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BBC

  1. Historic win for SNP but change and challenges ahead at Holyrood
  2. Analysis: Many Labour MPs are blaming Starmer himself for elections body blow
  3. Reform UK will never take voters for granted, Yusuf says
  4. No leadership pressure on Badenoch despite Tory losses
  5. Polanski says two-party politics 'dead' after election gains for Greens
  6. Putin denounces Nato at scaled back Victory Day parade
  7. More than 200,000 migrants have crossed Channel in small boats since 2018
  8. Anger and resignation in Tenerife as hantavirus ship approaches
  9. William hails Sir David Attenborough's 'remarkable milestone' at 100th birthday concert
  10. The UK is set for a staycation summer - and there are plenty of hidden gems
  11. The 35 Eurovision songs with just three minutes to get you hooked
  12. 'Not as sexy - but similar': Matcha went mainstream, now an alternative is emerging
  13. 'Illegal' traveller plot was listed for sale on Facebook
  14. Police charge two men over filming antisemitic TikToks in London
  15. Hungary's new PM to be sworn in during 'regime change' party
  16. The UFO community has been waiting for answers. Has the Pentagon delivered?
  17. Margaret Thatcher assassination story by Hilary Mantel gets stage premiere in Liverpool
  18. The car garage that became an unusual fashion house... for Kim Kardashian
  19. Farmer's shock as sheep gives birth to seven lambs - one shy of world record
  20. Boy, 8, showered with gifts after calming plane passenger with singing and football cards
  21. 'Bumpy' the orphaned baby hippo to be hand-reared at Kenyan sanctuary
  22. BBC News app
  23. Electioncast: The winners and the losers
  24. Trump takes his revenge on disloyal Republicans
  25. Fast-paced, witty and smart coming-of-age comedy
  26. An insight into the secretive 'matchstick men' painter
  27. Fernandes: The trophies, the assist record and his future
  28. From cricket to 'bosh' queen - England prop Muir
  29. Saints charged by EFL with spying on Middlesbrough

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Discord is recovering from an outage that took some users offline
  2. Prime Video is adding a TikTok-like feed
  3. Department of War sets up UFO website, but there isn't much to see
  4. InMusic will acquire Native Instruments, putting it under the same umbrella as Akai
  5. Shoot up Xenomorphs in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, arriving this summer
  6. Intel has reportedly signed a preliminary deal to produce chips for Apple
  7. Resident Evil Requiem gets a new Leon Must Die Forever mode, out today
  8. Legendary Nintendo designer Takashi Tezuka is seemingly retiring from the company
  9. The studio that (technically) made Disco Elysium just dropped a trailer for its new game
  10. How to watch The Android Show: Google I/O Edition on May 12
  11. Sony and Bandai get into bed with generative AI
  12. Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote
  13. Engadget Podcast: Gamestop's wild eBay gamble
  14. Blackmagic Camera hands-on: Apple Watch compatibility gives vloggers remote control
  15. ChatGPT can reach out to a friend if you're at risk of self-harm
  16. DJI teases the dual-camera Osmo Pocket 4P gimbal
  17. Sony wants TSMC's help to make image sensors
  18. The Morning After: Google's new wearable doesn't have a screen
  19. Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices as chip crisis bites
  20. Instructure hackers claim they stole data from nearly 9,000 schools

