May 2025 Archive
1.
Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)
2.
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)
3.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral (thebignewsletter.com)
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 (nytimes.com)
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Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights (twitter.com)
8.
Phi-4 Reasoning Models (azure.microsoft.com)
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Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks (fastcompany.com)
10.
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers (theregister.com)
11.
The Brief Origins of May Day (archive.iww.org)
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Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech (jsonline.com)
13.
How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX (localforge.dev)
14.
International Workers' Day (en.wikipedia.org)
15.
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory (arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence (theregister.com)
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A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones (cbc.ca)
18.
RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research (wired.com)
19.
Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival (linkwarden.app)
20.
Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk (wsj.com)
21.
Switzerland suspends Deutsche Bahn trains due to chronic delays (thelocal.de)
22.
Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter (corporate.vanguard.com)
23.
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space (stockhausenspace.blogspot.com)
24.
Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape (blog.extensiontotal.com)
25.
Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser (csvforge.com)
26.
Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux (help.dropbox.com)
27.
Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome
28.
Strings Just Got Faster (inside.java)
29.
Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable (videogameschronicle.com)
30.
PC case maker HYTE discusses their cost structure and tariffs [video] (youtube.com)