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BBC

  1. Dangerous baby-sleep advice given to parents by self-described experts, secret filming reveals
  2. Inciting antisemitism will not be tolerated, Starmer warns Iran
  3. Beyoncé, Rihanna and Heidi Klum turn heads at the Met Gala
  4. Modern slavery at record levels in UK, report warns
  5. Second hantavirus case confirmed after deaths on cruise ship
  6. Dolly Parton cancels Las Vegas residency over health issues
  7. Counter-terror police investigating arson at disused synagogue
  8. Record 1.3m apply for 2027 London Marathon ballot
  9. Potholes fuel voter frustration before elections - so what can be done?
  10. Man, 25, dies after Brixton drive-by shooting
  11. Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 26 people
  12. How Broadway star Lea Salonga changed the rules and opened the door for Asian actors
  13. Vodafone sold us a dream to take on shops - the reality was different
  14. What we know about Trump's 'Project Freedom' in Strait of Hormuz
  15. What is the hantavirus that has been confirmed on an Atlantic cruise ship?
  16. 'His life was destroyed': Widow of man falsely accused of murder fights for an inquiry
  17. Scotland's vape capital - what's behind the boom?
  18. Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd in German city of Leipzig
  19. British pubs closing at a rate of almost two per day in 2026
  20. A 'fun' superstar stuns rivals and reshapes politics in an Indian state
  21. Nine coal miners die in gas explosion in Colombia
  22. Popular Australian author pleads guilty over child exploitation material
  23. Pussycat Dolls cancel US leg of reunion tour after poor ticket sales
  24. BBC News app
  25. The Week: The Price Of The Iran War
  26. LIVE at Maida Vale studios… How popular is Donald Trump in the US?
  27. The family sacrifices that helped Wu become world champion
  28. Foden reaches agreement over new Man City deal
  29. RFU backs Borthwick but flags multiple Six Nations failings
  30. A remarkable finale - but will 13 chaotic minutes cost Man City title?
  31. What now for Rohl's Rangers as title hopes fade?
  32. French broadcaster hits back at Bath's TMO criticism
  33. Adriano, Samba, R.Larcos - ranking the most iconic video game footballers

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Apple said to be talking to Intel and Samsung about building key device processors
  2. Elon Musk settles with the SEC for $1.5 million after years-long dispute over his Twitter investment
  3. The White House is considering tighter regulation of new AI models
  4. iOS 26.5 will add end-to-end encryption for RCS messages between Apple and Android
  5. Wholesome Direct returns June 6 with a slew of joyful games
  6. One of iRobot's co-founders is now making weird little robot companions
  7. Mini Motorways is letting players vote for its next city map
  8. A study shows that cellphone bans didn't improve US students' test scores
  9. How to watch Xbox's Stranger Than Heaven showcase
  10. Instagram is testing optional 'AI creator' labels
  11. Amazon opens up its logistics networks to any business
  12. Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million
  13. GameStop submits $56 billion offer to buy eBay
  14. Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler
  15. Lego is releasing a Sega Genesis set complete with little controllers
  16. OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app
  17. Tesla starts selling Chinese-made Model 3s in Canada at the EV's lowest price ever
  18. Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
  19. Undead co-op shooters, gorgeous hack-and-slash action and other new indie games worth checking out
  20. AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars

Pinboard

  1. 2 Letters from Steve | David Gelphman's Blog — Today (Tuesday) I’m visiting a terminally ill friend in the hospital in San Francisco. I’ve been told that she will likely not survive until this Friday. She had a liver transplant in late February and we all had high hopes but unfortunately she has not recovered.
  2. DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
  3. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  4. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  5. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  6. Why TUIs are back by Alcides Fonseca — https://lobste.rs/s/quulrs/why_tuis_are_back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000028
  7. A desktop made for one – Geir's Everything
  8. GitHub - Lum1104/Understand-Anything: Claude Code skills that turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about (Multi-platform e.g., Codex are supported). · GitHub — antigremlin starred Lum1104/Understand-Anything
  9. GitHub - aattaran/deepclaude: Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. — deepclaude Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. Remote control …
  10. AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses • The Guardian — Robert Booth: From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs? A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outpe…
  11. Alert-driven monitoring | Documentation
  12. Your Container Is Not a Sandbox: The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026
  13. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician | Science — Editor’s summary Computational tools for medical decision support have been advancing over time, mainly by serving as resources for limited applications. Machine learning tools for autonomous interpretation of clinical cases have also be…
  14. Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  15. mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
  16. Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide
  17. acai.sh
  18. The Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms
  19. How to organize your Obsidian vault using Claude (prompts included) — via the How-To Geek https://ift.tt/UwSjBv9
  20. pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more. — https://pyinfra.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26983266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211655 …
  21. How LLMs Distort Our Written Language — LLMs are used by over a billion people globally, and the most frequent use case is to assist with writing. LLMs can provide a huge efficiency boost, but are they actually writing what we want?  Many users recognize the "feel" of LLM prose, but few people realize the extent to which …
  22. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  23. Links to CSS colour palettes — Links to CSS colour palettes https://bit.ly/4dcFPtw IFTTT, Inoreader
  24. How an Alleged Predator Remade the Southern Baptist Convention
  25. NOIR, Japan's hard-boiled bittersweet answer to OREOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  26. 1D-Chess
  27. styles.refero.design
  28. Testing Vue components in the browser
  29. I am worried about Bun | wwj.dev — Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
  30. Daring Fireball: Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today — "In that near future, human programmers are likely still to be writing — or at least line-by-line reviewing and approving — code. But as a percentage of all code being generated, that will only be a sliver."
  31. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy — This is the first "real" use case I've seen where agents are given access to payment methods and buying something on their own. > Starting today, agents can provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid …
  32. Alert-Driven Monitoring | Hacker News
  33. Parachute — Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.
  34. What fun websites do you know? | Lobsters
  35. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic — Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark has written: “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assesse…
  36. Texico | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
  37. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper | Hacker News
  38. pi-mono/packages/coding-agent at main · badlogic/pi-mono
  39. I can never talk to an AI anonymously again (Kelsey Piper) — AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you? The Argument Apr 21, 2026 Several advanced AI models, in particular Claude Opus 4.7, have demonstrated the ability to deduce the author of relatively small excerpts of text. Recently, Matt Ygle…
  40. Redis array type: short story of a long development -
  41. サプライチェーン攻撃の対策 - kawasima
  42. Hugging Face Viewer
  43. Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
  44. Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump
  45. 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
  46. Flue — The Agent Harness Framework
  47. Visual Validation Feedback for Form Fields :: Aaron Gustafson
  48. Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions - Jim Nielsen’s Blog — Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
  49. AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills
  50. UK Fuel Price Intelligence
  51. PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out | Hacker News
  52. NetHack 5.0.0 | Hacker News
  53. Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines
  54. GitHub - yogthos/chiasmus: Chiasmus is an MCP server that gives language models access to formal verification · GitHub
  55. The end of responsive images
  56. Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks | Metin's Blog
  57. Physical buttons return to upcoming Mercedes-Benz interiors
  58. Supreme Court (temporarily) restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
  59. [no title]
  60. The Death of Scrum — An Interactive Essay
  61. Chromium Drift
  62. the courtship of ilya rozanov - cherrylilies (cherrydialectic) - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — I THINK THIS IS AI >:(
  63. That "Pending PayPal Charge" Email Is a Scam — Even Though It Really Came From PayPal — Ted Cromwell
  64. Pica, a MacOS font management app — A better way to manage your fonts
  65. NetHack 5.0.0: Main Page
  66. raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt: Build a modern LLM from scratch. Every line commented. Explained like we are five. — Build a modern LLM from scratch. Every line commented. Explained like we are five. - raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt
  67. The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced — In a time before crypto, Twitter, and AI slop, we had communities, real experiences, and beautiful TV…
  68. Anonymous: and never get dizzy — “Uh, hello,” Ilya says when the cat rises up on its legs and stretches, back bending and paws curling down. Its ears flick and it gives him a dour sort of mwor in return. Witches have familiars, Ilya knows that. And this is a perfect spot for a familiar to be, on the stoop of the witch's hous…
  69. Year of the Linux Laptop: Omarchy on XPS / Dell
  70. Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems - Phoronix
  71. Write With Harper — English grammar checker
  72. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work (Ars Technica) — Intentional errors can be useful. ... Canaries—from Clancy to AI The canary trap has been used by companies ranging from Tesla to Apple; it was even used to stop the leak of Star Trek film scripts. Though the concept comes from the world of espi…
  73. The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time — Rolling Stone magazine top 100 guitar solos
  74. Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
  75. lsferreira42/nfsdiag: A nfs doctor application
  76. Strange Ways To Make Cold | Hackaday
  77. ‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions - BC | Globalnews.ca
  78. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | The Haskell Programming Language's blog
  79. Daring Fireball: Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  80. Slow Cooker Coconut Lentil Soup | Slimming Eats
  81. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | TechCrunch
  82. There's a free way to use Claude Code — and it's surprisingly simple — Own, don't rent.
  83. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day — A beautiful tribute to programming and flow. But then: "I don’t really write code anymore. The main thing now is managing agents. ... But it is not the work I have been doing for thirty years. The shape of it is different. The rhythm is different. ... But the mu…
  84. labeledbones - let's be who we were already — It starts with Ilya’s nails. Or, at least, that’s the first outward sign that Shane picks up on. In which Shane supports Ilya as he explores gender expression/gender identity. Set during their first season on the Centaurs together. (Words: 21,762)
  85. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  86. lost in translation by gurlsrool — “The Centaurs' newest rookie speaks Russian. It's too bad that Shane and Ilya don't know that.” [Shane/Ilya; Troy/Harris, OMC/OMC]
  87. Let’s talk about LLMs
  88. Artemis II Photo Timeline — An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.
  89. Science Needs AI Data Stocktakes: A Proof-of-Concept for Fusion — Google DeepMind
  90. Rethinking Trend Following: Optimal Regime-Dependent Allocation -
  91. 3 Android apps to try out this weekend — Mobile apps can still be fun.
  92. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
  93. Single-molecule localization and diffusivity microscopy reveals dynamic biomolecular organization in living cells - Nature Methods — Single-molecule localization and diffusivity microscopy (SMLDM) integrates deep learning with diffusion theory and super-resolution imaging to extract single-molecule diffusivity and localizati…
  94. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility — The Inclusive Lens
  95. When Dawkins met Claude - UnHerd
  96. 1weiho/open-slide: A slide framework built for agents.
  97. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
  98. 3 constraints before I build anything | Jordan Lord
  99. Laws of Software Engineering — This is a handy catalog, but the deeper value is knowing when each one clarifies reality and when it distorts it. Brooks’s Law, Conway’s Law, Hyrum’s Law, Goodhart’s Law, Gall’s Law, YAGNI, DRY, KISS: each names a recurring pressure, tradeoff, or failure mode. The mistake is treating them as un…
  100. Unsloth Qwen3.6 — New coding model of interest if you run AI coding agents locally

