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BBC

  1. Russian jets 'dangerously' intercept RAF spy plane over Black Sea
  2. Women who died in sea off Brighton were sisters
  3. Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils
  4. Southampton lose appeal against play-off expulsion
  5. US charges Cuba's Raúl Castro with murder over 1996 downing of two planes
  6. London bus driver dies after assault on bridge
  7. UK agrees £3.7bn trade deal with six Gulf states
  8. Streeting warns Labour risks losing fight against 'nationalism'
  9. Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists
  10. Supermarkets hit back over pressure to cap price of milk, bread and eggs
  11. Backlash over Department for Education videos with Gemma Collins
  12. 'I made Venezuela Fury's 40ft wedding train - it was too big for my workshop'
  13. The deadly plane attack at the centre of Castro's indictment
  14. Murder or accident? Mystery of Mango tycoon's hiking death after son's arrest
  15. Rosenberg: Putin enjoys Xi's Chinese welcome but heads home without pipeline deal
  16. Could a football match soften North Korea-South Korea relations?
  17. SpaceX files for IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire
  18. 'At least it wasn't on my head': King laughs off bird poo misfortune
  19. Fuel duty freeze extended until the end of the year
  20. Channel 4 boss 'deeply sorry' over MAFS UK rape allegations
  21. Austrian ex-intelligence officer found guilty of Russia spying charges
  22. Tories announce Makerfield by-election candidate
  23. BBC News app
  24. Has The UK Softened Russia Oil Sanctions?
  25. Americanswers... on 5 Live! Has Zohran Mamdani achieved a miracle in New York?
  26. 'We'll go down in history' - Villa's new heroes triumph to end 30-year wait
  27. Southampton lose appeal against play-off expulsion over Spygate
  28. Chess, lectures & ignoring noise: Emery masters Europe again
  29. Capsey and Bell impress as England win T20 opener
  30. Prince William celebrates 'amazing night' as Villa fans party
  31. Players to cut short French Open interviews in pay row
  32. Enhanced Games is finally here - causing dismay and intrigue

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Hulu bundle subscribers can now access their watch history and recs in the Disney+ app
  2. Google announces Wear OS 7
  3. Minnesota passes prediction markets ban
  4. All the news you might have missed from Google I/O 2026
  5. Xbox Game Pass additions for late May include Forza Horizon 6 and Remnant II
  6. Google's redesigned Gemini comes with a new interface and AI models
  7. Google's Gemini Omni can generate 'anything from any input,' starting with video
  8. The SpaceX IPO plans are now public
  9. Airbnb expands into hotel bookings and even grocery deliveries
  10. Cuneflow's e-paper writing tablet uses AI to record and transcribe meetings
  11. An hour-long PlayStation State of Play is set for June 2
  12. XGIMI Titan Noir Max projector review: Excellent image quality, but short on features
  13. Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph
  14. Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash rivals 'large flagship models' for coding and agentic tasks
  15. I/O 2026 is bringing more AI to Google Play
  16. The Google AI Ultra plan now starts at $100 a month
  17. Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor
  18. Google's Universal Cart will keep an eye on your shopping
  19. Google is bringing new AI-powered ad formats to search
  20. Engadget Podcast: Google I/O 2026 was AI all the way down

