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BBC

  1. Unemployment rate unexpectedly falls as fewer students look for work
  2. Petrol thefts surge as Iran war pushes up fuel costs
  3. Boy, 17, charged with Kenton synagogue arson
  4. Apple names new boss to replace Tim Cook after 15 years
  5. King says late Queen may have been 'troubled deeply' by world we live in
  6. US singer D4vd pleads not guilty to murder in death of missing teen girl
  7. High electricity bills targeted in planned shakeup to energy pricing
  8. Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans
  9. If Plaid win in Wales, that won't mean independence - at least not yet
  10. The 20-somethings juggling three jobs to make ends meet
  11. Youngest transfusion patient 'now chirpy little boy' after treatment in the womb
  12. What we know about the Iranian ship seized by the US
  13. Indian politicians are campaigning while holding fish. What is going on?
  14. 'Dumb machine' promises a clean energy breakthrough
  15. 'Why is the NHS funding students if it can't give them jobs?' Anger over recruitment freeze
  16. Funding cuts turning beautiful Loch Lomond into 'rubbish dump'
  17. Japan loosens arms export rules in break from post-WW2 pacifism
  18. Two children die in stabbings each month, study finds
  19. James Bond and prog rock to feature in 2026 Proms
  20. WW2 veteran who served in Navy despite seasickness dies aged 109
  21. Canadian killed in shooting at Mexico's ancient Teotihuacán pyramids
  22. BBC News app
  23. MPs Grill Starmer Over Mandelson (Again)
  24. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Is insider trading corrupting Trump's White House?
  25. Bolt advises Gout not to forget track and field
  26. Ranking the most successful world record transfers of the past 50 years
  27. Spurs lifeline or good step for West Ham - who's favourite for drop?
  28. What to do about Rew? England's dilemma
  29. Red Bull's difficult start and 1976 cars compared with 2026 - F1 Q&A
  30. Why stakes are so high in England's hottest title race

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Sennheiser launches HD 480 Pro, the closed-back headphones fans have been waiting for
  2. Instagram says a bug turned your photos black and white
  3. Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal
  4. Google brings Gemini in Chrome to users in Asia and the Pacific
  5. John Ternus will be CEO of Apple when Tim Cook steps down this fall
  6. Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service
  7. Sony will require age checks in the UK and Ireland to access PlayStation communication features
  8. Ubisoft will officially reveal the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake on April 23
  9. LinkedIn's new Crosscheck feature lets premium subscribers test competing AI models for free
  10. Meta is testing a WhatsApp Plus subscription that mostly focuses on cosmetic upgrades
  11. The FAA grounds Blue Origin New Glenn rocket after failure to put payload in orbit
  12. Ball x Pit's next update adds 11 more balls to the fray on April 27
  13. Deezer says AI-made songs make up 44 percent of daily uploads
  14. DaVinci Resolve 21 hands-on: A viable Lightroom alternative for casual users
  15. Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones review: Almost the perfect floor cleaner for tiny apartments
  16. The Elden Ring movie hits theaters on March 3, 2028
  17. Artemis II commander shares a remarkable video of Earth vanishing behind the Moon
  18. Apple could be fined up to $38 billion by Indian antitrust regulator
  19. The Mandalorian and Grogu director used Apple Vision Pro to preview the film in IMAX
  20. GoPro’s Mission 1 camera series will start at $600
  21. Blue Origin landed its recycled New Glenn booster but failed to put payload in orbit
  22. The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's new model Mythos
  23. Beijing's robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results
  24. Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
  25. The next Mac Studio and MacBook Pro releases could be postponed by several months
  26. Tesla is rolling out its Robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
  27. SNK's Neo Geo console remake works with original cartridges and HDMI
  28. Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
  29. Apple avoids a second import ban for its redesigned smartwatches in latest court ruling
  30. DOJ refuses to help French authorities in criminal probe of X
  31. A comet gets destroyed by the sun, data centers endanger the Potomac River, and more science news
  32. Cyberpunk platformers, gallivanting geckos and other new indie games worth checking out
  33. 15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song
  34. The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube
  35. A lot of you panic-bought PCs to avoid RAMaggedon 2026
  36. Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
  37. Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages
  38. NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
  39. Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI
  40. Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era
  41. Anthropic now has a design assistant too
  42. Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
  43. Donut Lab's battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint
  44. TCL's RGB-Mini LED TVs will start at $8,000
  45. Engadget Podcast: Allbirds goes from shoes to AI
  46. The Morning After: Our verdict on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4
  47. PSA: Stop using your Casely Power Pods wireless charger immediately
  48. Reed Hastings is leaving Netflix after 29 years
  49. Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac
  50. Call of Duty movie arrives on June 30, 2028

