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BBC

  1. Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
  2. Dead students were tested for drugs and alcohol - but their killer was not, Nottingham inquiry hears
  3. Doctors announce six-day strike in England as talks break down
  4. 'Teenage me could not have imagined this' says first female Archbishop of Canterbury
  5. Ex-Google boss confirmed as new BBC director general
  6. 'We are in agony' - Savannah Guthrie does first interview since mum's disappearance
  7. Bravery medal recipient hugged armed man to stop him bombing hospital
  8. London Marathon considers two-day event in 2027
  9. No 10 refuses to say if key Mandelson texts were lost when top aide's phone stolen
  10. Woman-hating teen shared murder plans on Discord before killing mum
  11. Dogs became man's best friend far earlier than thought, scientists find
  12. What are the US and Iran's proposals for peace?
  13. Everyday life in Asia being upended by effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz
  14. Trump says Iran gave the US a 'very big present' but gives no detail
  15. Oil price falls as Trump talks up peace negotiations
  16. Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
  17. In pictures: Hunting lynx snatches top prize in photo competition
  18. Who is the BBC's new director general?
  19. Council tax bills in England to rise in April - see how yours compares
  20. Saudi Pro League, the US or Europe - what are Salah's options?
  21. 'We trusted the wrong people': Epstein survivors speak to the BBC
  22. Is there an election in my area?
  23. Romance fraudster who was 'blinded by greed' jailed
  24. 'Men need to be perp-walked' after Epstein files release, US congressman tells BBC
  25. UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity'
  26. Four arrested in Germany after Channel smuggling gang raids
  27. Apple brings in age checks for UK iPhone users
  28. Crypto donations to UK parties to be banned
  29. Capybara search 'closing in' as traps deployed
  30. BBC News app
  31. Are US-Iran Talks Actually Happening?
  32. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Trump claims Iran wants to "make a deal" to end the war
  33. How young men's lives are influenced by the manosphere
  34. Saudi Pro League, the US or Europe - what are Salah's options?
  35. Liverpool & Wales great Toshack diagnosed with dementia
  36. NBA explores adding teams in Seattle and Las Vegas
  37. London Marathon considers two-day event in 2027
  38. Haaland donates £100,000 Viking book to home town
  39. Fabregas, film stars and Disney: How Como are disrupting Italian football
  40. Shiffrin wins record-equalling sixth World Cup

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Jury rules against Meta and YouTube in social media addiction case
  2. Here's your first look at For All Mankind spinoff Star City
  3. Google's Lyria 3 Pro can now generate AI music (slop) up to 3 minutes in length
  4. Meta lays off hundreds of workers, including more from Reality Labs
  5. The Afeela 1 came too late and now is gone too soon
  6. Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy
  7. Spotify is testing a tool to help real artists deal with AI slop on their profiles
  8. Reddit will prompt some accounts to 'verify humanness' in latest bot crackdown
  9. Sony's upcoming Bravia 3 II is a mid-range LED TV available in sizes up to 100 inches
  10. Sony adds the Bravia Theater Bar 5 and Bar 7 to its soundbar lineup
  11. X is changing its revenue-sharing policy to deter users pretending to be Americans
  12. Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Sergey Brin join Trump's tech advisory panel
  13. Stephen Colbert is writing a new Lord of the Rings movie
  14. Anthropic releases safer Claude Code 'auto mode' to avoid mass file deletions and other AI snafus
  15. Ring adds 4K to its battery-powered video doorbells
  16. Sennheiser's owners want to sell its consumer headphone business
  17. Samsung Galaxy A37 and A57 hands-on: The cheaper phone might be a winner
  18. Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK
  19. The Afeela EV is dead
  20. Meta is letting creators fill their Reels with shopping links
  21. Jury rules against Meta, orders $375 million fine in major child safety trial
  22. Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director
  23. Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
  24. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app
  25. Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an 'Ask Siri' button in iOS 27
  26. Zoox is bringing its robotaxi to new cities and expanding coverage in Las Vegas and San Francisco
  27. AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT
  28. Splitgate's 1047 Games is starting work on a Titanfall-style movement shooter
  29. Three new Gemini features come to Google TV
  30. Apple confirms ads are coming to Apple Maps
  31. For All Mankind is returning for a sixth and final season
  32. iOS 26.4 is here, with Playlist Playground and new emoji
  33. Bandsintown integration for concerts is coming to Apple Music
  34. Pokémon Champions will hit Switch and Switch 2 on April 8
  35. The Punisher's one-off TV special hits Disney+ on May 12
  36. There's a new Payday game, this time in VR
  37. Epic is laying off more than 1,000 workers, citing a downturn in Fortnite engagement
  38. Samsung's cheaper Mini LED TVs are now on sale
  39. Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler
  40. Ultrahuman opens US pre-orders for Ring Pro
  41. Spotify's SongDNA can tell you all about the track you're listening to
  42. The Morning After: WWDC 2026 is happening June 8th
  43. Snapchat users sent 'nearly' 2 trillion snaps in 2025
  44. Denon expands its multi-room speaker lineup with the Home 200, Home 400 and Home 600
  45. The US bans all new foreign-made network routers
  46. Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer
  47. EA is nuking Battlefield Hardline on consoles
  48. Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app
  49. Wing expands its drone delivery service to the Bay Area
  50. Apple's WWDC 2026 is set for June 8-12

