 Years of Tech and Events
  20. Claws Explained: From AI Generation to AI Execution
  21. AirPods Pro Alternatives. Great Sound for Less, but Is That Enough? | All Things Mobile video
  22. Here's How to Turn Your Favorite Pet Photo Into a Cute iPhone Emoji
  23. Here's How a Former Overwatch Pro Made the Support Hero He Always Wanted
  24. Ready to DIY Your Own Security System? Read My Tips First
  25. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for March 30 #757

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Beats’ gym-friendly Powerbeats Fit are $30 off for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  2. A new RCS update could connect iPhone and Android video calls, someday
  3. Dyson’s ultra-thin PencilVac Fluffycones is tougher to resist at $150 off
  4. A new manufacturing process uses lasers to seal paper packaging instead of glue
  5. The latest Pixel 11 leak shows slimmer bezels and an all-black camera bar
  6. Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity
  7. The best deals we’ve found from Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (so far)
  8. Xbox’s next big games showcase happens on June 7th
  9. For $200 more, you can get a MacBook Air
  10. The mad dash to build the future of multimedia

Wired

  1. Our Favorite Amazon Streaming Stick Is Almost Half Off
  2. 5 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2026): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free
  3. The Best Earplugs for Protecting Your Hearing (2026)
  4. Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
  5. ‘Guns, Beer, Titties, Freedom’: Inside the World’s Toughest Off-Road Race
  6. This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms
  7. The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged
  8. 9 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
  9. A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work
  10. Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds: Bose, Sony, Apple, and More
  11. Your Photos Are Probably Giving Away Your Location. Here’s How to Stop That
  12. The Deceptively Tricky Art of Designing a Steering Wheel
  13. Best Heart Rate Monitors (2026): Polar, Coros, Garmin
  14. These 40 Amazon Spring Sale Tech Deals Are Actually Good. We Checked the Price History (2026)
  15. What Is the Best Garmin Watch Right Now? (2026)
  16. The Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2026): We’ve Tested Dozens
  17. Your Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are
  18. The Best Samsung Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
  19. Samsung Frame Pro Review: A Good TV for a Pretty Living Room
  20. Best 360 Cameras (2026): DJI, Insta360, GoPro

