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BBC

  1. Some protests may need to stop, PM suggests, after calls for pause on pro-Palestinian marches
  2. 'I bought a baseball cap to hide my kippah': Jews observe first Shabbat after Golders Green attack
  3. US to cut troop levels in Germany by 5,000 amid Trump spat with Merz
  4. Celebrity Traitors line-up announced - 21 famous faces set to enter castle
  5. Thirteen killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, health ministry says
  6. These twins were born within minutes of each other - but have different dads
  7. Smiling Princess Charlotte beams in 11th birthday portrait
  8. My shopping addiction hijacked my life. Now I realise what caused it
  9. Is this the real face of Anne Boleyn?
  10. Revise, recall, then rest - your exam season survival guide
  11. There was one way we'd agreed to do Devil Wears Prada 2, says Meryl Streep
  12. Australia wants to become the first country to eliminate a cancer - can it?
  13. Bomb hoax arrest after Peter Kay show evacuated
  14. Who shot a Secret Service officer at the Trump press dinner?
  15. Ex-F1 driver and Paralympic champion Zanardi dies
  16. Bermuda welcomes King Charles with boats, dancing and cake-cutting
  17. Chris Mason: PM seeks to draw contrast with critics within his party and beyond
  18. Police station car bomb accused appears in court
  19. 'If we sleep, they bite': Rats and weasels infest camps for displaced Gazans
  20. Mortgages, jobs and energy bills - how the Iran war will affect your money
  21. Trump tells Congress ceasefire means he does not need their approval for Iran war
  22. Teen charged with terror offences appears in court
  23. Red squirrels 'close to extinction' in England
  24. BBC News app
  25. The Week: The Price Of The Iran War
  26. LIVE at Maida Vale studios… How popular is Donald Trump in the US?
  27. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star in an award-winning musical
  28. Ex-F1 driver and Paralympic cycling champion Zanardi dies
  29. Watch: Football Focus
  30. Usyk helping Joshua plot path to beat Fury

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Engadget

  1. AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars
  2. Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini
  3. There's already a way to mount your smartphone to a Steam Controller
  4. LG's 2026 Gram laptop lineup starts at $1,150
  5. It's Bandcamp Friday again
  6. Oura adds more detailed hormonal health insights to its Series 3 and 4 rings
  7. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon
  8. Engadget Podcast: Is the Valve Steam Controller worth $100?
  9. Nissan abandons plans for US EV plant
  10. The Morning After: Instagram will try to penalize 'unoriginal' posts
  11. Netflix has reportedly greenlit a prequel for 'The Crown'
  12. Microsoft's Xbox mode starts making its way to Windows 11 PCs
  13. Toilet maker Toto is here to help with the RAM crisis
  14. Meta says it may withdraw its apps from New Mexico if judge agrees to the state's demands
  15. Modder releases loader to turn the PS5 into a Linux system
  16. Prime Video will stream three Duke basketball games next season
  17. You can now choose which games use Quick Resume on Xbox
  18. The minimalist Light Phone III will soon support a curated set of third-party apps
  19. City of None is the next game from the co-creator of Celeste
  20. Anbernic's swiveling retro handheld will be available May 11

