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BBC

  1. Chris Mason: What the results tell us so far
  2. What early election results show us in maps and charts
  3. Sir John Curtice: First results shows how fragmented UK politics has become
  4. When will we know the full results?
  5. Quiz: Which facial feature almost stopped Attenborough's TV career?
  6. David Attenborough says he is 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday messages
  7. Third British national has suspected hantavirus infection, government says
  8. Trump says US-Iran ceasefire still in place after exchange of fire in Strait of Hormuz
  9. South East Water boss quits after thousands of homes left without water
  10. Celebrities send well wishes to Bonnie Tyler as singer in induced coma after surgery
  11. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaching Victory Day ceasefire
  12. Man charged after allegedly threatening Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
  13. Three dead after volcano erupts on Indonesian island
  14. Are concert 'livestream tickets' the future or a cash-grab?
  15. The companies making billions from the Iran war
  16. Instagram privacy tech is turned off today - what does this mean for your DMs?
  17. Weekly quiz: Who was this mystery masked star at the Met Gala?
  18. Anti-war protests rock Japan as PM pushes for stronger defence
  19. Rebel Wilson accused of 'complete revision of history' as defamation case closes
  20. TikTok scales back AI-generated video descriptions after absurd errors
  21. Woman's joy at rare quintuplets after 12 years trying for a baby
  22. Kneecap, Mel C and Michael Jackson battle for UK album number one
  23. Football club owners charged with human trafficking
  24. 'We were strangers until we helped bring a paedophile to justice'
  25. Home baker shuts cake shed over 'ridiculous' rules
  26. BBC News app
  27. Newscast
  28. Is Donald Trump close to finishing his war with Iran?
  29. Paul McCartney’s 'lost bass’ and its remarkable return after 51 years
  30. Alexander-Arnold's England omission 'mind-boggling' to Rooney
  31. Littler beats Humphries for record-equalling win
  32. Vibrant and victorious - Villa ready to end 30-year trophy drought
  33. Why Spurs fans face Arsenal dilemma
  34. 'Like getting the vicar to swear' – Dubois finding his voice

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The Morning After: Google's new wearable doesn't have a screen
  2. Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices as chip crisis bites
  3. Instructure hackers claim they stole data from nearly 9,000 schools
  4. Sony PS5 sales fall off a cliff amid memory shortages
  5. Twitch has new penalties for streamers caught viewbotting, CEO says
  6. iam8bit recorded a jazzy Persona album for the series' 30th
  7. The Paranormal Activity game project is dead
  8. Bumble will replace swiping right with... something
  9. OpenAI debuts a Codex plugin for Chrome
  10. Meta's AI agent plans reportedly include an OpenClaw competitor that can shop on Instagram
  11. The Lexus TZ is a quieter, upscale take on the Highlander EV
  12. I'm already dreading Apple's camera-equipped AirPods
  13. Perplexity opens up its Personal Computer AI assistant to all Mac users
  14. Amazon Luna's May lineup includes Guardians of the Galaxy and the Resident Evil 2 remake
  15. Valve will open reservations on May 8 for the second wave of Steam Controllers
  16. Cozy city builder Town to City leaves early access on May 26
  17. The Ploopy Bean is a travel-friendly mouse with a ThinkPad-style nub
  18. Teenage Engineering just released a stereo mixer that physically connects to its EP-series samplers
  19. Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw generate personal podcasts
  20. Qualcomm reveals two new affordable phone chips with Smooth Motion UI tech