Pinboard

  1. Claude Code Cheat Sheet
  2. Knowledge That Never Goes Offline — A self-contained offline server packed with encyclopedic knowledge, local AI, and essential tools — ready when the internet isn't.
  3. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  4. March, 19-21: God is a comedian
  5. Gasoline prices around the world, 28-Feb-2022 | GlobalPetrolPrices.com
  6. GitHub - hectorvent/floci: Light, fluffy, and always free - AWS Local Emulator · GitHub
  7. Kill Chain - by Kevin Baker - Artificial Bureaucracy
  8. Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org
  9. "Collaboration" is bullshit.
  10. Manyana - by Bram Cohen - Bram’s Thoughts
  11. Tooscut - Video Editor
  12. The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat
  13. Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
  14. HopTab — macOS Workspace Manager
  15. How I’m Productive with Claude Code — It’s been about 6 weeks since I joined Tano, and this is what my commit history looks like:
  16. nanobrew — the fastest macOS package manager
  17. Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
  18. Impeccable: The missing upgrade to Anthropic's frontend-design skill — Impeccable: Design skills for AI coding tools https://ift.tt/laKnNpv ai, tools, design, ai.skills
  19. rz01.org
  20. An Unsolicited Guide to Being A Researcher — "There is no one valid goal for a student to have. There are many that are possible. What’s important is knowing what your goals are."
  21. A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas
  22. Now You Can Start - deliciousblizzardshark - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — The problem was that everyone who played for Boston, except for Ilya, was like a million years old and had forgotten what fun was, if they’d ever known. They were all, like, married with kids and their idea of a good time w…
  23. Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools
  24. Some Things Just Take Time | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
  25. Nightingale — Karaoke from your music library
  26. Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes – matejlou's blog
  27. Guideline: Rust Style
  28. Let's see Paul Allen's SIMD CSV parser | chunkofcoal.com
  29. Stop naming buildings (and streets, and parks, and ships, and mountains) after people
  30. Daring Fireball: ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lwF50jA
  31. A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  32. Autoresearch on an old research idea | Blog | Yogesh Kumar — Ever since it showed up on my GH feed, Karpathy’s Autoresearch was rattling around in the back of my mind. I wanted to try it on a research problem I fully understood. So this weekend, I picked up my old research code from eCLIP , dusted it off the legacy dependenc…
  33. The Log File Navigator
  34. Debunking zswap and zram myths — zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.
  35. the html review 05 — the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
  36. Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis | Antithesis Blog — Error: HTTP 429: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.
  37. antithesishq/bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs
  38. Regex Blaster - Write regex patterns to destroy falling strings — https://github.com/mdp/regex-blaster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418247
  39. More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use. - The New York Times — nuously running agents, you’ll do 700 million tokens a week from a single full-time agent,” said Ege Erdil, a co-founder of Mechanize, an
  40. PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading — Stuart Breckenridge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vQYUryI
  41. Native Instant Space Switching on MacOS
  42. Stitch - Design with AI
  43. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. Substack Mar 2026 — 'Google is constantly interpreting you. It swaps in synonyms, personalizes results based on your history, and decides what you probably meant rather than returning what you typed. Most of the time that interpretation is invisible. These tools are h…
  44. robida/human.json: A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others. — robida/human.json: A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others.
  45. Gridland
  46. OpenClaw is a Security Nightmare Dressed Up as a Daydream | Composio
  47. I Hate: Programming Wayland Applications
  48. Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service — ProPublica
  49. The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won computing’s highest prize
  50. Uberspace
  51. ‘You lose yourself’: inside the mental health crisis hitting gen X women | Mental health | The Guardian
  52. Designing delightful frontends with GPT-5.4 | OpenAI Developers
  53. Decorative patterns of the Ancient World : Flinders, Petrie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
  54. Email.md - Responsive Emails, Written in Markdown — Responsive Emails, Written in Markdown
  55. aider is GPT-4 powered coding in your terminal | aider — aider is a command-line chat tool that allows you to code with GPT-4 in the terminal. Ask GPT for features, improvements, or bug fixes and aider will apply the suggested changes to your source files. Each change is automatically committed to git with a descriptive comm…
  56. Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists | Nicolas Chagnet's Homepage
  57. GitHub - bjarneo/cliamp: Terminal Winamp
  58. MiniMax-AI/skills
  59. wander: A tiny, decentralised tool you can host with just two files to explore the small web — https://susam.net/wander/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427290 https://lobste.rs/s/hjipba/wander_tiny_decentralised_tool_just_2
  60. Using Git with coding agents - Agentic Engineering Patterns — Using Git with coding agents - Agentic Engineering Patterns
  61. 7 More Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams | Ilograph Blog
  62. Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad: Project N.O.M.A.D, is a self-contained, offline survival computer packed with critical tools, knowledge, and AI to keep you informed and empowered—anytime, anywhere.
  63. Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition | No Starch Press — "Across 21 hands-on projects, you'll put your new knowledge to the test. You'll learn to read schematics, solder components onto a circuit board, use integrated circuits, and think in digital logic."
  64. First electric grid (London)
  65. Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender by Steven D Shaw, Gideon Nave :: SSRN — Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender An interesting study from the University of Pennsylvania positing h…
  66. The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon – Larst Of Us
  67. Haskell for all: A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  68. The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham
  69. pascalorg/editor
  70. 25 Years of Eggs — Tips on scanning receipts
  71. I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog — "If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours."
  72. affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. — Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hacka…
  73. delphitools: Handmade Developer Tools
  74. HopTab–free,open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab | Hacker News
  75. Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick - 512 Pixels — via 512 Pixels http://512pixels.net
  76. ssrajadh/sentrysearch: Semantic search over videos using Gemini Embedding 2. — Semantic search over videos using Gemini Embedding 2. - ssrajadh/sentrysearch
  77. bramcohen/manyana — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478401 The future of version control
  78. Windows Native App Development Is a Mess — Win32 C APIs → MFC → WinForms → WPF → WinRT XAML → UWP XAML → WinUI 3 why not Electron? Seriously. C# and XAML are not that amazing, compared to, say, TypeScript/React/CSS. As we saw from my list above, to do most anything beyond the basics, you’re going to need to reach down into …
  79. You Are Not Your Job
  80. Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
  81. How I Built an AI Receptionist for a Luxury Mechanic Shop - Part 1 — The Stack Here’s everything wired together: Vapi (with Deepgram & ElevenLabs integration) — phone number, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, tool calling Ngrok — local development tunnel (Vapi → localhost) FastAPI + Uvicorn — webhook server MongoDB Atlas …
  82. Why I love NixOS
  83. Missile Defense is NP-Complete | An Optimization Odyssey
  84. So where are all the AI apps? – Answer.AI
  85. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree — Smashing Magazine
  86. Parachord — Your music is everywhere... now you don't have to be.
  87. Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — The experienced journalist said he had summarised reports using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s NotebookLM, and not checked whether the quotes from those summaries were accurate. He subsequently pub…
  88. Sakana Chat — Chat app powered by Sakana AI
  89. Gea — Lightweight Reactive UI Framework
  90. Agents, Meet the Figma Canvas
  91. Cross-Model Semantic Void Convergence Under Embodiment Prompting: Deterministic Silence in GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 — This preprint reports a reproducible cross-model behavioral convergence in which frontier language models selectively do not continue under embodiment prompts for ontologically null concepts. In repeated t…
  92. Mac OS X Launched 25 Years Ago Today: 'The Future of the Mac' - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/WPfUeNI
  93. x.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/n5HXbLP
  94. rockinhamburger - Playoff Holdouts - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — “Of course, there is one problem with waiting until after playoffs.” Shane gives Ilya an inquisitive look while he’s chewing. “You have never lived with extremely hot husband during playoff run.” Shane rolls his eyes and refuses to laugh or ev…
  95. Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level | Tom's Hardware
  96. GrapheneOS: "GrapheneOS will remain usable …" - GrapheneOS Mastodon — GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their r…
  97. The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep | WIRED — "the internet abounds with simple guides on how to keep recording while the light is covered. 'It’s already difficult enough to film in public—I don’t want to have a blinking light on my face,' said Spencer Willhite, who demonstrated his light-blocking hack on his YouTube channel"
  98. OpenAI just gave up on its Sora AI video generator | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/4TZIhnX
  99. stonerl/Thaw: Menu bar manager for macOS — ice bartender bulldozer hidden menu bar manager
  100. Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

