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BBC

  1. Chris Mason: Potential leadership challengers jostle for position
  2. UK economy sees surprise growth in March despite Iran war
  3. Watch: What happened on day one of Trump's China visit?
  4. Streeting hails NHS progress as key hospital waiting time milestone met
  5. Madonna, Shakira & BTS to headline World Cup half-time show
  6. Rescuers pull dead from rubble of Kyiv flats after massive Russian strikes
  7. Met Police prepares armoured vehicles and 4,000 officers for dual London protests
  8. Deaths of three women in sea are tragic and horrendous, Brighton council leader says
  9. VAR penalty twist sets up Hearts & Celtic showdown for the ages
  10. At a glance: Starmer fights to stay on as prime minister
  11. The potential challengers to the PM
  12. How would a Labour leadership contest work?
  13. Watch: Angela Rayner resolves tax affairs - what now?
  14. 'It's bigger, bolder, bonkier!' Behind the scenes on Rivals season two
  15. I nearly died after buying skinny jab from friend of friend
  16. Becoming a mum left me incontinent - we need to talk about birth injuries
  17. What's happening to the UK economy and how does it affect you?
  18. Why big tech is betting on cute mascots
  19. Hezbollah support endures in south Lebanon as ceasefire fails to stop war with Israel
  20. Harry warns of 'deeply troubling' rise in antisemitism in UK
  21. E-gate access to be expanded at UK airports to include younger children
  22. Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says
  23. HMRC to use AI from British tech firm to spot fraud and tax return errors
  24. Baby born on Attenborough's 100th birthday named after environmentalist
  25. 'I was given a choice - keep my legs or keep my life' - the sepsis patient who lived
  26. BBC News app
  27. Starmer Says He’s Staying
  28. Does Trump need China to end the war in Iran?
  29. A moving portrait of wartime Britain through children’s eyes
  30. Was it a penalty? Celtic-Hearts title decider set up as McInnes slams 'disgusting' call
  31. Will F1 go back to the future with its engines?
  32. Assist of the season? Mesmerising Foden keeps title hopes alive
  33. McIlroy 'totally fine' for US PGA after toe issue
  34. Hall, 18, becomes youngest to score MLS hat-trick
  35. An iron fist joining a broken team: Inside Mourinho's Real return

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Apple backs Google after EU orders Android be opened up to AI rivals
  2. Microsoft is retiring Copilot Mode on Edge, because everything is Copilot Mode now
  3. KitchenAid launches its first smart thermometer
  4. Netflix's ad tier now has a whopping 250 million monthly users
  5. Apple may open up the App Store to agentic AI
  6. Your Steam Controller might scream if you drop it
  7. X has a new private hub for users' bookmarks, likes, articles and long videos
  8. The Talos Principle 3 will wrap up the series
  9. Andreessen Horowitz is the midterm elections' biggest donor
  10. Netflix misspelled a lead Devil May Cry character's name and had to recall official merchandise
  11. Xbox's new filters aim to make sense of disorganized game libraries
  12. OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act
  13. LinkedIn is reportedly laying off five percent of its workforce
  14. Meta employees are protesting the company's mouse tracking program
  15. Instagram debuts a new disappearing-photo app called Instants
  16. May's PS Plus Game Catalog additions include Red Dead Redemption 2 and Star Wars Outlaws
  17. Several Overwatch heroes are about to hit Fortnite
  18. Elon Musk just can't stop (potentially) violating the Clean Air Act
  19. That awful gold Trump phone will reportedly ship this week
  20. WhatsApp users can soon have private conversations with Meta AI