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Shows Like 'Your Friends and Neighbors' You Should Watch Next
  2. This Eufy Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo Is $300 Off During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  3. The Best Deals Still Available on Fitness Wearables in Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  4. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  5. Amazon Big Spring Sale 2026 Live Blog: All the Best Deals From Apple, Kindle, Garmin, and More
  6. These Are the Best Apple Deals During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  7. These Are the Best Fitness Deals Under $100 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  8. Why 'Retro' Photography Is Back (and How to Get Started With It)
  9. How to Play Retro Games on Your Modern Phone or TV
  10. Embrace Filming on Analog Video in 2026
  11. How to Build a Music Library That You Actually Own
  12. Why You Need an MP3 Player in 2026 (and What to Buy)
  13. This Wearable Action Camera Is $70 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  14. How to Buy (and Actually Own) Your Movies and TV Shows in 2026
  15. This Philips Smart Lock Is 35% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  16. This LG Smart Window AC With Heating and Smart Controls Is Just $400 Right Now
  17. You Can Get This 13-Inch M4 iPad Pro on Sale for $900 Right Now
  18. The Best Deals on Headphones and Earbuds I Found in Amazon's Spring Sale
  19. The Best TV Deals I Found in Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  20. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals From Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  21. Wordle Is Too Easy, but Now I’m Obsessed With These Daily Cryptic Puzzles
  22. How AI Is Making Tax Scams Harder to Spot
  23. You Can Create a Full Smart Home Set-Up on a Budget With These Amazon Big Spring Sales
  24. The Best Tech Deals Under $25 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  25. Everything You're Entitled to When Your Flight Gets Delayed or Canceled
  26. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Pitt'
  27. These Are the Best Deals on Home Gym Equipment I've Seen During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  28. These Are the Best Laptop Deals I've Seen During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  29. The Best Power Tools on Sale During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  30. The Beloved Bissel Little Green Carpet Cleaner Is on Sale for $75 During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  31. These Greenworks Cordless Tools Are up to 62% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  32. This 55-Inch Samsung OLED TV Is $500 Off During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  33. This Anker Portable Power Station Is $1,200 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  34. This Best-Pick 65-Inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over 50% Off Right Now
  35. This TP-Link Wifi Router Is 44% Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  36. This 4K Smart Projector Is 50% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  37. This Budget Fitness Watch From Amazfit Is Only $80 Right Now
  38. This Speaker Turns Any Song Into a Karaoke Track, and It's $70 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  39. These Are the Best Deals on Streaming Gear During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  40. My Cat's Favorite Remote-Controlled Toy Is 15% Off for Amazon's Spring Sale
  41. These Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Earbuds Are 40% Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  42. You Can Save Up to 23% on an M3 iPad Air During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  43. This JBL Boombox Is 40% Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  44. These Compact Adjustable Dumbbells Are $110 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  45. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Severance'
  46. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Is $130 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  47. The Beats Solo 4 Are Up to 40% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  48. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 Is Under $300 Today
  49. You Can Finally Have Two WhatsApp Accounts on Your iPhone
  50. These Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are 35% Off During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  51. This Lightweight Garmin Fitness Watch Is Over $100 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  52. 10 Shows Like 'The Comeback' You Should Watch Next
  53. My Favorite Mini Massage Gun Is 21% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  54. Apple's Newest AirPods Pro Are $50 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  55. My Favorite Workout Headphones Are $40 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  56. 10 Hacks Every ChatGPT User Should Know
  57. Some of My Favorite Milwaukee Tools Come With a Free Battery Right Now
  58. The New Echo Dot Max Is Its Lowest Price Ever for the Amazon Spring Sale
  59. This 32-Inch Hisense TV Is Only $75 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  60. The Fire TV Stick 4K Plus Is 50% Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  61. These Skullcandy ANC Headphones Have Dropped by $100 for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  62. This Unlocked Pixel 10 Is $250 Off for the Amazon Spring Sale
  63. Roblox Gift Cards Are Majorly Discounted During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  64. The Titanium Apple Watch Series 10 Is Just $449 During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  65. Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 Are $60 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  66. This Surprisingly Powerful Compressed Air Duster Is 27% Off Today
  67. This Kindle Colorsoft (With Case) Is 40% Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  68. This Budget Fitbit Is Only $70 During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  69. If I Had a Home Gym, This Is the Storage Rack I'd Buy During Amazon's Spring Sale
  70. What Happens Now That Meta and YouTube Were Found Legally Negligent
  71. Amazon's Prices on the Fire TV 4-Series Are Ridiculously Low During the Big Spring Sale
  72. This Hydrow Rowing Machine Delivers a Full-Body Workout, and It's $300 Off for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  73. The Garmin Forerunner 265 Is a Pretty Good Buy During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  74. Artists Love the XP-Pen Magic Note Pad Drawing Tablet, and It's $140 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  75. The Best Budget Treadmill Is Even Cheaper During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  76. The Best Headphones I’ve Ever Tested Are $60 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  77. My Favorite JBL Over-Ear Headphones Are $100 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  78. This Heart Rate Monitor Is Widely Regarded As the Best, and It’s 27% Off During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  79. Google's Pixel 9a Is Just $399 for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  80. The Best Budget Running Watch Is Even Cheaper During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  81. These Refurbished AirPods 4 (With ANC) Are Just $118 During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  82. What's New on Netflix in April 2026
  83. The Best Kindles Have the Deepest Discounts During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  84. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 Is Nearly $200 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  85. Peloton’s Cross-Training Bikes Are on Sale for Their Lowest Prices Ever
  86. 10 Hacks Every Amazon Shopper Should Know
  87. This 15-Inch M4 MacBook Air Is $300 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  88. This 13-Inch M4 MacBook Air Is $250 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  89. This 360-Degree Action Camera Is Over $200 Off for Amazon's Spring Sale
  90. Why Pistol Squats Are so Hard (and How to Do Them Anyway)
  91. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Teleportation
  92. OpenAI Just Killed Sora
  93. 10 Hacks Every Nvidia GPU Gamer Should Know
  94. The Newest 11-Inch Apple iPad Is $150 Off Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  95. Apple AirTags Are Just $15 Each in This Amazon Spring Sale Four-Pack
  96. This Cheap Frother Is My Favorite Way to Mix Protein Powder
  97. What Sleep Scores Are Good for (and When They Should Be Ignored)
  98. What the FCC's Router Ban Could Mean for You
  99. This New Claude Feature Can Automate Basically Everything on Your Mac, but It’s a Huge Security Risk
  100. 10 Shows Like 'Call the Midwife' You Should Watch Next

The Onion

The Register

  1. US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems
  2. Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach
  3. FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines
  4. Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby
  5. UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev
  6. SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition
  7. Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat
  8. South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion
  9. Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins
  10. Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures
  11. Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs
  12. European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else
  13. Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC
  14. Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
  15. US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’
  16. DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years
  17. AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language
  18. The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed
  19. Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze
  20. Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession
  21. To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer
  22. Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion
  23. Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
  24. Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
  25. Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption
  26. Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program
  27. Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit
  28. AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans
  29. Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones
  30. Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users
  31. UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch
  32. Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work
  33. Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys
  34. India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril
  35. China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country
  36. Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours
  37. AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring
  38. AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region
  39. AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores
  40. 'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans
  41. Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure
  42. Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America
  43. Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds
  44. Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead
  45. AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar
  46. Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China
  47. Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech
  48. Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list
  49. Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization
  50. UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

TechMeme

  1. Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws (Kara Scannell/CNN)
  2. Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
  3. Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
  4. Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center (Financial Times)
  5. Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
  6. Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
  7. Sources: E*Trade is in talks to lead SpaceX IPO share sale to retail investors; Robinhood and SoFi have pitched for roles but SpaceX is mulling cutting them out (Reuters)
  8. State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
  9. Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
  10. A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over "disproportionate media attention" after allegations she "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
  11. Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
  12. After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
  13. Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere (Derek Thompson)
  14. ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M+ (Meir Orbach/CTech)
  15. Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)