4chan is back after a nearly two-week shutdown, but it still has some serious problems - Engadget
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack that leaked the emails of its lead administrators called "janitors" (Owen Carry/Know Your Meme) - Techmeme
4chan Returns, Details Breach, Blames Funding Issues, Ends Shockwave Board - Slashdot
5 reasons why I use my iPad as an e-reader - Pocket Lint
5 transcription programs that save me time and my sanity - Pocket Lint
A look at the rise of "pure play" bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market pays far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems - Wired
Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (Kate Park/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024 (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
At a major Hong Kong electronics exhibition, some Chinese companies say they are exploring ways to lower or skirt tariffs while others plan to wait them out (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life - Techcrunch
Bitcoin miners' earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, as the hashrate languishes amid technical and macroeconomic headwinds (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Can a New 'Dumbphone' With an E Ink Display Help Rewire Your Brain - Slashdot
Can Solar Wind Make Water on the Moon' A NASA Experiment Shows Maybe - Slashdot
Canadian University Cancels Coding Competition Over Suspected AI Cheating - Slashdot
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 1 million copies in its first three days - Engadget
Doctor Who 'The Well' review: Signing makes you feel heard - Engadget
Dyson Supersonic r Hair Dryer Review: A Tiny Powerhouse - Wired
Enugu Airport to reopen Monday ' FG - Tribune
Experts say that India lags behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent (Furquan Ameen/Rest of World) - Techmeme
Filing: China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC raised ~$219M from Hebei Yangyuan Zhihui Beverage Co. at a ~$22.1B valuation in December 2023 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post) - Techmeme
Flutterwave, Yellow Card Join Circle Payments Network to Boost Global Stablecoin Payments - TechCity
GameSir Super Nova review - Pocket Lint
Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize - Techcrunch
Google's DeepMind UK Team Reportedly Seeks to Unionize - Slashdot
Here are Latin America's biggest startups based on valuation - Techcrunch
How to Spot and Avoid Fake Apps on Play Store - TechCity
How To Use Gemini AI To Summarize YouTube Videos - Wired
I tested ChatGPT 4o image generation for 5 days: the results are mind-blowing - Techpoint
I thought my TV's sound problems were unfixable until I found this little gadget - Pocket Lint
I'm eagerly awaiting the death of the sedan - Pocket Lint
India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100,000 available against a projected need of 200,000 by 2026 (Prachi Verma/The Economic Times) - Techmeme
iPad Jammed in Seat Forces Emergency Landing of Airplane Carrying 400 Passengers - Slashdot
Lenovo May Be Avoiding the 'Windows Tax' By Offering Cheaper Laptops With Pre-Installed Linux - Slashdot
Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems - Slashdot
Livia Voigt: The youngest female billionaire. - Techpoint
NASA's Mars orbiter snapped this image of Curiosity trucking along down at the surface - Engadget
NYC-based Healthee, whose AI assistant Zoe lets its clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $50M Series B led by Key1 Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios) - Techmeme
OpenAI's CEO says kindness comes with a price - Pocket Lint
Parallelle Traveler Review: Unparalleled Attention to Detail - Wired
Prompt engineering roles, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, become obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff in writing prompts (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Read the Manual': Misconfigured Google Analytics Led to a Data Breach Affecting 4.7M - Slashdot
Report finds Meta's celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors - Techcrunch
Salsa, which provides APIs and UI components that let vertical SaaS platforms offer payroll as a feature to their customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Altos (Ryan Lawler/Axios) - Techmeme
Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100 (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
South Africa's cybersecurity threat level is rising; here's why - Techcabal
Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers - Hackers News
Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk) - Techmeme
Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B (Ryan Naraine/SecurityWeek) - Techmeme
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors (Jeff Horwitz/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir - Techcrunch
Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as buyer demand weakens and supplies of key components like magnets and actuators are disrupted (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots - Techcrunch
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
WSJ: Tech-Industry Workers Now 'Miserable', Fearing Layoffs, Working Longer Hours - Slashdot
Yoda Bloopers Released - and George Lucas Reveals Why Yoda Talks Backwards - Slashdot
YouTube is Huge - and a Few Creators Are Getting Rich - Slashdot
