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BBC

  1. No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review'
  2. Epstein housed victims in London flats after Met chose not to investigate him, BBC reveals
  3. Steve Rosenberg: Kremlin's tightening grip on internet fuels Russian discontent
  4. Ringo Starr: 'I made all my mistakes on stage'
  5. How Lineker and Neville became rival media moguls
  6. Running marathons for our girls has made us closer, say dads of Southport victims
  7. Stock markets are too high and set to fall, says Bank of England deputy
  8. Trump says he speaks 'for the UK more than Prince Harry'
  9. Biobank data incident caused by 'a few bad apples', boss says
  10. Staff at UK's largest Pride event allege bullying and misconduct under sacked CEO
  11. 'A dangerous standoff' as Strait of Hormuz blockade continues
  12. Nato says 'no provision' to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain
  13. Masked Iranian forces appear to seize ships in staged video
  14. Watch: Powerful tornadoes barrel through northern Oklahoma
  15. Couple discovers Lebanon home destroyed by Israel from satellite image
  16. Meet the 19-metre octopus that prowled the ancient seas
  17. We paid our builder £44k - then he had us arrested
  18. Weekly quiz: What did Madonna lose at Coachella?
  19. Headscarf with a beret: Muslim designers showcase floral dresses and boxy streetwear in Paris
  20. Which airlines are cancelling flights to the UK - and what can you do?
  21. Radio 1 warns against buying Big Weekend tickets from touts
  22. Are parties being upfront about Scotland's finances?
  23. Murder charge after head teacher knocked off bike and killed
  24. Key suspect in notorious Tadamon massacre during Syria civil war arrested
  25. Assisted dying bill to run out of time as Lords hold final debate
  26. No rape took place outside Epsom church, say police
  27. BBC News app
  28. Donald Trump gets on the phone... with Sarah
  29. The Week: How Much Danger Is Keir Starmer In?
  30. Who will win the title? Reporters, fans and pundits make their predictions
  31. How Lineker and Neville became rival media moguls
  32. The Women's Six Nations is faster and smarter - but is it better?
  33. Millwall consider legal action over badge on KKK image
  34. Howe 'looks forward' to talks with Newcastle owners

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The Morning After: Polymarket and a hairdryer
  2. Porsche's new Cayenne Turbo Coupé Electric can do 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds
  3. US soldier arrested for allegedly making over $400,000 on Polymarket with classified Maduro information
  4. Claude can now connect to lifestyle apps like Spotify, Instacart and AllTrails
  5. Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees
  6. Meta is downsizing by about 10 percent
  7. Titanium Court mashes together genres and cultural references to tell a strange, funny tale
  8. X is shutting down its Communities feature
  9. Apple, Amazon join push for looser greenhouse emissions reporting
  10. Apple TV's upcoming For All Mankind spinoff Star City oozes Cold War-era paranoia
  11. Rivian begins production on the R2 electric SUV
  12. Five Annapurna Interactive games get Switch 2 releases
  13. Ubisoft has finally dropped a trailer for that Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake
  14. Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
  15. Turkey wants to ban social media for kids under 15
  16. Meta will show parents the topics of their teens' AI conversations
  17. 2027 BMW i7 first look: A fantastically techy car for the 1 percent
  18. DJI Lito 1 and Lito X1 drone review: High-quality aerial video at its most affordable
  19. Musk pledges to fix 2019-2023 Teslas that can't fully self drive
  20. Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform for insider trading
  21. Ecco the Dolphin: Complete will combine remasters and a sequel into one package
  22. NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope
  23. France's national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week
  24. Apple rolls out iOS 26.4.2 to fix a flaw that allowed the FBI to access push notifications
  25. LG's first RGB TV starts at $5,000 and is available to pre-order today
  26. Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is opening more studios and has over 15 projects in the works
  27. Threads introduces 'live chats' for following live events
  28. Control: Ultimate Edition is out for the iPhone and iPad
  29. Here’s to the stable ones: In praise of Tim Cook
  30. Xfinity Mobile now includes device protection and anytime phone upgrades
  31. Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?
  32. BMW's new i7 xDrive EVs will offer longer range and faster charging
  33. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book preview: A choose-your-own-adventure even adults can love
  34. Anker's 'Thus' chip brings AI to its headphones and other products
  35. X finally adds custom timelines
  36. Anthropic is investigating 'unauthorized access' of its Mythos cybersecurity tool
  37. SpaceX and Cursor strike partnership that might end in a $60 billion acquisition
  38. Mozilla says it patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities thanks to Anthropic's Claude Mythos
  39. Cash App now supports accounts for kids 6-12
  40. YouTube is muting push notifications from channels you don't watch
  41. AI company deletes the 3 million OKCupid photos it used for facial recognition training
  42. Meta has misled users about scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, lawsuit says
  43. New York Attorney General sues two prediction markets on illegal gambling allegations
  44. Florida AG opens criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT
  45. ChatGPT Images 2.0 is better at rendering non-Latin text
  46. Netflix's Devil May Cry animated adaptation returns for a second season on May 12
  47. Framework is building an eGPU kit for its Laptop 16
  48. Framework launches the Laptop 13 Pro with Intel's new Panther Lake chips
  49. Monterey Park, California has banned any data centers within its city limits
  50. NASA's Curiosity Rover found promising organic chemicals on Mars