Pinboard

  1. Who Owns the Code Written by LLMs?
  2. Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): a 732-byte Linux LPE — straight-line, no race, no per-distro offsets. Same Python script roots Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE since 2017. Page-cache write bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses container boundaries. Found by Xint Code.
  3. Where the goblins came from | OpenAI — Why it matters Depending on who you ask, the goblins are a delightful or annoying quirk of the model. But they are also a powerful example of how reward signals can shape model behavior in unexpected ways, and how models can learn to generalize rewards in certain situations to unrelate…
  4. FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
  5. How an Oil Refinery Works - by Brian Potter
  6. Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting — In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
  7. Just a moment... — Cursor Camp https://ift.tt/jzVXu6E fun, games
  8. pi.dev
  9. styles.refero.design
  10. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  11. Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
  12. Home | Laws of UX
  13. Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
  14. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  15. I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It | by Mike Carson | Apr, 2026 | Medium
  16. Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.
  17. Solar Eclipse Map
  18. The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’ | The MIT Press Reader — An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans.
  19. The Social Edge of Intelligence - The Ideas Letter — AI doesn’t really “think.” Rather, it remembers how we thought together. And we’re about to stop giving it anything worth remembering.
  20. Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
  21. Why I Still Reach for Scheme and Lisp Instead of Haskell - jointhefreeworld
  22. Parachute — Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.
  23. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I actually did to get it working in my home :: Giles' blog
  24. Zed is 1.0 — Zed's Blog
  25. You can beat the binary search – Daniel Lemire's blog
  26. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
  27. Lessons on Building MCP Servers - Tao of Mac
  28. Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions - Xint
  29. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  30. Notepad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor
  31. Full-Text Search with DuckDB
  32. Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban | Loris Cro's Blog
  33. ~ rip.so :: the digital graveyard ~
  34. I can never talk to an AI anonymously again (Kelsey Piper) — AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you? The Argument Apr 21, 2026 Several advanced AI models, in particular Claude Opus 4.7, have demonstrated the ability to deduce the author of relatively small excerpts of text. Recently, Matt Ygle…
  35. Claude for Creative Work Anthropic
  36. Honker | Honker
  37. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home | Hacker News
  38. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
  39. The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ - The Atlantic — Even when people are allowed to switch between tasks at their own discretion, the more they switch, the longer everything takes. As Mark has written: “We find that in ­real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑­of‑day assesse…
  40. I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice. | Diabettech - Diabetes and Technology — This research tested (in 2025) how consistent and accurate various frontier models were at estimating the number of calories in food that was pictured. Claude is more consistent than the others; none…
  41. Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
  42. Before GitHub — "GitHub is currently losing some of what made it feel inevitable. Maybe that's just the life and death of large centralized platforms: they always disappoint eventually. Right now people are tired of the instability, the product churn, the Copilot AI noise, the unclear leadership, and the feeling that the pla…
  43. warpdotdev/warp: Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
  44. The Agent Skills Directory — Discover and install skills for AI agents.
  45. ghostty is leaving github | hacker news
  46. Twelve centuries of cherry blossoms — peak bloom in Kyoto, 812–2026
  47. The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 446, With MG Siegler — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MaGARrW
  48. The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
  49. Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
  50. talkie: an LM from 1930 — talkie is a 13-billion-parameter language model trained on pre-1931 text. Read our introductory blog post. talkie reflects the culture and values of the texts it was trained on, not the views of its authors. It can produce outputs that are inaccurate or offensive. Here, we moderate talkie’s outputs …
  51. ZetaLib/The Gay Jailbreak/The Gay Jailbreak.md at main · Exocija/ZetaLib
  52. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
  53. I Kind of Fixed My iCloud Photos Problem and All I Got Was Two Blog Posts and Probably Years Off My Life – Pixel Envy
  54. Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines
  55. Warm Burnout: warm color theme for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Ghostty, and more — The theme suite for developers who already burned out but still have deadlines.
  56. ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers — Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
  57. The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer | jacobharr.is — "If you are on a software team using AI in your processes or products, it might be worth regularly asking yourself what it would mean if the LLM went away? Would this be a critical failure that would doom your operations or something that you can fix? Is the LLM being used fo…
  58. PowerPhotos: iPhoto Library Manager for Photos.app. — Back to the future. Good to see this option, no idea if it's safe to use.
  59. Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks | Metin's Blog
  60. GitHub - microsoft/lib0xc: Safe(ish) C programming library · GitHub — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834
  61. What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond. — https://archive.li/lIhVg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949616
  62. Apple Reportedly Questioning Whether iPhone Should Drop MagSafe - MacRumors — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MaGARrW
  63. GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean - YouTube — stick with it for the amazing choreography. massive 80s going to school in england vibes.
  64. 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.
  65. Why Law Is Law-Shaped — LawVM
  66. Welcome to the world of Statecharts - Statecharts
  68. The Missing GitHub Status Page
  69. Radicle: the sovereign forge
  70. Techniques for better software testing | Antithesis — https://lobste.rs/s/ygpiza/techniques_for_better_software_testing
  71. Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown; Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction
  72. 夸克当 --- 夸克当
  73. The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity | The MIT Press Reader
  74. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
  75. OpenTrafficMap
  76. All the right moves! 17 personal trainers on the exercise they always recommend – from planks to face pulls | Fitness | The Guardian
  77. Apple results analysis: Net-net over the moon
  78. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library | Semgrep
  79. Oh no I've said too much, I haven't said enough - lc2l — Ilya sits down carefully and takes Shane’s hand. “I am going to ask you something, and I want you to try not to freak out, okay? Take a breath, think about it.” That sounds… serious. “The Centaurs are having a barbeque,” Ilya says. “I would like to go, and I would li…
  80. NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
  81. 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…
  82. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
  83. GitHub - cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code: The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models · GitHub
  84. Creating a Color Palette from an Image — Amanda Hinton
  85. BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vTcM9ml
  86. Gen Zers' snail-mail subscription clubs are making thousands a month
  87. Mapped: Every Country’s Fertility Rate as Births Decline Worldwide
  88. Hugging Science - AI for Scientific Discovery — Scale your research with the world's leading AI platform for science. Curated datasets, models, and tools — from proteins to plasma fusion.
  89. microsoft/TRELLIS.2: Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
  90. alchemy — zero to production. TypeScript IaC on Effect.
  91. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone • The Register
  92. mattpocock/sandcastle: Orchestrate sandboxed coding agents in TypeScript with sandcastle.run()
  93. Karpathy 的知识库管理方法：用 LLM 维护一个会自我生长的 Obsidian Wiki | Verne in GitHub — Karpathy 的知识库管理方法：用 LLM 维护一个会自我生长的 Obsidian Wiki via Instapaper https://blog.einverne.info/post/2026/04/karpathy-obsidian-llm-wiki-knowledge-management.html [[Andrej Karpathy]] 最近在 GitHub 上发了一个 Gist，介绍了一…
  94. Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) · Nikhil Jha
  95. llm-wiki · GitHub — Comments
  96. USB Cheat Sheet
  97. SPARC Federal Data Policies Tracker - Data Management Policies
  98. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski — Exposing Floating Point –
  99. The weirdest aspect of the Iran war that has befuddled oil experts | CNN Business
  100. Protein Shake Recipe

