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UFO Files Released by U.S. Shed Light on What the Government Knows

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/ufo...

DeepSeek Seeks Funding at $45B Valuation as China Backs Homegrown AI Rival

https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/05/08/deepseek-seek...

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-h...

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2026050...

Let's talk about LLMs

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/

Scripily – AI for Restoring and Transcribing Damaged Documents

https://scripily.com/

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag

Consumer Confidence Diverging for Low- and High-Income Households

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/cons...

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjav...

SQLite Archive Files

https://sqlite.org/sqlar.html

Async Rust never left the MVP state

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never...

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308...

I am worried about Bun

https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/

I'm scared about biological computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared...

Show HN: Runs AI coding agents inside isolated Docker containers

https://github.com/marvincaspar/agent-sanbox

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/under...

Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

https://walzr.com/empty-screenings

Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python

https://microsoft.github.io/bocpy/

LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/05/05/noy...

30x faster than Prometheus: How we rebuilt ES as a leading columnar datastore

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsea...

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/07/ib...

Finding the differences in a series of power supplies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/05/testin...

Python 3.15.0 beta 1 is here

https://blog.python.org/2026/05/python-3150-beta-1...

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/926741/tes...

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil...

Samsung chip workers reject $340k one-time bonus

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tec...

Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens

https://www.noetik.blog/p/perturb-mars-reading-mou...

To the Surprise of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras to Stalk Their Exes

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/07/to-the-surpris...

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/th...