Pinboard

  1. Laws of Software Engineering — This is a handy catalog, but the deeper value is knowing when each one clarifies reality and when it distorts it. Brooks’s Law, Conway’s Law, Hyrum’s Law, Goodhart’s Law, Gall’s Law, YAGNI, DRY, KISS: each names a recurring pressure, tradeoff, or failure mode. The mistake is treating them as un…
  2. The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet—Asterisk — "How does acetaminophen work? Nobody knows!" "When ibuprofen inhibits the COX enzymes, it does so throughout the body. And mostly, that is bad." "If you take a lot of ibuprofen, this could hurt your liver. But the major concerns seem to be the stomach, the heart, and the k…
  3. The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin
  4. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (Maurycy's blog)
  5. your hex editor should color-code bytes
  6. Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
  7. Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  8. AI as a Fascist Artifact
  9. Pica, a MacOS font management app — A better way to manage your fonts
  10. *Pro-level* travel tips — Pro-level travel tips https://ift.tt/9YyAdWq via:feedbin
  11. Windows 9x subsystem for Linux — WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your f…
  12. BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vTcM9ml
  13. google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. — A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a…
  14. 3.4M Solar Panels
  15. Shakespeare plays ranked
  16. Authentic Brands Group: The $20B Empire That Makes Nothing — Authentic Brands Group owns Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Champion, Dockers, Forever 21, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and 40+ other brands. It makes none of them. Inside the $20B licensing model.
  17. Extrapolated Futures Archive
  18. zindex - diagram infrastructure for agents
  19. How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
  20. How To Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter
  21. What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? | Quanta Magazine
  22. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? — Scan your website to see if it's ready for AI agents. Check for llms.txt, MCP, agent skills, and other agent-friendly standards.
  23. You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Vsk9cvH
  24. Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you • Buttondown — So what’s the big deal with “AI” charting? Here are nine reasons why we recommend refusing to consent to the use of scribing tools in healthcare settings:
  25. Fragments: April 2
  26. nytimes.com — Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This https://ift.tt/ijQoU60 via:kottke, ai, life, art, society, technology
  27. Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/BCpUd6Q
  28. Manifesto di Palantir definito «ramblings of a supervillain», scoppiano le polemiche sui contratti UK — Palantir ha pubblicato un manifesto che esalta la supremazia statunitense, invoca il ritorno della leva e prevede armi autonome; parole ritenute dai parlamentari britannici pericolose e ideologiche. I deputati chiedono di …
  29. Pretty Fish — A Better Mermaid Diagram Editor
  30. The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
  31. This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price | Wheel Front
  32. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports Anthropic — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
  33. We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities
  34. Florida is about to lose its most famous symbol forever. What happened?
  35. How The Heck Does GPS Work? (An Interactive Exploration) — An excellent explainer on GPS.
  36. exe.dev — Notable features of exe.dev: All the VMs that fit: your subscription gets you so much CPU and RAM. How your VMs share your resources is up to you. Want 20 idle VMs that answer an HTTP request every other day? Go for it. Real VMs, sub-second start you get a full Ubuntu machine (or any other container image you deci…
  37. ENTERPILOT/GoModel: High-performance AI gateway written in Go - unified OpenAI-compatible API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI & Ollama. LiteLLM alternative with observability, guardrails & streaming.
  38. Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/eWZE2pV
  39. Raycast
  40. Jujustu megamerges — Keep all work in flight as parent of your working tree commit.
  41. ReciproCard — Find Free Library Cards for Libby | Reciprocal & Non-Resident Cards
  42. A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot | The Guardian
  43. The Brand Ledger — Worse on Purpose — Tracking brands across tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.
  44. 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
  45. The Cheese Map — Charting the Combinatorial Space of Cheesemaking
  46. AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
  47. If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?
  48. TencentCloud/CubeSandbox: Instant, Concurrent, Secure & Lightweight Sandbox for AI Agents.
  49. Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851896 The reader's guide to the Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74039
