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BBC

  1. Eleven cancers on the rise in young people - scientists find first clue on why it's happening
  2. Jokes, gifts and a state dinner: Washington rolls out red carpet for King and Queen
  3. Police raid religious group in modern slavery inquiry
  4. A fresh financial crisis may be coming - it won't play out like the last one
  5. Early care scheme could prevent thousands of miscarriages a year
  6. Laura Dern replaces Helena Bonham Carter in The White Lotus
  7. Former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack
  8. Musk accuses Altman of stealing a charity as courtroom battle begins
  9. Al Fayed survivor was modern slavery victim, says Home Office
  10. Afghanistan women can return to competition
  11. Advert for £49 serum banned over 'five years younger' claim
  12. Fashion, billionaires and jokes: Inside the White House state dinner
  13. The state visit in pictures
  14. Five takeaways from the King's historic address to Congress
  15. King Charles gets ovation for Congress speech warning of volatile world
  16. I shouldn't have been made to visit abusive killer mum
  17. Why has the UAE left Opec - and why does this matter?
  18. £20m mystery donation buys London Zoo new hospital where you can watch vets work
  19. Billie Eilish puts Manchester at centre of new 3D concert film
  20. Should I Marry a Murderer? - the love story that uncovered a killer
  21. Former FBI director charged with threatening Trump's life in Instagram post
  22. Kim Jong Un praises troops who 'self-blasted' to avoid capture by Ukraine
  23. Woman harassed and beeped at by catcallers reports their untaxed van to DVLA
  24. France urges citizens to leave Mali after rebel attacks
  25. Endangered antelopes flown to Kenya from Czech zoo in 'historic homecoming'
  26. BBC News app
  27. The Morgan McSweeney Evidence
  28. Who is Trump’s 'would-be assassin' and were there security failings at DC shooting?
  29. Grealish recovery 'couldn't be looking any better'
  30. Chelsea captain Bright retires - what now for ex-England defender?
  31. Can Griezmann end his Atletico love story in style?
  32. Former NFL player Mauro dies aged 35
  33. Pimblett blames ego for UFC loss to Gaethje
  34. Wales great North to retire from rugby

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Texas Instruments made a new flagship graphing calculator: the TI-84 Evo
  2. iOS 27 will reportedly come with new AI-powered photo editing tools
  3. NVIDIA starts offering a 12GB version of the 5070 for laptops
  4. Games Done Quick will host its first ever event in Europe
  5. Snapchat is rolling out sponsored AI agents
  6. Google Translate uses AI to help you practice pronunciation
  7. Google and the Pentagon sign classified deal to give the Department of Defense unfettered access to its AI models
  8. The FTC says Americans lost at least $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025
  9. Ted Lasso’s fourth season starts August 5
  10. Trump administration is paying more companies to abandon offshore wind projects
  11. Traeger debuts the Irontop, a more affordable gas-powered griddle
  12. Amazon brings dark mode to Kindle Colorsoft and Scribe Colorsoft
  13. ASUS' dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo is now on pre-order starting at $4,500
  14. DJI Mic Mini 2 review: The tiny wireless mic is colorful and much cheaper
  15. Magic: The Gathering Arena developers intend to form a union with the CWA
  16. Union accuses Apple of unlawful discrimination against represented workers
  17. YouTube is testing an AI search mode that 'feels more like a conversation'
  18. The G512 X is Logitech’s most advanced and customizable gaming keyboard yet
  19. Images of Samsung's rumored smart glasses have leaked
  20. Joby Aviation is demoing 10-minute air taxi flights from JFK to Manhattan for a week
  21. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its penultimate season on July 23
  22. Valve's Steam Controller costs $99 and arrives May 4
  23. Valve Steam Controller review: A gamepad in search of a console
  24. A Star Wars expansion is coming to PowerWash Simulator 2
  25. OpenAI breaks out of exclusivity agreements in its partnership with Microsoft
  26. Spotify is now a fitness app too
  27. Oprah brings her podcast to Amazon's streaming services
  28. The sequel to the iconic emulator ZSNES is called Super ZSNES, of course
  29. Ford's Mustang Cobra Jet sets a new EV quarter mile record at 6.87 seconds
  30. Forced Windows updates can now be paused forever
  31. Canadian premier wants to ban social media and AI chatbots for kids in Manitoba
  32. Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board
  33. BYD's next all-electric hypercar is a convertible that's coming to Europe first
  34. OpenAI's Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect to police
  35. NASA's initial takeaways from the Artemis II mission, and more science stories
  36. What to read this weekend: Monsters in the Archives dives deep into Stephen King's early works
  37. Tesla is giving away one year free Supercharging with Model 3 Premium and Performance purchases
  38. Engadget review recap: DJI Osmo Pocket 4, Recteq X-Fire Pro and Alienware 27 QD-OLED
  39. Vampire Crawlers, Peter Molyneux's return and other new indie games worth checking out
  40. XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now
  41. Maine governor vetoes bill temporarily banning large data centers in the state
  42. A Battlefield movie adaptation is on the way, possibly starring Michael B. Jordan
  43. The DOJ is backing xAI in its lawsuit against Colorado
  44. What you need to know as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman begins
  45. Google plans to invest even more money into Anthropic
  46. Singapore police arrest alleged The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender leaker
  47. The MacBook Neo is a glimpse into John Ternus's Apple
  48. Engadget Podcast: Tim Cook’s Apple era and what lies ahead for John Ternus
  49. DeepSeek promises its new AI model has 'world-class' reasoning
  50. The Morning After: Polymarket and a hairdryer