The Next Web

  1. Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.
  2. Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.
  3. The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
  4. Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its first week
  5. Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents.
  6. Why a Canadian bank is trying to predict earthquakes with quantum computers
  7. Wall Street says Oracle is a buy. The investors selling it can count to $300 billion.
  8. AI chipmaker Cerebras targets up to $4bn IPO at $40bn valuation
  9. GameStop eyes eBay takeover in audacious $46 billion bet on Ryan Cohen’s e-commerce vision
  10. Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Wi-Fi Mesh-Networking Systems
  2. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  3. The Best Diaper Pail
  4. Window AC Units Are Loud. This One Masks NYC Noise and Almost Feels Like Central Air.
  5. Spring Skin-Care and Beauty Sales Are Here. These Are the Deals We Love.
  6. 33 Exclusive Deals on Our Favorite Mother’s Day Gifts
  7. The Best Gifts We’ve Ever Given Our Moms
  8. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  9. 7 Cheap(ish) Things to Improve Your In-Flight Experience
  10. The Best TVs

Sweethome

  1. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands
  2. Citronella Candles Don’t Really Work. Stop Buying Them.
  3. Our Favorite Curtains
  4. This $28 Garden Tool Cut My Weeding Time in Half
  5. The Quiet Luxury of a Collapsible Laundry Basket
  6. A Tiny Luxury That Makes Taking Out the Garbage Less of a Chore
  7. The Best Squatty Potty and Other Toilet Stools Worth the Floor Space
  8. The Best Cordless Fans
  9. Keeping Houseplants Alive and Happy When You’re Away Is Easier Than You Think
  10. The Best Flashlight

Hacker News

  1. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
  2. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
  3. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
  4. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
  5. Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
  6. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data
  7. Ti-84 Evo
  8. Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
  9. SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File
  10. The USB Situation
  11. Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
  12. Artemis II Photo Timeline
  13. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
  14. A Gopher Meets a Crab
  15. Ask.com has closed
  16. To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
  17. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes
  18. CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
  19. LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture
  20. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
  21. Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
  22. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
  23. Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
  24. A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
  25. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds
  26. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
  27. Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry
  28. Apocalypse Early Warning System
  29. DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
  30. Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D