Pinboard

  1. The Virtual OS Museum
  2. GitHub - zakirullin/files.md: 🌱 Your life in plain .md files · GitHub
  3. Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
  4. You don’t know HTML Lists – Frank M Taylor
  5. GitHub - MinishLab/semble: Fast and Accurate Code Search for Agents. Uses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read · GitHub
  6. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
  7. Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
  8. I don't think AI will make your processes go faster — Discussion of how AI speeds up the mechanical part of coding but won't help with the other things that make development take a long time (e.g. understanding requirements, exploding features / surprises, etc.). Written very clearly in a way that business/PM types could eas…
  9. Daring Fireball: AI Is Technology, Not a Product — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Duzsd2y
  10. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS — Julia Evans moved away from Tailwind to write more semantic HTML and structured vanilla CSS. She organizes CSS by components with clear rules to avoid conflicts and copies useful parts from Tailwind like resets and variables. This change lets her use CSS features …
  11. GitHub - alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books — A curated list of best cuda programming books. Contribute to alternbits/awesome-cuda-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
  12. Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp - Hyperpolyglot
  13. The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes — Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...
  14. The 100 best novels of all time | Fiction | The Guardian
  15. Learn AI Layer by Layer — An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles. Rob Ennals
  16. Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling | Alex Plescan
  17. PyTorch Landscape
  18. AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome - by Jim Prosser — from Daring Fireball Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking over the publi…
  19. Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
  20. Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die | Andrew Nesbitt
  21. Polypad – The Mathematical Playground — Moved from Mathigon
  22. Designing an FPGA Calculator from scratch - Baltazar Studios
  23. 10 Signs of Fascism. America has all of them. — Chilling, and not as sensationalized as the title suggests
  24. Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. - The New York Times
  25. How to deal with your kid leaving • Buttondown — "And when we do our jobs close-to-right, these kids do not go away. They don’t leave us. They check in. They swing by. They come over for dinner once in a while. Our job is to make sure that when they do they’re always made to feel welcomed, and loved, and safe. But also free …
  26. zerostack - crates.io: Rust Package Registry
  27. x.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/19U5YCM
  28. Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory — same
  29. Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Duzsd2y
  30. SuperSplat
  31. Synthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes | Bain & Company
  32. Welcome to Learn Harness Engineering | Learn Harness Engineering
  33. antoinezambelli/forge: A Python framework for self-hosted LLM tool-calling and multi-step agentic workflows
  34. The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code
  35. DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
  36. delphitools
  37. GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden’s Blog
  38. Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
  39. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
  40. Prolog Coding Horror — Ooh, this is gonna be good (Prolog horror stories)
  41. GenCAD — mit proj with code
  42. A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease
  43. GitHub - rockorager/comview: the best diff viewer ever made · GitHub — bjtitus starred rockorager/comview
  44. AI時代のコンピューター技術書 - golden-luckyの日記
  45. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  46. Dropover ‐ Easier Drag and Drop on your Mac. — Dropover is a utility that makes it easier to move content between folders, applications, windows and workspaces using Drag and Drop.
  47. Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter | Hacker News
  48. browse.sh — One CLI for skills, browser primitives, debugging, and cloud sessions, designed to be driven by AI Agents.
  49. The TTY demystified
  50. AI Is Too Expensive To Ever Pay Off Hyperscalers’ Capex Investments
  51. zerostack — Minimalistic coding agent written in Rust, optimized for memory footprint and performance
  52. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github – Krebs on Security
  53. Magical Realism: "Northern Exposure" 25 Years Later | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
  54. GitHub - rohitg00/agentmemory: Persistent memory for AI coding agents · GitHub
  55. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  56. loopmaster - Live Audio Programming — loopmaster - Live Audio Programming. Create music with code in real-time.
  57. RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest
  58. Google's Guide to Optimizing for Generative AI Features on Google Search | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers
  59. There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ - NOEMA — As the Russian intellectual Alexander Bogdanov put it, science is the historical process of a successful collective organization of our experience.  Mental processes are physical processes described in a way that captures only their salient characteristics. ... If we do…
  60. This is what free costs
  61. The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Energy | The Guardian
  62. aymanhs/nanotdb: A tiny, append‑only time‑series database designed for long‑running sensor data on modest hardware.
  63. wsj.com — The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam https://ift.tt/QHqbkLr ai, trends, america, economy, politics, society, activism
  64. Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
  65. Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time - The Atlantic
  66. The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  67. tech4bot/rk3562deb
  68. A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it | TechSpot
  69. The Labour Party is dead, and Starmer has killed it - New Statesman
  70. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
  71. Halt and Catch Fire
  72. Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/gJbEfQ1
  73. Haskell for all: Type out the code — via https://social.vivaldi.net/@RosaCtrl/116601529117868507
  74. Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques | PetaPixel
  75. Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It - The New York Times
  76. A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/VC5SAuU
  77. Understanding Singleflight in Go: A Solution for Eliminating Redundant Work — Coding Explorations
  78. smoores.dev - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of ProseMirror Model in Rich Text Transformation
  79. あるソフトウェアエンジニアの1日（2028）
  80. Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/oVhTl63
  81. Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise — An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. Some fun css effects (borders, scrolly bits)
  82. Modern Web Guidance  |  Chrome for Developers
  83. I 3D Printed Origami [video] | Hacker News
  84. QR Generator - delphitools
  85. Key, in sight – Aresluna
  86. Mistral CEO Warns Europe Has 2 Years to Avoid AI Dependence on US - Business Insider
  87. FOSDEM 2026 - Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147351
  88. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Duzsd2y
  89. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  90. 浏览器反跟踪能力测试
  91. Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/nsO9PGa
  92. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp | Hacker News
  93. Under the Hood: Building a Real-Time Chord Recognizer | WhatChord
  94. A nicer voltmeter clock - lcamtuf’s thing
  95. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes | Hacker News
  96. Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI — The attorney for Nikko D’Ambrosio, who tried and failed to sue women for posting about him in an “Are We Dating the Same Guy” Facebook group, has apparently been using AI to file non-existent citations, according to a judge.
  97. MagicPath — An infinite canvas to create, refine, and explore with AI.
  98. (2) How to walk through walls - by Henrik Karlsson — How to walk through walls - by Henrik Karlsson
  99. AI Is Too Expensive | Ed Zitron
  100. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Duzsd2y

