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BBC

  1. British Steel set to be nationalised, Starmer says
  2. British passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship isolating in hospital
  3. Tourist hotspot at 'end of the world' denies causing hantavirus outbreak
  4. Martin Lewis delivers emotional speech, and nine other Bafta TV moments
  5. Trump calls Iran response to US proposal to end war 'totally unacceptable'
  6. Why Eurovision's fallout over Israel may change the competition forever
  7. Man charged after car hits five people in town centre
  8. Biggest VAR call ever? Four chaotic minutes that may define the season
  9. US and French nationals test positive for hantavirus after leaving ship
  10. Star Wars and Shakespeare actor Michael Pennington dies aged 82
  11. New laws on EU alignment and tourist tax could be in King's Speech
  12. How worried should we be about hantavirus?
  13. Seven scenarios for what might happen next for Starmer
  14. This couple lost £1,000 after their flight was cancelled - here is what to check so you don't
  15. His father had just been buried. Then West Bank settlers forced him to dig up the body
  16. Trump's China visit set to test fragile truce
  17. The summer England's golden generation lost its shine
  18. My sister spent up to £1,500 a month on drink from delivery apps
  19. Adolescence makes history at Bafta TV Awards
  20. Oil prices jump after Trump dismisses Iran proposal to end war
  21. Arctic air to sweep UK bringing midweek cold snap
  22. Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m over use of her image on TV boxes
  23. Iranian activist tells BBC how fear of war restarting intensifies trauma of repression
  24. Philippines vice president Sara Duterte impeached for a second time
  25. The Beatles will open a museum on the site of their last gig
  26. BBC News app
  27. Electioncast: Could Catherine West Really Bring Down Keir Starmer?
  28. Trump takes his revenge on disloyal Republicans
  29. Fast-paced, witty and smart coming-of-age comedy
  30. An insight into the secretive 'matchstick men' painter
  31. Biggest VAR call ever? Four chaotic minutes that may define the season
  32. West Ham set to contact referees' body over disallowed goal
  33. The summer a golden generation lost its shine
  34. How Flick's reshaped Barca dominated La Liga again
  35. Premlall just misses Woods' record with 14-shot win

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Samsung's Bespoke update is big step towards a useful AI for your fridge
  2. Whoop will soon offer users in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians
  3. GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers' driving data
  4. Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million
  5. Safari's latest trick could be automatically organizing your tabs into groups
  6. Liquid Glass tweaks are reportedly coming in the next macOS
  7. A new Subnautica 2 gameplay trailer just dropped ahead of its Early Access release
  8. NASA is set to begin training with a prototype of Blue Origin's crew moon lander
  9. The electric scooter rental company Lime has filed for IPO
  10. Porsche is discontinuing its performance e-bike division
  11. Banned drones and routers in the US will still get critical updates until 2029
  12. NASA's Curiosity rover gets its drill stuck, recordings from the Arctic seafloor and more science stories
  13. Mortal Kombat II review: More than just camp
  14. Chainsaw carnage, lots of music-based titles and other new indie games worth checking out
  15. Workers for Xbox studio Double Fine are forming a union
  16. Discord is back after an outage that took some users offline
  17. Prime Video is adding a TikTok-like feed
  18. Department of War sets up UFO website, but there isn't much to see
  19. InMusic will acquire Native Instruments, putting it under the same umbrella as Akai
  20. Shoot up Xenomorphs in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, arriving this summer