Pinboard

  1. The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
  2. Mahjong: a Visual Guide
  3. 夸克当 --- 夸克当
  4. Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
  5. USB Cheat Sheet
  6. BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vTcM9ml
  7. Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
  8. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1
  9. High Performance Git
  10. JER on X: "An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing." / X
  11. interblah.net - Self-updating screenshots — automated help center screen shots
  12. AI should evaluate your thinking, not replace it
  13. TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough — Compressing AI vectors to 2–4 bits per number without losing accuracy. Modern language models store large tables of high-dimensional vectors: KV caches, embeddings, attention keys. TurboQuant compresses each coordinate of these vectors to 2–4 bits with provably near-optimal disto…
  14. Who Owns the Code Written by LLMs?
  15. sci-bot — "Hear the good news: recent advances in artificial intelligence enabled Sci-Hub to launch a robot that gives scientifically-grounded responses to questions. The robot starts with searching for relevant literature in Sci-Hub database, then turns to selecting and reading most recent studies, and composes the answer b…
  16. GTFOBins
  17. The fastest Linux timestamps · hmpc
  18. Welcome to the world of Statecharts - Statecharts
  19. Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue | Tom's Hardware
  20. Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem | Scientific American — "special sets of whole numbers, where no number in the set can be evenly divided by any other. Erdős called these 'primitive sets' because of their connection to similarly indivisible prime numbers." "The LLM took an entirely different r…
  21. How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
  22. Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
  23. I Left Port 22 Open for 54 Days: An SSH Honeypot Study — Field report from an SSH honeypot left open for 54 days: 269K login attempts, 48K unique passwords, and a surprising cast of attackers.
  24. dirac-run/dirac: Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively parallel operations, AST manipulation and many — Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Red…
  25. WeebLabs/DSPi: A fully featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) and Pico 2 (RP2350). Official Discord: https://discord.gg/RCyqxAQ5xS — via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433
  26. Staring at walls to improve focus and productivity — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074
  27. h4ckf0r0day/obscura: The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
  28. The end of responsive images
  29. Daring Fireball: The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/yUsIWbO
  30. Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
  31. I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It | by Mike Carson | Apr, 2026 | Medium
  32. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski — Exposing Floating Point –
  33. The world’s most complex machine - Works in Progress Magazine
  34. 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…
  35. What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat — For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
  36. ooko — Task management service based on the Kanban methodology. Latest version: 0.121.0, last published: a day ago. Start using ooko in your project by running `npm i ooko`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using ooko.
  37. Notepad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor
  38. The woes of sanitizing SVGs
  39. 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
  40. Why not use Lean?
  41. Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor — Quick ASCII wireframe prototyping tool
  42. Building a UI Without Breakpoints – Frontend Masters Blog — Build fluid, intrinsic components that adapt by default, and treat conditional rules as local, intentional exceptions.
  43. Eden AI | AI made easy for all Product Builders — The best of AI in one API - Made for all Product Builders: Developers, No Coders and all AI enthusiasts.
  44. If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?
  45. Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight — I flew from London to Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas. Ten hours with no in-flight wifi. I used the time to test how far a modern MacBook can carry engineering work on local LLMs alone. Setup A week old MacBook Pro M5 Max, 128GB unified memory, 40-core GPU. Gemma 4 31B an…
  46. Flipdisc Display Build and Software Guide — Astro description
  47. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work | One Happy Fellow - blog
  48. refactoringhq/tolaria
  49. A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all. | Augment Code — Unlock the secrets to crafting effective AGENTS.md files that truly enhance your AI models, not hinder them. Discover best practices and essential tools to ensure your documentation drives successful upgrades and clear understanding.
  50. cell: terminal spreadsheet editor with vim keybindings
  51. Home - EMBASSY OF THE FREE MIND — The Embassy of the Free Mind offers a journey of discovery through a little known but inspiring tradition of free thought dating back over two thousand years. The books and images in our museum collection were largely written and created by people who would not have the church or the authori…
  52. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing - The GitHub Blog — TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.