The Next Web

  1. Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues
  2. Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think
  3. London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
  4. Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites
  5. Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles
  6. OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
  7. PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles
  8. Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
  9. RWS launches Language Weaver Pro
  10. Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Tampons
  2. I Spent a Year Testing Midea’s Latest HVAC Miracle — a Full-Blown Window Heat Pump
  3. Dyson Named Its New Stick Vacuum PencilVac Fluffycones. We Liked Some Other Things About It, Too.
  4. The Best Bike Panniers
  5. The Best Deals From Amazon’s Week-Long Big Spring Sale (and All Across the Internet)
  6. The Truth About Counterfeit Beauty Products Online
  7. The Best Home Security System
  8. Our Favorite Kids Bike Accessories
  9. The Best First Pedal Bike
  10. The Best Indoor Security Camera

Sweethome

  1. I Spent a Year Testing Midea’s Latest HVAC Miracle — a Full-Blown Window Heat Pump
  2. 18 Bathroom Luxuries Beloved by Wirecutter Experts, From a $10 Spice Rack to a Nearly $700 Bidet
  3. For Gnarly Messes, Only a Scrub Brush Will Do
  4. The Quiet Luxury of a Collapsible Laundry Basket
  5. These 4 Organizing Ideas Will Contain Your Bathroom’s Chaos in Style
  6. The Best Home Security System
  7. The Best Indoor Security Camera
  8. We Believe in Buy-It-For-Life Products. Here Are Our 25 Favorites.
  9. Our Favorite Outdoor Sofas and Chairs
  10. The Best Sleeper Sofas

Hacker News

  1. Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down
  2. My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary
  3. Local LLM App by Ente
  4. Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict
  5. Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
  6. TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
  7. Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed
  8. Antimatter has been transported for the first time
  9. Goodbye to Sora
  10. Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial
  11. VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
  12. Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
  13. Flighty Airports
  14. Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch
  15. Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
  16. Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller
  17. Miscellanea: The War in Iran
  18. Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
  19. Show HN: I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective
  20. Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
  21. Quantization from the Ground Up
  22. Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80
  23. VNDB founder Yorhel has died
  24. Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote
  25. Apple Business
  26. Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
  27. I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
  28. Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles
  29. Hubble Snaps a New Dazzling Photo of the Crab Nebula
  30. Arm AGI CPU

Ars Technica

  1. Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
  2. Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
  3. Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
  4. Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
  5. Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
  6. Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps
  7. Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update
  8. Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
  9. Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony
  10. So long, farewell: Saying goodbye to Audi's best car, the 2026 RS6 Avant
  11. How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
  12. "The last straw"—RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat
  13. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
  14. Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
  15. Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
  16. OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
  17. Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
  18. FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
  19. Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
  20. NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base