The Next Web

  1. Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation
  2. Apple explores Intel and Samsung for chipmaking, ending TSMC’s solo run on M-series
  3. Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again
  4. Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.
  5. Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.
  6. Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.
  7. Apple spent a decade waiting for developers to build Wallet passes. Now it is letting users build their own.
  8. A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.
  9. Why removing humans from care may undermine outcomes
  10. AI is now an F1 sponsor, a strategist, and a tech director. The race weekend has changed.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Women’s Underwear
  2. Ask Wirecutter: What’s the Best Way to Pack Sunscreen for Vacation?
  3. Stylish Leather, Meet Smashed Fly Guts
  4. The Best Hair Dryer
  5. I Spent a Small Fortune on Fancy Travel Containers and Regret Nothing
  6. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  7. How Do You Get Rid of Shredded Paper? Think Twice Before Recycling.
  8. Are You a Good Gift Giver? Take Our Quiz.
  9. The Best Pressure Washer
  10. Spring Skin-Care and Beauty Sales Are Here. These Are the Deals We Love.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Hair Dryer
  2. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  3. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  4. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  5. Our Favorite Watering Cans
  6. The Best Robot Lawn Mower
  7. The Best Pressure Washer
  8. Our Favorite Curtains
  9. This $28 Garden Tool Cut My Weeding Time in Half
  10. The Quiet Luxury of a Collapsible Laundry Basket

Hacker News

  1. Async Rust never left the MVP state
  2. Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
  3. Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
  4. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
  5. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
  6. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
  7. Hand Drawn QR Codes
  8. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
  9. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
  10. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
  11. Farewell to a Giant of Botany
  12. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
  13. Agent Skills
  14. Why I Created phpc.tv
  15. Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal
  16. The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
  17. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
  18. Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
  19. pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest
  20. Redis array: short story of a long development process
  21. When networking doesn't work
  22. Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)
  23. Talking to strangers at the gym
  24. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
  25. Biscuit
  26. Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches
  27. 2-D Mathematical Curves
  28. 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
  29. Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs
  30. Setting up server monitoring for a Rails app on Hatchbox

Ars Technica

  1. "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
  2. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work
  3. Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
  4. GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it
  5. F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works
  6. AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
  7. Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial
  8. Mac mini starting price goes up to $799, may be hard to get for "months"
  9. Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms
  10. MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
  11. Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
  12. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
  13. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
  14. Study: AI models that consider users' feelings are more likely to make errors
  15. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
  16. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
  17. Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
  18. Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
  19. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
  20. Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

