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BBC

  1. Mahmood promises action against 'sham lawyers' abusing asylum system after BBC investigation
  2. Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, BBC finds
  3. US war on Iran was a 'mistake', says Reeves
  4. Two officers charged after pregnant woman killed in crash with police car
  5. British doubles legend Jamie Murray retires from tennis
  6. BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff to make £500m savings
  7. Manhunt after attempted arson attack on synagogue
  8. Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable support
  9. Biometric checks to be rolled out in prisons after mistaken releases
  10. Man arrested climbing into Israeli embassy had arrived on small boat twice, court hears
  11. 'Sad step backwards' in recovery for Tate fall boy
  12. How many ships are crossing the Strait of Hormuz?
  13. Israel and Hezbollah continue attacks after Israel-Lebanon talks in US
  14. Starmer says he is 'not going to yield' to pressure from Trump on Iran war
  15. Is the US blockade of Iran working?
  16. Bogus websites, staged protests and pretend atheists: Inside the fake asylum industry
  17. Jessie Ware on the 'hyper-surreal' high of her first arena tour
  18. 'I'm not being listened to' - new health plan launched as women say they are still ignored
  19. Oldest known meteor shower to light up UK skies this week
  20. My brother's killer brags on TikTok about partying in jail
  21. The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on
  22. Stormzy's stab vest goes on display in landmark exhibition of black British music
  23. Leo Woodall and Kate Winslet join new Lord of the Rings cast
  24. Nine killed in second Turkish school shooting in two days
  25. Prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti assaulted three times in a month, family says
  26. SantaCon organiser charged with stealing $1m from charity pub crawl
  27. Theatre touring 'in crisis' as performances of plays drop 70%
  28. Madonna announces sequel to Confessions On A Dancefloor album
  29. Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Powell if he doesn't leave in May
  30. BBC News app
  31. Has Trump given up on the midterms?
  32. Can we afford to keep the UK safe?
  33. An epic gangster biopic of the Kray brothers, starring Tom Hardy
  34. Ekitike to miss rest of season and World Cup - Deschamps
  35. British doubles legend Murray retires from tennis
  36. Maguire gets extra ban and will miss Chelsea trip
  37. Slot says VAR has gone against Liverpool - is he right?
  38. 'I might not be here' - Stokes on being hit in face by ball
  39. John Terry and Colchester - what both parties have to gain from takeover

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
  2. Google unleashes a native Gemini app for the Mac
  3. Recteq X-Fire Pro 825 review: A smart grill that pulls double duty
  4. Snap is laying off 16 percent of its workforce, blames AI
  5. Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy
  6. Traeger debuts Westwood smart pellet grills that start at $700
  7. The Vivo X300 Ultra is a powerful camera phone aimed at videographers
  8. Spotify is selling books now
  9. Most US teens say TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat aren't hurting (or helping) their mental health
  10. Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant works across Photoshop, Premiere and other apps
  11. Amazon's new Fire TV Stick HD is slimmer than ever and has no power adapter
  12. Amazon's budget-friendly answer to the Frame TV will start shipping on April 22
  13. Godzilla goes to New York in 'Minus Zero' teaser trailer
  14. Sony is nerfing its Bravia TVs' program guide
  15. FCC just handed Netgear a de facto router monopoly in the US
  16. Google's new Windows app is yet another way to access Gemini
  17. NAACP sues xAI over data center pollution
  18. What to expect from Google I/O 2026
  19. League of Legends' new WASD control scheme will be enabled for ranked later this month
  20. Microsoft raises prices on Surface PCs due to skyrocketing RAM costs
  21. Chrome Skills let you save your favorite Gemini prompts for easy access
  22. Sony Inzone's latest monitor boasts a blazing 720Hz panel for competitive gamers
  23. Samsung's new Micro RGB TVs start at $1,600 for a 55-inch model
  24. Google Search tackles sites that try to stop you from leaving when you hit the back button
  25. OpenAI buys its second startup in a month
  26. Amazon buys the satellite internet company behind Apple’s SOS system
  27. GoPro's Mission 1 offers 8K 60p video and interchangeable lenses
  28. Alienware 27 (AW2726DM) QD-OLED monitor review: A budget PC gamer's new best friend
  29. You can attend Pokémon EDM shows in Los Angeles and London
  30. The Morning After: Meta is reportedly working on an AI model of Mark Zuckerberg
  31. Sony is developing a Bloodborne animated film adaptation
  32. Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly shooting at Sam Altman's house
  33. Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page
  34. Xbox CEO called Game Pass 'too expensive for players' in a leaked memo
  35. Games Workshop brings seven classic Warhammer games to Steam for the first time
  36. Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
  37. Retro handheld maker Anbernic's latest device has a swiveling display
  38. How to de-Gemini your Google apps
  39. Majority of Australian kids are still on banned social media platforms, study finds
  40. Meta is reportedly building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg
  41. Roblox introduces mandatory age-gated account tiers
  42. Apple reportedly testing out four different styles for its smart glasses that will rival Meta Ray-Bans
  43. The US government wants Reddit to snitch on one of its users through a grand jury
  44. OpenAI says Elon Musk is orchestrating a last-minute 'legal ambush' before trial
  45. Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by third-party data breach
  46. The first European country to get Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised will be the Netherlands
  47. IBM settles its DEI lawsuit with the DOJ for $17 million
  48. Engadget review recap: ASUS ZenBook A16, AirPods Max 2, Sonos Play and LG Sound Suite
  49. X's messaging app, XChat, may be available soon
  50. Marauding minotaurs, more CloverPit and other new indie games worth checking out