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New Scientist

  1. Ancient elephant bones reveal vivid details of a Neanderthal hunt
  2. The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever
  3. Cancer-causing chemical found to be leaking from gas cookers
  4. Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun
  5. Cystitis or tooth decay could trigger dementia just a few years later
  6. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
  7. Antimatter has been transported by road for the first time
  8. How AI shook the world's largest meeting of physicists
  9. Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'
  10. Are humans degenerating genetically and getting dumber as a result?
  11. Genetic clues tell the story of Neanderthals' decline
  12. Warmer ocean is driving the Antarctic sea ice 'regime shift'
  13. The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
  14. Mysterious comet disintegration caught by telescope after lucky break
  15. 'Zombie' cells created by transplanting genomes into dead bacteria
  16. Security credentials inadvertently leaked on thousands of websites
  17. Inside the world’s first antimatter delivery service
  18. The neuroscientist who wants us to be nicer to psychopaths
  19. A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler
  20. You can now buy a DIY quantum computer
  21. What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven
  22. Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together
  23. We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
  24. Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved
  25. Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth
  26. A negative attitude towards ageing is making you age faster
  27. New Scientist recommends Cirque du Soleil's insect-themed OVO show
  28. How worried should you be about ultra-processed foods?
  29. Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
  30. Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages
  31. Rebecca Solnit: 'The great majority of people want climate action'
  32. Probiotic cream that ramps up heat production could prevent frostbite
  33. Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe
  34. Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time
  35. It's time to monetise the moon! Definitely! Maybe?
  36. Maggie Aderin's dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong
  37. Boosting the blood-brain barrier could avert brain damage in athletes
  38. Neanderthals may have treated wounds with antibiotic sticky tar
  39. Will war in the Middle East accelerate the clean energy transition?
  40. The mystery of how volcanic lightning happens has been solved
  41. Ice core reveals low CO2 during warm spell 3 million years ago
  42. Psychedelics may be no better than antidepressants for depression
  43. Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights
  44. Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old mystery
  45. Social media is a defective product
  46. Your partner probably wakes you up at night without you even realising
  47. The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group
  48. 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system
  49. The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life
  50. Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future
  51. AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it
  52. How a midlife tune-up could help prepare you for a healthy old age
  53. Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
  54. What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?
  55. Why are we so obsessed with protein? A new book looks for answers
  56. A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
  57. Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
  58. Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births
  59. The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert
  60. We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they’re here anyway
  61. Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasant smells
  62. New Scientist recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird
  63. Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?
  64. A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland
  65. The race to solve the biggest problem in quantum computing
  66. How worried should you be about your BMI?
  67. Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?
  68. Chemistry may not be the 'killer app' for quantum computers after all
  69. Why drug overdose deaths have suddenly plummeted in the US
  70. We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
  71. Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?
  72. Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors
  73. A miniature magnet rivals behemoths in strength for the first time
  74. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
  75. King penguins are thriving in a warmer climate, but it may not last
  76. Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector
  77. Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
  78. Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
  79. Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strandings
  80. I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia
  81. Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets
  82. Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind
  83. Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab
  84. What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer
  85. Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
  86. Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?
  87. A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing
  88. 'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
  89. How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
  90. The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
  91. SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
  92. The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
  93. Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift
  94. Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
  95. Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it
  96. Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
  97. The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide
  98. We must close the 'shocking' knowledge gap in women's health
  99. A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one
  100. A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

Slashdot

  1. Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
  2. Meta Loses Trial After Arguing Child Exploitation Was 'Inevitable'
  3. AI Economy Is a 'Ponzi Scheme,' Says AI Doc Director
  4. China Is Mass-Producing Hypersonic Missiles For $99,000
  5. Chandra Resolves Why Black Holes Hit the Brakes On Growth
  6. NASA Halts Work On Gateway To Develop a Lunar Base
  7. Hong Kong Police Can Demand Passwords Under New National Security Rules
  8. Wine 11 Rewrites How Linux Runs Windows Games At the Kernel Level
  9. Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car
  10. OpenAI Discontinues Sora Video Platform App
  11. Arm Unveils New AGI CPU With Meta As Debut Customer
  12. Anthropic's Claude Can Now Use Your Computer To Finish Tasks
  13. Self-Propagating Malware Poisons Open Source Software, Wipes Iran-Based Machines
  14. Epic Games To Cut More Than 1,000 Jobs As Fortnite Usage Falls
  15. FCC Bans Imports of New Foreign-Made Routers, Citing Security Concerns

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. 1950s Swiss Industrial Design: Armin Wirth's Nesting Aluflex Chairs
  2. A 3D-Printed Two-Person Alternating-Direction Rocking Chair
  3. Industrial Designer Mike Jacobs' Slick, Playful Chess Clock
  4. The Tokyo College of Cycle Design
  5. Good Design or Bad Design? This Ladder Safety Feature
  6. Industrial Designer David Irwin's Molded Chair Prototyping Process
  7. Now Get The Recognition: Five Steps to Make Your Project an Award Winner
  8. A Perfect Commentary on Modern Industrial Design
  9. A 1970s Leather-Topped Executive Desk with a Built-In Swappable Accessory Rail
  10. Honda Cancels Giorgetto-Giugiaro-like EV
  11. Your How-To for Entering the Core77 Design Awards
  12. Core77 Weekly Roundup (3-16-26 to 3-20-26)
  13. Design Criticism: Balmuda's Overly Designey Clock Makes the Simple, Complicated
  14. Designer Radite Octavanka's Wild Forkless Yamaha Scooter
  15. Aluminum Drawers Formed with an Industrial Press