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New Scientist

  1. Man destined to get Alzheimer’s saved by accidental heat therapy
  2. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  3. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  4. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  5. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  6. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  7. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  8. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  9. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  10. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  11. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  12. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  13. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  14. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  15. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  16. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  17. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  18. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  19. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  20. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  21. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  22. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  23. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  24. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  25. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  26. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  27. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  28. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  29. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  30. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  31. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  32. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  33. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  34. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  35. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  36. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  37. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  38. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  39. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  40. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  41. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  42. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  43. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  44. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  45. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  46. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  47. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  48. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  49. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  50. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  51. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  52. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  53. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  54. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  55. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  56. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  57. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  58. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  59. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  60. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  61. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  62. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  63. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  64. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  65. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  66. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  67. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  68. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  69. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  70. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  71. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  72. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  73. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  74. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  75. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  76. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  77. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  78. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  79. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  80. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  81. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  82. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  83. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  84. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  85. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  86. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  87. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  88. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  89. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  90. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  91. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  92. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  93. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  94. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  95. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  96. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  97. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  98. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  99. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  100. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

Slashdot

  1. How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet
  2. Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto
  3. OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion
  4. White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released
  5. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill To Fund 'AI Literacy' In Schools
  6. The Pixel 11 Could Be the Next Victim of the RAM Shortage
  7. Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 Support Is Coming To Linux
  8. The Audio Industry Is Grappling With the Rise of 'Podslop'
  9. Anthropic Nears $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Firms
  10. GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
  11. Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars
  12. Infrasound Waves Stop Kitchen Fires, But Can They Replace Sprinklers?
  13. 16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
  14. Can Investors Trust AI Sales Figures? Asks Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece
  15. Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22%

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. MVE-Collection: An Architect and Designer Make Furniture out of Construction Site Waste
  2. A Tensegrity-Based Side Table Made out of Pipes
  3. An Airline Pilot's Disappearing Staircase References Work
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  5. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  6. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine
  7. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-20-26 to 4-24-26)
  8. Drill Design's Wall Hanger Channels Enzo Mari
  9. In This Transylvanian City, the Buildings Have Eyes
  10. Industrial Design Student Project Turned Commercial Furniture
  11. Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Pays Homage to Everyday Holes
  12. An Unusual Architectural Detail from Scandinavia: Open Downspouts
  13. Clever Use of Materials: Making a Child-Safe Axe-Throwing Set-Up
  14. Snap-Off Blades were Inspired by Chocolate Bars and Broken Glass
  15. Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders

CNET

  1. Peacock Shows Can Now Be Streamed for Free on United Airlines Flights
  2. Bosses Want You to Use AI but They're Not Setting a Good Example, Study Says
  3. All the Ways You Can Customize Your iPhone's Home Screen
  4. Think the Air Fryer Is Undefeated? These 10 Food Fails Prove Otherwise
  5. 'The Boys' Season 5: When Does Episode 6 Come Out?
  6. Best Streaming Services of 2026
  7. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 5, #588
  8. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 5, #793
  9. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 5, #1059
  10. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 5, #1781
  11. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, May 5
  12. The 7 Pasta Sins You Don't Realize You're Committing
  13. How to Secure Your Home Wi-Fi: A Step-by-Step Guide
  14. WatchOS 27 Set to Get Slimmed-Down Watch Ultra Face, Report Says
  15. Surfshark Adds Vega OS Support, Expanding VPN Access on Amazon Fire TV
  16. Google Pixel 11 Rumored to Come With a Better Camera, but Less RAM
  17. iOS 27 Might Let Users Create Custom Passes for Apple Wallet App
  18. How to Watch the NBA Playoffs 2026: Round 2 Matchups, TV and Streaming Schedule, and More
  19. And the Oscar Does Not Go to… AI 'Actors' and AI-Written Screenplays, the Academy Says
  20. Utah Will Ban VPN Use to Circumvent Age Verification
  21. HBO Max: The 32 Absolute Best TV Shows to Watch
  22. May the 4th Is Here and We've Got Deals and Announcements From Across the Galaxy
  23. Apple's New Rainbow Pride Band Is 10 Years In the Making
  24. Another Mac Mini Option Goes MIA as Memory Shortage Rages On
  25. Mustache Mischief: Kids Bypass UK's Digital Age Barriers

