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Looks like Meta Web Services is on the horizon. techcrunch.com #

Scientists make cells using lab made DNA for the first time. www.theguardian.com #

The cast of Jackass become true brits. (via the youtube distopian panopticon algorithm) www.youtube.com #

Apple increases prices, Micron reports non-constructive market dynamics. www.wsj.com #

Blogger Om Malik has died. Was very popular in tech from the early 2000s. hn thread. om.co #

OpenKnowledge - Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. github.com #

SpaceSail is China's answer to Starlink. www.theguardian.com #

Doctorow in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com #

South Korean memory giant SK Hynixs to list in US at $29 billion. www.taipeitimes.com #

Jim Nielsen and John Gruber on stating the obvious. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

OpenAI and Broadcom have a new inference chip called Jalapeño. Best name for a chip in quite a while imho. openai.com #

Micron and Scandisk apear to be the AI barometer at the minute. Big sell-off just happened. www.marketwatch.com #

Chinese giant Tencent is grtting out of japanese game studios. thenextweb.com #

Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. www.cbc.ca #

John Ternus plans to try and refocus Apple back to it's design roots. thenextweb.com #

Brandur looks at the zone of viability for saleable software in the age of LLMs. brandur.org #

Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #

Spain attempts to refocus tourism on offbeat locations. www.theguardian.com #

Will the memory shortage result in devs optimising their code? news.ycombinator.com #

Now everyone is talking about everything being doomy. Which of source is quite doomy. www.theguardian.com #

Cloudflare release temporary accounts for agents, so they can vibe unbounded. blog.cloudflare.com #

Matt Mullenweg writes about Midjourney's new ultrasonic full body scanner tech. ma.tt #

Protocols for agent use in enterpise - Enterprise managed authorisation for MCP. Sound good but also complicated. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io #

Greg Boone has no regrets switching to linux. greg.harmsboone.org #

There are actually 3 levels of gitignore. nelson.cloud #

Tim Cook says Apple prices will need to increase due to soaring memory prices. www.wsj.com #

Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. www.implicator.ai #

Running local models is good now. vickiboykis.com #

Bubbles - Hacker News but for blogs. bubbles.town #

Appreciation for the small web. jola.dev #

Miniflux 2 - a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install. github.com #

My page on bubbles.town. bubbles.town #

There's a movie about Anthony Bourdain coming out in August. www.thedailymeal.com #

SpaceX IPO goes well, Elon becomes first trillionaire. www.theguardian.com #

How much is a trillion dollars? g.co #

SpaceX is biggest IPO of all time @ $135 per share, raises $75 billion. nypost.com #

Coinbase launches agent that can trade on behalf of humans, uses the open x402 payment protocol. techcrunch.com #

Teardown of the gold Trump phone. www.ifixit.com #

DoorDash introduces AI to order food via photos and prompts. www.cnbc.com #

London is hot again: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Databricks, Salesforce, Rivian and Palantir announce plans for new offices. www.cnbc.com #

Xiaomi says it's open source AI agent harness MiMo Code beats Claude in the 200+ multi-step tasks category. venturebeat.com #

Citi Group launches blockchain based tockenized private shares trading platform. cryptonews.com #

The British food scene is going bust. www.theguardian.com #

Apple settles on 2 local models alongside 3 private cloud models. machinelearning.apple.com #

Apple‘s new AI architecture powered by Gemini models. www.macrumors.com #

Nvidia announce DGX Station, a windows supercomputers you can put under your desk. interestingengineering.com #

The Pierre Computer Company have some cool looking libraries for file tree rendering and diff rendering. pierre.computer #

Kyle Daigle (COO @ Github) interview on Latent Space Podcast. www.latent.space #

Pope Leo checks out the new Ferrari. www.theguardian.com #

SpaceX goes after the AI compute market. www.datacenterdynamics.com #

April 2025: When X Web services? markjgsmith.com #

Trump to speak with Taiwan. www.theguardian.com #

Marc Andreesen on AI Vampires. x.com #

Vitalik Buterin says that formal verification tech might be in Etherium's future. decrypt.co #

Amazon Alexa can now create on demand AI generated talking heads podcasts on any topic. variety.com #

More limits to free X accounts. www.engadget.com #

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes. simonwillison.net #

Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. www.theverge.com #

Cyprus Hill: Insane in the Brain. youtu.be #

British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. youtu.be #

Swatch watches are trending. www.theguardian.com #

The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas interstellar comet at the same time. www.sci.news #

Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. news.ycombinator.com #

Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.github.io #

Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. ascii.textfiles.com #

Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. www.theguardian.com #

In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. www.bbc.com #

40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com #

Drum & Bass: The Movement - A D&B Documentary. www.youtube.com #

Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. jorijn.com #

Simon Willison has been using LLM in script shebang lines. til.simonwillison.net #

Mecha robots are here. Probably nothing to worry about. www.youtube.com #

Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. en.wikipedia.org #

Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". x.ai #

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. www.wsj.com #

Multi-stroke text effects in CSS are kind of trippy. yuanchuan.dev #

People in China, according to the Guardian are Starmermaxxing. www.theguardian.com #

Jim Nielsen on Little HTML pages losely joined. Very interesting. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Dave Rupert on small language models (SMLs) in the browser. daverupert.com #