Pinboard

  1. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise | nair.sh
  2. How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
  3. Learning Software Architecture
  4. Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software
  5. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain | Frederick's Perch
  6. The indie web index directory | theindex.fyi
  7. You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs — "The math only works if the LLM decreases your maintenance costs, and by exactly the inverse of the rate it adds code. If you double your output and your cost of maintaining that output, two times two means you’ve quadrupled your maintenance costs. If you double your output and ho…
  8. On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
  9. If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python? — For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
  10. This is what free costs
  11. Im going back to writing code by hand | k10s devlog
  12. Local AI Needs to be the Norm - unix.foo — Local AI Needs to be the Norm https://ift.tt/ICDgAzs ai, local, open.source
  13. Mythos finds a curl vulnerability | daniel.haxx.se
  14. How To Make Your Text Look Futuristic | Typeset In The Future
  15. GitHub - cactus-compute/needle: 26m function call model that runs on incredibly small devices · GitHub — ff6347 starred cactus-compute/needle
  16. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix multiplication from Gflop/s to Tflop/s | Cocoa with Love
  17. Meet the Sad Wives of AI | WIRED
  18. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol – DuckDB — DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, whi…
  19. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev — Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but…
  20. How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer – Communications of the ACM
  21. Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration - Thinking Machines Lab
  22. Hermes Agent — An Agent That Grows With You — An open-source agent that grows with you — learns your projects, builds its own skills, and reaches you wherever you are. By Nous Research.
  23. Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? — How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory.
  24. The vi family | LPAR
  25. The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop | TBIJ
  26. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
  27. Learn AI Layer by Layer — An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles. Rob Ennals
  28. If AI writes your code, why use Python? | Hacker News
  29. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  30. Just Fucking Use Go - Blain Smith
  31. Checkmate in Iran: Even Trump knows he screwed up — Brutal takedown.
  32. AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. Cook — For the last few years, our industry has been told a story: AI will personalize its way out of accessibility, deterministic design is dead, diagnosis can replace systems thinking, and structural work no longer needs to be done. None of it is true. AI ca…
  33. extremely low frequencies
  34. Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise — An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. Some fun css effects (borders, scrolly bits)
  35. 227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"
  36. Open Hardware Repository / CERN KiCad Libraries · GitLab
  37. Just a moment... — Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions via Instapaper https://ift.tt/SCvJYiM
  38. How to Access Court Records, by State: How to Access Court Records, by State A crowdsourced field guide to finding state court records
  39. The Brutalist Report
  40. Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence | Coming Fall 2026 - Googlebook
  41. Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI — Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence.
  42. Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof
  43. floci — Light, fluffy, and always free - AWS Local Emulator
  44. Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
  45. Think Linear Algebra — Think Linear Algebra
  46. Checking out productivity in grocery stores : Beyond the Numbers : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  47. Learning Software Architecture | Hacker News
  48. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains — via @isaaclyman@toot.cafe boost of https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116567532082633303
  49. Daring Fireball: Nextpad++ — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/L2K3uRP
  50. Capitalism’s Long Revolution | The Nation
  51. “Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers | ScienceDaily — ener
  52. fathah/hermes-desktop
  53. SCOTUS: Courts are not allowed to intervene and change a map if it's too close to an election unless it benefits Republicans then it's okay
  54. ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir — The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
  55. AI-driven layoffs aren't generating the returns companies expected, study finds | Fortune — AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds
  56. Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways - The New York Times, May 2026
  57. Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache — It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been repor…
  58. Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 🐀🧀
  59. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (Wix UX) — Jenni Nadler рассказывает о крутой инициативе — команда Wix зарубилась на месяц и переписала тексты всех ошибок в продукте. Они предлагают отличную формулу для хорошего сообщения об ошибке.
  60. 30 Tracks Audiophiles Play to Convert Any Skeptic Into a Hi-Fi Believer, as Ranked by Listener Votes | Headphonesty
  61. Google’s Aluminium OS revealed in 16-minute leaked video | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/VWcD2AC
  62. GitHub - davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans · GitHub — ff6347 starred davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
  63. Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
  64. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model | Hacker News
  65. S-100 Virtual Workbench
  66. I stopped paying for ChatGPT and switched to a local LLM that runs on my laptop — Never run out of tokens again.
  67. LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length — A meaningful text can be hidden inside another, completely different yet still coherent and plausible, text of the same length. For example, a tweet containing a harsh political critique could be embedded in a tweet that celebrates the same political leader, or an ordinar…
  68. GitHub - Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey: YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability · GitHub
  69. Overview - Agent Skills
  70. Software Internals Book Club
  71. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | Hacker News — soganess 5 hours ago | next [–] Getting so close to good! I consider Gemma 4 31B (dense / no MoE), the new baseline for local models. It's obviously worse than the frontier models, but it feels less like a science experiment than any previous local model I…
  72. Playwright Accessibility Testing: What axe and Lighthouse Miss | David Mello
  73. I hate soldering existentially | Hacker News
  74. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  75. Augment
  76. GrapheneOS: "Apple and Google are gradually…" - GrapheneOS Mastodon
  77. Spark Mail Adds a Mac CLI and Agent Skills - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/so6Xl7A
  78. [no title]
  79. Gemini’s biggest new features are all about controlling your phone | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/X5G2Cr8
  80. Palantir’s chore jacket is a pivot to lifestyle brand | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/VWcD2AC
  81. The future of Obsidian plugins - Obsidian
  82. Why We Lose Our Friends as We Age — This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up…
  83. Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access | Google Cloud Blog
  84. Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/X5G2Cr8
  85. Emily Something
  86. GitHub - emdash-cms/emdash · GitHub — bjtitus starred emdash-cms/emdash
  87. Flipbook: Infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time
  88. Shaping the future of AI interaction by reimagining the mouse pointer — Google DeepMind — Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome and beyond.
  89. Exclusive: Broadcasters urge EU to tighten rules for Big Tech in smart TV standoff | Reuters
  90. The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome
  91. scrcpy: Display and control your Android device connected on USB — https://blog.rom1v.com/2018/03/introducing-scrcpy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544977 https://sourceforge.net/projects/scrcpy.mirror/
  92. We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots | McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  93. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain | Hacker News
  94. Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months - Ars Technica
  95. Pickiness tastes like trauma — "How American children became the fussiest eaters in history (and why they need to check their not-dying privilege)."
  96. apfel - Free AI on Your Mac
  97. Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next
  98. Floci — Fast, Free AWS Emulator — Floci is a fast, free, open-source AWS emulator built with Quarkus Native. Starts in 24ms, uses 13 MiB at idle. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack — no auth token, no restrictions, ever.
  99. GitLab Act 2
  100. The Noisy Room — How 3% of users distort what everyone else sees — The Noisy Room https://ift.tt/IsREax0 research, social.media, statistics, trends, internet, media, culture, community