Pinboard

  1. Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
  2. Programming Still Sucks. — Programming is hard and always has been, but now AI and corporate greed make it worse. Experienced workers like Sara keep things running quietly while many juniors and apprentices disappear. The real problem isn’t AI taking jobs—it’s decisions driven by money that break teams and destroy knowledge.
  3. Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  4. Vibe Coding and Agentic Engineering
  5. This is what free costs
  6. Palette Inspiration - Timeless Colors of the Great Masters
  7. The bottleneck was never the code
  8. Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
  9. I Want to Live Like Costco People | TASTE — An online magazine for today's home cook, reporting from the front lines of dinner.
  10. The Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms
  11. hunk — Review-first terminal diff viewer for agentic coders
  12. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS — For different values of the text-stroke-width, browsers will automatically draw outlines of the character, The larger you set the stroke width, the thicker the outline will get, while still maintain its original shape. The next step is to use different colors and put them in order.
  13. Natural Language Autoencoders
  14. The map that keeps Burning Man honest — Each year, 70,000 people gather on a dry lakebed in Nevada to build a city from scratch. This is Black Rock City, home to the infamous Burning Man event. Eight days later, it's gone. But 150 people remain. They line up — side by side, an arms width apart — and slowly walk the 3,800 ac…
  15. The Boring Internet | Terry Godier — The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
  16. The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy
  17. Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
  18. Introduction | Meshtastic — Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!
  19. Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts | Polypane — Modern phones are not simple rectangles. They have rounded corners, camera cutouts, dynamic islands, and home indicators that double as gesture areas. Browsers…
  20. Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be) — (This website looks to have that “acoustic” flavor of someone whose special interest is Wi-Fi.) “Wi-Fi’s first weakest link -- your client devices: Wi-Fi throughput to a Wi-Fi 5 wireless client device using an 80 MHz channel will likely max out at around 650 Mbps (±60 Mbp…
  21. Scroll-Driven Animations • Josh W. Comeau — Historically, we’ve needed to use JavaScript for this kind of effect, but an exciting new API, Animation Timeline, makes it possible to do this sort of thing in native CSS! ✨
  22. Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped (and the One Pattern That Does Not) - Articles
  23. Appearing Productive in the Workplace | Hacker News
  24. Hovercraft—a virtual presentation camera for Mac — A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Your slides float in the frame next to you, moved by hand. No screen share, no option-tab, no corner thumbnail.
  25. agents need control flow, not more prompts | brian’s thoughts
  26. Wiki Builder: A Claude Code Plugin for Building LLM Knowledge Bases | DAIR.AI Academy Blog | DAIR.AI Academy
  27. Pi-Zero RAM Website
  28. CARA 2.0 — Aaed Musa
  29. ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World — ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World via Instapaper https://ift.tt/4MRa97O
  30. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | Hacker News
  31. "Vibe coding" vs "agentic engineering": "The problem is that as the coding agents get more reliable, I'm not reviewing every line of code that they write anymore, even for my production level stuff." — Humans are mostly bad at software. Partly because (successful) software lifecycles are longer than human careers or corporat…
  32. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth | Val Town Blog
  33. Meshtastic
  34. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  35. GitHub - antirez/ds4: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal · GitHub
  36. Principia Softwarica
  37. Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back
  38. Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
  39. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  40. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX Anthropic — We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
  41. A Theory of Deep Learning | Elements of a Vector Space
  42. ongoing by Tim Bray · Life During Class Wartime — The fact that the truly wealthy pay nothing is a very real problem.
  43. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing — Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?
  44. TI-83 Plus BASIC Programming Tutorial: A Beginners' Guide - ticalc.org
  45. CrossPoint Reader - Open-Source Firmware for Xteink E-Readers
  46. LoC Recommended Storage Format — @mrchrisadams To maximise longevity and a11y of your data set go with SQLite.
  47. AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  48. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?  – ACM SIGOPS
  49. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI & PXE - Syncopated Pandemonium
  50. Totally grounded? How the jet fuel crisis could change our holidays – and world history | Airline industry | The Guardian
  51. Jenny Volvovski / Book Cover Design
  52. Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  53. boc: Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python
  54. Why airlines are always going bankrupt (The airline industry can be competitive or profitable, not both)
  55. ProgramBench — Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?
  56. angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
  57. Amp, Rebuilt - Amp
  58. Learning the integral of a diffusion model – Sander Dieleman — Sampling from a diffusion model is an iterative process: at each step, the denoiser estimates the tangent direction to a path through input space. We move along this path by repeatedly taking small steps in this direction, effectively calculating an integral acro…
  59. The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
  60. RaTeX — Rust math layout aligned with KaTeX golden tests
  61. Imagine a technique that can heal Britain of division and keep out the hard right. I call it ‘radical listening’ | George Monbiot | The Guardian
  62. Empty Screenings
  63. How to Work and Compound with AI — How to Work and Compound with AI via Instapaper https://eugeneyan.com/writing/working-with-ai/
  64. The end of responsive images
  65. AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  66. heygen-com/hyperframes: Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents. — for presentations as video?
  67. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  68. What’s Changed Since Jon Krakauer Climbed Everest - The Atlantic
  69. Multi-token-prediction in Gemma 4 — An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
  70. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
  71. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso - by Maciej Cegłowski
  72. Hidden Disabilities - Sunflower — Arthur said this is common in the UK. Newly introduced at Sesame Place.
  73. Protocol Cards — Evidence-backed Nervous System Regulation
  74. Prehistoric Artificial Islands Beneath Scottish Waters Are Finally Giving Up Their Secrets — These "crannogs" had remained elusive and difficult to access, but a breakthrough is allowing researchers to discover and explore them at greater length. via jennifer ouellette
  75. Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web | WIRED — "Zvi points out that the 5,000 exposed apps Red Access found were only those hosted on the AI coding tools' own domains, and that likely thousands more are hosted on users' own purchased domains."
  76. ‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band | Music | The Guardian — Their microtonal rock has been a huge viral hit – but are they really 333-year-old aliens inspired by Borneo monkeys? The Quebecois duo tell all
  77. Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license - Ars Technica
  78. Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth — > In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to ne…
  79. The Trouble With Narrative History — To understand human history, we must resist attributing meaning and motive to it.
  80. Programming Sucks
  81. RoiKachlon321/startpage: Self-service bookmark startpage with Angular, keyboard navigation, and edit mode · GitHub
  82. Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue
  83. Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/16zJh3q
  84. Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop
  85. @gethill.bsky.social on Bluesky — from Daring Fireball I’m sure there’s a scene marker right at the cut, so that’s why an ad got inserted there. But, my god. Someone at Amazon should go to prison for this. (I think it’s a total coincidence that the Febreze ad seems roughly color-matched to the sky. But scroll down in the …
  86. Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals
  87. Clerk | Authentication and User Management
  88. When persistence prevails | Tim Harford
  89. Min-Tab: A clean, fast new tab replacement for Chrome and Firefox with multi-search engine support, smart suggestions, keyboard shortcuts, and complete privacy—no tracking, no clutter.
  90. Immune System for AI: A Governance Infrastructure for Responsible AI Deployment
  91. AURASHARE |临时文件共享与大文件传输 --- AURASHARE | Temporary file sharing & large file transfer
  92. How an Alleged Predator Remade the Southern Baptist Convention
  93. Spotify CLI Turns Personalized Audio into a Podcast Feed - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/QnKmN6O
  94. newspage: Simple Customizable Startpage with support for RSS feeds — https://710lucas.github.io/newspage/
  95. fnox
  96. Building for the future — This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare.
  97. CADara
  98. AI Assistance Reduces Persistence
  99. How Obsidian's "Memory Vaults" Are Changing the Way We Code with AI — Discover how vibe coding with Obsidian and Bridge Memory reduces token usage and streamlines workflows for modern developers.
  100. How Claris is building for what comes next. — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Y8MCo7S

