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• DOGE Gains Access to Payroll for 276K Federal Staff Despite Security Fears: Report
• Poll Finds That 75% of Scientists Are Thinking About Leaving the U.S. / More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding for universities and science agencies.
• DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just 'a Few Months': Report
• Pentagon Cancels $280M Over-Budget HR Project -- Oracle and Leidos Left Reeling
• Trump threatens important data deal – German companies alarmed
• New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory
• Weight Loss Breakthrough: Stanford Scientists Discover “Natural Ozempic” Without the Side Effects
• DeepSeek surpasses ChatGPT in new monthly visits, emerges as the fastest-growing AI tool
• Taiwan's 5-ton unmanned attack vessel with warheads to counter China
• Trump says TikTok sale deal to come before Saturday deadline
• Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
• Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley
• The Proud Boys and militias come to Tesla’s defense
• Experimental Lilly drug cuts genetic heart disease risk factor by 94% in trial
• Chinese Honda EV plant replaces 30% workforce with AI & robotics
• Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black
• Apple hit with $162 million French antitrust fine over privacy tool
• Tesla Lost More Than A Third of Its Value in First Quarter
• Linus Torvalds rages against ‘random turd files’ in Linux 6.15-rc1 directories
• North Korean nationals have infiltrated businesses across the globe with a more expansive level of organization and deep-rooted access than previously thought

Hacker News

• The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
• Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
• The element can now be customized with CSS
  It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)
  AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
  In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
  James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise
  Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed
  Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
  France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
  MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
  Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
  Kagi for Kids
  JEP Draft: Prepare to Make Final Mean Final
  Notes on the Pentium's Microcode Circuitry
  Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
  Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight
  The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions
  Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Solutions Engineer

  The Verge

  • Microsoft expands AI features across Intel and AMD-powered Copilot Plus PCs
  • SwitchBot’s smart button pusher is 30 percent off for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
  • The 30 best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals you can still grab for under $30
  • iOS 18.4 is out now with Apple Intelligence-powered priority notifications
  • Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
  • Max’s rebranded logo and colors look very HBO
  • Amazon’s new AI agent is designed to do your shopping
  • Alexa Plus just launched in early access, but it’s missing some features
  • Amazon Spring Sale deals on Verge staff favorites
  • Amazon’s big spring sale is almost over, but you still have time to save

  ArsTechnica

  • Apple updates all its operating systems, brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro
  • DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected
  • Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon
  • Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it
  • Even Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from his old tweets
  • France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
  • There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
  • The 2025 BMW M5 Touring review: Way more power, way too much weight
  • Google’s new experimental Gemini 2.5 model rolls out to free users
  • Europe’s quest to finally land on Mars takes another turn
  • The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket lasted just 40 seconds
  • Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs
  • Trump on car tariffs: “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices”
  • Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs
  • FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
  • NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
  • What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
  • The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
  • Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI
  • New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory

  Bleeping Computer

  • Microsoft uses AI to find flaws in GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox bootloaders
  • Phishing platform 'Lucid' behind wave of iOS, Android SMS attacks
  • Hackers abuse WordPress MU-Plugins to hide malicious code
  • North Korean hackers adopt ClickFix attacks to target crypto firms
  • Microsoft tests new Windows 11 tool to remotely fix boot crashes
  • New Crocodilus malware steals Android users’ crypto wallet keys
  • Microsoft's killing script used to avoid Microsoft Account in Windows 11
  • U.S. seized $8.2 million in crypto linked to 'Romance Baiting' scams
  • Retail giant Sam’s Club investigates Clop ransomware breach claims
  • OpenAI now pays researchers $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities
  • Phishing-as-a-service operation uses DNS-over-HTTPS for evasion

  Lobsters

  • Giving up the dylib dream
  • Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam
  • There is no Vibe Engineering
  • Hoster - Built Using FreeBSD/Bhyve/ZFS/PF/Go Makes VM/Jails Deployments Fast and Easy
  • The Evolution of HTTPS Adoption in Firefox
  • Foundation Models and Unix
  • Interaction nets
  • Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (1999)
  • Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs
  • Empowering WebAssembly with Thin Kernel Interfaces
  • Impromptu disaster recovery
  • An AlphaStation's SROM
  • Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
  • Building native packages is complicated
  • GNU Octave: Scientific Programming Language
  • SaaS Is Broken: Why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is the Future
  • Fjall 2.8
  • AI/Math Puzzle
  • Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError
  • How to borrow memory (2021)