The Next Web

  1. Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.
  2. SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company
  3. Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake
  4. This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.
  5. OpenAI says no user data was touched in the TanStack npm worm
  6. Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement
  7. US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped
  8. Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code
  9. AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?
  10. Meta launches Incognito Chat on WhatsApp, the first AI mode it says even Meta cannot read

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Camping Stove
  2. The Best Beach Umbrella Is Not Actually an Umbrella
  3. Why US Mobile’s Cheap Cell Phone Plans Are Suddenly So Popular
  4. The Best Wi-Fi Mesh-Networking Systems
  5. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  6. Bridge the Gap Between Seasons With These ‘Just Warm Enough’ Men’s Knitwear Essentials
  7. The Best Portable Solar Battery Charger
  8. The Best Digital Notebooks
  9. The Best Beach Chair Is the Tommy Bahama Backpack Chair
  10. Most Vegan Leather Is Plastic. Here’s Why You Might Still Want It on Your Sofa.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Utility Knife
  2. Most Vegan Leather Is Plastic. Here’s Why You Might Still Want It on Your Sofa.
  3. How to Clean Your Grill
  4. The Best Duct Tape
  5. Put Down the Weed Whacker. Pick Up a Sickle.
  6. The Best Leaf Blower
  7. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  8. The Best Smart Window Shades, Blinds, and Curtains
  9. The Best In-Wall Smart Outlet
  10. The Best Folding Tables

Hacker News

  1. Claude for Small Business
  2. Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  3. Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
  4. Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
  5. Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
  6. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
  7. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
  8. A History of IDEs at Google
  9. The Emacsification of Software
  10. Extraordinary Ordinals
  11. Show HN: Nibble
  12. Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book
  13. Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
  14. Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact
  15. Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems
  16. Cisco workforce reductions
  17. delta time
  18. Arena AI Model ELO History
  19. A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development
  20. The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
  21. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
  22. Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
  23. Notes from Optimizing CPU-Bound Go Hot Paths
  24. The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968)
  25. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
  26. Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
  27. Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
  28. Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
  29. Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
  30. How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?

