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RFK Jr.‘s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop
Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American. Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
World record: 1 million GB per sec internet speed achieved by Japan over 1,100 miles
Goodbye to start-stop systems – the EPA under Trump concludes that they are not worth it and could disappear from new models
White House investigating how Trump’s chief of staff’s phone was hacked
LinkedIn lays off 281 workers in California, including slew of Bay Area engineers
Nvidia CEO Warns That Chinese AI Rivals Are Now ‘Formidable’
Business Insider goes 'all-in on AI,' laying off 21% of staff
Xbox handheld reportedly delayed so Microsoft can focus on making Windows handhelds compete with SteamOS
Brazil sues Chinese electric carmaker BYD over ‘slave-like’ conditions of workers
Vatican City Is Now Powered By Solar
Scientists Propose Deliberately Infecting Another World With Life To See What Happens
Wait a minute! Researchers say AI's "chains of thought" are not signs of human-like reasoning
How will Trump’s ban on Chinese students work out? Just look at Airbnb for the answer
Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024. When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”
Gmail’s AI summaries now appear automatically
Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition?
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search

Hacker News

The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype machine
Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work
De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful
Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support
Surprisingly Fast AI-Generated Kernels We Didn't Mean to Publish (Yet)
Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows
Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)
Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years
A Smiling Public Man
How to Run CRON Jobs in Postgres Without Extra Infrastructure
Photos taken inside musical instruments
Irritation Is Inspiration
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
Catbench Vector Search Demo Has Postgres SQL Throughput, Latency Monitoring Now
Ray Tracing in J
StackAI (YC W23) Is Looking for SWR and Tailwind Wizards

The Verge

Elon Musk departs DC with a black eye and a tattered reputation
Microsoft releases a bold new update for Notepad
Nebraska to adopt law aimed at curbing kids’ time online
The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now
QA workers at ZeniMax reach tentative contract agreement
Taylor Swift now owns all of her music
Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site
NYT reports Elon Musk’s drug use went ‘well beyond occasional’ in 2024
Valorant is switching to Unreal Engine 5 and finally adding replays
Mountainhead succeeds at showing you how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

ArsTechnica

CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted
Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.
Texas AG loses appeal to seize evidence for Elon Musk’s ad boycott fight
Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it.
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
Testing a robot that could drill into Europa and Enceladus
After Supreme Court loss, ISPs ask Trump admin to block state affordability laws
The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not
Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed
RFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion
2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 first drive: Engineered for insane speed
Elon Musk counts the cost of his four-month blitz through US government
Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions
Rocket Report: Northrop backs Firefly and names its rocket; Xodiac will fly no more
Amid rising prices, Disney+ and Hulu offer subscribers some freebies
Gemini in Google Drive may finally be useful now that it can analyze videos
Man who stole 1,000 DVDs from employer strikes plea deal over movie leaks
Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo
Ars Live: Three space journos pick apart NASA’s Mars plans
Enigmatic hominin species studied using 2 million-year-old proteins

Bleeping Computer

Hackers are exploiting critical flaw in vBulletin forum software
Microsoft now testing Notepad text formatting in Windows 11
Police takes down AVCheck site used by cybercriminals to scan malware
Germany doxxes Conti ransomware and TrickBot ring leader
Getting Exposure Management Right: Insights from 500 CISOs
Mozilla releases Firefox 139.0.1 update to fix artifacts on Nvidia GPUs
Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July cutoff
ConnectWise breached in cyberattack linked to nation-state hackers
Threat actors abuse Google Apps Script in evasive phishing attacks
Apple Safari exposes users to fullscreen browser-in-the-middle attacks
US sanctions firm linked to cyber scams behind $200 million in losses
Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware
Attackers are mapping your attack surface—are you?

Lobsters

A poor man’s types
When was the last time you broke production and how?
MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access
What are you doing this weekend?
Programming Beyond Practices
The case for using a web browser as your terminal
A break from programming languages
Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development?
The radix 2^51 trick to 256-bit addition (2020)
Net-Negative Cursor
Types and other techniques as an accessibility tool for the ADHD brain
The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives and it's big a victory for Rust fans
Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
This website does not exist
The Book of Shen
Using ‘Slop Forensics’ to Determine Model Ancestry
Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++... in Rust
Decomplexification
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services

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