  50. qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local
  51. Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 - Ars Technica — Mozilla added some important data to that debate Tuesday, writing in a blog post that early access to Mythos Preview had helped it pre-identify 271 security vulnerabilities in this week’s release of Firefox 150. The results we…
  52. crawshaw - 2026-04-22
  53. Flipbook: Infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time
  54. 10 Hacks Every Apple CarPlay User Should Know | Lifehacker — 10 Hacks Every Apple CarPlay User Should Know https://bit.ly/4w1d9MH IFTTT, Inoreader
  55. @codemix/graph - codemix
  56. Rediscovering the Handcart | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE — via @yosh@toot.yosh.is boost of https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/116448954715615909
  57. Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!
  58. agents-with-taste
  59. Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
  60. Ranked: Education Spending Per Student by Country - Visual Capitalist
  61. refactoringhq/tolaria
  62. Retro Lemon Dessert
  63. acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen | hacker news
  64. ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed
  65. Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie - Ars Technica
  66. CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits — The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
  67. Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental? — Once upon a time, at the dawn of the web, browsers and websites were simple ... Then slowly, step by step, more and more interactivity was added.
  68. The zero-days are numbered 
  69. It Depends - Data Stewardship tool
  70. Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0 | OpenAI
  71. Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Anthropic — Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs \ Anthropic https://ift.tt/amR72qT claude, design, tools, news, anthropic
  72. madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages
  73. Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer: [ESSAYS] MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be
  74. GitHub - NikolayS/pgque: PgQue – Zero-bloat Postgres queue. One SQL file to install, pg_cron to tick. · GitHub
  75. how a roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down vercel's entire platform — Damn, this is an absolute indictment of the state of security in AI tooling: February 2026. An employee at Context.ai, one of those AI productivity tools that promises to "supercharge your workflow," downloads a Roblox cheat. Not a sophisticated ze…
  76. Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
  77. Two chips for the agentic era
  78. We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/3xYCk6W
  79. The end of responsive images
  80. Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition
  81. 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.
  82. Coding Models Are Doing Too Much | wh — Taken together, the results suggest that Over-Editing is both widespread and measurable. At the same time, the prompting results show that this is not purely a capability limitation. Especially for reasoning models, a simple instruction to preserve the original code leads to much more …
  83. Fusion Power Plant Simulator — Fusion Energy Base
  84. injaneity/pi-computer-use
  85. Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
  86. I Was an Enthusiastic Early Adopter of AI Scribes. Here’s Why I Stopped — What I am saying is this: the consultation is not simply a conversation from which a document is generated. It is a complex cognitive and relational act, and the document we produce is not a by-product of that act but part of it. Any tool that changes …
  87. Our newsroom AI policy - Ars Technica
  88. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hQRLX0K
  89. Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says • Ars Technica — Ashley Belanger: Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleg…
  90. Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vTcM9ml
  91. The next evolution of The Verge’s homepage is here | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/3xYCk6W
  92. Tolaria — A second brain for the AI era — A second brain for the AI era. Free forever. Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration
  93. Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought | Endangered species | The Guardian — In recent years, scientists have unearthed dozens of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities. Chimpanzees and bonobos can remember past groupmates for decades. Wh…
  94. Fragments: April 14 — The idea of wiring the improvement directly into a loop is an interesting one.
  95. GitHub - raysan5/raylib: A simple and easy-to-use library to learn videogames programming
  96. Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones — The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
  97. The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
  98. Overview - Agent Skills
  99. A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine
  100. Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way - Piccalilli