Ars Technica

  1. Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed
  2. FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum
  3. Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA
  4. Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers
  5. AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
  6. The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell's "whip"
  7. NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain
  8. A new US military wargame series began by simulating a nuclear weapon in orbit
  9. Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
  10. Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar
  11. Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers
  12. Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”
  13. Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
  14. Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang
  15. Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets
  16. Daredevil: Born Again S2 gives us a darker, grittier canvas
  17. Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update
  18. Could this be the moment that drug manufacturing takes off in orbit?
  19. The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
  20. FDA chief resigns after Trump admin forced approval of fruity e-cigs

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New Scientist

  1. Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar
  2. Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling into the tooth
  3. Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years
  4. Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth
  5. Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum
  6. Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
  7. Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories
  8. New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK government uses AI
  9. PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move
  10. Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?
  11. Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
  12. Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests
  13. A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
  14. The story of the first human tool: the humble container
  15. Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?
  16. Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer
  17. Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence
  18. David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
  19. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  20. Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel
  21. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  22. There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise
  23. A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
  24. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  25. Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle
  26. US government releases huge batch of UFO files
  27. Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions
  28. Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash
  29. Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness
  30. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  31. New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth
  32. The mathematician who doesn’t exist
  33. Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
  34. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  35. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  36. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  37. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  38. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  39. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  40. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  41. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  42. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  43. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  44. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  45. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  46. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  47. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  48. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  49. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  50. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  51. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  52. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  53. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  54. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  55. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  56. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  57. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  58. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  59. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  60. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  61. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  62. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  63. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  64. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  65. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  66. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  67. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  68. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  69. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  70. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  71. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  72. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  73. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  74. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  75. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  76. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  77. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  78. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  79. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  80. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  81. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  82. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  83. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  84. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  85. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  86. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  87. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  88. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  89. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  90. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  91. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  92. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  93. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  94. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  95. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  96. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  97. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  98. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  99. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  100. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness

Slashdot

  1. Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence
  2. SOLAI Launches $399 Solode Neo Linux AI Computer
  3. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
  4. Windows Update Is Getting Automatic Rollbacks For Faulty Drivers
  5. Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
  6. LinkedIn Planning To Lay Off 5% of Staff In Latest Tech-Sector Cuts
  7. KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
  8. Harvard Votes On Limiting 'A' Grades
  9. Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices
  10. CERN Open Sources Its KiCad Component Libraries
  11. Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?
  12. Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI
  13. South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits
  14. Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students' Stolen Data
  15. Amazon Employees Are 'Tokenmaxxing' Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Outside-the-Box Design: The Barbican's Unusual Bathroom Sinks
  2. Brilliant Portable 3D-Printed Chess Set for Tradespeople
  3. Japanese Snack Packaging Goes Black & White, Due to Iran War
  4. DEOS Architecture's Chunky Old-Growth Oak Seating
  5. Making the Invisible Visible
  6. Production Minimalism: Vestre's June Bench
  7. Luxury…Towel Rods
  8. New York Design Week Is Here, May 14–20
  9. A Clever Add-On Spout for Camping Vessels
  10. David Chipperfield Design's Plywood Bathtub
  11. Alessandro Stabile's Beautiful Areo Chair for Kristalia
  12. Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-4-26 to 5-8-26)
  13. A Concrete Weed Grinder
  14. Grabo Finds Yet Another Market for Their Portable Suction Cups: Riggers
  15. A Mid-Century Modern Classic: Hans J. Wegner's Daybed with Hidden Storage