The Next Web

  1. Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant
  2. Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform
  3. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue
  4. OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
  5. LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again
  6. Europe’s EV sales are surging as the Iran war sends petrol prices through the roof
  7. Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
  8. Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas
  9. GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension
  10. French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

Smashing Magazine

  1. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  2. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  3. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  4. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  5. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  6. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  7. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  8. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  9. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  10. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  11. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  12. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  13. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  14. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  15. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  16. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  17. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  18. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  19. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  20. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  21. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  22. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  23. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  24. Getting Started With The Popover API
  25. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  26. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  27. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  28. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  29. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  30. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  31. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  32. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  33. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  34. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  35. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  36. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  37. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  38. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  39. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  40. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Weighted Blankets
  2. The Best Noise-Cancelling Headphones
  3. The Best Travel Power Strips and Surge Protectors With USB Charging
  4. The 45 Best Gifts for 5-Year-Olds
  5. The Best Gear for Cornhole, Bags, Sack Toss, or Whatever Y’all Call It Where You’re From
  6. The Best Hot Dogs
  7. The Best Portable Mini Projector
  8. How Wirecutter’s Travel and Beauty Experts Pack Their Toiletries
  9. The Best Computer Speakers
  10. The 34 Best Gifts for 4-Year-Olds

Sweethome

  1. The Best Weighted Blankets
  2. How to DIY Your Own Outdoor Movie Theater
  3. The Best Sheets for Hot Sleepers
  4. The Best Portable Air Conditioner
  5. Behold the Satisfying Steel-Peeling Action of This Garden-Tool Sharpener
  6. The Best Shovel
  7. The Best Lawn Mower
  8. The Best Reel Mower for Your (Small) Lawn
  9. The Best Garden Pruners
  10. The Best Hose Nozzle