Pinboard

  1. Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
  2. Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  3. Programming Still Sucks. — Programming is hard and always has been, but now AI and corporate greed make it worse. Experienced workers like Sara keep things running quietly while many juniors and apprentices disappear. The real problem isn’t AI taking jobs—it’s decisions driven by money that break teams and destroy knowledge.
  4. Palette Inspiration - Timeless Colors of the Great Masters
  5. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
  6. Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | Distr
  7. angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
  8. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing — Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?
  9. Vibe Coding and Agentic Engineering
  10. AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills
  11. The bottleneck was never the code
  12. The Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms
  13. I Want to Live Like Costco People | TASTE — An online magazine for today's home cook, reporting from the front lines of dinner.
  14. The Boring Internet | Terry Godier — The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
  15. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS — For different values of the text-stroke-width, browsers will automatically draw outlines of the character, The larger you set the stroke width, the thicker the outline will get, while still maintain its original shape. The next step is to use different colors and put them in order.
  16. 10 Lessons for Agentic Coding
  17. nexu-io/open-design: 🎨 Local-first open replica of Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems · 🖼️ sandboxed preview · 📦 HTML/PDF/PPTX export. 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini CLI / OpenCod
  18. 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
  19. Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
  20. hunk — Review-first terminal diff viewer for agentic coders
  21. Multi-token-prediction in Gemma 4 — An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
  22. Unraveling AI's 'Knitting Bullshit'
  23. Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  24. Hand‑drawn QR codes — Seth Larson
  25. Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped (and the One Pattern That Does Not) - Articles
  26. Meshtastic
  27. Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be) — (This website looks to have that “acoustic” flavor of someone whose special interest is Wi-Fi.) “Wi-Fi’s first weakest link -- your client devices: Wi-Fi throughput to a Wi-Fi 5 wireless client device using an 80 MHz channel will likely max out at around 650 Mbps (±60 Mbp…
  28. Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/7x5b9SA
  29. boc: Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python
  30. AI didnt delete your db ; you did
  31. 外部からアクセス可能なhttpsサイトはドメイン設定後「即」攻撃にさらされる件
  32. "Vibe coding" vs "agentic engineering": "The problem is that as the coding agents get more reliable, I'm not reviewing every line of code that they write anymore, even for my production level stuff." — Humans are mostly bad at software. Partly because (successful) software lifecycles are longer than human careers or corporat…
  33. Scroll-Driven Animations • Josh W. Comeau — Historically, we’ve needed to use JavaScript for this kind of effect, but an exciting new API, Animation Timeline, makes it possible to do this sort of thing in native CSS! ✨
  34. DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
  35. Appearing Productive in the Workplace | Hacker News
  36. Empty Screenings
  37. Wiki Builder: A Claude Code Plugin for Building LLM Knowledge Bases | DAIR.AI Academy Blog | DAIR.AI Academy
  38. Could This Fish Be a Notebook? — Could This Fish Be a Notebook? https://reasonstobecheerful.world/great-lakes-fish-interview/ fishing, food, interviews, cooking, science, nature
  39. styles.refero.design
  40. Daring Fireball: Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  41. CARA 2.0 — Aaed Musa
  42. Principia Softwarica
  43. Learning the integral of a diffusion model – Sander Dieleman — Sampling from a diffusion model is an iterative process: at each step, the denoiser estimates the tangent direction to a path through input space. We move along this path by repeatedly taking small steps in this direction, effectively calculating an integral acro…
  44. Computer use is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs — We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
  45. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth | Val Town Blog
  46. Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts | Polypane — Modern phones are not simple rectangles. They have rounded corners, camera cutouts, dynamic islands, and home indicators that double as gesture areas. Browsers…
  47. Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
  48. New Orleans relocation: City at greatest danger of sea level rise
  49. GitHub - Lum1104/Understand-Anything: Claude Code skills that turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about (Multi-platform e.g., Codex are supported). · GitHub — antigremlin starred Lum1104/Understand-Anything
  50. Thienan Tran