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 14, #598
  2. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 14, #802
  3. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 14, #1068
  4. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 14, #1790
  5. Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, May 14
  6. What Will Be Running Inside the New Googlebook Laptops? What We Know So Far
  7. 7 Devices and Apps That Have Helped CNET Editors Boost Their Mental Health
  8. PGA Championship 2026: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the Golf From Anywhere
  9. ChatGPT Briefly Returned a 'Content Failed to Load' Error for Some Users
  10. How to Delete the 4GB File That Chrome May Have (Secretly) Installed on Your Device
  11. Alexa Replaces Rufus as Amazon's AI Shopping Assistant
  12. Ring Brings Its Retinal 2K Resolution to Spotlight and Floodlight Cameras
  13. Best Home Pet Cameras of 2026: Remote Check-In and Much More
  14. Instagram Introduces Instants, Meta's New Private Photo Sharing App
  15. Netgear and Eero Get Exemption From FCC's Ban of New Foreign-Made Wi-Fi Routers
  16. The FCC Extends a Key Wi-Fi Router Deadline. Here’s Why I’d Still Hold Off on Buying a New One
  17. Total Wireless Trims Prices on Its New Unlimited Phone Plans
  18. Meta Says Its AI's New Incognito Mode Is So Private Even Meta Can't See Your Chats
  19. Canvas Hack Aftermath: Congress Wants Instructure to Answer Questions
  20. I Was Wasting Bacon Grease Until I Learned These 9 Genius Uses
  21. The FCC Banned Foreign-Made Routers. Here’s Why I Would Hold Off On Buying One
  22. Trump Phone Will Finally Ship This Week, CEO Says
  23. Netflix Is for the Dogs: The Westminster Dog Show Will Hit Streamer in 2027
  24. Netflix Preps 'KPop Demon Hunters' World Concert Tour
  25. Netflix to Stream Green Bay Packers vs. LA Rams Thanksgiving Eve NFL Game

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers
  2. Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs
  3. Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US
  4. YouTube is courting creators — and sponsors — with streaming shows
  5. AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too
  6. The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.
  7. Fighting Trump will make or break Disney’s new CEO
  8. Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing
  9. Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now
  10. Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos

Wired

  1. HelloFresh Meal Kit Review (2026): Vast Options, Good Execution
  2. Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins
  3. These Instagram Ads Sure Seem to Be Selling Cocaine Accessories
  4. Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
  5. We-Vibe Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off
  6. 20% Off Sephora Promo Code | May 2026
  7. Mattress Promo Code: 20% Off │May
  8. Birdfy Discount Codes: 15% Off Sitewide
  9. Hungryroot Coupon Codes: 30% Off This May
  10. NZXT Discount Codes: 50% Off in May 2026
  11. Hotels.com Coupon: 25% Off May 2026
  12. Bartesian Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 35% Off
  13. Starz Promo Codes: $5 Off for May 2026
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  15. Tuft & Needle Promo Codes: 30% Off | May 2026
  16. eBay Coupons: 20% Off in May 2026
  17. Petlibro Offers: 60% Off in May
  18. KitchenAid Promo Codes: Save Up to 20%
  19. Sealy Promo Codes: $100 Off
  20. Newegg Promo Code: 10% Off in May 2026