Pinboard

  1. Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
  2. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
  3. madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages
  4. Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime
  5. Category Theory Illustrated - Orders
  6. A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - Sentinel Colorado — "What's the point of me reading it if it's already correct anyway, and you didn't write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?" said Phelps. ~ The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pe…
  7. ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL :: Posit Open Source
  8. Pretty Fish — A Better Mermaid Diagram Editor
  9. smol-machines/smolvm: Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines.
  10. Community Letter from Tim - Apple — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/eWZE2pV
  11. Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27014027
  12. Good sleep, good learning, good life
  13. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  14. GitHub - NikolayS/pgque: PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick. · GitHub
  15. The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery. — Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new directions. For two centuries, the court had generally handled major cases a…
  16. Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO - Apple — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/eWZE2pV
  17. Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial — Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
  18. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people — if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: people aren't talking to people people aren't listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to turn talking to people into terms engineering people find more …
  19. Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design · Sam Henri Gold — These are Figma’s own files. Built by their own team. This is the gold standard. Imagine debugging a color that looks wrong. You check the component. The component uses a variable. The variable is aliased to another variable. That variable references a mode. The m…
  20. Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/BCpUd6Q
  21. The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker — "Each knob on the Master Control Panel has a different geometrical shape, allowing the user to distinguish the knobs by feel." "The Air Almanac is now online; you can download the 2026 Air Almanac here" "the position of a star is specified by …
  22. I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it
  23. Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - The New York Times
  24. Macs Adventure Walking Tours and Cycling Tours
  25. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
  26. Amiga Graphics Archive
  27. Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education
  28. Jujustu megamerges — Keep all work in flight as parent of your working tree commit.
  29. ShaderPad | Get creative with shaders
  30. Palantir on X: "Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the d
  31. The coming global food crisis — ref https://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3mjvn7fgm2s2b
  32. shivampkumar/trellis-mac — TRELLIS.2 for Apple Silicon Run TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D generation natively on Mac. This is a port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 — a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model — from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. No NVIDIA GPU required.
  33. mvanhorn/last30days-skill: Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts
  34. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  35. ESA - The toxic side of the Moon
  36. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) | Hacker News
  37. Top (Modern Common Lisp with FSet)
  38. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
  39. GitHub - gsd-build/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. — A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. - gsd-build/get-shit-done
  40. GitHub - ArcaneNibble/awawausb: WebUSB for fopses · GitHub — via @dalias@hachyderm.io boost of https://glauca.space/@r/116434222890632831
  41. Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch
  42. Six levels of dark mode - CSSence.com
  43. Codex for (almost) everything | OpenAI — The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.
  44. Shader Lab | basement.studio
  45. Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!
  46. Inside the Supreme Court’s Risky New Way of Doing Business
  47. The Death of a Superman - Believer Magazine
  48. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
  49. The Growing Shadow of Autocracy | Freedom House — Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 35 countries registered improvements.
  50. Yojam — plan 9 style plumber / rules engine for mac
  51. The AI Great Leap Forward
  52. Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create ‘Any Wavelength’ Lasers in Tiny Circuits for Light | NIST — rainbow lasers
  53. Kdenlive — "Free and open source video editor for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD"
  54. AI Resistance is Growing — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839951
  55. GitHub - paniclock/paniclock: Instantly disable Touch ID and lock your Mac with one click or keyboard shortcut. · GitHub
  56. firecrawl/web-agent — Firecrawl runs a research-grade autonomous agent at firecrawl.dev/app/agent, powered by Spark 1 models optimized for structured web research. This repo gives you the open-source foundation to build your own — fork it, swap models, add skills, and deploy however you want.
  57. How artificial intelligence is reengineering protein engineering | Science
  58. ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed
  59. Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Anthropic — Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs \ Anthropic https://ift.tt/amR72qT claude, design, tools, news, anthropic
  60. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess — Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.
  61. At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours - The Onion
  62. Casus Belli Engineering — Dark-side analysis of all-too-typical mechanisms of paradigm shift. Applicable to far more than Software Engineering. Indeed, the author has derived their pattern from distant sources, which deserve their own regard.
  63. Category Theory Illustrated – Orders | Hacker News
  64. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
  65. High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips
  66. Claude Codeで実際に起きたセキュリティ事故7選と防止策 #AI - Qiita
  67. Honey Ginger Chicken and Carrots Recipe — 1/4 cup soy sauce, plus more if needed 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon finely grated fresh ginger 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs 2 tablespoons coconut oil 4 scallions, trimmed and cut into 2-inch lengths, white and light-green pieces separated from dark greens 1 w…
  68. Understanding the FFT Algorithm
  69. The RAM shortage could last years | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/tA7mhFo
  70. My AI-Assisted workflow | maiobarbero.dev — How I built a structured AI-assisted development workflow as a Tech Lead, where the real work happens before a single line of code is written.
  71. Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian
  72. DeFlock — "Find Nearby ALPRs ... open-source project mapping license plate readers."
  73. Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts | Nieman Journalism Lab
  74. Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents
  75. There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash — The public outrage over the tech industry's obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are starting to come out.
  76. Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki
  77. Cook Out - 512 Pixels — via 512 Pixels http://512pixels.net
  78. Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles--and pushing back: A viral GitHub project that claims to clone coworkers into a reusable AI skill is forcing Chinese tech workers to confront deeper fears | MIT Technology Review
  79. Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done | ZDNET — Your Kindle's not obsolete it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/ via-IFTTT, via-Instapaper You can tr…
  80. The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher | Movies | The Guardian
  81. Codex for Mac gains Chronicle for enhancing context using recent screen content - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  82. https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman — A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman — cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy. Based on the viral observation that caveman-speak dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing technical substance. So we made it a one-line install.
  83. If a room feels off the lighting is probably too "spiky" or too blue — LessWrong
  84. The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
  85. It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
  86. Zellij
  87. How to Be Cultured: T’s Guides to Art, Film, Literature, Food and More - The New York Times
  88. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. – POLITICO
  89. What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat — For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
  90. Vercel April 2026 security incident | Vercel Knowledge Base
  91. The world in which IPv6 was a good design - apenwarr
  92. Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer - Apple — via Apple Newsroom
  93. Vibe Check: Opus 4.7 Stopped Reading Between the Lines
  94. Building an OPNsense router
  95. Sound+Sleep - Sound of Sleep
  96. Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago — https://archive.is/ztkLP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827985
  97. delphitools: Handmade Developer Tools
  98. Newzoo's 2026 PC & Console Gaming Report
  99. hudlow.org: Practical Antiforgery in Software Design
  100. The Role of a New Machine