The Next Web

  1. China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms without government approval
  2. Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO
  3. Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce merger in Berlin, creating a $20 billion transatlantic AI company
  4. DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’
  5. Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
  6. Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms
  7. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is also asking the survivors to train their replacements.
  8. High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.
  9. SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.
  10. Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. Tech Prices Are Skyrocketing. Nintendo’s Switch 2 Might Be Next.
  2. The Best Sun Hat
  3. The Best Carry-On Travel Backpacks
  4. The Best Carry-On Luggage
  5. The Best Hard-Shell Carry-On Luggage
  6. The Best Suitcases for Checking
  7. The Best Packing Cubes
  8. The Best Tricycles
  9. The Best Cordless Fans
  10. The Best Kids Bike Seats

Sweethome

  1. The Best Cordless Fans
  2. The Best Smart Water-Leak Detector
  3. To Clean Outdoor Patio Furniture Cushions, Treat Them Like a Rug
  4. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  5. The Best Bike Pump
  6. How to Get Your Outdoor Furniture Ready for Summer
  7. This New Fan Has a Built-In White Noise Machine That’s Both Redundant and Surprisingly Pleasant
  8. The Best Cotton Sheets
  9. Our Favorite Watering Cans
  10. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands

Hacker News

  1. S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities
  2. UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale
  3. DeepSeek v4
  4. How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
  5. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
  6. nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
  7. Why I Write (1946)
  8. Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
  9. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
  10. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
  11. US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
  12. GPT-5.5
  13. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
  14. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
  15. Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
  16. MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
  17. Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
  18. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
  19. Using the internet like it's 1999
  20. Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
  21. Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
  22. TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
  23. UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
  24. Why Not Venus?
  25. My phone replaced a brass plug
  26. Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents
  27. A programmable watch you can actually wear
  28. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
  29. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
  30. Ubuntu 26.04

Ars Technica

  1. Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company
  2. Visitors to this private space station won't be wearing shorts and T-shirts
  3. US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”
  4. Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper
  5. We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"
  6. In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe
  7. RFK Jr.’s rejection of germ theory debunked in Senate hearing
  8. Why are the Mac mini and Mac Studio gradually becoming impossible to buy?
  9. US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons
  10. Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats
  11. Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
  12. BMW bumps the 7 Series for 2027, adds all-new battery
  13. Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations
  14. Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
  15. Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable
  16. Our newsroom AI policy
  17. Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead
  18. RFK Jr. won't back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data
  19. You want your Moon landings in HD? So does NASA—here's how it's happening.
  20. Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat

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New Scientist

  1. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  2. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  3. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  4. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  5. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  6. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  7. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  8. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  9. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  10. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  11. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  12. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  13. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  14. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  15. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  16. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  17. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  18. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  19. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  20. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  21. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  22. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  23. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  24. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  25. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  26. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  27. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  28. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  29. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  30. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  31. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  32. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  33. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  34. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  35. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  36. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  37. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  38. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  39. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  40. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  41. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  42. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  43. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  44. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  45. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  46. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  47. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  48. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  49. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  50. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  51. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  52. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  53. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  54. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  55. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  56. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
  57. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
  58. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
  59. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
  60. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
  61. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
  62. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
  63. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
  64. The man who ruined mathematics
  65. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
  66. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
  67. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
  68. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
  69. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
  70. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
  71. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
  72. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
  73. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
  74. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
  75. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
  76. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
  77. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
  78. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
  79. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
  80. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
  81. Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
  82. Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
  83. The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
  84. Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine
  85. Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
  86. Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?
  87. A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries
  88. Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon
  89. Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'
  90. We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
  91. The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health
  92. How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
  93. Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid
  94. How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo
  95. Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
  96. Bumblebees surprise scientists by showing a sense of rhythm
  97. Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
  98. We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
  99. I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes – on purpose
  100. What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

