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 #