Hacker News

  1. An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
  2. GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
  3. Flipper One Tech Specs
  4. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
  5. How fast is N tokens per second really?
  6. Google Declaring War on the Web
  7. Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
  8. Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
  9. Why is Inkwell stuck in review
  10. Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
  11. PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play
  12. Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
  13. SpaceX S-1
  14. Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
  15. Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'
  16. Map of Metal
  17. DOS Zone
  18. SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)
  19. Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
  20. Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
  21. Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos
  22. Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
  23. Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
  24. GitHub's take on age assurance for developers
  25. Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth
  26. Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
  27. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
  28. Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents
  29. LoRA and Weight Decay (2023)
  30. Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse

Ars Technica

  1. Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague
  2. NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
  3. Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia
  4. Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
  5. "Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC
  6. Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
  7. Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats
  8. Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)
  9. Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
  10. Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin
  11. Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
  12. Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement
  13. Russia's plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off
  14. Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
  15. China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting
  16. The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
  17. Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60
  18. FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"
  19. Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain
  20. "I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

Digg

New Scientist

  1. The mysterious reason why women get hotter from age 18 to 42
  2. Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?
  3. We could generate hydrogen from rocks while storing CO2 in them
  4. The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up
  5. After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit his best-loved book
  6. We may finally know why dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms
  7. The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life
  8. Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based solar in Taiwan
  9. Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions
  10. Colossal claims an artificial eggshell will help it bring back the moa
  11. Odd “butterfly” molecule could lead to new parts of the quantum realm
  12. The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think
  13. Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved
  14. Floatation tanks deployed to combat PTSD after devastating wildfires
  15. What is love? Even a meeting on the subject can't find the answer
  16. How I used psychology to come back from the worst year of my life
  17. The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away
  18. The 3 things you need to know about protein, according to an expert
  19. The Ebola emergency shines a light on the urgent need for new vaccines
  20. Your body clock has seasonal rhythms and it matters for vaccines
  21. The hidden pockets of the universe where the future can cause the past
  22. Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum
  23. Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
  24. Himalayan wolf-dog hybrids emerge as a threat to wolves and people
  25. New Scientist recommends a smart new account of human exceptionalism
  26. Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer
  27. First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life
  28. SpaceX is about to launch tallest and most powerful rocket in history
  29. Cleaning up air pollution could weaken vital AMOC ocean current
  30. CAR T-cell therapy bolstered by stiffening up cancer cells first
  31. New Scientist recommends visiting the blooming corpse flower at Kew
  32. Science doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas
  33. Where do you think your ‘self’ is? Your answer is revealing
  34. Shocking turtle photo reveals efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade
  35. Vocal fry is more common in men, actually, find scientists
  36. Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was
  37. Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
  38. Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
  39. 3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert
  40. Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'
  41. Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar
  42. Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
  43. Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years
  44. Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth
  45. Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
  46. Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories
  47. New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI
  48. PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move
  49. Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?
  50. Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests
  51. A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
  52. The story of the first human tool: the humble container
  53. Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
  54. Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
  55. David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
  56. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  57. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  58. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  59. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  60. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
  61. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  62. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
  63. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
  64. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
  65. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
  66. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
  67. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  68. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
  69. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
  70. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
  71. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  72. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  73. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  74. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  75. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  76. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  77. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  78. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  79. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  80. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  81. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  82. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  83. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  84. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  85. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  86. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  87. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  88. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  89. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  90. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  91. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  92. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  93. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  94. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  95. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  96. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  97. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  98. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  99. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  100. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

