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BBC

  1. The threat to summer holidays looming from jet fuel shortages
  2. Some Iranians fear the regime is now more entrenched - and ready for revenge
  3. Three dead in suspected virus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship
  4. Thousands could benefit from cancer jab that cuts treatment time to minutes
  5. What an empty car park tells us about the UK's debt problem
  6. Princess Eugenie expecting third child this summer
  7. UK joining Ukraine loan scheme would be good for EU ties, Starmer says
  8. BBC uncovers the Ugandan scammers abusing dogs to elicit donations from animal lovers
  9. Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations
  10. Chris Mason: Elections this week set to show how politics is changing
  11. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in critical condition in hospital
  12. Met Gala 2026: How to watch, the price of tickets and this year's theme
  13. What life is like in the town with the UK’s worst mobile signal
  14. 'I was trying to save a life,' man who intervened in Golders Green attack tells BBC
  15. What is the hantavirus that has been confirmed on an Atlantic cruise ship?
  16. European leaders converge on Armenia as Russia looks on
  17. Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels
  18. One injured after plane hits truck while landing in Newark
  19. Police continue search after 'suspicious explosion'
  20. GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay
  21. Nigeria plans to repatriate nationals willing to leave South Africa after attacks
  22. Samsung family pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill
  23. BBC News app
  24. The Week: The Price Of The Iran War
  25. LIVE at Maida Vale studios… How popular is Donald Trump in the US?
  26. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star in an award-winning musical
  27. Antonelli steps up his level in dramatic fashion
  28. 'Premflix' and tourist fans - future of football predictions
  29. What happened to Everton's £40m signing Dibling?
  30. Wu in control of Crucible final against Murphy
  31. Davide Ancelotti: My dad, my tactics and Brazil's World Cup prospects

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million
  2. GameStop is reportedly preparing an offer to buy eBay
  3. Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler
  4. Lego is releasing a Sega Genesis set complete with little controllers
  5. OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app
  6. Tesla starts selling Chinese-made Model 3s in Canada at the EV's lowest price ever
  7. Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
  8. Undead co-op shooters, gorgeous hack-and-slash action and other new indie games worth checking out
  9. AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars
  10. Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini
  11. There's already a way to mount your smartphone to a Steam Controller
  12. LG's 2026 Gram laptop lineup starts at $1,150
  13. It's Bandcamp Friday again
  14. Oura adds more detailed hormonal health insights to its Series 3 and 4 rings
  15. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon
  16. Engadget Podcast: Is the Valve Steam Controller worth $100?
  17. Nissan abandons plans for US EV plant
  18. The Morning After: Instagram will try to penalize 'unoriginal' posts
  19. Netflix has reportedly greenlit a prequel for 'The Crown'
  20. Microsoft's Xbox mode starts making its way to Windows 11 PCs