  53. Opinion | Why Is Your Electric Bill Going Up? Blame the Broken Grid. - The New York Times — Opinion | Why Is Your Electric Bill Going Up? Blame the Broken Grid. https://ift.tt/XDB1bl7
  54. Flipbook: Infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time
  55. Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities | OpenAI
  56. Samsung is increasingly worried about first-ever mobile division loss in RAM crisis, report — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/yUsIWbO
  57. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper - Jeff Geerling
  58. Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
  59. How LLMs Work — A Visual Deep Dive
  60. The left is missing out on AI - by Dan Kagan-Kans — Unlock the potential of AI for progressive causes. Discover actionable strategies and key insights to leverage artificial intelligence for social change and political impact. Return for practical tools and a roadmap to empower the left in the AI era.
  61. Can an AI company ever be good? — "Over three decades of watching the tech industry and watching big companies grow from tiny teams to global powers, I’ve observed the same pattern: Ethics don’t scale up ... ethics are constraints on disruption and scale."
  62. GitHub - microsoft / VibeVoice: Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech — VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, sp…
  63. PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP using Python — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060152 https://lobste.rs/s/sz6pxm/pysdr_guide_sdr_dsp_using_python https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26990671
  64. Macs Adventure Walking Tours and Cycling Tours
  65. Anna's Archive - Wikipedia
  66. The man who is paying to see the future | Semafor — The man who is paying to see the future https://ift.tt/2w6oCpq future, ai, society
  67. Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You — An open-source agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are. By Nous Research.
  68. openai/symphony: Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.
  69. Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer: [ESSAYS] MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be
  70. Is My Blue Your Blue? — What happens when I hit submit? When you hit submit, we store your responses anonymously so we can aggregate them later and measure aggregate naming curves. We don't store any information that would identify you personally.
  71. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS — @scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT …
  72. Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious — Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious https://ift.tt/rycKp8x via:feedbin
  73. How ChatGPT serves ads (Buchodi) — A technical perspective to OpenAI's nascent ad platform. (My take having previously worked on ad lifecycles: there's much more to do here.)
  74. Databases Were Not Designed For This
  75. GitHub - ebrandi/FDD-book: FreeBSD Device Driver Book · GitHub
  76. Trump fires NSF's oversight board | Science | AAAS
  77. A Brief History of Lab Notebooks — A Brief History of Lab Notebooks https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks research, history, notebooks
  78. Hanqaqa/Easyduino: Easily dive into different PCB KiCad designs of the most popular microcontroller devboards
  79. Turning a Gaussian Splat Into a Videogame | PlayCanvas Blog — How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas.
  80. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (Maurycy's blog)
  81. Plants can sense the sound of rain
  82. AI as a Fascist Artifact
  83. On Interaction Nets and Hardware
  84. feministhackerspaces — Through artistic residencies and open workshops, Feminist Hacking develops, prototypes, tests, analyses and shares specific tools for media art-making grounded in fair practices of hardware production and its future open access and modification (licensed as open hardware). It intervenes in hardware pro…
  85. How the Tech World Turned Evil | The New Republic — Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.
  86. Trump vs DAF — Republicans' absurd vendetta against the Southern Poverty Law Center means a major form of charitable donation now can't donate to them.
  87. addyosmani/agent-skills: Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
  88. Babylon and the Square Root of 2 | Azimuth — @HopDavid41 The Babylonians had about a dozen number systems; at one point they used different number systems to count different kinds of products. Besides their base-60 system they had a less widely used base-120 system. They were really good at math....
  89. Google is testing AI chatbot search for YouTube | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/GHpK5qo
  90. Why We Need Continual Learning | Andreessen Horowitz — The Memento and the Machine
  91. delphitools
  92. Os melhores livros brasileiros de não ficção do século 21 - 25/04/2026 - Ilustríssima - Folha
  93. Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker - YouTube
  94. From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup - Austin's Nerdy Things
  95. Want $6,000 in Passive Income? Invest $50,000 Into These 3 Dividend Stocks - 24/7 Wall St.
  96. Why the Steam Controller is (and isn’t) a big deal | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/GHpK5qo
  97. To my students
  98. Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet — Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find.
  99. whoami.wiki — your personal encyclopedia, written by agents
  100. CJIT - C, Just in Time!