Slashdot

  1. Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI
  2. Google Publishes Exploit Code Threatening Millions of Chromium Users
  3. RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
  4. GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension
  5. Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order
  6. Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories
  7. Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
  8. Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots
  9. Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes
  10. Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans
  11. Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies
  12. Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets
  13. Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750
  14. Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
  15. NextEra and Dominion's $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Portable Dual 24" Monitors in Rolling Carry-On Form is Now a Reality
  2. Inside the Design of Craighill's Wonderful Metrolog Ruler
  3. Industrial Design Firm's Refillable Metal Floss Tool Lands $425K on Kickstarter
  4. From Guinness Book of World Records to Custom Machines
  5. Form Follows Function: Gustaf Westman's Chunky Coffee Maker
  6. An Artist/Designer's Sick NYC Apartment, Renovated from Maid's Quarters in The Dakota
  7. Library Tables Meant to Accommodate Coffee
  8. Anker Bak and Takumi Kohgei's Gorgeous Gaze Highback Chair
  9. Unitree Develops Production-Ready Mech Suit
  10. Renault Brings Back the Canvas Roof
  11. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-11-26 to 5-15-26)
  12. A Folding Travel Lamp Design from the 1950s
  13. Momentum Studio's Low-Waste 06 Sidetable
  14. Completely Flush Fasteners with a Surprising Mechanism
  15. Luisa Ruge, Industrial Designer Pioneering Animal-Centered Design

CNET

  1. Google's In-Car Gemini Dimmed the Sunroof, Ordered Dinner and Became My Tour Guide
  2. I Chatted With Google's Lifesize, Hyperreal AI Companion
  3. Is Google's Uncanny Virtual Human a Future Coworker or Concierge? video
  4. ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Could Go Public Soon in Major Market Move
  5. Want to Opt Out of Your Data Being Sold, Shared or Used? Good Luck
  6. Oura Adds Clinical Care for Members Seeking Solutions to Chronic Sleep Problems
  7. Rumored Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro Could Feature a 6.47-inch Display
  8. 6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect
  9. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 21, #605
  10. Impulse Buys Under $25 That Make Surprisingly Great Gifts
  11. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 21, #1797
  12. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 21, #1075
  13. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 21 #809
  14. Are Vibration Plates All Hype? Here’s What Experts Think About the Latest Trend
  15. The 5 Google I/O Announcements That Actually Matter
  16. Plex Is Raising Its Lifetime Subscription Price Again, to a Whopping $750
  17. Bose's Memorial Day Deals Let You Have Concert-Quality Sound for as Low as $89
  18. Google's Car Update Helps You Keep Your Eyes on the Road video
  19. Having Android XR Glasses Support iOS Might Be Their Best Feature
  20. Gemini Spark Gives Google Way Too Much Access to Your Data
  21. Europa League Final: Livestream Aston Villa vs. Freiburg Today
  22. Dear Google, Please Don't Ever Mention Doom Again
  23. How AI Can Help You Optimize Your Subscriptions, From Streaming to Groceries
  24. NBA Playoffs 2026: How to Watch Spurs vs. Thunder Tonight
  25. Do Camera Sensor Sizes Matter?

Reddit

The Verge

  1. SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever
  2. ‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
  3. Here are 42 of our favorite deals from REI’s massive Anniversary Sale
  4. I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best
  5. Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections
  6. Vibe coding is coming to your phone
  7. Volvo is trying to put its EV stumbles in the rearview
  8. You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI
  9. Samsung has a tentative deal with workers to avoid a memory chip strike
  10. Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy

Wired

  1. The Best Outdoor Deals From the REI Anniversary Sale 2026
  2. A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
  3. SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
  4. The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (May 2026)
  5. I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
  6. How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak
  7. A New York Cop Got Injured at a Boxing Match. Now Madison Square Garden Is Banning His Lawyer
  8. It’s Officially Election Season in Trumpworld
  9. ‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak
  10. Ride1Up Roadster Review (2026): An Ebike That Feels Like a Bike
  11. Hypershell X Ultra S Review: The Best Exoskeleton Yet
  12. How to Upgrade Weber and Kamado Joe Into Smart Grills
  13. Everything to Look for When Buying a New Laptop in 2026
  14. Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need
  15. Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls
  16. Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
  17. Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for May 2026
  18. LG Promo Codes and Coupons for May 2026
  19. NordVPN Coupons and Deals: 77% Off in May 2026
  20. Sony Coupons: 45% Off Sony Headphones, WF-1000XM6 Earbuds, and Sony Cameras for May