  51. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy — This is the first "real" use case I've seen where agents are given access to payment methods and buying something on their own. > Starting today, agents can provision Cloudflare on behalf of their users. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid …
  52. What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) — A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders...
  53. How to Work and Compound with AI — How to Work and Compound with AI via Instapaper https://eugeneyan.com/writing/working-with-ai/
  54. Your Container Is Not a Sandbox: The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026
  55. LoC Recommended Storage Format — @mrchrisadams To maximise longevity and a11y of your data set go with SQLite.
  56. A Theory of Deep Learning | Elements of a Vector Space
  57. The end of responsive images
  58. The map that keeps Burning Man honest — Each year, 70,000 people gather on a dry lakebed in Nevada to build a city from scratch. This is Black Rock City, home to the infamous Burning Man event. Eight days later, it's gone. But 150 people remain. They line up — side by side, an arms width apart — and slowly walk the 3,800 ac…
  59. Jenny Volvovski / Book Cover Design
  60. The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
  61. The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy
  62. What’s Changed Since Jon Krakauer Climbed Everest - The Atlantic
  63. ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World — ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World via Instapaper https://ift.tt/4MRa97O
  64. RaTeX — Rust math layout aligned with KaTeX golden tests
  65. Totally grounded? How the jet fuel crisis could change our holidays – and world history | Airline industry | The Guardian
  66. DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google - Ars Technica — Reasons to get off american tech
  67. TI-83 Plus BASIC Programming Tutorial: A Beginners' Guide - ticalc.org
  68. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI & PXE - Syncopated Pandemonium
  69. 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…
  70. Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Y8MCo7S
  71. Hovercraft—a virtual presentation camera for Mac — A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Your slides float in the frame next to you, moved by hand. No screen share, no option-tab, no corner thumbnail.
  72. Fine-tuning LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct with GRPO – Leonie Monigatti
  73. ProgramBench — Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?
  74. GitHub - techygarg/lattice: Install engineering discipline into any AI coding assistant. Composable skills for design, implementation, review, and team standards. Better process, not just better prompts. · GitHub — Install engineering discipline into any AI coding assistant. Composable skills for design, implementation, revi…
  75. 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.
  76. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX Anthropic — We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
  77. Natural Language Autoencoders
  78. Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back
  79. Subquadratic — Efficiency is Intelligence — SubQ is the first fully sub-quadratic LLM. 12M token context, 92% accuracy, 50× cheaper than leading frontier models.
  80. Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | Hacker News
  81. Opinion | A Legendary Investor on How to Prevent America’s Coming ‘Heart Attack’ - The New York Times
  82. Steam Hardware / Steam Controller · GitLab — SteamOS and Steam Runtime Gitlab
  83. Spirit 2.0 — The Airline Owned by the People, for the People — "Like the Green Bay Packers."
  84. How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/e2MCBmf
  85. The Remarkable Paper Pure is the best digital notepad I’ve ever used | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/XJqnRvH
  86. Programming Sucks
  87. 認知負債 - kawasima — 生成AIがプロンプトからコードを大量に生成してくれるので、出力されたものを理解する時間と引き換えに早くリリースする。この構造は技術的負債と同じなので「認知負債」と呼ばれることがある。 Margaret-Anne Storey https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ が AI 時代のソフトウェア健全性を技術的負債…
  88. Testing Vue components in the browser
  89. AURASHARE |临时文件共享与大文件传输 --- AURASHARE | Temporary file sharing & large file transfer
  90. BlackHole: Route Audio Between Apps
  91. Agents for financial services and insurance Anthropic
  92. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic) | Hacker News
  93. Two million airline seats cut amid soaring jet fuel prices | Airline industry | The Guardian
  94. Imbalances are back on the global agenda — Martin Wolf Once roughly every 20 years, it appears, the issue comes to the fore. This is so for two good reasons. One is that current account imbalances drive protectionist sentiment. The other is that they are harbingers of financial crisis. The second best option is to prepare …
  95. Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
  96. GitHub - antirez/ds4: DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal · GitHub
  97. Broadcast booths around baseball tip their caps to John Sterling, mirroring his signature calls — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Y8MCo7S
  98. Daring Fireball: Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/gZwJFlI
  99. The best is over - Big Muddy
  100. The WordPress Reader Meets the Fediverse