The Next Web

  1. AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most
  2. GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet
  3. Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million
  4. Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
  5. All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software
  6. Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
  7. EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month
  8. Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion
  9. South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.
  10. OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Mother’s Day Gifts for Every Type of Mom
  2. The Best Puffy Blanket
  3. Keeping Houseplants Alive and Happy When You’re Away Is Easier Than You Think
  4. Up Your Thank-You Game With These Stationery Sets
  5. The Best Home Printers
  6. The Best Sports Bras
  7. The Best Flashlight
  8. 33 Exclusive Deals on Our Favorite Mother’s Day Gifts
  9. The 40 Best Gifts for People Who Work From Home
  10. Why Do Stores Throw Away So Many Perfectly Good Products? I Went Dumpster Diving to Find Out.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Cordless Fans
  2. Keeping Houseplants Alive and Happy When You’re Away Is Easier Than You Think
  3. The Best Flashlight
  4. Ask Wirecutter: My Old House Doesn’t Have Enough Outlets! How Am I Supposed to Plug in My Stuff?
  5. How to Buy a Leather Couch That Will Last
  6. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  7. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  8. How I Transformed My 140-Square-Foot Queens Balcony Into a Garden Oasis
  9. The Best Devices for Smartening Up Your Backyard and Garden
  10. The Best Sprinkler

Hacker News

  1. Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
  2. Ghostty is leaving GitHub
  3. Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
  4. Bugs Rust won't catch
  5. HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  6. How ChatGPT serves ads
  7. Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
  8. Before GitHub
  9. Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
  10. Why Law Is Law-Shaped
  11. Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU
  12. Withnail's Coat and I
  13. Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation
  14. OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
  15. Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold
  16. I won a championship that doesn't exist
  17. GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
  18. Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
  19. We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"
  20. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
  21. Intel Arc Pro B70 Review
  22. Your phone is about to stop being yours
  23. Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity rewires the brain after an experience
  24. Warp is now open-source
  25. Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals
  26. Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026
  27. Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
  28. Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor
  29. When the Internet Was a Place
  30. UAE to leave OPEC