The Next Web

  1. NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.
  2. Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its backlog hit 2.2 billion dollars, and its stock hit a record. Neutron still has not flown.
  3. Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
  4. The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.
  5. Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.
  6. Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
  7. Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000
  8. Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.
  9. The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.
  10. Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

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

Sweethome

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

Hacker News

  1. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
  2. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
  3. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
  4. Mythical Man Month
  5. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
  6. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
  7. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
  8. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
  9. AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
  10. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
  11. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
  12. The React2Shell Story
  13. Cartoon Network Flash Games
  14. An Introduction to Meshtastic
  15. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
  16. Teaching Claude Why
  17. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
  18. The soul of maintaining a new machine
  19. Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
  20. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
  21. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
  22. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons
  23. Mojo 1.0 Beta
  24. Roadside Attraction
  25. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
  26. All means are fair except solving the problem
  27. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
  28. How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes
  29. When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions
  30. Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring

Ars Technica

  1. Manufacturing qubits that can move
  2. Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
  3. ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
  4. Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
  5. The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained
  6. Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
  7. Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced
  8. Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
  9. Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France after ignoring summons in X case
  10. Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
  11. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
  12. DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
  13. Which Macs are suffering from shortages—and where are things getting worse?
  14. How climate change makes your allergies worse
  15. The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year
  16. The US military just released a bunch of UAP files, but there's no there there
  17. Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis
  18. Rocket Report: Alpha Block 2 coming this summer; Falcon sets booster landing mark
  19. DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says
  20. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