LifeHacker

  1. These Google Search Alternatives Actually Let You Control Your AI Experience
  2. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  3. I Ran a Half-Marathon the Garmin Forerunner 970 on One Wrist and This AmazFit Running Watch on the Other, and Here's How They Compared
  4. You Can Try These New Google I/O Features for Free Right Now
  5. Sony's Signature WH-1000XM5 Headphones Are $150 Off Right Now
  6. I Refused to Use Passkeys Until Apple Added This Feature to Its Passwords App
  7. How Much Training Do You Really Need to Do Hyrox?
  8. The Best Headphones I've Ever Tested Are $60 Off (and Come With a $30 Amazon Gift Card)
  9. What's New on Netflix in June 2026
  10. Android Is Finally Getting Its Own Version of Apple's 'Handoff'
  11. I Use These Milwaukee Tools Every Day, and They're up to 50% Off Ahead of Memorial Day
  12. This Insta360 Flagship Action Camera Is 21% Off Right Now
  13. Why You Should Use Potassium Salt (Even Though It Tastes a Bit Weird)
  14. Google Just Announced When Its First 'Intelligent Eyewear' Smart Glasses Will Launch
  15. 10 Hacks Every Apple Passwords User Should Know
  16. My Favorite ANC Earbuds Are $50 Off
  17. I Compared Garmin and Strava's Race Day Predictions, and Both Were Off in Different Ways
  18. This 55-Inch LG OLED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  19. The New 'Google Health' App Is Replacing the Fitbit App Starting Today
  20. Google's AI Mode Is Getting Gemini's Latest Model
  21. Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Flash Frontier Model Focused On Agentic AI
  22. Google's 'Universal Cart' Is Your New AI Shopping Assistant
  23. Gemini 'Omni' Will Generate Media From Any Input, Starting With Video
  24. Gemini Is Getting a UI Overhaul and Embracing Its Agentic Side
  25. Google Just Announced a Bunch of Workspace Features at I/O 2026
  26. 10 Shows Like 'Big Mistakes' You Should Watch Next
  27. Lifehacker Is Hosting a 'Big Guessing Game' for Apple's 2026 Announcements
  28. These DeWalt Tools Are Up to 54% Off During an Early Memorial Day Sale at Home Depot
  29. Windows 11 Will Finally Let Users Move and Resize the Taskbar
  30. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: What Are 'Grabavoi Numbers'?
  31. Google I/O Live Blog: Android 17, Android XR, Gemini Intelligence, and More
  32. This Asus Handheld Gaming Console Is $275 Off Right Now
  33. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  34. These Noise-Cancelling Soundcore Earbuds Are 31% Off Right Now
  35. 10 Hacks Every 1Password User Should Know
  36. This Four-Pack of AirTags Is on Sale for $60
  37. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  38. How to Watch Google I/O 2026
  39. You Can Get a Free Band or a $35 Credit When You Preorder the New Fitbit Air
  40. Sharing Between Android and iPhones Just Got Easier Than Ever
  41. You Can Choose New 'Thinking Levels' for Gemini
  42. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Cheesin'?
  43. This Anker Wireless Charging Cube Is 50% Off Right Now
  44. This Waterproof Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 34% Off Right Now
  45. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  46. I Tried These Four Fitness Watches to See Which Was Best for Hyrox Training
  47. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Teams User Should Know
  48. Chatbots May Be Giving Out Your Phone Number
  49. Here Are the Best Early Memorial Day Sales so Far
  50. You Can Now Pre-Order XReal's R1 Gaming AR Glasses (With the ROG Control Deck)
  51. The Big Three Carriers Want to (Nearly) End Dead Zones in the United States
  52. Apple Just Expanded This Privacy Feature to More iPhones
  53. 10 Hacks Every Apple Mail User Should Know
  54. 10 Apple Shortcut Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  55. What to Look For When You're Buying Refurbished Tech (and the Best Sites to Check Out)
  56. This LG Smart Gaming Monitor Is $850 Off Right Now
  57. This Eufy Security Four-Camera Kit Is 43% Off Right Now
  58. What Is Functional Fitness, Anyway?
  59. The Hisense CanvasTV Is a Great Alternative to Samsung's 'The Frame,' and Now It's $500 Off