Ars Technica

  1. Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
  2. Flesh-eating bacteria devour man's arm and leg in just three days
  3. FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady
  4. Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
  5. Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage
  6. GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage
  7. Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee
  8. The great American data center divide
  9. A billion miles in less than a decade: GM's Super Cruise reaches a milestone
  10. Start with the sensors, then design the rest: How Zoox built its robotaxi
  11. Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally
  12. Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027
  13. Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
  14. Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future
  15. OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft
  16. EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says that's "unwarranted intervention"
  17. With new patch design, the Crew-13 astronauts clearly aren't superstitious
  18. "Super ZSNES" is a stab at a modern SNES emulator from the original developers
  19. China kills Meta’s acquisition of Manus as US-China AI rivalry deepens
  20. Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings

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New Scientist

  1. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  2. People are betting on measles outbreaks – and that might be useful
  3. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  4. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  5. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  6. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  7. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  8. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  9. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  10. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  11. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  12. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  13. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  14. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  15. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  16. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  17. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  18. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  19. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  20. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  21. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  22. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  23. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  24. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  25. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  26. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  27. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  28. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  29. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  30. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  31. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  32. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  33. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  34. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  35. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  36. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  37. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  38. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  39. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  40. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  41. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  42. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  43. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  44. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  45. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  46. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  47. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  48. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  49. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  50. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  51. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  52. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  53. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  54. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  55. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  56. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  57. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  58. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  59. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  60. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  61. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  62. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  63. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  64. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  65. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  66. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  67. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  68. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  69. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  70. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  71. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  72. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  73. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  74. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  75. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  76. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
  77. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
  78. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
  79. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
  80. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
  81. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
  82. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
  83. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
  84. The man who ruined mathematics
  85. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
  86. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
  87. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
  88. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
  89. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
  90. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
  91. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
  92. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
  93. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
  94. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
  95. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
  96. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
  97. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
  98. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
  99. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
  100. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon

Slashdot

  1. New Report Finds Some Babies Spend Up To Eight Hours a Day on Screens
  2. Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google
  3. Electrical Current Might Be the Key To a Better Cup of Coffee
  4. Apple Vision Pro Used In World-First Cataract Surgery
  5. Sony Rolls Out 30-Day Online DRM Check-In For PlayStation Digital Games
  6. Apple Introduces a Cheaper Option For App Store Subscriptions
  7. The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover
  8. Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI
  9. UAE To Leave OPEC Amid Hormuz Oil Crisis
  10. Bay Area Homeowner Offers Property In Exchange For Anthropic Stock
  11. Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer
  12. The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted
  13. Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms
  14. Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court
  15. Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Snap-Off Blades were Inspired by Chocolate Bars and Broken Glass
  2. Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders
  3. HomeDec Furniture's Unusual Take on a Space-Saving Table
  4. An Over-the-Top Modular Storage Box
  5. Hi-Tech, Designey Food Storage: B!POD's Food Vacuum System
  6. Agricultural-Tool-Inspired Furniture
  7. Deniz Aktay's Designey Bookshelf/Table Concept
  8. Jon Foreman's Rock-Based Land Art
  9. Industrial Design Student Work: A Brick-Based Personal Heater
  10. A Long-Lived, Attention-Drawing Public Garbage Can
  11. Nathan Martell's Extreme Bent Plywood Layup Chair
  12. Inter-twined's 21-Day Life-Centered Design Thinking Challenge Launches Today
  13. Perfectly Nailing a Form with Minimal Cuts
  14. Christopher Herwig Documents Visually Riotous Utility Vehicles in South Asia
  15. Cultural Divide: This Chinese Company Makes Power Tools that Look Like Firearms