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New Scientist

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

Slashdot

  1. Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations
  2. NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground
  3. Does Fidelity's Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for 'Small-Team Agile'?
  4. Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD
  5. New Linux 'Dirty Frag' Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros
  6. Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web
  7. Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs
  8. Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
  9. AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder
  10. Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent
  11. Cloudflare To Cut About 20% Workforce As AI Adoption Reshapes Operations
  12. First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place
  13. The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
  14. Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court
  15. IMF Warns New AI Models Risk 'Systemic' Shock To Finance

BoingBoing

Core77

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

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 9, #593
  2. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 9 #797
  3. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 9, #1063
  4. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 9, #1785
  5. Google I/O 2026: We Expect Updates for Gemini, Android XR Glasses and More
  6. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, May 9
  7. Premier League Soccer: Stream Man City vs. Brentford From Anywhere Live
  8. Premier League Soccer: Stream Liverpool vs. Chelsea From Anywhere Live
  9. The Government Just Released a Batch of UFO Files: Where Are the Aliens?
  10. ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm
  11. The Health-Tracking Whoop App Will Now Connect You to On-Demand Doctors. Plus, New AI Features
  12. Apple Inks Preliminary Chip Agreement With Intel Amid Shortages, Report Says
  13. iPhone 18: Here's What We Know About Apple's Next Flagship Phone
  14. Best Supersmall Portable Bluetooth Speakers for 2026
  15. NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Was Stuck in a Rock: Watch It Free Itself
  16. Does Your AI Agent Need a VPN? The Company Behind Norton and Avast Thinks So
  17. Instagram's Messaging Encryption is Ending. Here's What You Should Know
  18. Counting on AI to Solve Problems Makes Us More Likely to Struggle and Give Up, Study Suggests
  19. Here Are the Best Nintendo Switch 2 Deals to Snag Before the Price Increases
  20. Don't Wait for the Pollen Spike: Start These 6 Allergy Prep Steps Today
  21. Best T-Mobile Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2026
  22. Best Sports Streaming Service for 2026
  23. The 25 Best PS5 Games Right Now
  24. HBO Max: The 26 Absolute Best Movies to Watch
  25. I Wasn't Sold on Wet and Dry Vacuums Until I Used One to Clean My Floors After Painting

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The Verge

  1. Asus chases Elgato with its own secondary touchscreen display
  2. Amazon is adding a vertical video feed to Prime Video
  3. Here is Yarbo’s promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
  4. All the latest updates on AI data centers
  5. DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules
  6. ABC and Disney accuse Trump admin of violating First Amendment rights
  7. Someone out-Trumped the Trump phone
  8. Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again
  9. The Steam Controller’s reservation queue is open
  10. The 46 best last-minute Mother’s Day gift ideas for 2026

Wired

  1. Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
  2. The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026
  3. Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | May 2026
  4. HelloFresh Coupon Codes: 55% Off + Free Meals
  5. 50% Off Blue Apron Promo Codes | May 2026
  6. T-Mobile Promo Codes: 25% Off | May
  7. Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off
  8. Western Digital Promo Code: 15% Off
  9. Exclusive Shed Rain Coupon: 15% Off
  10. Top Megelin Deals for Laser and LED Therapy Devices (2026)
  11. The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files
  12. Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks
  13. Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’
  14. There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
  15. The Best Mobile Gaming Controllers for iPhone and Android (2026)
  16. We Asked Coffee Pros to Blind Test Coffee Machines. The Results Were Surprising
  17. Billie Eilish Doesn't Know if There Will Ever Be Another Billie Eilish
  18. The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
  19. The Best Cat Water Fountains of 2026: Petlibro, Petkit, Oneisall
  20. Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

LifeHacker

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

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TechMeme

  1. Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
  2. A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
  3. Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage (Sam Rubin/Palo Alto Networks Blog)
  4. Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)
  5. OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
  6. Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month (The Information)
  7. NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
  8. Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation (Du Zhihang/Caixin Global)
  9. Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
  10. Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
  11. The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff (Michael Kan/PCMag)
  12. Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government (Bloomberg)
  13. EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing" (Alex Lekander/CyberInsider)
  14. Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
  15. Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are among private credit lenders in talks with Broadcom over a ~$35B financing deal to fund the development of AI chips (Bloomberg)