Pinboard

  1. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  2. How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack | Steve Hanov's Blog
  3. Make tmux Pretty and Usable - A Guide to Customizing your tmux.conf - Ham Vocke
  4. Most people can't juggle one ball — LessWrong — TLDR: A complete guide to juggling, from zero to siteswap notation, by someone who juggles in nightclubs. …
  5. The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
  6. The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind - Viktor Cessan
  7. The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
  8. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. — According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and we’re struggling to keep up.
  9. Golden tickets. – Present & Correct — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/mDjcls7
  10. What is jj and why should I care? - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
  11. Every train, a note. — "Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years. On the platforms they are hot, screaming, full of complaint. This is the music inside the noise. The …
  12. I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack | Hacker News
  13. The Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Internet Archive — On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 22-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announ…
  14. The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
  15. DaVinci Resolve – Photo | Blackmagic Design
  16. Introducing Apple Frames 4: A Revamped Shortcut, Support for Frame Colors, Proportional Scaling, and the Apple Frames CLI for Developers - MacStories — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MIOmoNS
  17. https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman — A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman — cutting ~75% of tokens while keeping full technical accuracy. Based on the viral observation that caveman-speak dramatically reduces LLM token usage without losing technical substance. So we made it a one-line install.
  18. Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug.
  19. apfel - Free AI on Your Mac
  20. GitHub Stacked PRs | GitHub Stacked PRs
  21. The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
  22. State of Homelab 2026 | Tech blog about the boring stuff.
  23. Typotheque: Zed font system for information accessibility.
  24. boringBar - Taskbar Dock Replacement for macOS — I don't get it, but maybe some day I will.
  25. Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
  26. Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking"  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
  27. From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online — From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online https://ift.tt/uD2kFyb music, concerts, archive, bootlegs
  28. Little LaTeX Pearls — Over the course of the LaTeX-typeset papers I’ve written during grad school, there are some tricks and macros I’ve carried with me all throughout. Here’s a small catalogue of some of the generally applicable ones.
  29. Welcome - GAIA SDK — Build local AI agents in Python and C++ for AMD hardware.
  30. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
  31. Testing tip: Enable the zoom peek gesture – Unsung
  32. Brocards for vulnerability triage
  33. The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine — AI is now helping mathematicians solve problems much faster than before. Experts say AI will change how math is done but will not replace human mathematicians. Many hope AI will uncover new discoveries while challenges remain for education and research culture.
  34. No one can force me to have a secure website — "This is like when I go to buy a beer and the guy sends me away because my driver's license expired. Do you think that I GOT YOUNGER in the time since it was valid?"
  35. Two new studies could change critics’ opinions about how many birds die from wind turbines | Euronews
  36. Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence at Berkeley
  37. All elementary functions from a single operator — A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, , and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here we show that a s…
  38. Dark Castle — Game from my youth that is now available again
  39. Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) — Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
  40. They See Your Photos
  41. 5NF and Database Design | Database Design Book
  42. I tried an abliterated local LLM and it feels nothing like the others — I tried unrestricted AI. It’s a different world
  43. The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril — As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
  44. Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment — It’s the team philosophy. As one commenter in the HN thread explained: “The claude code team ethos is that there is no point in code-reviewing ai-generated code. Simply update your spec and regenerate.” Read that again. The response to leaking code with a 3,167-…
  45. Cowork. — How to set up Claude Cowork (April 2026 update):
  46. The AI Layoff Trap — If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a competitive task-based model, demand externalities trap rational firms in an automation arms race, displac…
  47. How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years - The Atlantic
  48. The Zettelkasten Method in Obsidian: A Practical Setup Guide — The Zettelkasten method organizes knowledge as linked, atomic notes that grow and connect over time. Obsidian is a good tool for this because it handles simple files that last and show connections visually. Using AI tools like Desktop Commander helps maintain lar…
  49. Mark’s Magic Multiply
  50. Guide world
  51. Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else | TechCrunch — AI
  52. I Just Want Simple S3 – Makefile.feld — I just want S3. My needs are pretty basic. I don't need to scale out. I don't need replication. I just need something that can do S3 and is reliable and not slow. Minio is dead, they pulled the plug after axing the interface. They archived the repo so they …