Pinboard

  1. This is what free costs
  2. Learn AI Layer by Layer — An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles. Rob Ennals
  3. Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be) — (This website looks to have that “acoustic” flavor of someone whose special interest is Wi-Fi.) “Wi-Fi’s first weakest link -- your client devices: Wi-Fi throughput to a Wi-Fi 5 wireless client device using an 80 MHz channel will likely max out at around 650 Mbps (±60 Mbp…
  4. matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
  5. Thariq on X: "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" / X
  6. Think Linear Algebra — Think Linear Algebra
  7. Introduction | Meshtastic — Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!
  8. Pi-Zero RAM Website
  9. Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
  10. Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
  11. OpenAI's WebRTC Problem - Media over QUIC
  12. GitHub - antirez/ds4: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal · GitHub
  13. Mojo Programming Language — Mojo combines the usability of Python with the performance of C, unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models. Mojo is a new programming language that bridges the gap between research and production by combining the best of Python syntax with systems program…
  14. Just Fucking Use Go - Blain Smith
  15. The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
  16. Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
  17. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro — We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I am fortunate to have been given access, producing a piece of PhD-level research i…
  18. Mythical Man Month
  19. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | Hacker News
  20. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso - by Maciej Cegłowski
  21. The indie web index directory | theindex.fyi
  22. AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  23. Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different | Dochia CLI Blog — Designing idempotency for an API is way harder than you probably think. The article lists specific issues like second request comes while first is still running or second request is different from the first.
  24. agents need control flow, not more prompts | brian’s thoughts
  25. The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy
  26. Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
  27. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | Hacker News
  28. Guardian Blind Dates: 18 Years of Data
  29. The map that keeps Burning Man honest — Each year, 70,000 people gather on a dry lakebed in Nevada to build a city from scratch. This is Black Rock City, home to the infamous Burning Man event. Eight days later, it's gone. But 150 people remain. They line up — side by side, an arms width apart — and slowly walk the 3,800 ac…
  30. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?  – ACM SIGOPS
  31. 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
  32. Opinion | Biggest Con of All: The Genuinely Staggering Scale of Trump's Robbery | Common Dreams
  33. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS — For different values of the text-stroke-width, browsers will automatically draw outlines of the character, The larger you set the stroke width, the thicker the outline will get, while still maintain its original shape. The next step is to use different colors and put them in order.
  34. Internet Archive Switzerland
  35. Poland is a model for economic growth | AP News
  36. Natural Language Autoencoders
  37. I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left | Hacker News — People don’t seem to realize how simple pricing can be made for the user. I switched to digital ocean too, and it’s great. I think people think it’s not really engineering if it’s not complicated, so they stick with these insane AWS/GCP/Azure setups. But it’s not…
  38. Teaching Claude why Anthropic
  39. Theme Builder — Zed
  40. Diese europäischen Orte verlieren Einwohner — Map of population change in Europe 1960-2024
  41. Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
  42. 36 Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History
  43. CADara
  44. ‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band | Music | The Guardian — Their microtonal rock has been a huge viral hit – but are they really 333-year-old aliens inspired by Borneo monkeys? The Quebecois duo tell all
  45. Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago — Henri-Charles Guérard, Composite print of Japanese masks and a death’s-head (1888), from the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Public domain. “Wanna see a dead body?”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/
  46. The Boring Internet | Terry Godier — The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
  47. Local AI Needs to be the Norm - unix.foo — Local AI Needs to be the Norm https://ift.tt/ICDgAzs ai, local, open.source
  48. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux | Hacker News
  49. Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data | Reuters
  50. AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  51. Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground - The New York Times
  52. Canvas violato: il più grande disastro per la privacy degli studenti — Il gruppo ransomware ShinyHunters ha violato Instructure (Canvas), rubando miliardi di messaggi e dati di oltre 275 milioni di persone e bloccando l'accesso degli studenti. I messaggi contengono informazioni sensibili (circostanze mediche, accomodamenti, …
  53. Hovercraft—a virtual presentation camera for Mac — A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Your slides float in the frame next to you, moved by hand. No screen share, no option-tab, no corner thumbnail.
  54. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  55. Palette Inspiration - Timeless Colors of the Great Masters