Slashdot

  1. Claude Is Connecting Directly To Your Personal Apps
  2. FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices
  3. New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
  4. Apple Stops Weirdly Storing Data That Let Cops Spy On Signal Chats
  5. Warner Bros Shareholders Approve Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover
  6. OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
  7. Meta Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
  8. France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs
  9. Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO
  10. Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout
  11. New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses
  12. Intel Lands Tesla As First Major Customer For 14A Chip Technology
  13. 53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout
  14. Your Phone's Next Speed Boost May Come From Magnetic Chips
  15. Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Industrial Design Student Work: A Brick-Based Personal Heater
  2. A Long-Lived, Attention-Drawing Public Garbage Can
  3. Nathan Martell's Extreme Bent Plywood Layup Chair
  4. Inter-twined's 21-Day Life-Centered Design Thinking Challenge Launches Today
  5. Perfectly Nailing a Form with Minimal Cuts
  6. Christopher Herwig Documents Visually Riotous Utility Vehicles in South Asia
  7. Cultural Divide: This Chinese Company Makes Power Tools that Look Like Firearms
  8. An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter
  9. An Industrial Design Success Story: Kenma's Low-Tech Wearable Reverses a Film Company's Fortunes
  10. Joseph Joseph Completely Rethinks the Mop
  11. Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi
  12. Pentel's 8-Color Mechanical Pencil, for Designers and Religious Readers
  13. An Industrial Design Classic: The Bic 4 Color Pen from 1970
  14. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-13-26 to 4-17-26)
  15. Industrial Design Research: Form Studies for Writing/Drawing Utensils, by BKID

CNET

  1. Aurzen Zip Cyber Foldable Portable Projector: Not Bright, Poor Connectivity, but a Lot of Fun
  2. All the New Features the Massive iOS 26.4 Update Brings to Your iPhone
  3. My Sprinklers Got This Smart Upgrade, and Yours Should Too
  4. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 24 #782
  5. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 24, #1048
  6. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 24, #1770
  7. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, April 24
  8. Meta Adds New Live Chat Feature to Threads for NBA Playoffs, Major Events
  9. Meta Centralizes Access to Facebook, Instagram, AI Glasses and More Apps
  10. My Dog Is Banned From the Groomers. Is This Pet Vacuum Tool the At-Home Solution?
  11. Mullvad VPN Creates iOS Master Switch to Protect Users From Data Leaks
  12. Parents Can Now See What Their Kids Are Asking Meta AI About
  13. Samsung Brings Ikea Smart Home Support to Its Platform, With One Important Caveat
  14. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 24, #578
  15. ChatGPT Helped Plan FSU Shooting, Florida Officials Say
  16. LG's Micro RGB TVs Boast Big Screens, Big Colors and Big Prices
  17. Choosing a College Degree? AI Can Help You Narrow It Down
  18. You Can Now Stream DirecTV on Your Meta Quest Headset
  19. Happy 20th Birthday, Spotify. Here's the Platform's Most Streamed of All Time
  20. Tesla Owners May Need to Visit New Microfactories to Update Full Self-Driving
  21. Celebrate the New Mario Movie With $20 Off Select Nintendo Switch 2 Bundles
  22. Elon Musk's SpaceX Teams Up With Cursor for AI Coding: How Rockets and AI Fit Together
  23. Claude Can Connect to More Apps You Use Every Day
  24. The Motorola Razr Fold Has a UK Price, but Will It Be So Expensive in the US?
  25. ChatGPT 5.5 Is All About Math, Science and AI Research

Reddit

The Verge

  1. China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals 
  2. Prestigious photo contest answers ‘what is a photo?’
  3. Saros is pure action nirvana
  4. US arrests soldier who allegedly made $400K on Maduro Polymarket bets
  5. Leak reveals new Xbox Game Pass ‘Starter Edition’ that’s part of Discord Nitro
  6. Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax
  7. Brendan Carr’s war on wokeness targets inclusive children’s television
  8. Sonos’ big sale on refurbished speakers is about to end
  9. Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff
  10. ‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future