  53. Getting the Flock out — I wrote to Flock’s privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program: I am a resident of California. As such, and because you are subject to the CCPA, delete all information about me, my vehicle, and other household members from all of your databases. I do not give you permission to c…
  54. STARFLING — Tap. Release. Chain.
  55. New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy | The New Yorker
  56. VM Options Explorer
  57. Rising AI Adoption Spurs Workforce Changes
  58. DIY Soft Drinks | Hacker News
  59. The AI Great Leap Forward
  60. Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers
  61. Large Scale Systems Museum / Museum of Applied Computer Technology
  62. “Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks,” by Morgan Parker | The New Yorker
  63. Make Tmux Pretty and Usable | Hacker News
  64. Ricoh GR IV Monochrome review: Why I love this camera that can’t shoot color | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/xmaCzch
  65. Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
  66. Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0 — TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy!
  67. The secrets of the shinkansen • Works In Progress — Works in Progress and Benedict Springbett: Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and the United States just 0.25 per…
  68. China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world — “Why was it possible to build capacity exceeding global demand by double in such a short time?” asked Li Dongsheng, the chair of television and solar conglomerate TCL. “The key reason is the distortion of resource allocation and inappropriate local go…
  69. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety
  70. Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
  71. Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website — It only takes ONE to ruin a reputation. I will never trust Backblaze: apparently they started excluding things (.git folders, your Dropbox folder) from the list of what gets backed up without even really telling anyone.
  72. Middle-earth — Interactive Map
  73. Installing every* Firefox extension — Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
  74. Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them.
  75. Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI — For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~…
  76. TypeWhisper 1.1 for macOS - Private Speech-to-Text
  77. delphitools: Handmade Developer Tools
  78. Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch — Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes. Now 59, Jacobs knows that these cassettes are going to degrade over time, so he …
  79. Reading is magic - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge — "What will happen in our second peasanthood" ... "I don’t think these people are wrong to fear an undemocratic post-literate future. You can already see it taking shape, and it isn’t pleasant. For a while, in an earlier phase of social media, it looked like everyone…
  80. The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity - by Denis Stetskov — "How long can the average human hold that line? And the worst part: validating or trusting, the engineer owns the outcome either way. When production goes down at 3 AM, it’s your name on the commit. Your PR that got merged. Your incident report. There is no versi…
  81. Experimental Drug Can Reverse Osteoarthritis in Weeks, Animal Research Shows — The debilitating, chronic loss of joint cartilage known as osteoarthritis causes pain and bone decay for hundreds of millions of people every day, but new help may be on the way – in the form of a simple, single shot.
  82. Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac | Type Faster, Write Better — Cotypist: AI autocomplete for Mac. Type as fast as you think in any app. Save hours, reduce errors, and boost your productivity.
  83. DIY soft drinks
  84. #4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design - by John Loeber
  85. kepano/obsidian-skills: Claude Skills for Obsidian
  86. The Vasa - Psych Safety
  87. googleapis/release-please: generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec — generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec - googleapis/release-please
  88. Programming used to be free | purplesyringa's blog
  89. Large Scale Systems Museum | Flickr — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MIOmoNS
  90. UW doctor researches health-monitoring device to track tears: HealthLink | KING 5 — The UW Kren Engineering-based Medicine Initiative is participating in the design of a biosensor device to track glucose levels and inflammation. Dr. Tueng Shen, professor of ophthalmology in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.
  91. Has Google’s AI watermarking system been reverse-engineered? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/li6rxfM
  92. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  93. Introduction to Obsidian
  94. How much co2 does training AI models produce?
  95. Native Instant Space Switching on MacOS
  96. I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech — via @glyph@mastodon.social boost of https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116318837944592273
  97. The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess — Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.
  98. How YouTuber Jon Prosser broke Liquid Glass — and what happened in the fallout | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/TlS5Zp6
  99. All elementary functions from a single binary operator — Just as NAND can create all logic gates, all the basic math functions (+, -, *, /, ^, exp, ln, all-trig-funcs, as well as pi, e, sqrt(-1), and a few more) can be derived JUST from the constant 1 and a single function: eml(x,y) = exp(x) - ln(y).
  100. Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work — "Mythos Preview’s success on one cyber range indicates that is at least capable of autonomously attacking small, weakly defended and vulnerable enterprise systems where access to a network has been gained. However, our ranges have important difference…