  56. Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable - The New York Times — What employees typed into their computer, how they moved their mouse, where they clicked and what they saw on their screen would be tracked. The goal was to capture employee data so Meta’s artificial intelligence models could learn “how people ac…
  57. the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
  58. When persistence prevails | Tim Harford
  59. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  60. Understanding the gynecological health crisis facing Black women | Science Friday (Kemi Doll, Gynecology) — When Kemi Doll was in medical school, she learned that Black women are twice as likely to die from uterine cancer as white women, and also suffer disproportionately from other uterine-related conditions.
  61. Dusk • Restoring light to a classic adventure — Dusk as Zelda PC clone based on the Zelda for GameCube/Wii https://twilitrealm.dev/faq/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fQ4ZB-wvk&t=21s COVID Project - When we started the decomp project in August 2020, it was hard to imagine ever finishing, much less seeing it be use…
  62. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux • Stephen Brennan
  63. 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…
  64. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit - Xe Iaso
  65. Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI — Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence.
  66. Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You — An open-source agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are. By Nous Research.
  67. GitHub - graemeg/blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8. · GitHub
  68. Shunting-Yard Algorithm Animation — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084547
  69. GitHub - rohitg00/agentmemory: Persistent memory for AI coding agents · GitHub
  70. Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity — Designing, Refining, and Maintaining Agent Skills at Perplexity https://ift.tt/VNa8qBz
  71. Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/16zJh3q
  72. DataCenter.FM - background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959513
  73. Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
  74. OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant — * https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent * https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks/ * https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks…
  75. How to Access Court Records, by State: How to Access Court Records, by State A crowdsourced field guide to finding state court records
  76. career - What's a mathematician to do? - MathOverflow — The world does not suffer from an oversupply of clarity and understanding (to put it mildly).
  77. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev — Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but…
  78. Getting peak TOPS on a Ryzen AI 7 350 NPU – Daniel Estévez
  79. Programming Still Sucks. — Programming is hard and always has been, but now AI and corporate greed make it worse. Experienced workers like Sara keep things running quietly while many juniors and apprentices disappear. The real problem isn’t AI taking jobs—it’s decisions driven by money that break teams and destroy knowledge.
  80. Is this thing on? - ARustySpork - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — “They need to return to a conference based system,” Svetlana said, slamming her hand against the table. “It was fucking fine the way it was, why are we handing out participation trophies to shitty divisions?” Ilya raised his eyebro…
  81. susam/wander: A tiny, decentralised tool you can host with just two files to explore the small web - Codeberg.org
  82. (8) Data center land use issues are fake - Andy Masley
  83. Datenschutz-Check für Apps & Smart Home | DATADOOM
  84. Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/YUcIl4S
  85. Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter | Amusing Planet — Emerich Juettner, a frail old immigrant living alone in a shabby New York apartment, quietly printed one-dollar bills on a cheap hand press. He was, by almost every conventional standard, terrible at counterfeiting. And yet he succeeded for nearly a decade. B…
  86. The man with an army of Yarbo robot lawn mowers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/16zJh3q
  87. On forking the Web
  88. Scroll-Driven Animations • Josh W. Comeau — Historically, we’ve needed to use JavaScript for this kind of effect, but an exciting new API, Animation Timeline, makes it possible to do this sort of thing in native CSS! ✨
  89. Min-Tab: A clean, fast new tab replacement for Chrome and Firefox with multi-search engine support, smart suggestions, keyboard shortcuts, and complete privacy—no tracking, no clutter.
  90. Mahjong: a Visual Guide
  91. RoiKachlon321/startpage: Self-service bookmark startpage with Angular, keyboard navigation, and edit mode · GitHub
  92. Protocol Cards — Evidence-backed Nervous System Regulation
  93. Task Paralysis & AI | g5t.de
  94. Vivaldi — A new browser for our friends
  95. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount — Walton-GSV-Gallup survey finds young people are feeling angrier about AI, cautious about integrating AI in the classroom
  96. I will never use AI to write code — a critique of AI and programming with it. It's irreverent, perhaps over the top, but still a ripping good read. There is some some highly quotable stuff in this piece.
  97. Real signals or artificial stereotypes? - by Adam Kucharski
  98. 30 Tracks Audiophiles Play to Convert Any Skeptic Into a Hi-Fi Believer, as Ranked by Listener Votes | Headphonesty
  99. strike-slip tectonics — Rozanov is looking at him like he expects an answer, and Shane is a little embarrassed that he might have focused a little too hard on tuning out the temptation, happy to float on the warm rumble of Rozanov’s voice in his ear and fairly confident he wasn’t missing anything too important. He scrambles …
  100. Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool

The Next Web

  1. Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push
  2. Dutch eyeo raises €40m to commercialise NCOS color-splitting image sensors
  3. Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon’s class of 2026 their career starts at the AI revolution
  4. Istanbul’s Grand Games lands a $70m Series B as Balderton doubles down on Turkey’s puzzle-game pipeline
  5. GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty
  6. TNW, Oneflow, and Flexas are hosting a free networking evening in Amsterdam
  7. Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025
  8. Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI
  9. Nintendo shares fall 7% as Switch 2 price hike and thin pipeline land in the same forecast
  10. Microsoft-G42 Kenya data centre stalls over government offtake demands

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Game Consoles
  2. The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Best Nintendo Switch
  3. What to Pack for Summer Camp
  4. Skip House Cleaning. Play These Cleaning-Themed Video Games Instead.
  5. The Best Steak Knife Set
  6. The Best Smart Window Shades, Blinds, and Curtains
  7. The 60 Best Gifts for Frequent Travelers
  8. 13 Gifts for Stationery Lovers
  9. How to Find Faster Wi-Fi While Traveling
  10. White Jeans Are a Summer Staple. Here Are Our Favorite Pairs.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Smart Window Shades, Blinds, and Curtains
  2. The Best In-Wall Smart Outlet
  3. The Best Folding Tables
  4. This Steamy Grill Brush Makes Me Excited to Clean My Grill
  5. The Best Portable Air Conditioner
  6. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  7. The Matic Is a Whole Different Kind of Robot Vacuum
  8. How to Clean Bathroom Tile and Grout
  9. How to Clean a Travel Mug or Water Bottle
  10. The Best Hair Dryer

Hacker News

  1. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
  2. Local AI needs to be the norm
  3. The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
  4. I'm going back to writing code by hand
  5. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
  6. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
  7. Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
  8. An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
  9. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
  10. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
  11. 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
  12. Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code
  13. First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed
  14. Bliss (Photograph)
  15. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
  16. How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?
  17. Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years
  18. dBase: 1979-2026
  19. I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
  20. Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars
  21. Traces Of Humanity
  22. Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
  23. The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding
  24. Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors
  25. Seeing Birdsong
  26. Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
  27. The locals don't know
  28. Ice Cream Blending (1965) [pdf]
  29. Task Paralysis and AI
  30. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

Ars Technica

  1. Do you take after your dad’s RNA?
  2. Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
  3. The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
  4. Manufacturing qubits that can move
  5. Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
  6. ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
  7. Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
  8. The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained
  9. Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
  10. Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced
  11. Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
  12. Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France after ignoring summons in X case
  13. Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
  14. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
  15. DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
  16. Which Macs are suffering from shortages—and where are things getting worse?
  17. How climate change makes your allergies worse
  18. The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year
  19. The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there's no there there
  20. Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  2. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  3. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  4. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  5. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
  6. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  7. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
  8. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
  9. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
  10. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
  11. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
  12. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  13. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
  14. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
  15. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
  16. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  17. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  18. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  19. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  20. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  21. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  22. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  23. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  24. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  25. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  26. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  27. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  28. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  29. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  30. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  31. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  32. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  33. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  34. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  35. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  36. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  37. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  38. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  39. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  40. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  41. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  42. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  43. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  44. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  45. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  46. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  47. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  48. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  49. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  50. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  51. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  52. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  53. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  54. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  55. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  56. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  57. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  58. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  59. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  60. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  61. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  62. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  63. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  64. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  65. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  66. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  67. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  68. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  69. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  70. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  71. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  72. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  73. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  74. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  75. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  76. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  77. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  78. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  79. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  80. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  81. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  82. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  83. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  84. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  85. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  86. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  87. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  88. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  89. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  90. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  91. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  92. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  93. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  94. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  95. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  96. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  97. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  98. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  99. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  100. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready

Slashdot

  1. Ford's Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago
  2. Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
  3. Most Polymarket Users Lose Money, While Top 1% Claim 76.5% of Gains, Study Finds
  4. PlayStation3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask Contributors to Stop Submitting 'AI Slop' Pull Requests
  5. Honda Patents a Fake Clutch for Electric Motorcycles
  6. Big Tech is Moving Data Through the Gulf Using Fiber-Optic Cables Alongside Iraq's Oil Pipelines
  7. Challenging UPS and FedEx, Amazon Opens Its Shipping Network to All Businesses
  8. GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement
  9. Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude
  10. Rocket Lab Reports Growing Demand for Commercial Space Products. Stock Surges 34%
  11. Unemployment Ticked Up in America's IT Sector
  12. The EU Considers Restricting Use of US Cloud Platforms for Sensitive Government Data
  13. NYT: 'Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable'
  14. 'Changing of the Guard'? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags
  15. Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-4-26 to 5-8-26)
  2. A Concrete Weed Grinder
  3. Grabo Finds Yet Another Market for Their Portable Suction Cups: Riggers
  4. A Mid-Century Modern Classic: Hans J. Wegner's Daybed with Hidden Storage
  5. When Bathroom Scales were Leather-Clad
  6. Industrial Design Student Work: A Collapsible Touring Bicycle with 3D-Printed Components
  7. A Fold-to-Assemble Spiritual Successor to Braun's AB 20 Clock
  8. Industrial Designer with a Sense of Humor: Alberto Essesi's "Oops" Lamp
  9. How to Make Your Own Camping Cutlery: This Chopsticks Maker
  10. A Pickup-Truck-Style Service Robot
  11. These Beautiful FSB 1292 Door Handles are by Foster + Partners Industrial Design
  12. More Defensive Urban Design: Venice's Anti-Public-Peeing Architecture Features
  13. MVE-Collection: An Architect and Designer Make Furniture out of Construction Site Waste
  14. A Tensegrity-Based Side Table Made out of Pipes
  15. An Airline Pilot's Disappearing Staircase References Work