Wired

  1. VMax New V4 Electric Scooter Review: Unleash the Beast
  2. They Wanted to Join Raya. They’ve Been on the Waiting List for Years
  3. Best Merino Wool T-Shirts (2026): Ibex, Icebreaker, Unbound Merino
  4. The Federal Agency Coming for Gender-Affirming Care
  5. The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps
  6. 5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
  7. Airfare Keeps Going Up. Here Are Some Tricks to Finding Cheap(er) Tickets
  8. The WIRED Gear Team’s Tips on Ways to Save Money
  9. Sam's Club Promo Codes: 60% Off for April 2026
  10. Target Promo Code: $50 Off | April 2026
  11. KitchenAid Promo Codes: Save Up to 20%
  12. Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | April 2026
  13. US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
  14. Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet
  15. Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
  16. Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
  17. At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
  18. Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
  19. Lume Cube Edge Light Go Review (2026): Versatile, Portable
  20. These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  2. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  3. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  4. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  5. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  6. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  7. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  8. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  9. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  10. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  11. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  12. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch
  13. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  14. 10 Hacks Every Android Auto User Should Know
  15. 10 Hacks Every Brave Browser User Should Know
  16. Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?
  17. This Massive 75-inch QLED TV Is $450 Off Right Now
  18. Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks
  19. This Garmin Smartwatch With a 10-Day Battery Is $110 Off Right Now
  20. What's New on Netflix in May 2026
  21. 5 Hacks Every Nike Run Club User Should Know
  22. This Eufy Home Security Bundle Is $400 Off Right Now
  23. I Keep This Solis Pocket Wifi in a Travel Bag, and You Should Too
  24. You Can Get These New Sony Noise-Canceling Earbuds on Sale for $65 Right Now
  25. This Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $100 Off Right Now
  26. Galaxy Enhance-X Is Samsung's Best Photo and Video Editing Tool
  27. Peloton Now Has Its Own 'Zone 2' Classes
  28. The Best Tool and Appliance Deals You Can Still Get Before Home Depot's Spring Sale Ends
  29. How to Spot AI Audiobooks on Libby
  30. 10 Hacks Every Apple CarPlay User Should Know
  31. The Best Samsung Galaxy Watch for Athletes and Adventurers Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  32. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'
  33. 10 Shows Like 'Rooster' You Should Watch Next
  34. 11 of the Biggest Moments in Tim Cook's Time As Apple CEO
  35. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Is $300 Off Right Now
  36. This Samsung Soundbar With Dolby Atmos Is Now $350 Off
  37. This Floatable Anker Speaker Is Now $50 Off
  38. 'Clicky' Is a macOS Companion That Can Help You With Just About Anything
  39. Is It Actually Bad to Hold Your Breath When You Lift?
  40. This Bright and Powerful Blink Floodlight Camera Is Over Half Off Right Now
  41. The 'Gun God' Controller Turns One Plus' New Smartphone Into a Sleek Handheld Gaming Console
  42. You Can Get a Google Pixel 10 for $250 Off Right Now
  43. What 'Running Economy' Actually Means (and How to Improve Yours)
  44. I Painted My Deck With a Push Broom, and I'd Do It Again
  45. Everything We (Think) We Know About Google's 'Fitbit Air'
  46. Apple's Touchscreen MacBook Might Be Delayed
  47. The Best Earbuds You Can Buy Right Now Are on Sale for $300
  48. Here's Why RAM Prices Won't Be Dropping Anytime Soon
  49. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $125 Handheld Device
  50. The CRKD Nitro Deck for Nintendo Switch Is on Sale for $35
  51. How Do You Actually 'Engage' Your Core?
  52. You Should Start Spring Cleaning With This Dyson Cordless Vacuum While It's on Sale for Over $200 Off
  53. This Sony Portable Outdoor Speaker Is Almost 50% Off Just in Time for Summer
  54. This Compact HP Mini Desktop Is on Sale for Just $320 Right Now
  55. Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
  56. If X Isn't Working, It's Not Just You
  57. Netflix Is About to Launch Its Vertical Video Feed
  58. Starbucks’ New ChatGPT Integration Is a Potential Privacy Nightmare
  59. This Android Setting Makes It Easy to Manage All Your App Permissions
  60. What You Can Expect to Pay to Get Into Fitness
  61. This Tech Announcement Was so Bad, the Company Apologized
  62. This Sonos Soundbar With Alexa Is 46% Off Right Now
  63. Yesterday's Bluesky Outage Was No Accident
  64. This Arlo 2K Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera Is on Sale for $25
  65. Gemini Can Now Create AI Images Using Your Own Photos and Videos
  66. You Can Get Windows 11 Pro on Sale for Just $13 Right Now
  67. This Flash Sale Offers a One-Year BJ's Membership With Gas Discounts for Just $15 Right Now
  68. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘Yellowstone’
  69. This Anker Solix Portable Power Station Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  70. This Subscription-Free Eufy Outdoor Camera Kit Is $150 Off Right Now
  71. This 3-Day Flash Sale Is Cutting the Price of AdGuard to Just $11
  72. The New Google Pixel 10a Is Already $50 Off
  73. Whoop Wants to Test Your Blood
  74. An Audit Found That DuckDuckGo's VPN Doesn't Track User Activity
  75. This 55-inch Samsung OLED TV Is $600 Off Right Now