Pinboard

  1. 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
  2. GitHub - Lum1104/Understand-Anything: Claude Code skills that turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about (Multi-platform e.g., Codex are supported). · GitHub — antigremlin starred Lum1104/Understand-Anything
  3. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  4. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic — Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark has written: “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assesse…
  5. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  6. Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
  7. Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks | Metin's Blog
  8. 2 Letters from Steve | David Gelphman's Blog — Today (Tuesday) I’m visiting a terminally ill friend in the hospital in San Francisco. I’ve been told that she will likely not survive until this Friday. She had a liver transplant in late February and we all had high hopes but unfortunately she has not recovered.
  9. How an Oil Refinery Works - by Brian Potter
  10. Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician | Science — Editor’s summary Computational tools for medical decision support have been advancing over time, mainly by serving as resources for limited applications. Machine learning tools for autonomous interpretation of clinical cases have also be…
  11. styles.refero.design
  12. Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines
  13. DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
  14. I can never talk to an AI anonymously again (Kelsey Piper) — AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you? The Argument Apr 21, 2026 Several advanced AI models, in particular Claude Opus 4.7, have demonstrated the ability to deduce the author of relatively small excerpts of text. Recently, Matt Ygle…
  15. mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
  16. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
  17. AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses • The Guardian — Robert Booth: From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs? A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outpe…
  18. Where the goblins came from | OpenAI — Why it matters Depending on who you ask, the goblins are a delightful or annoying quirk of the model. But they are also a powerful example of how reward signals can shape model behavior in unexpected ways, and how models can learn to generalize rewards in certain situations to unrelate…
  19. ZetaLib/The Gay Jailbreak/The Gay Jailbreak.md at main · Exocija/ZetaLib
  20. Why TUIs are back by Alcides Fonseca — https://lobste.rs/s/quulrs/why_tuis_are_back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000028
  21. acai.sh
  22. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy — This is the first "real" use case I've seen where agents are given access to payment methods and buying something on their own. > Starting today, agents can provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid …
  23. Flue — The Agent Harness Framework
  24. Anonymous: and never get dizzy — “Uh, hello,” Ilya says when the cat rises up on its legs and stretches, back bending and paws curling down. Its ears flick and it gives him a dour sort of mwor in return. Witches have familiars, Ilya knows that. And this is a perfect spot for a familiar to be, on the stoop of the witch's hous…
  25. The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’ | The MIT Press Reader — An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans.
  26. AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier | The Guardian — AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier
  27. GitHub - yogthos/chiasmus: Chiasmus is an MCP server that gives language models access to formal verification · GitHub
  28. Honker | Honker
  29. Alert-driven monitoring | Documentation
  30. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone • The Register
  31. AI traffic grows but retail sites lag in AI search visibility
  32. Running Adobe’s 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser – pagetable.com
  33. Parachute — Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.
  34. サプライチェーン攻撃の対策 - kawasima
  35. Just a moment... — Cursor Camp https://ift.tt/jzVXu6E fun, games
  36. Theo - t3.gg on X: "Fun fact - if you have a recent commit that mentions OpenClaw in a json blob, Claude Code will either refuse your request or bill you extra money. This is an empty repo, I'm just calling Claude Code directly. Insanity. https://t.co/JKt — Discover a critical bug in Claude Code's handling of specific keywor…
  38. 1D-Chess
  39. Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All - The Atlantic
  40. Testing Vue components in the browser
  41. www.sourcefeed.app — Sourcefeed https://ift.tt/gVkxKyO rss, web, tools, via:gregcohn
  42. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
  43. NetHack 5.0.0 | Hacker News
  44. Oh no I've said too much, I haven't said enough - lc2l — Ilya sits down carefully and takes Shane’s hand. “I am going to ask you something, and I want you to try not to freak out, okay? Take a breath, think about it.” That sounds… serious. “The Centaurs are having a barbeque,” Ilya says. “I would like to go, and I would li…
  45. GitHub - microsoft/lib0xc: Safe(ish) C programming library · GitHub — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834
  46. You can beat the binary search – Daniel Lemire's blog
  47. When Dawkins met Claude - UnHerd
  48. Who Owns the Code Written by LLMs?
  49. Miscellanea: The War in Iran
  50. Modern CSS Feature Support For Shadow DOM — Tracking the state of support for CSS features within and across the shadow DOM to provide visibility into feature parity, usage details, and outstanding issues and bugs.
  51. Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub — via https://cupoftea.social/@zersiax/116507465656589478
  52. America got rich and got sad. A top economist says 2020 broke something that hasn't healed | Fortune
  53. How people ask Claude for personal guidance Anthropic
  54. The Vanishing Rulebook: Knave, Cairn, and the Road to Free Kriegsspiel Revolution – The Rpg Gazette
  55. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  56. labeledbones - let's be who we were already — It starts with Ilya’s nails. Or, at least, that’s the first outward sign that Shane picks up on. In which Shane supports Ilya as he explores gender expression/gender identity. Set during their first season on the Centaurs together. (Words: 21,762)
  57. Apple results analysis: Net-net over the moon
  58. Apple raises the Mac Mini’s starting price | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/AKBgS9h
  59. NetHack 5.0.0: Main Page
  60. 3 Android apps to try out this weekend — Mobile apps can still be fun.
  61. deeleeramone/PyWry: PyWry is a cross-platform app factory, rendering engine and UI toolkit for Python that produces native desktop, web, and notebook experiences from a single API. — PyWry is a cross-platform app factory, rendering engine and UI toolkit for Python that produces native desktop, web, and notebook experiences …
  62. ‘Every body is a rugby body’: US women players fight for inclusivity after trans ban | Rugby union | The Guardian
  63. ‘Major labels are trying to scoop up everything’: the chaotic future for indie music companies – and why vinyl isn’t working
  64. What fun websites do you know? | Lobsters
  65. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
  66. the courtship of ilya rozanov - cherrylilies (cherrydialectic) - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — I THINK THIS IS AI >:(
  67. federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming: Modern C++ Programming Course (C++11/14/17/20)
  68. Write With Harper — English grammar checker
  69. The struggle to get hold of medication in England is set to get worse
  70. Lily and Jane's Reddit Adventures - BetterNameToCome (SpoonDeficiency) - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — “Me finding out that instead of mysterious and cool, people think I’m autistic and lesbian.” Ilya and Shane get Reddit’s advice under the aliases Lily and Jane. Things spi…
  71. ‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think? | Philosophy books | The Guardian
  72. CAISI Evaluation of DeepSeek V4 Pro | NIST
  73. Progressive Web Components | Ariel Salminen — live examples
  74. How A.I. Is Transforming China’s Entertainment Industry - The New York Times — Until recently, making a hit microdrama — the soapy, short-form, made-for-mobile shows that have become wildly popular in China — meant hiring actors, renting sets and spending weeks filming and editing. Now, some Chinese companies are churning…
  75. Yann LeCun's Billion Dollar Bet (Welch Labs - YouTube) — Sections 0:00 - Intro 2:28 - The Problem with Deep Learning 4:17 - Intelligence is a Cake 5:15 - The Rise of Generative AI 8:00 - Blurry Images 8:54 - HRT is an awesome place to work 11:16 - But why so Blurry? 13:30 - Do our models need to be generative? 15:16…
  76. Evolvable AI: Threats of a new major transition in evolution | PNAS
  77. Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/eWGtPYf
  78. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | Hacker News — Haskell is admittedly, probably the most powerful widely (or even somewhat widely) used language for doing this, but this general pattern works really well in Rust and TypeScript too and is one of my very favorite tools for writing better co…
  79. I installed a small LLM on my Mac laptop — here's why I can't go back | Tom's Guide — As you’re typing, Cotypist will suggest what your next word should be. Hit tab, and it autofills the word. That sounds like a minor boon for productivity, but it doesn’t take long to build up some speed while tapping away and hitting Tab ev…
  80. YPE html> The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters - The New York Times
  81. The Death of Scrum — An Interactive Essay
  82. AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
  83. Rethinking Trend Following: Optimal Regime-Dependent Allocation -
  84. Science Needs AI Data Stocktakes: A Proof-of-Concept for Fusion — Google DeepMind
  85. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning — A scientific theory of deep learning is starting to take shape. It explains how neural networks learn and behave using simple, testable ideas. This new theory helps us understand training, performance, and common patterns in deep learning.
  86. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  87. Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed | The New Republic
  88. How to organize your Obsidian vault using Claude (prompts included) — via the How-To Geek https://ift.tt/UwSjBv9
  89. Swiftgrounds — Discover & share Playground projects
  90. OpenWarp — Unlock custom AI providers for Warp — OpenWarp is the open enhancement layer for Warp. Plug in any OpenAI-compatible model, craft your own prompts, and own your terminal AI.
  91. Mapped: Every Country’s Fertility Rate as Births Decline Worldwide
  92. Gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults : Shots - Health News : NPR
  93. MemPalace/mempalace: The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system. And it's free.
  94. How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were — Lots of stats here about the parenting gap; may be good to use in the motherhood penalty section of 100a in liberalism. Pdf of this is in possible readings.
  95. [2504.09762] Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces! — Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks. These intermediate tokens have been called \…
  96. Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation
  97. [no title]
  98. On Wintering - Joan Westenberg
  99. Assorted tools — Simon Willison
  100. Claude for Creative Work Anthropic

