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The Walled Garden of the Surveilled Web

https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/the-walled-garde...

Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

https://vouchatlas.com

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-ros...

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-archi...

Simplifying our homepage helped increase trial signups by 84%

https://plausible.io/blog/homepage-edits-conversio...

A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbo...

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/

Two Thousand Line educational operating system released by Cornell University

https://github.com/yhzhang0128/egos-2000

Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transf...

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-...

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-...

Munich's IT transition: open-source is the default for the new coalition

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-s-IT-transitio...

The Adventure Family Tree (2024)

https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyh...

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

Xkcd 3233 – Make It Myself

https://xkcd.com/3233/

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juet...

Chrome IndexedDB: SQLite back end

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5161589557821440

TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029 – A12, A13, N2U announced

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semicon...

Pullback Drive

https://xkcd.com/3244/

When semiconductor materials misbehave

https://semiengineering.com/when-semiconductor-mat...

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ

eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12...

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05...

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/

Andrew's Layoff Checklist

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FaDxhnCXsneXbe...

Steve Jobs U.S. Commemorative $1 Coin

https://www.usmint.gov/american-innovation-1-coin-...

Reddit Is (Mostly) Shuttering R/All, but There's Still a Way to Access It

https://lifehacker.com/tech/reddit-is-mostly-shutt...

Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artific...

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1M in KDE software development

https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-...