2024: LLMs in the browser - I wonder how long it will take until someone tries to integrate one of these directly into a web browser. markjgsmith.com #

Protests against Japan PM Takaichi changing pacifist constitution. www.theguardian.com #

Boston Dynamics C-Suite exodus. www.semafor.com #

Blackberry are still making software, for cars. www.wsj.com #

Chinese courts are baring companies from laying off employees to replace thyem with AIs. www.techinasia.com #

Maryland bands surveillance pricing in grocery stores www.theguardian.com #

The Musk vs Altman trial begins. thenextweb.com #

YouTube Multiview - Watch 4 live streams at once. support.google.com #

I watched Scratch the HipHop DJ Documentary earlier. Really great. www.youtube.com #

US government stake in Intel has tripled in value in 8 months. thenextweb.com #

TSMC also doing quite well at the minute. www.techinasia.com #

Brazil bans prediction markets. www.reuters.com #

The missing US scientists conspiracy has hit the mainstream. Also, aliens. www.theguardian.com #

Nigel Farage billionaire backer Christopher Harborne is a crypto tycoon. www.theguardian.com #

Martin Fowler on tech debt in an agentic world and the importance of verification systems. martinfowler.com #

Google release TPU 8t and TPU 8i, their new training and inference focussed powerhouse AI chips. blog.google #

Polymarket launches perps, perpetual futures contract trading. www.cnbc.com #

John Gruber on Cook standing down as Apple CEO. daringfireball.net #

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an AI frontend client for self-hosted AI infrastructure, aimed at the enterprise market. arstechnica.com #

SpaceX in $60 billion deal with AI focussed code editor company Cursor. www.nytimes.com #

Robots are beating elite table tennis players now. www.theguardian.com #

Tim Cake to be replaced as Apple CEO by John Ternus. www.cnbc.com #

levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #

Popular hosting and serverless provider Vercel gets hacked. www.bleepingcomputer.com #

Elon: "You can access the X API via OpenClaw" - I use Github Actions :( x.com #

Humanoid robots beat humans in Beijing marathan. www.theguardian.com #

Tesla robotaxis service opens in Dallas and Houston. techcrunch.com #

There‘s a mac mini shortage cause of vibe coding www.wsj.com #

MDN‘s new markdown in git repo‘s frontend architecture developer.mozilla.org #

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The 1950 heist to reclaim the ancient Stone of Destiny. www.bbc.com #

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RAM prices are going through the roof, likely caused by the AI boom. lifehacker.com #

Tether has bee trying to buy italian football club Juventus. www.theblock.co #

JSDoc is TypeScript. hn. culi.bearblog.dev #

Google unkills JPEG XL? tonisagrista.com #

Miniflux implements the Google Reader API. miniflux.app #

Rob Zolkos opens up the hood on some of 37signals most popular products and discovers vanilla CSS is all you need. No build step. www.zolkos.com #

New warp drive designs are poping up. thedebrief.org #

Trump: Make Europe Austro-hungarian again. www.dw.com #

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zrepl is a one-stop, integrated solution for ZFS replication. zrepl.github.io #

"Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots" - Simple off-site backups. zfs.rent #

Syncthing - Open source software and protocol to synchronize files between 2 or more computers in realtime. No need to go through the cloud. syncthing.net #

New Post: Writing CLIs markjgsmith.com #

Trump signs order banning states from regulating AI. www.theguardian.com #

Underground art: exploring the unique designs of London’s tube seats. www.theguardian.com #

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage rclone.org #

Singing for Animals compilation. I thought this was kind of amazing. www.youtube.com #

Parrot at the vet. Funny but not real. Also made me wonder if the previous link was real or not. The everything can be faked world is gonna be very weird. www.youtube.com #

Saylor selling his futuristic digital credit instruments in the middle east. The end is kind of wild. Infinity as a service? x.com #

Marktext - A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. github.com #

CFTC Launches Digital Assets Pilot Allowing Bitcoin, Ether and USDC as Collateral. www.coindesk.com #

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Tiny Core Linux - Nomadic ultra small (~16MB) graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. www.tinycorelinux.net #

First complete dictionary of ancient Celtic to be compiled. www.theguardian.com #

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, ZFS inspired, Filesystem as a database. bcachefs.org #

Codeberg is a Github clone - "Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects". codeberg.org #

Liz Truss has started a podcast. Very right wing in places. justthenews.com #

I asked Gemini to tell me a really funny cellular automata themed joke. As is often the case, things got a bit ridiculus. gemini.google.com #

Cryptoeconomics - "Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin" - Audio version distributed via a podcast, kind of hardcore but contains concise descriptions of all the theories underpinning Bitcoin. voskuil.org #

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Tesla bros take the new full self driving (FSD) v14.2 for a spin going through Times Square in New York. Very impressive. www.youtube.com #

Officials in China warn of bubble occurring in the humanoid robotics industry. Already 150 companies make humanoids. www.digitaltrends.com #

Apple's market cap surpasses all but 6 top global economies. www.pressrundown.com #

Your mitochondria are under attack from artificial blue light, which is worrying because they produce ATP, the energy currency that powers literally everything your body does. vivarays.com #

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