Ars Technica

  1. Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
  2. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
  3. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
  4. Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
  5. Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
  6. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
  7. Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
  8. Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
  9. GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
  10. Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered.
  11. Virgin Galactic reveals new ship, but it's running out of time and cash
  12. Apple may take "several months" to catch up to Mac mini and Studio demand
  13. Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
  14. Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts
  15. There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
  16. Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general
  17. US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold
  18. Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine's sights
  19. Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial
  20. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

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New Scientist

  1. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  2. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  3. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  4. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  5. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  6. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  7. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  8. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  9. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  10. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  11. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  12. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  13. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  14. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  15. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  16. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  17. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  18. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  19. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  20. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  21. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  22. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  23. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  24. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  25. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  26. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  27. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  28. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  29. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  30. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  31. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  32. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  33. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  34. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  35. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  36. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  37. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  38. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  39. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  40. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  41. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  42. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  43. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  44. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  45. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  46. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  47. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  48. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  49. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  50. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  51. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  52. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  53. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  54. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  55. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  56. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  57. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  58. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  59. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  60. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  61. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  62. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  63. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  64. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  65. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  66. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  67. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  68. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
  69. Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?
  70. How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness
  71. Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
  72. Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid
  73. Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
  74. New Scientist recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI
  75. Why is it so hard to change your mind?
  76. The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology
  77. Startling images show how fake news isn't just a 21st century issue
  78. Our dreams become more emotive and symbolic as we approach death
  79. How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
  80. Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans
  81. What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe
  82. Why cloning anyone – even Jim Carrey – isn't the best plan ever
  83. People are refusing transfusions from donors vaccinated against covid
  84. Monkeys walk around a virtual world using only their thoughts
  85. Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
  86. Quantum computers could usher in a crisis worse than Y2K
  87. Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
  88. Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?
  89. The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China
  90. Antioxidant in mushrooms may target uterus cells to ease period pain
  91. From autism to migraines, birth order may have wide-reaching effects
  92. A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good
  93. Urban living may be causing big changes to our oestrogen levels
  94. We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
  95. My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation
  96. The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
  97. Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon
  98. We urgently need to prepare for quantum computers breaking encryption
  99. The secret project to settle controversial maths proof with a computer
  100. We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

Slashdot

  1. GameStop Is Preparing Offer For eBay
  2. New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test
  3. Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers
  4. Microsoft's Xbox Mode Is Now Available For All Windows 11 PCs
  5. AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company's Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds
  6. Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic
  7. ICANN Opens Applications For New Generic Top-Level Domains
  8. The Case Against an Imminent Software Developer Apocalypse
  9. GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecurity Tests
  10. Spotify Adds 'Verified' Badges To Distinguish Human Artists From AI
  11. Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug In cPanel, Used By Millions of Websites
  12. The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes
  13. The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious
  14. Belgium Plans To Nationalize Nuclear Power Plants
  15. Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  2. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  3. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-20-26 to 4-24-26)
  5. Drill Design's Wall Hanger Channels Enzo Mari
  6. In This Transylvanian City, the Buildings Have Eyes
  7. Industrial Design Student Project Turned Commercial Furniture
  8. Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Pays Homage to Everyday Holes
  9. An Unusual Architectural Detail from Scandinavia: Open Downspouts
  10. Clever Use of Materials: Making a Child-Safe Axe-Throwing Set-Up
  11. Snap-Off Blades were Inspired by Chocolate Bars and Broken Glass
  12. Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders
  13. HomeDec Furniture's Unusual Take on a Space-Saving Table
  14. An Over-the-Top Modular Storage Box
  15. Hi-Tech, Designey Food Storage: B!POD's Food Vacuum System

