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The Next Web
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- A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed
- Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC
- Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout
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- Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
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- Lovable’s answer to enterprise AI risk is an insurance policy from Lloyd’s
Smashing Magazine
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- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
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- The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
- Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
- Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
- Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
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- Our Favorite Writing Desks (That Don’t Look Like Office Furniture)
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Hacker News
- France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
- H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
- As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
- London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
- To Save C, We Must Save ABI
- Chicken Scheme 6.0
- LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models
- Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
- Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
- Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
- About Rx Kids
- Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
- The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
- Recycle – Floppydisks
- Programming the Gigatron
- Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
- Faster floating point math with Rust's new API
- Sonic Pi v5
- The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
- Rust SIMD on the GPU
- How Claude marks AI-generated content
- What's the best programming language for coding agents?
- Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
- Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
- The Water Footprint of AI
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- Squeak 6.1
- Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)
- Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
- Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
Ars Technica
- Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
- With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
- Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist
- Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
- Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
- Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
- Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
- Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
- Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
- Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
- One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
- Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad
- 2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks
- A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
- Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
- Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
- The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
- DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
- Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
- Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting
- Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's
- Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China
- A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond
- Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware
- First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store
- Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal
- Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer
- Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games
- AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack
- Paramount Promises 30 Film-A-Year Contracts After WBD Acquisition
- Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills
- How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?
- Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines
- Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
BoingBoing
- Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
- The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
- 9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
- Trade loud, addictive screen time for Montessori-inspired Pok Pok, just $59.99 for lifetime access
- Trump's mass deportation machine is a $1.4 billion private-prison bonanza
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- SwifDoo PDF Pro handles your PDF headaches for $30 for life
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- UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural
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- Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
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Wired
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The Onion
The Register
TechMeme
- How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram contributed to a surge of migrants from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta enclave (New York Times)
- A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)
- Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far (Bloomberg)
- A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)
- PatronView's owner details a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, and Amazon's bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)
- Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
- Anthropic says new Claude models in the EU will add watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to files, to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update older models (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
- Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps ~25% (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
- How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: Apple remains on track to launch a glass-centric design overhaul of the iPhone Pro line in 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, up from a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
- SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from Twitter's $1.08B in Q2 2022; Elon Musk said he would take X's annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
- Source: OpenAI's AI Ethics Lead Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and an ex-head of mission alignment (Financial Times)