2 new YouTube Music features that will level up your listening - Pocket Lint
20 Mother's Day Gift Ideas Our Editors Have Tried and Love (2025) - Wired
20 Places That Give You Free Stuff on Your Birthday: The Ultimate Guide to Birthday Freebies - Techpoint
3 reasons why I still use Android pattern unlock in 2025 - Pocket Lint
4 ways I make movie night at home better than the cinema - Pocket Lint
A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists (Gregory Barber/MIT Technology Review) - Techmeme
A Nigerian tribunal upholds a $220M fine imposed on Meta in July 2024 for discriminatory and exploitative practices against Nigerian consumers (Nnaemeka Onyekachi/Nairametrics) - Techmeme
A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings (Devon Pendleton/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A US DOJ official says Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, and an alleged Scattered Spider cybercrime group member, was extradited from Spain to the US (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
a16z, which owns ~20% of Deel, a stake worth $2.5B+, is advising Deel in fighting Rippling, whose CEO Parker Conrad said a16z pushed him out of Zenefits in 2016 (The Information) - Techmeme
Amazon's big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day - Techcrunch
Amid tariff hike, poor network services, need for telecoms operators to collaborate resonates - Guardian
Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool - Techcrunch
Apple TV+ Is 'Worst Marketer In the Universe,' Says Producer - Slashdot
Autodesk adds Jeff Epstein and Christie Simons to its board and settles the proxy fight with Starboard Value, which has criticized Autodesk for underperformance (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters) - Techmeme
Best Early Memorial Day Mattress Deals (2025) - Wired
BoldHue Review: Print Your Own Foundation - Wired
California Becomes the World's Fourth-Largest Economy, Overtaking Japan - Slashdot
Cheap 'Transforming' Electric Truck Announced by Jeff Bezos-Backed Startup - Slashdot
China Shares Rare Moon Rocks With US - Slashdot
Comcast President Bemoans Broadband Customer Losses: 'We Are Not Winning - Slashdot
Deel files countersuit against Rippling as rivalry escalates - Techcrunch
Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more (Dan Primack/Axios) - Techmeme
Devs Sound Alarm After Microsoft Subtracts C/C++ Extension From VS Code Forks - Slashdot
Digital Nomads: Can you truly be hired from 'anywhere in the world - Techcabal
Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Docs: Scale AI had revenue of $870M in 2024, missing its $1B target, and plans a $150M share sale that values the startup at around $25B, up 80% from a year ago (The Information) - Techmeme
DoorDash calls Uber's lawsuit accusing it of anti-competitive practices a 'scare tactic - Engadget
DoorDash Makes $3.6 Billion Offer For Deliveroo - Slashdot
DoorDash seeks dismissal of Uber lawsuit - Techcrunch
Engadget review recap: Panasonic S1R II, NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti and more - Engadget
Etsy agrees to sell Reverb, an online musical instruments marketplace that it acquired for $275M in 2019, to investors Creator Partners and Servco (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally) - Techmeme
Etsy is selling online music gear marketplace Reverb - Engadget
Fujifilm Instax Mini 41 Review: A Stylish, Capable Budget Instant Camera - Wired
GetEquity hits profitability after shift to local debt investments - Techcabal
Gmail on Android tablets and foldables now has an adjustable layout - Engadget
Google Is Killing Software Support For Early Nest Thermostats - Slashdot
Google records $90.23 billion revenue in Q1 2025 - Technext
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its "unique" heating systems (Chris Welch/The Verge) - Techmeme
Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25 - Techcrunch
Government Censorship Comes To Bluesky - Slashdot
Government officials are kind of bad at the internet - Techcrunch
Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System - Wired
How Democrats and Republicans Cite Science - Slashdot
How to Delete Your Gmail Account Permanently: Complete Step-by-Step Guide - Techpoint
How to watch LlamaCon 2025, Meta's first generative AI developer conference - Engadget
I tested Perplexity vs Copilot with 10 prompts for different use cases Heres what I found - Techpoint
I used a retro slider phone for a week, and the learning curve was steep - Pocket Lint
IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red Hat's revenue has about doubled since IBM bought it, fueling a ~2x jump in IBM's stock since April 2020 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut's - Techcrunch
Intel's AI PC Chips Aren't Selling Well - Slashdot
Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity (Dario Amodei) - Techmeme
It seems like most Windows users don't care for Copilot - Engadget
JAMB denies misposting as missing candidate rescued in Ijebu Ode raises safety concerns - Technext
Lately's new gamified app helps people arrive on time - Techcrunch
Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status (Gabe Kaminsky/The Free Press) - Techmeme
M&S stops online orders and issues refunds after cyber attack - BBC
Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with (Pete Koomen) - Techmeme
MasterClass deal: Save 40 percent on an annual subscription - Engadget