The new big bad is model distillation. x.com #

John C. Dvorak OG tech writer and co-host of the No Agenda Podcast has died. RIP. news.ycombinator.com #

X rebuilds their Android app from scratch. techcrunch.com #

Musk says they will open source the entire X codebase with 3rd party verification. thenewstack.io #

Polymarket banned in France. reuters.com #

Andros Fenollosa writeup of his IndieWeb voyage of discovery. en.andros.dev #

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

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

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

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

Doctorow in the Guardian. theguardian.com #

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

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

Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. 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 #

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

Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #

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

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

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. wsj.com #

Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. 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. thedailymeal.com #

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marc Andreesen on AI Vampires. x.com #

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

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

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

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

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

Boston Dynamics C-Suite exodus. semafor.com #

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

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

Maryland bands surveillance pricing in grocery stores theguardian.com #

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

The Musk vs Altman trial begins. thenextweb.com #

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brazil bans prediction markets. reuters.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. 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. nytimes.com #

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Post: New blogging CLI tool markjgsmith.com #

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