The Next Web

  1. Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
  2. John Ternus built Apple’s hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI
  3. OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution
  4. DeepWay closes $310M in pre-IPO financing as it seeks to take Baidu-backed autonomous electric trucks global
  5. VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide
  6. Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation
  7. Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them
  8. Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return
  9. OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
  10. Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Smashing Magazine

  1. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  2. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  3. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  4. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  5. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  6. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  7. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  8. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  9. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  10. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  11. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
  12. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  13. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  14. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  15. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  16. Getting Started With The Popover API
  17. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  18. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  19. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  20. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  21. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  22. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  23. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  24. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  25. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  26. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  27. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  28. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  29. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  30. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  31. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  32. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  33. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  34. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  35. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  36. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  37. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  38. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  39. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  40. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Travel Backpack
  2. The Best Packable Daypack for Travel
  3. The Best Fan
  4. Now Is a Great Time to Buy a New Car Seat
  5. This New Fan Has a Built-In White Noise Machine That’s Both Redundant and Surprisingly Pleasant
  6. The Best Outdoor Speakers
  7. How to Get Your Outdoor Furniture Ready for Summer
  8. Our Favorite Deals on Refurbished Picks
  9. The Best Instant Camera
  10. My Quest to Find the Perfect Huggie Earrings

Sweethome

  1. The Best Fan
  2. How to Get Your Outdoor Furniture Ready for Summer
  3. This New Fan Has a Built-In White Noise Machine That’s Both Redundant and Surprisingly Pleasant
  4. The Best Cotton Sheets
  5. Our Favorite Watering Cans
  6. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  7. Ask Wirecutter: How Risky Is It to Leave Appliances Running While I’m Away From Home?
  8. Ask Wirecutter: I Have Ground-Floor Windows. How Do I Maintain Privacy and Natural Light?
  9. Ask Wirecutter: What Are the Best Buy-It-for-Life (and Beyond) Products?
  10. How to Clean Vinyl Records

Hacker News

  1. John Ternus to become Apple CEO
  2. Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
  3. A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
  4. Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died
  5. The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
  6. How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter
  7. Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely
  8. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness
  9. Types and Neural Networks
  10. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
  11. How a subsea cable is repaired
  12. Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
  13. MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
  14. Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
  15. Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
  16. A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection
  17. Air is full of DNA
  18. ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
  19. Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper
  20. Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo
  21. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
  22. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
  23. Monero Community Crowdfunding System
  24. Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]
  25. Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
  26. Modern Rendering Culling Techniques
  27. All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
  28. Kefir C17/C23 Compiler
  29. WebUSB Extension for Firefox
  30. Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

Ars Technica

  1. Pentagon pulls the plug on one of the military's most troubled space programs
  2. John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO
  3. Absurd study suggests eating fruits and vegetables leads to cancer
  4. US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump's illegal tariffs
  5. Here's how F1 is tweaking its hybrid systems to try to save the show
  6. Robot runner handily beats humans in half-marathon, setting new record
  7. Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent
  8. Rogue Trooper brings the Genetic Infantry to the silver screen
  9. Meet Bruce, the "beak-jousting" parrot
  10. Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking
  11. Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support
  12. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
  13. I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers—here’s what a shot day looks like
  14. Great white sharks are overheating
  15. US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"
  16. Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"
  17. Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
  18. $25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options
  19. Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
  20. Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

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New Scientist

  1. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  2. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  3. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  4. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  5. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  6. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  7. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  8. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  9. Hospital-acquired pneumonia reduced by daily toothbrushing
  10. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  11. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  12. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  13. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  14. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  15. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  16. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  17. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  18. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  19. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  20. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  21. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  22. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  23. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  24. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  25. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  26. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  27. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  28. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  29. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  30. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  31. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  32. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  33. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  34. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  35. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  36. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  37. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  38. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  39. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  40. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  41. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
  42. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
  43. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
  44. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
  45. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
  46. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
  47. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
  48. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
  49. The man who ruined mathematics
  50. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
  51. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
  52. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
  53. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
  54. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
  55. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
  56. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
  57. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
  58. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
  59. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
  60. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
  61. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
  62. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
  63. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
  64. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
  65. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
  66. Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
  67. Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
  68. The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
  69. Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine
  70. Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
  71. Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?
  72. A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries
  73. Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon
  74. Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'
  75. We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
  76. The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health
  77. How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
  78. Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid
  79. How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo
  80. Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
  81. Bumblebees surprise scientists by showing a sense of rhythm
  82. Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
  83. We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
  84. I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes – on purpose
  85. What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex
  86. Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon
  87. Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
  88. Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?
  89. The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close
  90. Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex
  91. The best new popular science books of April 2026
  92. Virus from marine animals is causing weird eye problems in people
  93. Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain
  94. Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid
  95. The best new science-fiction books of April 2026
  96. New fibre-optic record allows 50,000,000 movies to be streamed at once
  97. The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
  98. Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
  99. The best kind of olive oil for brain health
  100. The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light

Slashdot

  1. iPhone Video Shows 'Earthset' From Space
  2. PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Messages and Voice Chat
  3. Mobile Phones To Be Banned In Schools In England Under New Plans
  4. Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
  5. Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan
  6. Deezer Says 44% of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are AI-Generated
  7. Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs
  8. Palantir Posts Bond Villain Manifesto On X
  9. Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy
  10. NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist
  11. Robots Beat Human Records At Beijing Half-Marathon
  12. Videos Catch Amazon Delivery Drones Dropping Packages From 10 Feet in the Air
  13. Zoom Partners With Sam Altman's Iris-Scanning Company To Offer Callers Verifications of Humanness
  14. Brave Browser Introduces 'Origin', a Pay-Once 'Minimalist' Browser
  15. Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster - But Loses Satellite