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 11, #799
  2. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 11, #1065
  3. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 11, #1787
  4. I've Poached My Last Egg in a Pot. This 1-Minute Microwave Method Never Fails
  5. Do You Have the Most Reliable Internet Service Provider? Vote for Your Favorite
  6. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, May 11
  7. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 11, #595
  8. These Glasses Have a Hidden Camera – Here's How to Tell if They're Recording You
  9. Not Sure What to Watch? AI Can Recommend Your Next Favorite Show
  10. 'Euphoria' Season 3 Release Schedule: When Does Episode 5 Premiere?
  11. Netflix's New Crime Thriller Does Revenge Better Than 'Reacher' -- and Denzel
  12. La Liga Soccer: Stream Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Live
  13. 'Marshals' Release Schedule: When Episode 11 Hits Paramount Plus
  14. 5 Steps the FBI Wants You to Take to Secure Your Router Right Now
  15. Trump Phone Looks Different, Has No Launch Date, Isn't Made in America
  16. Speed Up Your Android Phone in 10 Minutes Without Spending a Cent
  17. Google's Big Bet: Adding Native Android App Support to Chrome Could Result in a Robust OS
  18. U.S. Department of War Releases Declassified UAP Videos video
  19. The 5 Best Expert-Approved Treadmills for Running and Walking
  20. How an Electric Motorbike Made LA Feel Smaller, Easier and More Fun
  21. Here's How to Make Your TV Sound Better (for Free)
  22. Is Your iPhone Lock Screen Missing the Volume Bar? Here's How to Bring It Back
  23. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 10, #594
  24. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 10, #798
  25. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 10, #1064

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The Verge

  1. Forza Horizon 6 has been leaked and cracked a week before its release
  2. Logitech’s tiny folding mouse improves upon the laptop trackpad
  3. The Bastl Kalimba is a wild synth that thinks it’s a thumb piano
  4. Ashnymph’s Childhood EP is exhilarating dance goth rock
  5. Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again
  6. Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
  7. Netflix may have finally figured out games
  8. Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone
  9. Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robovac is down to $279.99 for a limited time
  10. These great digital gifts will arrive just in time for Mother’s Day