  60. This Is Every Android Getting AirDrop Support This Year
  61. How to Actually Start Eating Healthy
  62. 10 Shows Like 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' You Should Watch Next
  63. This 55-Inch Samsung OLED TV Was Already a Great Value, and Now It's Over $550 Off
  64. Instagram's New Snapchat Clone Makes It Too Easy to Send Disappearing Images to All Your Friends
  65. Five Built-In Chromebook Apps You Should Definitely Be Using
  66. This Samsung Gaming Monitor With Adjustable Stand Is $90 Off Right Now
  67. This LG OLED Gaming Monitor Is 40% Off Right Now
  68. You Could Get up to $100 in This Google Class Action Lawsuit
  69. The Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are on Sale for $160 Right Now
  70. Amazon’s Feature-Packed Echo Dot Max Is $25 Off Right Now
  71. Mark Zuckerberg Just Teased New Smart Glasses Ahead of Meta Connect
  72. Google Announced a Bunch of Security Upgrades for Android This Week
  73. It Just Got Harder to Get Apple's Educational Discount
  74. The Beats Pill Is My Go-to Portable Speaker, and It's on Sale for $100 Right Now
  75. These Craftsman Tools Are Up to 56% Off Right Now
  76. Three Things I Already Like About the Fitbit Air
  77. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $300 Off Right Now
  78. The Trump Mobile T1 Phone Is (Supposedly) Shipping This Week
  79. Don’t Remove This Film on Your Switch 2
  80. Samsung's One UI 9 Beta Program Is Rolling Out Now, and Here's What to Expect
  81. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is Over $400 Off Right Now
  82. This Google Whole-Home Mesh System Is $170 Off Right Now
  83. New Smart Bands Are Coming, and Whoop Is Scared
  84. This Massive 85-Inch Alternative to 'The Frame' TV Is 40% Off Right Now
  85. The Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
  86. Spotify Is Down
  87. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The 'Missing Scientists' Conspiracy Theory
  88. 10 Shows Like 'Paradise' You Should Watch Next
  89. Google Just Announced a New Laptop Platform Called 'Googlebooks'
  90. Google Wants to Improve Its Social Media Reputation With Android 17
  91. Google Just Announced 'Gemini Intelligence' at The Android Show: I/O Edition
  92. This Tiny Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $32
  93. Garmin Just Launched Two New Running Watches
  94. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Outlook User Should Know
  95. This Mac App Will Demystify Your Tangle of Cables
  96. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is $150 Off Right Now
  97. Google's Second-Gen Wired Doorbell Is Under $100 Right Now
  98. How to Remove a Tick Without Touching It
  99. This Google Pixel 9 Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  100. Apple Just Made Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
  2. Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
  3. Nvidia reports Q1 net income up 211% YoY to $58.3B, beating analyst estimates of $42.9B, and raises Q2 revenue forecast to $91B (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
  4. In disclosures to investors, Anthropic says it expects to generate $10.9B in revenue in Q2, vs. $4.8B in Q1, and turn a $559M operating profit, its first ever (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
  5. SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX (Bloomberg)
  6. Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.6B, Data Center revenue up 92% to $75.2B, and announces an $80B additional share repurchase authorization (Nvidia Newsroom)
  7. OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
  8. Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
  9. Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
  10. Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform (Jacob Passy/Wall Street Journal)
  11. Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 will fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+ (Reuters)
  13. Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO (Tom Warren/The Verge)
  14. Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year (Katie Paul/Reuters)
  15. An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)