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi
  2. Pentel's 8-Color Mechanical Pencil, for Designers and Religious Readers
  3. An Industrial Design Classic: The Bic 4 Color Pen from 1970
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-13-26 to 4-17-26)
  5. Industrial Design Research: Form Studies for Writing/Drawing Utensils, by BKID
  6. Mario Tsai Studio's Modular Star System of Lighting
  7. Ralf Jacobs' Incredible Harmonograph: Furniture That Can Draw Patterns
  8. Iyo Hasegawa's Wrench-Based Furniture
  9. An '80s Objet D'esign: Oliver Michl's Expanding Architect's Lamp
  10. Strange Alternative to Beach Umbrellas: A Giant Windsock
  11. A Remote-Controlled, Daisy-Chainable Pan & Tilt 360-Degree LED Light
  12. Experimental Furniture Design by Raw-Edges Design Studio
  13. The Insane Entrance Door to (A)void Café in Prague
  14. In France, Lunch Delivered Via Steampunk-Like Contraptions
  15. A Low-Tech Sliding Shutter System from Pre-Industrial Japan

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, April 21
  2. Apple CEO Tim Cook Steps Down, John Ternus Replaces Him
  3. OnePlus Reveals New Phones Despite Uncertain Future
  4. Blue Origin Rocket Grounded After 'Mishap' Destroys Customer Satellite
  5. Pixel 11 May Revive the Old-School Notification LED With 'Pixel Glow'
  6. Best Rural Internet Providers for 2026
  7. Best Fiber Internet Providers for 2026
  8. Swiss Privacy Goes Global: Proton VPN Grows Coverage to 145 Countries
  9. Spotify Champions Live Music With Independent Music Venue Deal
  10. Getting a Tax Refund? Here's How to Tell Exactly When It Will Arrive
  11. The Complete Guide to Making Distilled Water at Home
  12. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, April 20
  13. Are You a Verified Human? Yes? That's Exactly What AI Would Say!
  14. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 21, #575
  15. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 21 #779
  16. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 21, #1767
  17. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 21, #1045
  18. Puff, Puff, Pass… the Menu: These Are the Best 4/20 Food Deals
  19. DJI OSMO Pocket 4 Hands-On Q&A video
  20. Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-3: Everything That Happened in 8 Minutes video
  21. Flying Somewhere This Spring? A Burner Phone Might Save You From a Border Headache
  22. Best Free TV Streaming Services: Tubi, Roku Channel and More
  23. Best Identity Theft Protection Services We've Tested in 2026
  24. These States Will Let Your iPhone Be Your Driver's License
  25. Benq TK705STi Short-Throw Projector Review: Tidy Little Box for Little Rooms

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The Verge

  1. Microsoft Teams is trying to fix accidental hand-raising
  2. Ikea and Samsung promise glitch-free SmartThings integration
  3. Apple Sports now lets you follow scores in a CarPlay widget
  4. PlayStation’s age-gating restrictions are coming to UK consoles
  5. Dyson’s back with a travel-size Supersonic hairdryer
  6. Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer
  7. The Lenovo Legion Go S is RAMageddon’s latest victim
  8. John Ternus is taking over from Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO
  9. Read Tim Cook’s letter to the Apple world as he departs as CEO
  10. Apple names Johny Srouji as chief hardware officer

Wired

  1. How to Watch the 2026 Lyrids Meteor Shower at Its Peak
  2. A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China
  3. Best Kitchen Composters and Food Recyclers (2026)
  4. Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
  5. Ben McKenzie Says Crypto Has a Secret Ingredient: Male Loneliness
  6. A Hot-Air Balloon Landed in a California Backyard. The Owner Says It's a 'Very Rare' Event
  7. War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content
  8. Hyundai Ioniq 3 2026: Price, Specs, Availability
  9. Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?
  10. We Love the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2, Especially at $50 Off
  11. Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once
  12. The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad
  13. The Best Hybrid Mattresses for Couples, Back Pain, and More (2026)
  14. There’s New Evidence for How Loneliness Affects Memory in Old Age
  15. Best Meta Glasses (2026): Ray-Ban, Oakley, AR
  16. Hisense U7SG TV Review (2026): Better Design, Great Value
  17. The 11 Best Fans to Buy Before It Gets Hot Again (2026)
  18. Our Favorite Apple Watch Has Never Been Less Expensive
  19. The 10 Best Pet Cameras of 2026: Furbo, Petcube, and Enabot
  20. The Best Smart Home Accessories to Boost Your Curb Appeal (2026)