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. You Could Get up to $100 in This Google Class Action Lawsuit
  3. The Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are on Sale for $160 Right Now
  4. Amazon’s Feature-Packed Echo Dot Max Is $25 Off Right Now
  5. Mark Zuckerberg Just Teased New Smart Glasses Ahead of Meta Connect
  6. Google Announced a Bunch of Security Upgrades for Android This Week
  7. It Just Got Harder to Get Apple's Educational Discount
  8. The Beats Pill Is My Go-to Portable Speaker, and It's on Sale for $100 Right Now
  9. These Craftsman Tools Are Up to 56% Off Right Now
  10. Three Things I Already Like About the Fitbit Air
  11. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $300 Off Right Now
  12. The Trump Mobile T1 Phone Is (Supposedly) Shipping This Week
  13. Don’t Remove This Film on Your Switch 2
  14. Samsung's One UI 9 Beta Program Is Rolling Out Now, and Here's What to Expect
  15. Samsung's Flagship Galaxy 7 Fold 7 Is Over $400 Off Right Now
  16. This Google Whole-Home Mesh System Is $170 Off Right Now
  17. New Smart Bands Are Coming, and Whoop Is Scared
  18. This Massive 85-Inch Alternative to 'The Frame' TV Is 40% Off Right Now
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  20. Spotify Is Down
  21. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The 'Missing Scientists' Conspiracy Theory
  22. 10 Shows Like 'Paradise' You Should Watch Next
  23. Google Just Announced a New Laptop Platform Called 'Googlebooks'
  24. Google Wants to Improve Its Social Media Reputation With Android 17
  25. Google Just Announced 'Gemini Intelligence' at The Android Show: I/O Edition
  26. This Tiny Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $32
  27. Garmin Just Launched Two New Running Watches
  28. 10 Hacks Every Microsoft Outlook User Should Know
  29. This Mac App Will Demystify Your Tangle of Cables
  30. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Is $150 Off Right Now
  31. Google's Second-Gen Wired Doorbell Is Under $100 Right Now
  32. How to Remove a Tick Without Touching It
  33. This Google Pixel 9 Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  34. Apple Just Made Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  35. iOS 26.5 Just Dropped, and It Includes One Very Annoying New iPhone Change
  36. Finding Studs Used to be Torture Until I Spent $12 on a StudPop
  37. Here's How Apple Plans to Change Liquid Glass in macOS 27
  38. The Sleep Earbuds I Use Every Night Are $80 Off Right Now
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  40. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Omoggle'?
  41. This Wearable Insta360 Action Camera Bundle Is Nearly $90 Off Right Now
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  43. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  44. 10 Hacks Every Google Meet User Should Know
  45. The Fitbit App Is Losing All These Features
  46. You Can Get $35 in Google Store Credit If You Preorder the Fitbit Air
  47. These Are The Best Ways to Rid Your Gmail Inbox of Spam
  48. Here’s My Ultimate Checklist for Training and Running a Race With a Garmin Watch
  49. My Favorite Bone-Conduction Headphones Are $40 Off Right Now
  50. 10 Shows Like 'Beef' You Should Watch Next
  51. Your Instagram Conversations Won’t Be so Private Anymore
  52. Nintendo Is Raising the Price of the Nintendo Switch 2
  53. These Soundcore ANC Earbuds Are 50% Off Right Now
  54. The Feature-Packed Pixel Buds 2a Are $20 Off Right Now
  55. Canvas Has Been Hacked, and Is Apparently Being Held for Ransom
  56. 10 Hacks Every Zoom User Should Know
  57. This 100-Inch Hisense QLED TV Gets Super Bright, and It's $1,200 Off Right Now
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  59. What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
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  61. ChatGPT Can Now Reach Out to a 'Trusted Contact' After Conversations Concerning Self-Harm
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  63. Google Chrome Finally Added This Privacy Feature for Android Users
  64. The Fitbit Air Is Real, and It May Actually Be a Whoop Killer
  65. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  66. This Acer OLED Gaming Monitor Is 33% Off Right Now
  67. This Pixel 10 Pro Is $250 Off Right Now
  68. This 10th Gen iPad Is on Sale for $240 Right Now
  69. 10 Hacks Every DuckDuckGo User Should Know
  70. What Is Hyrox, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Doing It?
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  72. This Shark Matrix Plus Makes Floor Cleaning Almost Effortless, and It's on Sale for Just $135 Right Now
  73. ‘Lowkenuinely,’ ‘Bruzz,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  74. You Might Be Eligible for a Cut of Apple's $250 Million AI Settlement
  75. One of the Best Budget Ultrawide Gaming Monitors Is on Sale for $700
  76. You Can Get a Budget Surface Laptop and Lifetime License to Microsoft Office for Just $260 Right Now
  77. You Should Still Fact-Check the 'Expert Advice' in Google's AI Summaries
  78. The Beats Fit Pro ANC Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
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  82. Chrome’s AI Might Be Taking Up a Bunch of Storage, but You Can Fix It
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  92. Reddit Is Blocking Its Mobile Site for Some Users, but There's a Fix
  93. Google Is Hosting 'The Android Show' Outside of I/O for the Second Year in a Row
  94. How Android’s Tasker App Stacks Up Against Apple Shortcuts (and How to Use Each One)
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  96. These Beats ANC EarBuds Are $75 Off Right Now
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The Register

TechMeme

  1. Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; China is offering big incentives (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$67B and net profit up 19% YoY to ~$1.6B, meeting est., as it boosts AI server production, its largest revenue source (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
  4. Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI tools; Clio had a $5B valuation after a $500M Series G in November 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
  5. Sources: the US cleared ~10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to buy Nvidia H200 chips, but no deliveries have been made (Reuters)
  6. Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
  7. Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)
  8. Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
  9. LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer (Nikkei Asia)
  10. ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
  11. Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
  12. OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
  13. Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos (Alex Heath/Sources)
  14. TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
  15. OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and 1.2M doctors internationally use its services (Jared Perlo/NBC News)