The Next Web

  1. Accel raises $5 billion for AI as venture capital bets reach infrastructure scale
  2. Anthropic attracts $800 billion valuation offers as revenue hits $30 billion annualised run rate
  3. Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems
  4. Jane Street commits $6 billion to CoreWeave and takes a $1 billion equity stake
  5. Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands
  6. Astroport and Vermeer want to bring heavy construction equipment to the Moon
  7. OpenAI opens its cybersecurity model to thousands of defenders in race with Anthropic’s Mythos
  8. Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think
  9. Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws
  10. Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  2. My Favorite Streaming Service Is a DVD Player and My Library Card
  3. The Only 3 Knives You Actually Need in Your Kitchen
  4. The Best Collapsible Folding Wagons
  5. I Walked 8 Miles in These Wedge Flip-Flops, and I’d Do It Again
  6. The Best First Phones for Kids
  7. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Organize My Charging Cables?
  8. Ask Wirecutter: What Are the Best Buy-It-for-Life (and Beyond) Products?
  9. Ask Wirecutter: Help Me Find Actually-Cool Rx Sunglasses
  10. Ask Wirecutter: Why Can’t My Partner See How Right I Am?

Sweethome

  1. The Best Gardening Gloves
  2. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop My Spouse From Leaving Wet Sponges in the Sink?
  3. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop People From Throwing Poop Bags in My Garbage Can?
  4. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Stop My Mom From Buying Dollar-Store Junk?
  5. Ask Wirecutter: Can You Help My Elderly Dad Thwart Package Thieves?
  6. Ask Wirecutter: Do We Really Need High-Security Locks on a Rental House?
  7. Ask Wirecutter: Can You Help My Spouse Stop Misplacing Everything?
  8. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Make Guests Comfortable in My Shoes-Off House?
  9. Ask Wirecutter: How Do I Deal With My Partner’s Bedroom Laundry Pile?
  10. Ask Wirecutter: What Are the Best Buy-It-for-Life (and Beyond) Products?

Hacker News

  1. AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development
  2. CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous
  3. God Sleeps in the Minerals
  4. Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data
  5. Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson
  6. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
  7. Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair
  8. Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)
  9. Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases
  10. Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding AI Engineers
  11. Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic
  12. Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack
  13. How do Wake-On-LAN works
  14. Do you even need a database?
  15. Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
  16. Show HN: GNU Grep as a PHP Extension
  17. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
  18. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
  19. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
  20. Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis
  21. Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  22. Where did my taxes go?
  23. Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor
  24. Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction
  25. We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
  26. Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference
  27. Thomson Reuters Fired Worker for Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
  28. Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC
  29. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis
  30. The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself

Ars Technica

  1. Space Force looks at moving "significant number" of launches from ULA to SpaceX
  2. FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
  3. Adobe takes Creative Cloud into Claude Code-esque territory
  4. US jobs too important to risk Chinese car imports, says Ford CEO
  5. Good Omens S3 trailer sets up a blessed conclusion
  6. Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure"
  7. New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery
  8. What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?
  9. Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy
  10. It's Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings
  11. Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans
  12. Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May
  13. Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.
  14. Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away
  15. Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer
  16. UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
  17. Google introduces "Skills" in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable
  18. Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle
  19. NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration
  20. Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June

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New Scientist

  1. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  2. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  3. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  4. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  5. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  6. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  7. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  8. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  9. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  10. Modern living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  11. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  12. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  13. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  14. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  15. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  16. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  17. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  18. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together
  19. The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve
  20. Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
  21. I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?
  22. NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
  23. Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat
  24. Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction
  25. Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time
  26. The man who ruined mathematics
  27. Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton
  28. Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war
  29. Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names
  30. Mysterious 'compound X' clears toxic Parkinson’s proteins from brain
  31. Emperor penguins added to endangered list after rapid decline
  32. What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
  33. Is this the most niche scientific tourist attraction in the world?
  34. CAR T-cell therapy takes woman from bedridden to 'perfectly fine'
  35. Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic
  36. Stunning photographs show the dynamic patterns of the natural world
  37. Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time
  38. Why early humans radically changed their toolkits 200,000 years ago
  39. Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time
  40. Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
  41. How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end
  42. The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
  43. Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
  44. Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
  45. The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
  46. Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine
  47. Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
  48. Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?
  49. A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries
  50. Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon
  51. Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'
  52. We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
  53. The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health
  54. How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
  55. Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, norovirus, flu and covid
  56. How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo
  57. Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals
  58. Bumblebees surprise scientists by showing a sense of rhythm
  59. Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks
  60. We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars
  61. I have been bitten by more than 200 snakes – on purpose
  62. What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex
  63. Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon
  64. Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs
  65. Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?
  66. The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close
  67. Male octopuses have a favourite arm that they mostly use for sex
  68. The best new popular science books of April 2026
  69. Virus from marine animals is causing weird eye problems in people
  70. Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain
  71. Attacks from our immune system are a cause of long covid
  72. The best new science-fiction books of April 2026
  73. New fibre-optic record allows 50,000,000 movies to be streamed at once
  74. The Shroud of Turin bears DNA from many people, plants and animals
  75. Food shock is inevitable due to the Iran war – and it could get bad
  76. The best kind of olive oil for brain health
  77. The weird physics of plant-based milks is only just coming to light
  78. Why the lack of water on Mars is so mysterious
  79. How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing
  80. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
  81. The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
  82. Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet
  83. I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water
  84. How Anthony Leggett pushed the boundaries of quantum physics
  85. We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet
  86. AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
  87. Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
  88. Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on
  89. Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars
  90. New Scientist recommends documentary Molly vs The Machines
  91. Rare Andean bear captured in stunning photograph
  92. First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn
  93. Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes
  94. Computer finds flaw in major physics paper for first time
  95. A variety of jungle animals all use one type of tree as a latrine
  96. The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever
  97. Temperature gets a new definition using a quantum device
  98. How big is a 'shedload'? Let's ask the nuclear physicists
  99. What to read this week: the persuasive How Flowers Made Our World
  100. Meta and YouTube fined $3 million for harming mental health

Slashdot

  1. Snapchat Blames AI As It Cuts 1,000 Jobs
  2. Struggling Shoe Retailer Allbirds Pivots To AI, Stock Explodes More Than 700%
  3. Rivian's Illinois Factory Will Run On Recycled EV Batteries
  4. Norway Man Cured of HIV With Brother's Stem Cells
  5. Sony Boss Urges Theaters To Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies
  6. Amazon Buys Globalstar For $10.8 Billion, Moving To Expand Its Satellite Internet Service
  7. Sony Is Removing Many Popular Features From Its Free OTA TV Options
  8. FCC Grants Netgear Conditional Approval For Routers
  9. Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs
  10. California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says
  11. Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out
  12. Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
  13. Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive
  14. Social Media Platforms Need To Stop Never-Ending Scrolling, UK's Starmer Says
  15. Google Faces Mass Arbitration By Advertisers Seeking Billions