  76. These Four Apple Intelligence Features Might Be Coming in iOS 27
  77. I'm Reading a 900-Page Novel on an E-Reader the Size of My Library Card, and It's Going Great
  78. How the 3-3-3 Rule Helped Me Stick to an Exercise Routine
  79. The Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra Earbuds Are 40% Off
  80. 10 Shows Like 'Industry' You Should Watch Next
  81. Your First Pull-Up Is Just the Beginning
  82. There's Finally a Way to Block YouTube Shorts on Both iPhones and Androids
  83. Seven Samsung Galaxy Settings You Don’t Get on Other Android Phones
  84. Bluesky Continues to Have Connectivity Problems
  85. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  86. This Three-Stage Air Purifier Is 69% Off Right Now
  87. Google’s New Gemini App for Mac Comes With Two Key Benefits (and One Drawback)
  88. This 55-Inch LG OLED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  89. Google Is Finally Taking a Stand Against 'Back Button Hijacking'
  90. Spotify Just Partnered With One of Amazon's Best Bookselling Rivals
  91. These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are on Sale for $110 Right Now
  92. Why Everyone Is Suddenly Into ‘Combat Training'
  93. This $7 Epoxy Putty Saved My Home From Thousands in Water Damage
  94. These Smart Cameras Will Toss Treats to Your Pets While You’re Away, and They’re 48% Off Right Now
  95. These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data
  96. I Tried Binge, the Letterboxd Alternative That I Now Like More Than Letterboxd
  97. Should You Supplement With Creatine?
  98. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Was the Artemis II Mission Fake?
  99. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is 38% Off Right Now
  100. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is $400 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami
  2. Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos
  3. UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room
  4. Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists
  5. To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane
  6. Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years
  7. Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers
  8. Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter
  9. Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code'
  10. Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why
  11. Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain
  12. Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn
  13. US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes
  14. YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard
  15. Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors
  16. Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO
  17. Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for
  18. Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar
  19. Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%
  20. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule
  21. American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir
  22. AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers
  23. Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals
  24. Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either
  25. Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet
  26. AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues
  27. If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you
  28. Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes
  29. Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack
  30. Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it
  31. Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date
  32. Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art
  33. Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments
  34. Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
  35. SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality
  36. OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot
  37. GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
  38. Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor
  39. Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US
  40. Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran
  41. Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive
  42. You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too
  43. NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ
  44. Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad
  45. Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3
  46. Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl
  47. Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies
  48. Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win
  49. France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
  50. Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

TechMeme

  1. Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (Bloomberg)
  2. Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
  3. As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
  4. Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)
  5. Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (Financial Times)
  6. EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)
  7. Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
  8. Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (Reuters)
  9. DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
  10. Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
  11. Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (The Information)
  12. China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
  13. The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high (Bloomberg)
  14. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by that metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (South China Morning Post)
  15. Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model (Reuters)