The Next Web

  1. UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
  2. The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.
  3. SK Hynix jumps 12% as Big Tech doubles down on AI memory
  4. Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity
  5. Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids
  6. Samsung swaps its TV chief for the first time in two years as TCL closes in
  7. China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation
  8. The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.
  9. The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.
  10. OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history. Anthropic banned it.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. Spring Skin-Care and Beauty Sales Are Here. These Are the Deals We Love.
  2. 33 Exclusive Deals on Our Favorite Mother’s Day Gifts
  3. The Best Wi-Fi Mesh-Networking Systems
  4. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  5. The Best Diaper Pail
  6. Window AC Units Are Loud. This One Masks NYC Noise and Almost Feels Like Central Air.
  7. The Best Gifts We’ve Ever Given Our Moms
  8. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  9. 7 Cheap(ish) Things to Improve Your In-Flight Experience
  10. The Best TVs

Sweethome

  1. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  2. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  3. Our Favorite Curtains
  4. This $28 Garden Tool Cut My Weeding Time in Half
  5. The Quiet Luxury of a Collapsible Laundry Basket
  6. A Tiny Luxury That Makes Taking Out the Garbage Less of a Chore
  7. The Best Squatty Potty and Other Toilet Stools Worth the Floor Space
  8. The Best Cordless Fans
  9. Keeping Houseplants Alive and Happy When You’re Away Is Easier Than You Think
  10. The Best Flashlight