CNET

  1. Which States Actually Have the Best Laws Against License Plate Surveillance?
  2. 'The Boys' Just Sorta Dropped a 'Supernatural' Reunion Episode, and It Was Super Messy
  3. TVs Are Getting Brighter, We Tested Them: Here's Why That's Important
  4. Filter Out Messages From Unknown Senders With This iOS 26 Trick
  5. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 29, #583
  6. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 29 #787
  7. F1 Is One of the Loudest Sports on Earth. Here's How to Protect Your Hearing at the Miami Grand Prix
  8. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 29, #1053
  9. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 29, #1775
  10. 'Ask YouTube' AI, the Apple Watch Legal Win and Social Media Scams | Tech Today video
  11. Google Moves Forward With Pentagon AI Deal Despite Employee Pushback
  12. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, April 29
  13. The World's Smallest Wellness Wearable, Smart Earrings, Just Launched on Kickstarter
  14. Meet Dreame Tech's Rocket-Boosted Concept Car video
  15. Start With These 9 Essential Apple Watch Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Smartwatch
  16. Proton VPN to Offer More Speed, More Security, More Servers
  17. Lost an AirPod? This Trick Will Help You Find It
  18. Google Celebrates 20 Years of Translate With a New Pronunciation Feature
  19. Here Are the Mother's Day Gifts Our Editors Are Asking for in 2026
  20. Supreme Court Weighs Arguments Over How Police Request Location Data to Solve Crimes
  21. Peacock's Priciest Subscription Is Now on the Roku Channel
  22. Sony's Latest PlayStation Update Sparks DRM Fears: What We Know
  23. YouTube Is Testing an AI Search Tool That Delivers Video and Text
  24. Microsoft Outlook Still Not Working? Here's the Latest, Including a Possible Fix
  25. iOS 26.5 Could Bring End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging to Your iPhone Soon

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The Verge

  1. China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos
  2. GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
  3. General Motors is adding Gemini to four million cars
  4. It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators
  5. Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
  6. James Comey indicted over Instagram seashell photo that allegedly threatened Trump
  7. Elon Musk tells the jury that all he wants to do is save humanity
  8. Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats
  9. Now YouTube TV lets you multiview any channel you want
  10. The FCC is going after the broadcast licenses of Disney-owned ABC stations

Wired

  1. Which Automatic Litter Box Is Best? We Tested Litter-Robot’s Lineup
  2. The Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section
  3. When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers
  4. Vari Align Desk Chair Review (2026): Breathable, Comfy, Low Cost
  5. How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance
  6. 20% Off LG Promo Code & Coupons | May 2026
  7. OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
  8. Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
  9. Sniffies’ Users Worry About a ‘Straightification’ of the Gay Hookup App
  10. ‘It’s Undignified’: Hundreds of Workers Training Meta’s AI Could Be Laid Off
  11. The UK’s Answer to Darpa Wants to Rewire the Human Brain
  12. Why Sharing a Screenshot Can Get You Jailed in the UAE
  13. UAE to Exit OPEC After Nearly 60 Years
  14. Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)
  15. A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government’s ID Platform
  16. Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead
  17. Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer Gadgets
  18. The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
  19. InkPoster Tela 28.5 Review: A Luxe Home Digital Frame
  20. WIRED’s Smart Home Ecosystem Guide (2026)