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. This Bright and Powerful Blink Floodlight Camera Is Over Half Off Right Now
  3. The 'Gun God' Controller Turns One Plus' New Smartphone Into a Sleek Handheld Gaming Console
  4. You Can Get a Google Pixel 10 for $250 Off Right Now
  5. What 'Running Economy' Actually Means (and How to Improve Yours)
  6. I Painted My Deck With a Push Broom, and I'd Do It Again
  7. Everything We (Think) We Know About Google's 'Fitbit Air'
  8. Apple's Touchscreen MacBook Might Be Delayed
  9. The Best Earbuds You Can Buy Right Now Are on Sale for $300
  10. Here's Why RAM Prices Won't Be Dropping Anytime Soon
  11. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $125 Handheld Device
  12. The CRKD Nitro Deck for Nintendo Switch Is on Sale for $35
  13. How Do You Actually 'Engage' Your Core?
  14. You Should Start Spring Cleaning With This Dyson Cordless Vacuum While It's on Sale for Over $200 Off
  15. This Sony Portable Outdoor Speaker Is Almost 50% Off Just in Time for Summer
  16. This Compact HP Mini Desktop Is on Sale for Just $320 Right Now
  17. Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
  18. If X Isn't Working, It's Not Just You
  19. Netflix Is About to Launch Its Vertical Video Feed
  20. Starbucks’ New ChatGPT Integration Is a Potential Privacy Nightmare
  21. This Android Setting Makes It Easy to Manage All Your App Permissions
  22. What You Can Expect to Pay to Get Into Fitness
  23. This Tech Announcement Was so Bad, the Company Apologized
  24. This Sonos Soundbar With Alexa Is 46% Off Right Now
  25. Yesterday's Bluesky Outage Was No Accident
  26. This Arlo 2K Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera Is on Sale for $25
  27. Gemini Can Now Create AI Images Using Your Own Photos and Videos
  28. You Can Get Windows 11 Pro on Sale for Just $13 Right Now
  29. This Flash Sale Offers a One-Year BJ's Membership With Gas Discounts for Just $15 Right Now
  30. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Yellowstone’
  31. This Anker Solix Portable Power Station Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  32. This Subscription-Free Eufy Outdoor Camera Kit Is $150 Off Right Now
  33. This 3-Day Flash Sale Is Cutting the Price of AdGuard to Just $11
  34. The New Google Pixel 10a Is Already $50 Off
  35. Whoop Wants to Test Your Blood
  36. An Audit Found That DuckDuckGo's VPN Doesn't Track User Activity
  37. This 55-inch Samsung OLED TV Is $600 Off Right Now
  38. These Four Apple Intelligence Features Might Be Coming in iOS 27
  39. I'm Reading a 900-Page Novel on an E-Reader the Size of My Library Card, and It's Going Great
  40. How the 3-3-3 Rule Helped Me Stick to an Exercise Routine
  41. The Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Earbuds Are 40% Off
  42. 10 Shows Like 'Industry' You Should Watch Next
  43. Your First Pull-Up Is Just the Beginning
  44. There's Finally a Way to Block YouTube Shorts on Both iPhones and Androids
  45. Seven Samsung Galaxy Settings You Don’t Get on Other Android Phones
  46. Bluesky Continues to Have Connectivity Problems
  47. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  48. This Three-Stage Air Purifier Is 69% Off Right Now
  49. Google’s New Gemini App for Mac Comes With Two Key Benefits (and One Drawback)
  50. This 55-Inch LG OLED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  51. Google Is Finally Taking a Stand Against 'Back Button Hijacking'
  52. Spotify Just Partnered With One of Amazon's Best Bookselling Rivals