CNET

  1. Samsung's New Budget Galaxy A37 and A57: Improved Designs and AI Features video
  2. We've Been Tracking Our Favorite Deals Across the Amazon Big Spring Sale and There Are a Ton of Great Ones
  3. Best VPN for Chrome 2026: Browse, Stream and Download in Private
  4. Jury Finds Meta, Google Negligent in Social Media Addiction Trial
  5. These Amazon Shopping Hacks Can Extend Your Big Spring Sale Deals
  6. New Emoji, Playlist Generator and More: All the New Features iOS 26.4 Brings to Your iPhone
  7. Don't Wait: iOS 26.4 Brings New Emoji, Keyboard Fixes, AI Playlists video
  8. You Don't Need a Prime Subscription to Score the Best Amazon Deals
  9. OpenAI's Slop Machine Sora Is Dead. We're All Better Off Without It
  10. Sony's 2026 Soundbars and TVs Embrace Dolby Atmos Support
  11. Pack Your Carry-On Like a Pro to Breeze Through TSA Security
  12. 30 Shark Vacuums Are on Sale Right Now. These Are the 2 Best Deals
  13. 58 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
  14. Best Electric Lawn Mower: Time to Gear Up for Spring Yard Season
  15. The Best Cordless Vacuum I've Tested Is Just $153 Right Now
  16. Should You Upgrade to the iPhone 17E? How It Compares to iPhone 14, 15 and 16
  17. We're All Flailing With AI: I Tried Art That Pokes Back at the Chaos
  18. I've Tested Phones for 14 Years and These Are the Most Bizarre I've Seen
  19. Netflix Streams MLB Opening Day, Where To Watch Regular Season Games, New Umpiring Rules | Tech Today video
  20. Samsung's Galaxy A37, A57 New Pricing Tests the Limits of a Plastic Phone
  21. Get the Most Accurate Readings With the 4 Best Chest Strap Heart-Rate Monitors for Your Workouts
  22. How to Keep Strangers From Seeing Your House on Google Maps
  23. 8 Handy Home AI Features That Put Chatbots to Shame
  24. The Best Hair Dryers of 2026, Tested on 6 Different Hair Types
  25. Stop the Lag: How to Fix Your Slow Streaming Connection for Good

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Can you monitor a situation without monitors? The Polymarket sports bar tried
  2. The United States router ban, explained
  3. Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
  4. Nintendo is going to charge less for digital Switch 2 games
  5. X tries to limit creator revenue for foreign influencers but Musk intervenes
  6. The TSA is broken — is privatization next?
  7. Cox Communications not liable for pirated music, Supreme Court rules
  8. Seiko resurrected a 44-year-old digital watch NASA astronauts wore to space
  9. Reddit accounts with ‘fishy’ bot-like behavior will soon need to prove they’re human
  10. Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs

Wired

  1. OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage
  2. The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
  3. Save $100 on Our Favorite Soundbar and Subwoofer Combo
  4. Best Vacuum Deals for Amazon's Spring Sale: Dyson, Shark, Bissell (2026)
  5. Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Blooming With Smart Bird Feeders
  6. Ultrahuman Is Back: Can the Ring Pro Beat Oura in the US Market?
  7. The Ex-CIA Agent Going Viral Asking for a Trump Pardon
  8. OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
  9. New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
  10. When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
  11. Samsung’s Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 Phones Get Price Hikes
  12. The Best Digital Wall Calendar (2026): Skylight, Apolosign
  13. Lego Star Wars Smart Play Throne Room Duel and A-Wing Review
  14. Aeronaut Is an Actual Mac App for Bluesky
  15. Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
  16. How American Camouflage Conquered the World
  17. Iranians Don’t Have a Missile Alert System, So Volunteers Built Their Own Warning Map
  18. These 25 Amazon Spring Sale Tech Deals Are Actually Good. We Checked the Price History (2026)
  19. Rover Promo Codes and Deals: Get Up to $50 This Month
  20. Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. Amazon Big Spring Sale 2026 Live Blog: All the Best Deals We've Covered so Far
  3. The Best Budget Treadmill Is Even Cheaper During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  4. The Best Headphones I’ve Ever Tested Are $60 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  5. My Favorite JBL Over-Ear Headphones Are $100 Off During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  6. This Heart Rate Monitor Is Widely Regarded As the Best, and It’s 27% Off During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  7. Google's Pixel 9a Is Just $399 for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  8. The Best Budget Running Watch Is Even Cheaper During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  9. These Refurbished AirPods4 (With ANC) Are Just $118 During the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  10. What's New on Netflix in April 2026
  11. The Best Kindles Have the Deepest Discounts During Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  12. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 Is Nearly $200 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  13. Peloton’s Cross-Training Bikes Are on Sale for Their Lowest Prices Ever
  14. 10 Hacks Every Amazon Shopper Should Know
  15. This 15-Inch M4 MacBook Air Is $300 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  16. This 13-Inch M4 MacBook Air Is $250 Off for the Amazon Big Spring Sale
  17. This 360-Degree Action Camera Is Over $200 Off for Amazon's Spring Sale
  18. Why Pistol Squats Are so Hard (and How to Do Them Anyway)
  19. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Teleportation
  20. OpenAI Just Killed Sora
  21. 10 Hacks Every Nvidia GPU Gamer Should Know
  22. The Newest 11-Inch Apple iPad Is $150 Off Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  23. Apple AirTags Are Just $15 Each in This Amazon Spring Sale Four-Pack
  24. This Cheap Frother Is My Favorite Way to Mix Protein Powder
  25. What Sleep Scores Are Good for (and When They Should Be Ignored)
  26. What The FCC's Router Ban Could Mean for You
  27. This New Claude Feature Can Automate Basically Everything on Your Mac, but It’s a Huge Security Risk
  28. 10 Shows Like 'Call the Midwife' You Should Watch Next
  29. Apple Music Upgrades, Keyboard Fixes, and More New Features Apple Just Released in iOS 26.4
  30. 15 Privacy Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  31. Ultrahuman’s New Ring Pro Is Finally Available in the US
  32. The Budget Apple Watch SE 3 Just Got Cheaper Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  33. The Best Ways to Make Use of Those Spare USB Ports on Your TV or Monitor
  34. This Govee Smart Floor Lamp Is 25% Off Ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  35. Spotify's New 'SongDNA' Is Actually a Great Way to Learn More About Your Music
  36. I Switched to Self-Cleaning Litter Boxes in My Home, and I Wish I'd Done It Sooner
  37. I Personally Use These Milwaukee Tools, and They're 50% Off Right Now