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  3. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  4. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  5. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  6. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  7. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  8. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  9. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  10. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  11. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  12. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  13. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  14. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  15. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  16. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  17. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  18. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  19. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  20. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  21. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  22. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  23. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  24. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  25. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  26. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  27. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  28. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  29. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  30. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  31. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  32. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  33. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  34. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  35. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  36. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  37. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  38. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  39. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  40. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  41. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  42. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is
  43. This Google Pixel Watch 4 Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  44. These Third-Generation Apple AirPods Are $50 Off Right Now
  45. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  46. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  47. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  48. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  49. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  50. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  51. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  52. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  53. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  54. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  55. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  56. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch
  57. 10 Hacks Every Android Auto User Should Know
  58. 10 Hacks Every Brave Browser User Should Know
  59. Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?
  60. This Massive 75-inch QLED TV Is $450 Off Right Now
  61. Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks
  62. This Garmin Smartwatch With a 10-Day Battery Is $110 Off Right Now
  63. What's New on Netflix in May 2026
  64. 5 Hacks Every Nike Run Club User Should Know
  65. This Eufy Home Security Bundle Is $400 Off Right Now
  66. I Keep This Solis Pocket Wifi in a Travel Bag, and You Should Too
  67. You Can Get These New Sony Noise-Canceling Earbuds on Sale for $65 Right Now
  68. This Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $100 Off Right Now
  69. Galaxy Enhance-X Is Samsung's Best Photo and Video Editing Tool
  70. Peloton Now Has Its Own 'Zone 2' Classes
  71. The Best Tool and Appliance Deals You Can Still Get Before Home Depot's Spring Sale Ends
  72. How to Spot AI Audiobooks on Libby
  73. 10 Hacks Every Apple CarPlay User Should Know
  74. The Best Samsung Galaxy Watch for Athletes and Adventurers Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  75. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'
  76. 10 Shows Like 'Rooster' You Should Watch Next
  77. 11 of the Biggest Moments in Tim Cook's Time As Apple CEO
  78. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Is $300 Off Right Now
  79. This Samsung Soundbar With Dolby Atmos Is Now $350 Off
  80. This Floatable Anker Speaker Is Now $50 Off
  81. 'Clicky' Is a macOS Companion That Can Help You With Just About Anything
  82. Is It Actually Bad to Hold Your Breath When You Lift?
  83. This Bright and Powerful Blink Floodlight Camera Is Over Half Off Right Now
  84. The 'Gun God' Controller Turns One Plus' New Smartphone Into a Sleek Handheld Gaming Console
  85. You Can Get a Google Pixel 10 for $250 Off Right Now
  86. What 'Running Economy' Actually Means (and How to Improve Yours)
  87. I Painted My Deck With a Push Broom, and I'd Do It Again
  88. Everything We (Think) We Know About Google's 'Fitbit Air'
  89. Apple's Touchscreen MacBook Might Be Delayed
  90. The Best Earbuds You Can Buy Right Now Are on Sale for $300
  91. Here's Why RAM Prices Won't Be Dropping Anytime Soon
  92. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $125 Handheld Device
  93. The CRKD Nitro Deck for Nintendo Switch Is on Sale for $35
  94. How Do You Actually 'Engage' Your Core?
  95. You Should Start Spring Cleaning With This Dyson Cordless Vacuum While It's on Sale for Over $200 Off
  96. This Sony Portable Outdoor Speaker Is Almost 50% Off Just in Time for Summer
  97. This Compact HP Mini Desktop Is on Sale for Just $320 Right Now
  98. Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
  99. If X Isn't Working, It's Not Just You
  100. Netflix Is About to Launch Its Vertical Video Feed

The Onion

The Register

  1. GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks
  2. AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in
  3. Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute
  4. 30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm
  5. Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’
  6. Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’
  7. The future of software development: Now with less software development
  8. Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm
  9. Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges
  10. OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock
  11. Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out
  12. Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects
  13. Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative
  14. IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability
  15. Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps
  16. Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak
  17. Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'
  18. Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon
  19. Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids
  20. UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team
  21. Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts
  22. Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'
  23. SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
  24. Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
  25. UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
  26. Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers
  27. ‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
  28. China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
  29. Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
  30. Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
  31. Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
  32. The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown
  33. The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific
  34. Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins
  35. South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
  36. Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
  37. AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games
  38. Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space
  39. Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official
  40. SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months
  41. Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle
  42. Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
  43. Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt
  44. Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now
  45. In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis
  46. ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds
  47. Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot
  48. Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now
  49. PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
  50. Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

TechMeme

  1. Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments, and enterprise networks, for ~$600M, set to close in Q2 (Reuters)
  2. Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a $300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups (Bloomberg)
  3. Cash-rich AI startups fuel a boom in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market; many offices have more vacant desks than workers, as startups prepare to scale (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of all lettings (Natasha Voase/Bloomberg)
  5. Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family (Bloomberg)
  6. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV is getting "fully customizable" multiview, letting users pin up to four live streams, after a limited rollout in 2023 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
  7. Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include 10%+ of its global revenue from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain (Financial Times)
  8. Bengaluru-based stock trading platform Sahi raised a $33M Series B led by Accel at a $200M valuation to expand into margin trade funding, commodities, and more (The Economic Times)
  9. The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
  10. Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 (Mary Page James/Gallup)
  11. An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a "better" OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
  12. Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65 per share for a total of ~$231M this week; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51 per share (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
  13. Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March (Bloomberg)
  14. Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams (Nikkei Asia)
  15. Pentagon Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying "overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing" (Seema Mody/CNBC)