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Strange Alternative to Beach Umbrellas: A Giant Windsock
  2. A Remote-Controlled, Daisy-Chainable Pan & Tilt 360-Degree LED Light
  3. Experimental Furniture Design by Raw-Edges Design Studio
  4. The Insane Entrance Door to (A)void Café in Prague
  5. In France, Lunch Delivered Via Steampunk-Like Contraptions
  6. A Low-Tech Sliding Shutter System from Pre-Industrial Japan
  7. A Handsome Two-Compartment Bathroom Waste Bin
  8. Dyson Finds Another Application for Its Tech: Powerful Handheld Fans
  9. Hyundai Unveils Chinese-Market-Specific Concept Vehicles
  10. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-6-26 to 4-10-26)
  11. Erwan Bouroullec's Elegant Arba Chair
  12. Honest Product Design: Michael Marriott's Ernö Wall Hook
  13. A Transforming Furniture Design Classic: Joe Colombo's Resurrected Multichair
  14. Bicycle Design Student Work: Masaichi Yamada's Mini-Velo
  15. Škoda Designs a Bike Bell That Can Defeat Noise-Canceling Headphones

CNET

  1. Best Standing Desks of 2026
  2. Can't File Your Income Taxes by Today? You Need to File a Free Extension Now
  3. Best Desks of 2026: I’ve Spent Nearly 4,000 Hours Testing Desks. These Are the Ones You Want
  4. Thinking of Ditching Your Apple Watch for a Whoop Band? Read This First
  5. Champions League Soccer: Stream Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid Live
  6. Champions League Soccer: Stream Arsenal vs. Sporting Lisbon Live
  7. Over Half of Us Have Faced Possible Malware, Yet Some Are Ignoring Cybercriminals
  8. You Might Actually Be Able to Afford Traeger's New Line of Pellet Grills
  9. Nintendo's Made a Weird Animal Crossing. Tomodachi Life Has Me Living Like an Odd God
  10. Your Turn: Vote for Your Favorite Headphones and Earbuds of 2026
  11. Denon's New AVR-S980H Breaks Receiver Drought for Home Theater Fans
  12. Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude
  13. Amazon's Globalstar Grab Adds iPhone Connectivity to Its Starlink Pursuit
  14. Amazon's New Fire TV Stick HD Doesn't Have to Plug Into the Wall
  15. 60 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Will Keep You Entertained
  16. Best OTA DVR for Cord Cutters in 2026
  17. How to Keep Kids Safe Online? Europe Believes Its Age Verification App Is the Answer
  18. After Months of Testing, I Found the Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services in 2026
  19. This Harry Potter-Themed Smart Board Makes Learning Chess Feel Like Magic
  20. Play Hades 2, the Award-Winning Sequel, on Xbox Game Pass Now
  21. FBI Wi-Fi Router Hacked List: 5 Steps to Keep Your Router Safe Now
  22. Malware Is Scary. Here's CNET's Guide to Cleaning an Infected Laptop
  23. We're Hooked on Satellites. It Could Blow Up in Our Faces
  24. Don't Scan That QR Code Yet: The New Scam Threatening Your Phone
  25. Beef: When to Watch Season 2 on Netflix

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The Verge

  1. Ikea’s smart donut lamp is a sweet treat
  2. Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac
  3. Microsoft counters the MacBook Neo with freebies for students
  4. Best Buy’s Ultimate Upgrade Sale features deals on dozens of our favorite gadgets
  5. The Senate is voting to save free IRS Direct File today
  6. Most people still don’t want anything to do with robotaxis
  7. Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent
  8. The perfect successor to Lost has been hiding from me for years
  9. Walmart is updating its 4K streaming box with Gemini and Matter support
  10. More phone cameras should come with telephoto lenses

Wired

  1. AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
  2. Microsoft Surface PCs Are Getting Big Price Hikes, and the Cheaper Models Are Going Away
  3. Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhone
  4. The US Government Will Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use
  5. MAGA Is Starting to Look Beyond Trump
  6. Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI Compute. Sure, Why Not
  7. Best Smart Smoke Detector (and Why You Still Need a Dumb One)
  8. 12 Best Standing Desks of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
  9. Best GoPro Camera (2026): Compact, Budget, Accessories
  10. Best Wi-Fi Routers of 2026 for Working, Gaming, and Streaming
  11. The Caves That Could Help Us Find, or Become, Aliens
  12. AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
  13. X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
  14. The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
  15. Total Wireless Promo Codes & Deals: 50% Off Select Plans
  16. Booking.com Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 20% Off
  17. B&H Photo Promo Codes and Deals This April
  18. Expedia Coupons and Deals: Up to 75% Off Select Trips
  19. Corsair Discount Code: Save Up to 50% on Gaming Gear in April 2026
  20. eBay Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off Select Items