  38. This Fire TV Stick Is Already 50% Off for the Amazon Spring Sale
  39. This Apple Watch Series 11 Is $100 Off Ahead of Amazon's Spring Sale
  40. Microsoft Is Removing 'Unnecessary' Copilot Features in Windows
  41. 10 Hacks Every Ring User Should Know
  42. This 2-in-1 Samsung Laptop/Tablet Is $500 Off Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
  43. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Euphoria'
  44. Google Is Using AI to Mess With Headlines (Again)
  45. What to Do If Your Pixel Watch Is Double Counting Your Steps or Calories
  46. You Can Get a Kindle Colorsoft for Only $10 More Than a Paperwhite During Amazon's Early Big Spring Sale
  47. Amazon Has Released All the Details About Its 'Big Spring Sale'
  48. These Samsung Galaxy Devices Finally Have Native Webcam Support
  49. These Apps Can Help You Find the Cheapest Gas
  50. Apple Just Announced WWDC 2026
  51. The Best Apple Watch for Most People Is 40% Off During Amazon's Early Spring Sale
  52. How to Use Almost Any Computer Without Leaving a Trace
  53. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: The Socrates and Skeleton Meme
  54. This 360° Action Camera Bundle Is $100 Off, Days Before Amazon's Spring Sale
  55. These Noise-Cancelling Earbuds Are $50 Off Ahead of Amazon's Spring Sale
  56. Samsung Now Officially Supports AirDrop, but Only for These Devices
  57. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  58. Six Strength Training 'Rules' You Can Safely Ignore
  59. YouTube Wants Your Help Identifying AI Slop on Its Platform
  60. This Massive Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers
  61. Google Just Made Four Big Upgrades to Android Gaming on Your Windows PC
  62. My Favorite Portable Projector Is $130 Off During Amazon's Early Big Spring Sale
  63. Here’s How Google’s ‘Safer’ Sideloading Works on Android
  64. 15 Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  65. 10 Chrome Hacks for iOS and Android Everyone Should Know
  66. This Convertible Chromebook Is Nearly $100 Off Right Now
  67. These Highly Rated Powerbeats Pro 2 Earbuds Are on Sale for 60% Off Right Now
  68. This Apple MagSafe Charger Is $50 Off Right Now
  69. Apple Is Finally Letting You Use Your Own Payment Method in Family Sharing
  70. This Ultra-Slim Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is $500 Off Right Now
  71. Turns Out Meta Isn't Shutting Down 'Horizon Worlds' in VR After All
  72. In My Experience, This $460 Bidet Is Worth Every Single Penny
  73. Update Your iPhone to Protect Yourself Against 'DarkSword' Malware
  74. 'Zone Zero' Cardio Isn't What It Sounds Like
  75. You Can ‘Hide’ These Smart Home Devices to More Subtly Add Them Into Your Decor
  76. This Powerful Sonos Soundbar/Subwoofer Combo Is $250 Off Right Now
  77. Firefox Is Getting a Free Built-In VPN
  78. 15 Shows Like 'Yellowstone' You Should Watch Next
  79. You Can Now Run a Spartan Race Using Your FSA/HSA Funds
  80. The Meta Quest Pro Is Over $300 Off Right Now
  81. This Razer Gaming Controller Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  82. This JBL Party Speaker Is $300 Off Right Now
  83. Meta Has Announced the End of 'Horizon Worlds' in the Metaverse, and I'm a Little Sad
  84. An Amazon Echo Spot Is Just $50 Right Now
  85. Apple Finally Has a Fix for Your iPhone's Buggy Keyboard
  86. The New Amazon Echo Studio Speaker Is Under $200 Right Now
  87. This Ecovacs Robot Vacuum/Mop Combo Is 40% Off Right Now
  88. Spotify's New 'Exclusive Mode' Can Make Your Music Sound Better, but There's a Catch
  89. The Outdoor Trees and Plants That Are Safe for Pets (and What to Avoid)
  90. You Can Get These Nothing Over-Ear Headphones for $79 Right Now
  91. You Should Turn On This New Security Update Feature on Your iPhone and Mac
  92. Garmin Just Launched a Long-Awaited Integration on Its Fitness Watches
  93. This Samsung Smart Monitor Is $300 Off Right Now
  94. This Motorola Razr+ Is on Sale for $400 Right Now
  95. Power Zone Workouts Are My Favorite Thing About the Peloton Bike
  96. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  97. Best Buy's Spring Sale Is Live, Ahead of Amazon's 'Big Spring Sale'
  98. Amazon Is Now Offering One-Hour and Three-Hour Delivery Options in Select Areas
  99. There's a New Way to Play Switch 1 Games at Their Full Resolution on the Switch 2
  100. The Best Earbuds You Can Buy Just Dropped Under $300 for the First Time