  53. These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are on Sale for $110 Right Now
  54. Why Everyone Is Suddenly Into ‘Combat Training'
  55. This $7 Epoxy Putty Saved My Home From Thousands in Water Damage
  56. These Smart Cameras Will Toss Treats to Your Pets While You’re Away, and They’re 48% Off Right Now
  57. These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data
  58. I Tried Binge, the Letterboxd Alternative That I Now Like More Than Letterboxd
  59. Should You Supplement With Creatine?
  60. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Was the Artemis II Mission Fake?
  61. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is 38% Off Right Now
  62. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is $400 Off Right Now
  63. I Used This Wall Edger to Paint My Stairs, and I'm Never Going Back
  64. A Lifetime Subscription to Babbel Is on Sale at a Huge Discount Right Now
  65. These Wireless, Noise-Canceling JBL Earbuds Are on Sale for Just $40 Right Now
  66. 10 Hacks Every Apple Music User Should Know
  67. Turn Your Laptop Into a Three-Screen Setup With This Portable Display Add-On
  68. I Replaced My Phone's To-Do App With This Reusable Smart Notebook, and It Rules
  69. You Can Get Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for Just $28 Right Now
  70. Trump Mobile's 'T1 Phone' Might Actually Be Released Soon
  71. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $250 Off Right Now
  72. I Upgraded From the Garmin Forerunner 165 to the 970, and It Was Worth the Cost for Me
  73. How to Hide Sensitive Info From Your Notifications
  74. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Squid Game'
  75. 10 Shows Like 'Scarpetta' You Should Watch Next
  76. Samsung Just Quietly Raised the Prices of These Smartphones and Tablets
  77. You Can Get This Cordless Shark Indoor/Outdoor Fan on Sale for Just $80 Right Now
  78. How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon's Clutches
  79. 10 Hacks Every Spotify User Should Know
  80. I Tried Tubi in ChatGPT and Didn't Hate It
  81. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is More Than $150 Off Right Now
  82. Samsung’s Latest Flagship TV Is Over $350 Off Right Now
  83. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold Is $300 Off Right Now
  84. Why Your Back Hurts, and What You Can Do About It
  85. Microsoft Is Killing Outlook Lite
  86. Amazon Big Spring Sale 2026 Live Blog: All the Best Deals From Apple, Kindle, Garmin, and More
  87. The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Are on Sale for $199
  88. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  89. The Samsung Galaxy Watch Can Finally Measure Blood Pressure in the U.S.
  90. Elon Musk's XChat Claims to Offer 'Private' Messaging (but Is Reserving the Right to Collect Your Data)
  91. This Is Your Chance to Get the AirPods Pro 3 for $200
  92. This Dual Screen E-Ink/LCD Smartphone Is One of the Most Ill-Conceived Tech Products of the Year
  93. Apple May Be Working on Multiple Styles and Frames for Its First Smart Glasses
  94. The Samsung S26 Ultra Is Already $200 Off
  95. This Blink Security Bundle Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  96. The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Smart Glasses Are 25% Off Right Now
  97. You Can Now Customize the Keyboard on Your Samsung Galaxy
  98. The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'You the Birthday' Mean?
  99. Seven Ways Gaining Muscle Benefits Your Health
  100. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week