Hacker News

  1. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
  2. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  3. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
  4. Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]
  5. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
  6. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
  7. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
  8. From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control
  9. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
  10. A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
  11. World's biggest RC A380 [video]
  12. Southwest Headquarters Tour
  13. Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
  14. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
  15. Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision
  16. Let's Buy Spirit Air
  17. A desktop made for one
  18. The Road to a Billion-Token Context
  19. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
  20. K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
  21. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
  22. Introduction to Atom
  23. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense
  24. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
  25. Humanoid Robot Actuators
  26. Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
  27. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
  28. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
  29. Text-to-CAD
  30. I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

Ars Technica

  1. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
  2. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
  3. Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
  4. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
  5. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
  6. Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
  7. Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
  8. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
  9. Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
  10. Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
  11. GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
  12. Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered.
  13. Virgin Galactic reveals new ship, but it's running out of time and cash
  14. Apple may take "several months" to catch up to Mac mini and Studio demand
  15. Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
  16. Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts
  17. There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
  18. Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general
  19. US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold
  20. Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine's sights

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New Scientist

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

Slashdot

  1. Can Investors Trust AI Sales Figures? Asks Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece
  2. Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22%
  3. NetHack 5.0 Released
  4. OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App
  5. AI Cameras are Being Deployed Across the Western US for Early Detection of Wildfires
  6. Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions
  7. Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground
  8. It's Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com - Relics of Yesterday's Internet
  9. Former Nintendo Executive Says Amazon Once Requested 'Illegal' Price Discounts
  10. ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene
  11. South Africa's Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to 'Fictitious' AI-Generated Citations
  12. Ransomware Is Getting Uglier As Cybercriminals Fake Leaks and Skip Encryption Entirely
  13. Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout
  14. Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby
  15. Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  2. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  3. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-20-26 to 4-24-26)
  5. Drill Design's Wall Hanger Channels Enzo Mari
  6. In This Transylvanian City, the Buildings Have Eyes
  7. Industrial Design Student Project Turned Commercial Furniture
  8. Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Pays Homage to Everyday Holes
  9. An Unusual Architectural Detail from Scandinavia: Open Downspouts
  10. Clever Use of Materials: Making a Child-Safe Axe-Throwing Set-Up
  11. Snap-Off Blades were Inspired by Chocolate Bars and Broken Glass
  12. Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders
  13. HomeDec Furniture's Unusual Take on a Space-Saving Table
  14. An Over-the-Top Modular Storage Box
  15. Hi-Tech, Designey Food Storage: B!POD's Food Vacuum System

CNET

  1. Why Pay for a VPN? Firefox Just Added One for Free
  2. Here Are New and Popular Emoji for May and How to Decipher Them
  3. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 4, #1058
  4. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 4 #792
  5. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 4, #1780
  6. Which Is the Most Trusted Internet Service Provider? Vote for Your Top Pick
  7. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 4, #587
  8. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, May 4
  9. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, May 3
  10. HiBy Digital M500 X Hatsune Miku Audio Player Review: Virtual Pop Star Plays Your Favorite Music
  11. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 3, #586
  12. 18 Hidden iOS 26 Features You'll Wish You Knew About Sooner
  13. Best Record Players I've Tested for 2026
  14. The Best Grilled Cheese You'll Ever Make Starts in Your Air Fryer
  15. 'Marshals' Release Schedule: When Episode 10 Hits Paramount Plus
  16. Miami Grand Prix: How to Watch the F1 Race Today
  17. Star Wars Guide: How to Watch Movies, TV Shows and Side Stories in Order
  18. Sony's AI Robot Can Probably Beat You at Table Tennis
  19. The 7 Things You're Tossing in the Recycling Bin That Don't Belong There
  20. Premier League Soccer: Stream Aston Villa vs. Tottenham From Anywhere Live
  21. 'Euphoria' Season 3 Release Schedule: When Does Episode 4 Come Out?
  22. Summer Is Almost Here. I Let AI Fill My Calendar With Fitness, Fun and Music
  23. Renewing Your Passport Is Now as Easy as Ordering Takeout
  24. Netflix's 'This Is a Gardening Show' Is the Ideal Comfort Show
  25. The Truth About Overnight Phone Charging (and Why It's Wrecking Your Battery)

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Reggie Fils-Aimé says Amazon once asked Nintendo to break the law
  2. Shokz’s bassy OpenRun Pro 2 are $40 off thanks to a new Mother’s Day promo
  3. These reusable digital Polaroids are a clever way to cover a fridge in memories
  4. How the internet’s favorite squirrel dad made the hottest camera app of 2026
  5. AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?
  6. Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million
  7. Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices
  8. Aura’s delightful Aspen photo frame is on sale for $30 off this weekend
  9. Anker’s discounted 2-in-1 USB-C cable is a great way to spend $15
  10. Playing Esoteric Ebb is like rolling the dice with a great DM