The Onion

The Register

  1. Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI
  2. Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains
  3. Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros
  4. OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become
  5. Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs
  6. Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants
  7. NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers
  8. JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming
  9. Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life
  10. Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs
  11. HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away
  12. Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra
  13. Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
  14. YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply
  15. Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K
  16. Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs
  17. Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle
  18. Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models
  19. HP's AI fly on the wall can record your in-person meetings to summarize later
  20. AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine
  21. EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom
  22. 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
  23. Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens
  24. LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised
  25. AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks
  26. Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city
  27. Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
  28. Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train
  29. Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base
  30. Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse
  31. HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed
  32. Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive
  33. Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
  34. Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents'
  35. Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison
  36. Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form
  37. SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth
  38. Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds
  39. EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers
  40. Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028
  41. Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’
  42. Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer
  43. Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss
  44. Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers
  45. Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI
  46. Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later
  47. If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin
  48. AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions
  49. SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site
  50. Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter

TechMeme

  1. The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
  2. Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
  3. Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  4. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place (Maria Curi/Axios)
  5. Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 (The Information)
  6. Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  7. Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (The Information)
  8. Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
  9. Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (Google Research)
  10. SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)
  11. Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
  12. Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
  13. Elon Musk says X will "pause" new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  14. Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say the cuts impact a few hundred people; a source says across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting, and sales (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
  15. Normal Computing, which uses AI to help chip companies design chips more efficiently, raised $50M led by Samsung Catalyst and says it has 5+ top chip clients (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)