The Onion

The Register

  1. Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it
  2. Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul
  3. Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture
  4. Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war
  5. NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing
  6. Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
  7. Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus
  8. Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again
  9. World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home
  10. Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter
  11. Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet
  12. Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver
  13. Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US
  14. You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house
  15. Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere
  16. One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all
  17. New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans
  18. Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes
  19. AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London
  20. UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite
  21. HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life
  22. Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit
  23. Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break
  24. Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing
  25. AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in
  26. Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise
  27. 'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
  28. NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer
  29. Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles
  30. Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay
  31. I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns
  32. Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus
  33. Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale
  34. Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest
  35. Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors
  36. Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams
  37. CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack
  38. Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker
  39. Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems
  40. Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades
  41. NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission
  42. Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned
  43. Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug
  44. Would you like fries with that terminal?
  45. Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks
  46. Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching
  47. Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283
  48. IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure
  49. Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day
  50. IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google

TechMeme

  1. Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness, shifting from Cook's era when decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  2. A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend (Politico)
  3. Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
  4. A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
  6. Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a $10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial $6.2B raise in November, at a $38B post-money valuation (Financial Times)
  7. In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  8. Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, "will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
  9. The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
  10. Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
  11. A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits (Emily Steel/New York Times)
  12. John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (CNBC)
  13. OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
  14. Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering (Apple)
  15. Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)