The Next Web

  1. SoftBank cuts OpenAI-backed margin loan target by 40% to $6bn
  2. OpenAI launches GPT-Realtime-2 and two new voice API models
  3. Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock
  4. The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan
  5. Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.
  6. Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.
  7. Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over how the UK calculates Online Safety Act bills
  8. Google’s $100 Fitbit Air has no screen. The product it is actually selling is a $10-a-month AI health coach.
  9. A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem
  10. The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. White Jeans Are a Summer Staple. Here Are Our Favorite Pairs.
  2. The Best Electric Toothbrush for Kids
  3. The Best Cheap Laptops Under $500
  4. We’ve Loved Luggage From Travelpro’s Platinum Elite Line for Over a Decade. Here’s Why.
  5. The Ultra-Light Cooler I Swear By As A Caterer In Hawaii
  6. The Best In-Wall Smart Outlet
  7. The Best Cordless Phone
  8. The Best Folding Tables
  9. The Best Veggie Burgers
  10. The Best Fitness Trackers

Sweethome

  1. The Best In-Wall Smart Outlet
  2. The Best Folding Tables
  3. This Steamy Grill Brush Makes Me Excited to Clean My Grill
  4. The Best Portable Air Conditioner
  5. The Best Smart Bird Feeders
  6. The Matic Is a Whole Different Kind of Robot Vacuum
  7. How to Clean Bathroom Tile and Grout
  8. How to Clean a Travel Mug or Water Bottle
  9. The Best Hair Dryer
  10. Our Favorite Plant Pots and Stands

Hacker News

  1. Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
  2. Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
  3. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
  4. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
  5. Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
  6. ClojureScript Gets Async/Await
  7. The map that keeps Burning Man honest
  8. The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
  9. Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
  10. Dithering with CSS
  11. A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
  12. Agents need control flow, not more prompts
  13. Floats Don't Agree with Themselves
  14. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
  15. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE
  16. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
  17. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
  18. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
  19. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
  20. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
  21. GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
  22. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
  23. AI slop is killing online communities
  24. How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device
  25. Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation
  26. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found
  27. Programming Still Sucks
  28. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
  29. Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos
  30. I want to live like Costco people

Ars Technica

  1. DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says
  2. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"
  3. Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit
  4. RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
  5. Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla
  6. Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürburgring? You need this Manthey Kit.
  7. Former NASA chief takes helm of national security space firm
  8. SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket
  9. Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
  10. TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch
  11. Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers
  12. Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
  13. Report: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits
  14. Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing
  15. The animated version of the iconic "Hello, world" image reveals striking new details
  16. FDA vaccine studies censored by Trump admin after finding benefits of shots
  17. Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
  18. Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens
  19. Here's what has to happen if NASA wants to land on the Moon every month
  20. Infants are bleeding out after parents decline vitamin K shots given at birth

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New Scientist

  1. Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO
  2. PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages
  3. Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine
  4. What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
  5. Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?
  6. The best new popular science books of May 2026
  7. Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs
  8. What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow
  9. Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
  10. Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
  11. Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
  12. Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
  13. Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
  14. Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
  15. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
  16. Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award
  17. Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
  18. The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over
  19. Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk
  20. Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case
  21. The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it
  22. Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
  23. Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
  24. Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
  25. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
  26. Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
  27. 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
  28. An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
  29. The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
  30. Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
  31. Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
  32. Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
  33. Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
  34. Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
  35. Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
  36. 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
  37. Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
  38. NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears
  39. The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
  40. Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
  41. Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous
  42. Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park
  43. Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?
  44. The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
  45. 'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
  46. Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
  47. We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
  48. Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
  49. Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
  50. The best new science fiction books of May 2026
  51. The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter
  52. Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
  53. Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss – a good plan?
  54. Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood loss from severe cuts
  55. Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
  56. The chips in your phone are probably broken – and that's a good thing
  57. Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals
  58. Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emissions in Europe
  59. Cancer is increasing in young people and we still don't know why
  60. Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks
  61. Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record
  62. How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car
  63. Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave
  64. We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions
  65. Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
  66. 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data
  67. Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong
  68. How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind
  69. 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned
  70. We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
  71. Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness
  72. This mesmerising Cornish time-travel film is not to be missed
  73. Gravity's strength measured more reliably than ever before
  74. Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans
  75. QBox theory may offer glimpse of reality deeper than quantum realm
  76. New Scientist recommends Jeff Beal’s New York Études, Vol. II
  77. Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
  78. Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
  79. Striking photo essay examines deadly spread of dengue fever in Nepal
  80. Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?
  81. Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
  82. Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
  83. Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis
  84. Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go
  85. How many dachshunds would it take to get to the moon?
  86. 98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
  87. Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
  88. Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
  89. If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready
  90. Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather
  91. The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
  92. Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
  93. We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
  94. A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise
  95. Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny
  96. Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
  97. Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male
  98. Can you determine your personalised stress score?
  99. The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
  100. Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection

Slashdot

  1. The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
  2. Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court
  3. IMF Warns New AI Models Risk 'Systemic' Shock To Finance
  4. 60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour
  5. CEOs Want Tariff Refunds As Earnings Take a Hit
  6. Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability
  7. Google Unveils Screenless Fitbit Air, Google Health App To Replace Fitbit
  8. LinkedIn Profile Visitor Lists Belong to the People, Says Noyb
  9. Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25%
  10. Anthropic Raises Claude Code Usage Limits, Credits New Deal With SpaceX
  11. Richard Dawkins 'Convinced' AI Is Conscious
  12. Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
  13. Single Dose of Magic Mushroom Psychedelic Can Cause Anatomical Brain Changes
  14. Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial
  15. Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM

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Core77

  1. A Mid-Century Modern Classic: Hans J. Wegner's Daybed with Hidden Storage
  2. When Bathroom Scales were Leather-Clad
  3. Industrial Design Student Work: A Collapsible Touring Bicycle with 3D-Printed Components
  4. A Fold-to-Assemble Spiritual Successor to Braun's AB 20 Clock
  5. Industrial Designer with a Sense of Humor: Alberto Essesi's "Oops" Lamp
  6. How to Make Your Own Camping Cutlery: This Chopsticks Maker
  7. A Pickup-Truck-Style Service Robot
  8. These Beautiful FSB 1292 Door Handles are by Foster + Partners Industrial Design
  9. More Defensive Urban Design: Venice's Anti-Public-Peeing Architecture Features
  10. MVE-Collection: An Architect and Designer Make Furniture out of Construction Site Waste
  11. A Tensegrity-Based Side Table Made out of Pipes
  12. An Airline Pilot's Disappearing Staircase References Work
  13. Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-27-26 to 5-1-26)
  14. Konstantin Grcic's THING_04 Turns Scaffolding Into Seating
  15. Industrial Design Student Work: A Repairable Washing Machine

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 8 #796
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  5. TikTok's AI Overviews Probably Thinks This Story Is a Blueberry
  6. Move Over, Matrix. This Is the Ultimate '90s Cyberpunk Movie
  7. Best Senior Phone Plans of 2026
  8. Beef Prices Are Skyrocketing. These Are the Cheap Cuts Butchers Recommend
  9. To Avoid Getting Sick, Our Lab Data Shows You Need This Air Purifier Model
  10. Samsung's Galaxy Watches Could Alert Users Before They Faint
  11. Giro d'Italia 2026: How to Watch a UCI World Tour Cycling Livestream for Free
  12. Best Bluetooth Speaker for 2026
  13. Huawei's iPad Pro Rival Looks Amazing, but You Might Not Be Able to Get It
  14. One of the Biggest Causes of Dishwasher Decline Is Easy to Prevent
  15. NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Was Stuck in a Rock: Watch It Free Itself
  16. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 8, #592
  17. Anthropic and Elon Musk Strike Unexpected Data Center Deal
  18. 8 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video Now
  19. 38 Best High School Graduation Gifts for 2026
  20. 'Power Ballad' Hits the Right Notes With Humor, Heart and Nostalgia
  21. Half of US Adults Under 50 Get Health Advice From Influencers, Study Shows
  22. Samsung's 2026 Monitors Arrive This Month. Here's How to Score Exclusive Savings on Them at Launch
  23. Tech Companies Are Freaking Out About RAMageddon
  24. Are the $599 MacBook Neo's Days Numbered?
  25. Europa League Soccer: Livestream Aston Villa vs. Nottingham Forest Today

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The Verge

  1. Sony’s PS5 sales plummet amid price rises and a memory crisis
  2. Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices
  3. Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data
  4. Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
  5. Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production
  6. SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
  7. Peak Design is taking up to 50 percent off some of our favorite camera bags
  8. Valve is fighting Steam Controller scalpers with a new reservations system
  9. ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
  10. Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Wired