Wired

  1. RFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d Expect
  2. Do Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?
  3. What I Packed to Run 80 Miles Across the Italian Apennine Mountains
  4. A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
  5. Can Listening to ‘Subliminals’ Make You Beautiful? Plenty of Women Believe It
  6. Science Has Found Even More Ways Coffee Is Good for You
  7. 15 Best MagSafe Wireless Chargers (2026): Power Banks, Stands, Pads, and Travel Chargers
  8. Dating Is a Rich Person’s Game Now
  9. Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
  10. The Best Star Wars Gifts for Everyone, From Padawans to Jedi Masters (2026)
  11. Asus Zenbook A16 (2026) Review: Savor the Power, Ignore the Beige
  12. 15 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers and Gardeners (2026)
  13. How to Track Your Luggage (2026): AirTag, Pebblebee, CaseSafe
  14. Best Travel Tote Bags for Every Kind of Excursion (2026): Away, Le Pliage, Topo Designs
  15. KitchenAid Artisan Plus Stand Mixer Review: Tiny Additions, Big Difference
  16. Coway Airmega Mighty2 Review: The Sequel Is Better Than the Original
  17. Top Rover Promo Codes and Referral Deals for May 2026
  18. Limited Time: TurboTax Full Service Coupons This May
  19. Ulta Promo Codes: Up to 50% Off in May
  20. Castlery Promo Code: 15% Off in May 2026

LifeHacker

  1. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  2. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  5. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  6. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  7. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  8. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  9. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  10. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  11. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  12. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  13. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  14. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  15. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  16. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  17. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  18. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  19. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  20. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  21. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  22. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  23. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  24. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  25. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  26. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  27. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  28. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  29. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  30. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  31. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  32. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  33. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  34. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  35. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  36. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  37. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  38. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  39. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  40. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  41. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  42. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  43. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  44. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  45. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  46. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  47. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  48. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  49. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  50. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  51. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  52. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  53. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  54. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  55. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  56. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  57. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  58. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  59. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  60. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  61. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  62. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  63. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  64. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  65. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  66. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  67. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  68. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  69. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  70. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  71. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  72. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  73. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  74. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is
  75. This Google Pixel Watch 4 Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  76. These Third-Generation Apple AirPods Are $50 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  78. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  79. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  80. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  81. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  82. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  83. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  84. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  85. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  86. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  87. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  88. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch
  89. 10 Hacks Every Android Auto User Should Know
  90. 10 Hacks Every Brave Browser User Should Know
  91. Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?
  92. This Massive 75-inch QLED TV Is $450 Off Right Now
  93. Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks
  94. This Garmin Smartwatch With a 10-Day Battery Is $110 Off Right Now
  95. What's New on Netflix in May 2026
  96. 5 Hacks Every Nike Run Club User Should Know
  97. This Eufy Home Security Bundle Is $400 Off Right Now
  98. I Keep This Solis Pocket Wifi in a Travel Bag, and You Should Too
  99. You Can Get These New Sony Noise-Canceling Earbuds on Sale for $65 Right Now
  100. This Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $100 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
  2. If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
  3. Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
  4. Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
  5. Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky
  6. Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
  7. Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
  8. Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark
  9. Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’
  10. Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise
  11. Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
  12. UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
  13. Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
  14. ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs
  15. Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred
  16. Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
  17. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
  18. CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos
  19. That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry
  20. First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
  21. Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
  22. OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
  23. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
  24. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
  25. UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
  26. Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
  27. Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
  28. DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
  29. User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
  30. Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
  31. Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
  32. ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
  33. The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
  34. Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue
  35. Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
  36. Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
  37. FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'
  38. Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation
  39. Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet
  40. Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines
  41. French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency
  42. Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool
  43. AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud
  44. Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI
  45. SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy
  46. Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
  47. Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes
  48. Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005
  49. What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia
  50. Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day

TechMeme

  1. Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
  2. Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
  3. Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that US export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
  4. Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between $115 and $125 and go public with the "CBRS" ticker; Cerebras is targeting a $40B valuation (Reuters)
  5. Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
  6. An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (Wall Street Journal)
  7. A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
  8. Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 (New York Times)
  9. Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount (Financial Times)
  10. Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)
  11. China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
  12. Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything, which say Apple is applying App Store rules erratically (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
  14. How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
  15. GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a 20% premium on May 1 closing price (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)