LifeHacker

  1. These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are on Sale for $110 Right Now
  2. Why Everyone Is Suddenly Into ‘Combat Training'
  3. This $7 Epoxy Putty Saved My Home From Thousands in Water Damage
  4. These Smart Cameras Will Toss Treats to Your Pets While You’re Away, and They’re 48% Off Right Now
  5. These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data
  6. I Tried Binge, the Letterboxd Alternative That I Now Like More Than Letterboxd
  7. Should You Supplement With Creatine?
  8. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Was the Artemis II Mission Fake?
  9. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is 38% Off Right Now
  10. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is $400 Off Right Now
  11. I Used This Wall Edger to Paint My Stairs, and I'm Never Going Back
  12. A Lifetime Subscription to Babbel Is on Sale at a Huge Discount Right Now
  13. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  14. These Wireless, Noise-Canceling JBL Earbuds Are on Sale for Just $40 Right Now
  15. 10 Hacks Every Apple Music User Should Know
  16. Turn Your Laptop Into a Three-Screen Setup With This Portable Display Add-On
  17. I Replaced My Phone's To-Do App With This Reusable Smart Notebook, and It Rules
  18. You Can Get Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for Just $28 Right Now
  19. Trump Mobile's 'T1 Phone' Might Actually Be Released Soon
  20. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $250 Off Right Now
  21. I Upgraded From the Garmin Forerunner 165 to the 970, and It Was Worth the Cost for Me
  22. How to Hide Sensitive Info From Your Notifications
  23. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Squid Game'
  24. 10 Shows Like 'Scarpetta' You Should Watch Next
  25. Samsung Just Quietly Raised the Prices of These Smartphones and Tablets
  26. You Can Get This Cordless Shark Indoor/Outdoor Fan on Sale for Just $80 Right Now
  27. How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon's Clutches
  28. 10 Hacks Every Spotify User Should Know
  29. I Tried Tubi in ChatGPT and Didn't Hate It
  30. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is More Than $150 Off Right Now
  31. Samsung’s Latest Flagship TV Is Over $350 Off Right Now
  32. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold Is $300 Off Right Now
  33. Why Your Back Hurts, and What You Can Do About It
  34. Microsoft Is Killing Outlook Lite
  35. Amazon Big Spring Sale 2026 Live Blog: All the Best Deals From Apple, Kindle, Garmin, and More
  36. The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Are on Sale for $199
  37. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  38. The Samsung Galaxy Watch Can Finally Measure Blood Pressure in the U.S.
  39. Elon Musk's XChat Claims to Offer 'Private' Messaging (but Is Reserving the Right to Collect Your Data)
  40. This Is Your Chance to Get the AirPods Pro 3 for $200
  41. This Dual Screen E-Ink/LCD Smartphone Is One of the Most Ill-Conceived Tech Products of the Year
  42. Apple May Be Working on Multiple Styles and Frames for Its First Smart Glasses
  43. The Samsung S26 Ultra Is Already $200 Off
  44. This Blink Security Bundle Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  45. The Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Smart Glasses Are 25% Off Right Now
  46. You Can Now Customize the Keyboard on Your Samsung Galaxy
  47. The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'You the Birthday' Mean?
  48. Seven Ways Gaining Muscle Benefits Your Health
  49. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  50. 10 Hacks Every Google Pixel Owner Should Know
  51. 10 Hacks Every Apple Maps User Should Know
  52. Why You Should Spray Your Shoes With Permethrin This Summer
  53. Roblox 'Plus' Is Here, but It's Only for the Hardcore Spenders
  54. OpenAI Just Cut ChatGPT Pro's Price in Half
  55. YouTube Is Raising Prices for Premium Subscribers
  56. Eight Things You Should Never Share With an AI Chatbot
  57. Google Is Now Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption for (Some) Gmail Users
  58. Microsoft Is Removing Copilot Buttons From These Windows 11 Apps
  59. T-Mobile Will Give You a Free iPhone 17e Right Now, No Trade-In Necessary
  60. Why You Can't Trust 'Runfluencers'
  61. You Can Finally Edit Your Instagram Comments, but There’s a Time Limit
  62. Why You Should Be Using Vertical Tabs in Your Browser
  63. 10 Hacks Every Threads User Should Know
  64. You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader
  65. Meta's New 'Personal Superintelligence' AI Is Coming to Its Smart Glasses
  66. This Massive Hisense Mini-LED TV Is Almost 40% Off Right Now
  67. These Entry-Level Soundcore Earbuds Are Under $40 Right Now
  68. Here's How Many Reps You Should Do, Depending on Your Fitness Goals
  69. Set Up This 'Mosquito Death Bucket' Now
  70. The Best Deals in Home Depot's 'Spring Black Friday' Sale
  71. How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages From a Defendant's iPhone
  72. I Used This DIY Kit to Screen In My Deck, and It Was a Brilliant Decision
  73. This Physical Barrier Finally Helped Me Limit My Screen Time
  74. The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Is $400 Off Right Now
  75. Google Gemini's 'Notebooks' Let You Focus Your Chats on a Specific Subject
  76. Why You Should Start 'Vertical Training' Outside
  77. 'Channels' Solved My Biggest Problem With My YouTube Recommendations
  78. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  79. You Can Now Disable All Videos in Spotify
  80. Google's Newest Video Doorbell Is Over 20% Off Right Now