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Facebook and Instagram are using AI bone structure analysis to identify photos of kids
  2. Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts
  3. Microsoft is finally ditching the junk MSN feed in Windows widgets
  4. The 40 best Mother’s Day gift ideas for 2026
  5. Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days
  6. OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
  7. Elon Musk will settle the feds’ Twitter lawsuit with pocket change
  8. Skylight’s 15-inch smart calendar is down to its lowest price to date
  9. SwitchBot’s rechargeable button pusher is on sale for over 20 percent off
  10. The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

Wired

  1. The iPhone That Never Was
  2. 9 Best Portable Power Stations (2026): Power Capacity, Portability, Camping, and More
  3. Best Gifts for Mom (2026): E-Readers, Digital Wall Calendar, Smart Bird Feeders
  4. The Secret to Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Online Superstardom? Control
  5. He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
  6. The Best Food Gifts to Buy Online, as Tested by Our Tastebuds (2026)
  7. The Best Sustainable Surf Gear (2026): Patagonia, Billabong, Outerknown
  8. Loop Earplugs Discount Codes: 40% Off
  9. Meta Quest Promo Codes: $50 Off | May 2026
  10. B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This May
  11. Exclusive Lovehoney Discount Codes: 15% Off
  12. Layla Sleep Coupon: Save Up to $600 in May 2026
  13. Litter-Robot Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $150 Off
  14. Babbel Promo Code: Up to 65% Off in May 2026
  15. Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | 2026
  16. Uplift Desk Coupon Codes & Discounts: Up to $570 Off
  17. Visible Promo Code: Save Over $400 in May 2026
  18. Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’
  19. What the Spirit Airlines Implosion Means for Your Vacation
  20. What to Know About Sony’s $7.85 Million PlayStation Settlement

LifeHacker

  1. My Three Favorite Garmin Features to Use on Race Day
  2. 10 Hacks Every Apple Notes User Should Know
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  5. Apple Is Finally About to Make Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  6. You Can Already Save $80 on the New M4 iPad Air
  7. The New AirPods Max 2 Are $40 Off Right Now
  8. You Might Get Some Money From This PlayStation Store Lawsuit
  9. These Are the Best Apps to Track Your Flights
  10. Here's How to Save Your Samsung Messages Conversations Before the App Shuts Down
  11. I Let Alexa+ and Gemini Power My Smart Home, and They Were Both Great
  12. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Le Snack Demon'?
  13. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $120 Handheld Device
  14. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  15. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  16. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  17. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  18. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  19. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  20. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  21. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  22. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  23. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  24. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  25. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  26. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  27. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  28. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  29. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  30. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  31. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  32. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  33. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  34. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  35. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  36. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  37. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  38. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  39. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  40. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  41. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  42. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  43. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  44. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  45. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  46. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  47. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  48. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  49. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  50. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  51. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  52. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  53. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  54. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  55. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  56. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  57. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  58. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  59. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  60. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  61. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  62. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  63. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  64. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  65. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  66. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  67. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  68. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  69. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  70. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  71. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  72. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  73. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  74. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  75. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  76. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  77. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  78. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  79. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  80. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  81. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  82. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  83. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  84. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  85. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  86. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is
  87. This Google Pixel Watch 4 Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  88. These Third-Generation Apple AirPods Are $50 Off Right Now
  89. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  90. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  91. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  92. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  93. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  94. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  95. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  96. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  97. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  98. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  99. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  100. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch

The Onion

The Register

  1. Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
  2. NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
  3. Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
  4. Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
  5. Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
  6. Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
  7. Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'
  8. Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
  9. Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
  10. Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
  11. Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
  12. Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
  13. Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
  14. Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
  15. Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
  16. If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
  17. Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
  18. Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
  19. Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky
  20. Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
  21. Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
  22. Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark
  23. Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’
  24. Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise
  25. Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
  26. UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
  27. Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
  28. ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs
  29. Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred
  30. Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
  31. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
  32. CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos
  33. That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry
  34. First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
  35. Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
  36. OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
  37. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
  38. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
  39. UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
  40. Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
  41. Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
  42. DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
  43. User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
  44. Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
  45. Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
  46. ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
  47. The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
  48. Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue
  49. Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
  50. Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled

TechMeme

  1. Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
  2. Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (New York Times)
  3. Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B+ (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
  4. Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)
  5. In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (Counterpoint Research)
  6. Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
  7. Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to $99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas (Semiconductor Industry Association)
  8. Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
  9. Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
  10. How Europe is falling behind in the global crypto race, as delays to the ECB's digital euro leave the bloc exposed to US-led stablecoin dominance (Bloomberg)
  11. Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
  12. Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (Bloomberg)
  13. Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, and currently supports 190+ open models, including Nemotron (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
  14. Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
  15. As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill (Owen Tucker-Smith/Wall Street Journal)