  1. We Asked Coffee Pros to Blind Test Coffee Machines. The Results Were Surprising
  2. Billie Eilish Doesn't Know if There Will Ever Be Another Billie Eilish
  3. The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
  4. The Best Cat Water Fountains of 2026: Petlibro, Petkit, Oneisall
  5. Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria
  6. Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink
  7. The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
  8. 50% Off DoorDash Promo Code | May 2026
  9. Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
  10. Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
  11. How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome
  12. Why the Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak Isn’t Likely to Become a Global Crisis
  13. How I Fixed My Webcam Lighting for Zoom Calls (2026)
  14. ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
  15. Best Last-Minute Mother’s Day Deals on Mom-Approved Gifts (2026)
  16. One of DOGE’s Young Engineers Is Now Running a Defense Tech Startup
  17. Diabetes Detection Needs Better Tools. They’re on the Way
  18. Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)
  19. Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
  20. Sleep Number ComfortNext Lux Smart Bed: Redefining Support

LifeHacker

  1. Canvas Has Been Hacked, and Is Apparently Being Held for Ransom
  2. 10 Hacks Every Zoom User Should Know
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. This 100-Inch Hisense QLED TV Gets Super Bright, and It's $1,200 Off Right Now
  5. I’m a Weightlifter, and This Is How I’m Training for a Hyrox Race
  6. What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
  7. I Rely on This Portable Power Station During Emergencies, and It's $700 Off Right Now
  8. ChatGPT Can Now Reach Out to a 'Trusted Contact' After Conversations Concerning Self-Harm
  9. The Most Aesthetic Portable Speaker I Own Is $50 Off Right Now
  10. Google Chrome Finally Added This Privacy Feature for Android Users
  11. The Fitbit Air Is Real, and It May Actually Be a Whoop Killer
  12. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  13. This Acer OLED Gaming Monitor Is 33% Off Right Now
  14. This Pixel 10 Pro Is $250 Off Right Now
  15. This 10th Gen iPad Is on Sale for $240 Right Now
  16. 10 Hacks Every DuckDuckGo User Should Know
  17. What Is Hyrox, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Doing It?
  18. The Portable JBL Flip 7 Speaker Is 43% Off Right Now
  19. This Shark Matrix Plus Makes Floor Cleaning Almost Effortless, and It's on Sale for Just $135 Right Now
  20. ‘Lowkenuinely,’ ‘Bruzz,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  21. You Might Be Eligible for a Cut of Apple's $250 Million AI Settlement
  22. One of the Best Budget Ultrawide Gaming Monitors Is on Sale for $700
  23. You Can Get a Budget Surface Laptop and Lifetime License to Microsoft Office for Just $260 Right Now
  24. You Should Still Fact-Check the 'Expert Advice' in Google's AI Summaries
  25. The Beats Fit Pro ANC Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
  26. 15 Shows Like 'Widow's Bay' You Should Watch Next
  27. This Dyson Cordless Stick Vacuum Is 45% Off Right Now
  28. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Come With a $30 Amazon Gift Card Right Now
  29. Chrome’s AI Might Be Taking Up a Bunch of Storage, but You Can Fix It
  30. This HP EliteBook Is Under $300 Right Now
  31. I'm a Runner, and This Is How I'm Training for a Hyrox Race
  32. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is $700 Off Right Now
  33. The 2023 Google Pixel Fold Is 75% Off Right Now
  34. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  35. These TVs Are Part of the Roku/TCL Class Action Lawsuit
  36. My Favorite Travel Headphones Are $150 Off
  37. The New Samsung Galaxy S26 Is $300 Off
  38. I Ran a 10K With a Top-of-the-Line Garmin on One Wrist and a Budget Model on the Other, and Here's What Happened
  39. Reddit Is Blocking Its Mobile Site for Some Users, but There's a Fix
  40. Google Is Hosting 'The Android Show' Outside of I/O for the Second Year in a Row
  41. How Android’s Tasker App Stacks Up Against Apple Shortcuts (and How to Use Each One)
  42. How to Train to Run Faster (Not Just Farther)
  43. These Beats ANC EarBuds Are $75 Off Right Now
  44. This Samsung Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  45. This Bose Wireless Outdoor Speaker Is $50 Off Right Now
  46. My Three Favorite Garmin Features to Use on Race Day
  47. 10 Hacks Every Apple Notes User Should Know
  48. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  49. Apple Is Finally About to Make Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure
  50. You Can Already Save $80 on the New M4 iPad Air
  51. The New AirPods Max 2 Are $40 Off Right Now
  52. You Might Get Some Money From This PlayStation Store Lawsuit
  53. These Are the Best Apps to Track Your Flights