CNET

  1. Love Wordle? Here Are 10 Similar Games to Try in 2026
  2. TVs Are Getting Uncomfortably Bright, and This is Why
  3. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, May 2
  4. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 2, #585
  5. MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts Make Typing and Browsing So Much Better
  6. Best Red Light Therapy Devices of 2026, Tested and FDA-Cleared
  7. Google Photos' New AI Tool Will Help You Picture Yourself in All Your Clothes
  8. Does Your AI Agent Need a VPN? The Company Behind Norton and Avast Thinks So
  9. Motorola Razr Fold Hands-On: Watch Out Samsung, This Phone Has an Edge
  10. Driverless Cars Will Be Subject to Moving-Violation Tickets in California Soon
  11. LG's New Ultralight Gram Laptops Just Dropped, With Special Service Plan Pricing
  12. Steve Wozniak Shows Off Dreame's Modular and Luxury Smartphones
  13. A Japanese Tea Master's Guide to Perfect Matcha
  14. 14 Horror Movies You Really Need to Stream on HBO Max
  15. Oura Ring's Latest Updates Will Tell You More About Contraception and Menopause
  16. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 2, #1056
  17. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 2, #1778
  18. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 2 #790
  19. You Can Stream Certain Peacock Shows for Free on United Airlines Now
  20. Recovery Slides Are My Feet's Best Friends. Here Are My Top Picks
  21. Audible's New In-Person Bookstore Turns Browsing into a Listening Experience
  22. OpenAI Faces Lawsuits Over Deadly Mass Shooting in Canada
  23. Take Secure Wi-Fi Anywhere With a Pocket-Sized ASUS Mini Router
  24. Best VPN Service for 2026: The Top-Ranked VPNs in Our Testing
  25. Researchers Say This System of 7 Smart Rings Can Translate Sign Language

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off
  2. Microsoft tests redesigned Windows 11 Run menu with dark mode and more
  3. Apple raises the Mac Mini’s starting price
  4. All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
  5. Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is down to its best-ever price for Mother’s Day
  6. Amazon’s built-in AI price history expands to show the entire last year
  7. Dreame — the vacuum company — just ‘launched’ its own phones
  8. This accessory can snap a Steam Controller to your phone — or almost anything else
  9. Players from the NBA, NFL, and MLB call for a ban on betting ‘unders’
  10. Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help

Wired

  1. 8 Best Travel Adapters (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  2. Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
  3. Apple AirPods Max 2 Review: The Best Over-Ears for iOS
  4. Ottocast Cabin Care Wireless CarPlay Adapter Review: Tiny Tracker
  5. A Professional Bike Fitting Will Make You Want to Ride Even More
  6. How to Buy a Bike That’s the Right Size for You
  7. An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers
  8. The Mother's Day Gifts Our Editors Love (2026)
  9. Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?
  10. Therabody Promo Codes: 15% Off May 2026
  11. 30% Off Canon Promo Codes | May 2026
  12. Surfshark Promo Codes: 87% Off | May 2026
  13. 20% Off Brooks Promo Code & Deals for | May 2026
  14. Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | May2026
  15. Newegg Promo Code: 10% Off in May 2026
  16. 30% VistaPrint Coupon & Promo Codes | May 2026
  17. Sony Coupons: 45% Off Sony Headphones, WF-1000XM6 Earbuds, and Sony Cameras for May
  18. Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
  19. OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
  20. Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers

LifeHacker

  1. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  2. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  5. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  6. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  7. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  8. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  9. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  10. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  11. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  12. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  13. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  14. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  15. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  16. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  17. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  18. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  19. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  20. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
  21. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  22. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  23. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  24. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  25. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  26. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  27. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  28. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  29. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  30. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  31. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  32. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  33. This Palm-Sized Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  34. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  35. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  36. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  37. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  38. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  39. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  40. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  41. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  42. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  43. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  44. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround
  45. I Tried Claude's New App Integrations, With Mixed Results
  46. This Mid-Range Portable Projector With Detachable Speakers Is $160 Off Right Now
  47. Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely
  48. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know
  49. These Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Are $50 Off Right Now
  50. DirecTV Just Released an App for Meta Quest Headsets
  51. Here's How Microsoft's New Windows Insider Channels Work
  52. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Staged Infidelity TikToks
  53. Spotify Now Has Peloton Workout Videos
  54. This Eufy Robot Lawnmower Is 59% Off Right Now
  55. Some iPhone 17 Devices Won't Turn on After Their Batteries Run Out
  56. This Little Device Might Be the Pocket E-Reader of My Dreams
  57. The New M5 MacBook Air Is on Sale for $950 Right Now
  58. Last Year's Sunscreen Is (Probably) Still Good
  59. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 30% Off Right Now
  60. Here's What We Know About OpenAI's Rumored Smartphone
  61. I Tried Copilot’s New Tools for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and I’m Not Sure I Will Again
  62. The Samsung Galaxy S26+ Is $175 Off Right Now
  63. These Ryobi Tools Are up to 60% Off Right Now
  64. This Buzzy Pocket-Sized E-Reader Is Under $60 on Amazon for the Next Few Hours
  65. 10 Hacks Every YouTube Music User Should Know
  66. ChatGPT's Latest Update Makes It Harder Than Ever to Spot AI-Generated Images
  67. X Now Has Its Own Chat App
  68. These Adjustable Dumbbells Actually Got Me to Stick to a Lifting Routine
  69. These Sony Noise-Canceling Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  70. Why Creating 'Gaussian Splats' Will Become Your Favorite Way to Preserve Family Memories
  71. TikTok Is Testing an AI 'Remix' Feature, but You Can Opt Out
  72. Samsung Galaxy Connect Now Works With Even More Windows PCs
  73. YouTube TV's Multiview Is Now (Almost) Fully Customizable
  74. Nobody Can Agree on What 'Zone 2' Cardio Is
  75. This Google Pixel Watch 4 Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  76. These Third-Generation Apple AirPods Are $50 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Productivity Hacks Every Apple Reminders User Should Know
  78. 'Runfluencers' Want you to Breathe Through Your Nose, but Here's What the Science Says
  79. Meta Now Lets You Check In on Your Teens' Conversations With Its AI Chatbot
  80. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'The Bear'
  81. Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
  82. Ultrahuman Will Now Suggest Workout Videos Based on Your Recovery Score and Menstrual Cycle
  83. 10 Shows Like 'You' to Watch Next
  84. I Put Claude's New Visual Tools to the Test Against ChatGPT
  85. These Nothing Earbuds With Built-In ChatGPT Are $50 Off Right Now
  86. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  87. Why I Won't Be Doing 'Women's Pushups'
  88. Here's What 'Core Sleep' Really Means, According to Your Apple Watch
  89. 10 Hacks Every Android Auto User Should Know
  90. 10 Hacks Every Brave Browser User Should Know
  91. Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?
  92. This Massive 75-inch QLED TV Is $450 Off Right Now
  93. Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks
  94. This Garmin Smartwatch With a 10-Day Battery Is $110 Off Right Now
  95. What's New on Netflix in May 2026
  96. 5 Hacks Every Nike Run Club User Should Know
  97. This Eufy Home Security Bundle Is $400 Off Right Now
  98. I Keep This Solis Pocket Wifi in a Travel Bag, and You Should Too
  99. You Can Get These New Sony Noise-Canceling Earbuds on Sale for $65 Right Now
  100. This Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $100 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
  2. Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
  3. ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs
  4. Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred
  5. Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
  6. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
  7. CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos
  8. That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry
  9. First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
  10. Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
  11. OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
  12. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
  13. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
  14. UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
  15. Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
  16. Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
  17. DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
  18. User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
  19. Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
  20. Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
  21. ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
  22. The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
  23. Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue
  24. Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
  25. Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
  26. FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'
  27. Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation
  28. Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet
  29. Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines
  30. French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency
  31. Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool
  32. AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud
  33. Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI
  34. SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy
  35. Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'
  36. Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes
  37. Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005
  38. What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia
  39. Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day
  40. Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
  41. Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops
  42. Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
  43. Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
  44. Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
  45. Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
  46. Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
  47. Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
  48. Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm
  49. Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
  50. Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026

TechMeme

  1. A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)
  3. Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
  5. A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
  6. Waymo says it is continuing to "refine" its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
  7. xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
  8. Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
  9. Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
  10. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars (Lisa Richwine/Reuters)
  11. Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as $4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about $40B (Bloomberg)
  12. How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
  13. "Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
  14. Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (Ben Shimkus/Business Insider)
  15. Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)