  81. This High-End Asus Gaming Monitor Is $400 Off Right Now
  82. WhatsApp Is Adding Usernames to Keep Your Phone Number Private
  83. 10 Hacks Every Apple Vision Pro User Should Know
  84. Android 17 Will Finally Let You Remap Your Gaming Controllers
  85. This Compact Bose Portable Bluetooth Speaker Is Cheaper Than Ever Right Now
  86. Steam Just Added Support for Apple Vision Pro Gaming
  87. 10 Shows Like 'The White Lotus' You Should Watch Next
  88. Not All Sleep Scores Are Created Equal
  89. This Is the 65-Inch QLED TV I Would Buy If I Wanted the Best Bang for My Buck
  90. These Beats Studio Earbuds (With Noise Cancellation) Are on Sale for $100 Right Now
  91. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  92. Amazon Is Ending Support for These Kindle Models
  93. You Could Get Up to $100 From This $135 Million Android Settlement
  94. This Samsung Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Over $250 Off Right Now
  95. This TCL QLED TV Is Over $200 Off Right Now
  96. These Noise-Cancelling Beats Workout Earbuds Are at Their Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  97. This Flagship Samsung OLED TV Is $800 Off Right Now
  98. I Tried Google's New On-Device AI Transcription App for iPhone, and It Was Surprisingly Accurate
  99. Here's What to Expect During Home Depot's 'Spring Black Friday' Sale Starting This Week
  100. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does '7x7=49' Mean?

The Onion

The Register

  1. Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP
  2. Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
  3. Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
  4. Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption
  5. Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms
  6. Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many
  7. French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal
  8. US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally
  9. Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work
  10. Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks
  11. Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo
  12. Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031
  13. UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk
  14. Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges
  15. Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London
  16. Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users
  17. Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless
  18. The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out
  19. Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt
  20. AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop
  21. Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs
  22. Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents
  23. Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs
  24. You can finally control serial devices from Firefox
  25. Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing – it's AI!
  26. Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going
  27. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says
  28. GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs
  29. Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math
  30. Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow
  31. No honor among thieves as 0APT threatens rival ransomware gang Krybit
  32. NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats
  33. IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz
  34. Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout
  35. Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder
  36. Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future
  37. Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket
  38. UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program
  39. When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now
  40. Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
  41. Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure
  42. Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships
  43. Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum
  44. Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet
  45. Claude is getting worse, according to Claude
  46. How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough
  47. Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets
  48. Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller
  49. WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support
  50. Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints

TechMeme

  1. WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
  2. Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  3. Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
  4. The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired)
  5. Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET)
  6. AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
  7. Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over $51M (Bloomberg)
  8. Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios)
  9. A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
  10. Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
  11. London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
  12. AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
  13. Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+ (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
  14. The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block AI rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
  15. Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)