Wired

  1. CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
  2. I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
  3. Keyboard Shortcuts I Learned From My Cat
  4. Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really
  5. Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They're Flying Over NYC
  6. How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel
  7. ‘Reservation Hijacking’ Scams Target Travelers. Here’s How to Stay Safe
  8. Best Live-Captioning Smart Glasses (2026), WIRED tested
  9. Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
  10. The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026
  11. Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | May 2026
  12. HelloFresh Coupon Codes: 55% Off + Free Meals
  13. 50% Off Blue Apron Promo Codes | May 2026
  14. T-Mobile Promo Codes: 25% Off | May
  15. Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off
  16. Western Digital Promo Code: 15% Off
  17. Exclusive Shed Rain Coupon: 15% Off
  18. Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026)
  19. The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files
  20. Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  3. 10 Hacks Every Google Meet User Should Know
  4. The Fitbit App Is Losing All These Features
  5. You Can Get $35 in Google Store Credit If You Preorder the Fitbit Air
  6. These Are The Best Ways to Rid Your Gmail Inbox of Spam
  7. Here’s My Ultimate Checklist for Training and Running a Race With a Garmin Watch
  8. My Favorite Bone-Conduction Headphones Are $40 Off Right Now
  9. 10 Shows Like 'Beef' You Should Watch Next
  10. Your Instagram Conversations Won’t Be so Private Anymore
  11. Nintendo Is Raising the Price of the Nintendo Switch 2
  12. These Soundcore ANC Earbuds Are 50% Off Right Now
  13. The Feature-Packed Pixel Buds 2a Are $20 Off Right Now
  14. Canvas Has Been Hacked, and Is Apparently Being Held for Ransom
  15. 10 Hacks Every Zoom User Should Know
  16. This 100-Inch Hisense QLED TV Gets Super Bright, and It's $1,200 Off Right Now
  17. I’m a Weightlifter, and This Is How I’m Training for a Hyrox Race
  18. What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
  19. I Rely on This Portable Power Station During Emergencies, and It's $700 Off Right Now
  20. ChatGPT Can Now Reach Out to a 'Trusted Contact' After Conversations Concerning Self-Harm
  21. The Most Aesthetic Portable Speaker I Own Is $50 Off Right Now
  22. Google Chrome Finally Added This Privacy Feature for Android Users
  23. The Fitbit Air Is Real, and It May Actually Be a Whoop Killer
  24. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  25. This Acer OLED Gaming Monitor Is 33% Off Right Now
  26. This Pixel 10 Pro Is $250 Off Right Now
  27. This 10th Gen iPad Is on Sale for $240 Right Now
  28. 10 Hacks Every DuckDuckGo User Should Know
  29. What Is Hyrox, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Doing It?
  30. The Portable JBL Flip 7 Speaker Is 43% Off Right Now
  31. This Shark Matrix Plus Makes Floor Cleaning Almost Effortless, and It's on Sale for Just $135 Right Now
  32. ‘Lowkenuinely,’ ‘Bruzz,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  33. You Might Be Eligible for a Cut of Apple's $250 Million AI Settlement
  34. One of the Best Budget Ultrawide Gaming Monitors Is on Sale for $700
  35. You Can Get a Budget Surface Laptop and Lifetime License to Microsoft Office for Just $260 Right Now
  36. You Should Still Fact-Check the 'Expert Advice' in Google's AI Summaries
  37. The Beats Fit Pro ANC Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
  38. 15 Shows Like 'Widow's Bay' You Should Watch Next
  39. This Dyson Cordless Stick Vacuum Is 45% Off Right Now
  40. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Come With a $30 Amazon Gift Card Right Now
  41. Chrome’s AI Might Be Taking Up a Bunch of Storage, but You Can Fix It
  42. This HP EliteBook Is Under $300 Right Now
  43. I'm a Runner, and This Is How I'm Training for a Hyrox Race
  44. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is $700 Off Right Now
  45. The 2023 Google Pixel Fold Is 75% Off Right Now
  46. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  47. These TVs Are Part of the Roku/TCL Class Action Lawsuit
  48. My Favorite Travel Headphones Are $150 Off
  49. The New Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $300 Off
  50. I Ran a 10K With a Top-of-the-Line Garmin on One Wrist and a Budget Model on the Other, and Here's What Happened
  51. Reddit Is Blocking Its Mobile Site for Some Users, but There's a Fix
  52. Google Is Hosting 'The Android Show' Outside of I/O for the Second Year in a Row
  53. How Android’s Tasker App Stacks Up Against Apple Shortcuts (and How to Use Each One)
  54. How to Train to Run Faster (Not Just Farther)
  55. These Beats ANC EarBuds Are $75 Off Right Now
  56. This Samsung Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  57. This Bose Wireless Outdoor Speaker Is $50 Off Right Now
  58. My Three Favorite Garmin Features to Use on Race Day
  59. 10 Hacks Every Apple Notes User Should Know
  60. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  61. Apple Is Finally About to Make Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  62. You Can Already Save $80 on the New M4 iPad Air
  63. The New AirPods Max 2 Are $40 Off Right Now
  64. You Might Get Some Money From This PlayStation Store Lawsuit
  65. These Are the Best Apps to Track Your Flights
  66. Here's How to Save Your Samsung Messages Conversations Before the App Shuts Down
  67. I Let Alexa+ and Gemini Power My Smart Home, and They Were Both Great
  68. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Le Snack Demon'?
  69. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $120 Handheld Device
  70. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  71. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  72. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  73. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  74. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  75. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  76. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  77. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  78. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  79. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  80. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  81. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  82. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  83. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  84. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  85. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  86. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  87. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  88. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  89. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  90. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  91. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  92. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  93. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  94. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  95. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  96. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  97. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  98. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  99. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  100. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now

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TechMeme

  1. Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
  2. Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net revenue up 19% YoY to $2.5B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
  3. Musk v. Altman: profiles of US judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama-nominated blunt and efficient operator, and Elon Musk's and OpenAI's attorneys (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M (Tugce Ozsoy/Bloomberg)
  5. Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025 (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
  6. TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023 (Sean Keach/The Sun)
  7. The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (Himanshu Anand)
  8. Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it (Taylor Telford/Financial Times)
  9. A look at "YouTube whisperers" like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (CNBC)
  10. Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
  11. SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
  12. Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
  13. Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN (CNBC)
  14. Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 as "year of agents", the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into "walking cameras", and more (Fortune)
  15. Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)