  54. Here's How to Save Your Samsung Messages Conversations Before the App Shuts Down
  55. I Let Alexa+ and Gemini Power My Smart Home, and They Were Both Great
  56. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Le Snack Demon'?
  57. More Than 200 Classic Atari Games Are Packed Into This $120 Handheld Device
  58. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  59. Is Apple Intelligence Making Up Words Now?
  60. 10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  61. 10 Hacks Every Google Chat User Should Know
  62. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in May
  63. This LG 4K Portable Projector Is $200 Off Right Now
  64. This Waterproof JBL Portable Speaker Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  65. The Newest Echo Show Is $50 Off Right Now
  66. You're About to See Less Slop on Instagram
  67. These Soundcore Open-Ear Earbuds Are $40 Right Now
  68. This Portable Bluetooth Sony Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  69. What Is a Healthy Resting Heart Rate?
  70. Here's What We Expect to See at Google I/O 2026
  71. Samsung Says the Memory Crisis Will Get Worse, so You Have Two Choices
  72. Prime Day Is Coming Early This Year
  73. This Ultrawide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off
  74. No, Sony Isn't Forcing Gamers to Connect to the Internet Every 30 Days
  75. 15 Shows Like 'Nobody Wants This' You Should Watch Next
  76. This Netgear Mesh System Is Nearly $300 Off Right Now
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  78. Why Online Fitness Advice Can Seem so Contradictory
  79. These New AI Editing Tools May Be Added to the Photos App in iOS 27
  80. Why I Don't Track My Workouts With a Smart Ring
  81. Google Translate Now Helps You Practice Your Pronunciation
  82. This Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Is $560 Off
  83. This 50-inch Hisense QLED TV Is Over $140 Off Right Now
  84. 15 of the Most Common Beginner DIY Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
  85. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $50 Off Right Now
  86. This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods' Features on Any Android
  87. The Entire 'Avatar' Franchise Explained in 10 Interactive Infographics
  88. This Solar-Powered Eufy Home Security Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
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  90. AirPods Pro Alternatives Are Cheaper, but Are They Good Enough?
  91. 10 Hacks Every Slack User Should Know
  92. Iyaz Akhtar Wants You to Stop Cleaning Your Phone Wrong
  93. T-Mobile Will Give You $200 to Switch From Another Carrier
  94. You Can Now Talk to YouTube’s AI About What Kinds of Videos You Want to Watch
  95. I Love My TCL QLED TV, and This 75-Inch Model Is $620 Off Right Now
  96. The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘The Handmaid's Tale’
  97. These Are the Cheap Running Watches Worn by the London Marathon Winners
  98. 10 Shows Like 'For All Mankind' You Should Watch Next
  99. Apple's New Subscription Payment Option Isn't Coming to the US
  100. YouTube Wants You to Enable Watch History to Get Recommendations, but There’s a Workaround

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TechMeme

  1. Sony reports Q4 revenue of $19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., operating profit of ~$1.06B, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit to rise 13% to ~$7.4B (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
  2. Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (Bloomberg)
  3. Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (Wired)
  4. Sources: the US suspects OBON, a key company behind Thailand's national AI effort, of smuggling Super Micro servers with export-controlled Nvidia chips to China (Bloomberg)
  5. Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offers a downbeat performance outlook for 2026 (Bloomberg)
  6. Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)
  7. Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (Financial Times)
  8. Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO on Shanghai's STAR Board and in Hong Kong; Baidu holds a 58% stake in Kunlunxin (Bloomberg)
  9. Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (Financial Times)
  10. Sources: SK Hynix's big customers have been proposing a range of offers to secure memory chip supplies, including investing in dedicated chip production lines (Reuters)
  11. Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
  12. Sony reports 1.5M PS5 unit sales in Q4, down 46% YoY, and forecasts annual sales at its gaming business to fall 6% YoY to $1.69B, amid memory chip price surge (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
  13. Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (Financial Times)
  14. Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
  15. OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)