Monthly Highlights
241.
TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)
242.
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)
243.
OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (cnbc.com)
244.
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
245.
MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)
246.
I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job (theverge.com)
247.
How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (old.reddit.com)
248.
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)
249.
Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide (unsloth.ai)
250.
Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (spectrum.ieee.org)
251.
The dead Internet is not a theory anymore (adriankrebs.ch)
252.
Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round (ft.com)
253.
Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war (fortune.com)
254.
AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)
255.
Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents (twitter.com)
256.
Put the zip code first (zipcodefirst.com)
257.
Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (satproto.org)
258.
E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (help.instagram.com)
259.
Digg is gone again (digg.com)
260.
Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy (gitlab.redox-os.org)
261.
LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown (blog.documentfoundation.org)
262.
The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines (mlumiste.com)
263.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down (bsky.social)
264.
Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)
265.
U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth (ionathan.ch)
266.
Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste (ziglang.org)
267.
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)
268.
Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals (experimental-history.com)
269.
Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
270.
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder (ivanturkovic.com)