🎓 MIT Has Released the First Lecture of the Updated "Introduction to Machine Learning" Course

For beginners, this is one of the best resources to start learning ML and AI. For experienced developers, it is a chance to refresh their knowledge with the current state of the industry in mind.

➡️ You can watch the first lecture on YouTube. Also, the playlist includes recordings of courses from previous years.

New lectures will be published every week. Additional materials, notes, and slides are available on the course website.

😳 Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Still, Reddit claims that there was just an error.

"There was a technical bug that made the account look banned, but no one would ban one of The Beatles," Reddit said.

📺 Honor Announces a Phone That Unfolds Into a TV

The new foldable Honor Magic VVVVVVVVV looks like a perfectly ordinary chunky smartphone at first glance—but users can unfold it into a full-size TV.

Unfortunately, it's just an April Fools' joke from the Chinese company.

🚀 Artemis II, the First Crewed Lunar Mission in 50 Years, Has Launched

At 6:35 p.m. Eastern time, NASA's SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The four-person crew—Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover—will fly around the Moon and return to Earth on a 10-day mission.

NASA plans to land astronauts on the Moon in 2028 during Artemis IV.

💰 Nvidia Is Losing Ground in China to Local Chipmakers

In 2025, Chinese data centers purchased approximately 4 million AI chips, including 2.2 million from Nvidia and 1.65 million from domestic companies.

Nvidia still dominates the global GPU market, but it's starting to lose one of its most important markets: China. Over the past five years, its share there has dropped from 95% to 55%.

✖️ The shift began in 2022, when the U.S. government restricted Nvidia from selling to China its most advanced chips, including the A100, H100, and H200. In response, the Chinese government launched incentives for building AI data centers, requiring companies to use locally made chips to qualify for state support.

💻 The biggest beneficiary so far has been Huawei, which shipped 812,000 chips last year, capturing about 20% of the market. Other Chinese players developing data center processors include T-Head (Alibaba), Kunlunxin (Baidu), and Cambricon.

Could Huawei challenge Nvidia on the global stage?

❤️ — Yes, it's possible
🔥 — Unlikely

📱 Foxconn Begins Trial Production of Apple's foldable iPhone

Apple is one step closer to releasing its first foldable iPhone. Foxconn has commenced trial production of the device, according to industry supply chain reports cited by ITHome, with shipments planned for the second half of 2026.

The foldable iPhone, widely referred to as the "iPhone Fold," is expected to feature a book-style design with a 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.5-inch outer screen, resembling Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold line.

🥺 Rats Try to Drive a Car

A couple from Facebook tries to teach their rats, Spark and Phoebe, to drive a small car.

They have been teaching rats for about a year, and there is noticeable progress.

Today, there are about 37k subscribers in their Facebook group.

Ⓜ️ Meta Rolls Out New Muse Spark AI Model

Meta has started rolling out a new AI model, Spark, from the Muse family within their AI assistant, alongside a fresh design.

There are currently no official details or benchmarks available. It also remains unclear whether Muse Spark is the highly anticipated "Avocado" model from Zuckerberg's superintelligence team.

Whether Meta can redeem itself after the failure of Llama 4 will become clear very soon.

🎮 de_dust_2 Rebuilt in WoW

A World of Warcraft player has rebuilt Counter Strike's iconic Dust 2 map inside WoW using its new housing system.

The build got the attention of the official WoW X account. It replied to the post with a joke video of an Orc first-person bunny-hopping with a knife out, asking, "B site when?"

📌 A Hidden Wikipedia Feature Perfect for Curious Travelers

The Wikipedia mobile app has a Nearby tab that surfaces articles about landmarks and locations near you.

Handy for those "I wonder what that building is" moments while exploring a new city. Worth remembering next time curiosity strikes.

Did you know about this?

❤️ — Yes, of course!
🔥 — News to me, saving this

🦍 Scientists Document First Chimpanzee "Civil War"

Scientists have documented the first clear case of a chimpanzee "civil war" in Uganda, where the massive Ngogo community permanently fractured into two rival factions following a leadership change.

Over years of observation, researchers recorded persistent, lethal violence that suggests internal social tensions—rather than external political or religious factors—can drive collective aggression.

As lead author Aaron Sandel concludes, "This study encourages a reevaluation of current models of human collective violence."

🪐 10-Year-Old Girl Asks NASA To Restore Pluto's Planetary Status

A 10-year-old student named Kaela has asked NASA to restore Pluto's status as a planet.

She provided three arguments:

1️⃣ Pluto is part of our solar system and used to be a planet.

2️⃣ It is a dwarf planet and deserves to be considered an actual planet.
3️⃣ It might make a lot of people happy.

Kaela acknowledges that this decision might be outside of NASA's jurisdiction, but asks for their help if possible.

The agency's head, Jared Isaacman, replied to her personally.

"Kaela — We are looking into this," he wrote on X.

Do you think Pluto needs planetary status?

❤️ — Yes, please!
🔥 — No, eight planets are enough

🚀 65 Years Ago, Yuri Gagarin Became the First Human in Space

On the evening of April 11, 1961, Nikolai Kamanin, the head of training for the first cosmonauts, wrote in his diary: “Tomorrow, the greatest feat will be accomplished.”

The very next day, 27-year-old Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force would orbit the Earth, spend 108 minutes in space—and forever go down in history as the first human to travel into space. Since then, April 12 has been celebrated as Cosmonautics Day—the date that marked the beginning of the era of manned spaceflight.

📌 Gagarin didn't enter the space program as a ready-made poster hero, but as a pilot from humble origins: he was born in a village, trained at an aeroclub, and graduated from a flight school. He was chosen for the first flight because of his rare combination of qualities: calmness, quick reflexes, dignity, and also his short stature—just 165 cm (or according to some sources, even 157 cm), since the Vostok-1 spacecraft was extremely compact.

💡 After his flight, Gagarin instantly became a global figure. He traveled all over the world, met with heads of state, represented the Soviet space program, and very quickly became a living symbol of technological breakthrough. At the same time, Gagarin continued to work in cosmonaut training and as a test pilot right up until the tragic flight that ended his life at just 34 years old.

🚀 How Animals React to Zero Gravity

In X, there is a video compilation of different animals reacting to weightlessness in space or special "Zero G" flights.

📱 Reimagining the iPhone Home Screen With AI

Skye is an agentic AI built directly into your iPhone's home screen. It functions as a real-time assistant, continuously analyzing your calendar, to-do lists, fitness data, emails, and more to surface the most relevant, actionable insights exactly when you need them.

Whether it's drafting email replies, flagging suspicious bank charges, or providing one-tap intelligence about your current surroundings (like nearby restaurants or local history), Skye keeps everything you need front and center.

➡️ You can sign up for the beta here. A full App Store release is coming soon.

Bringing AI to your home screen?

❤️ — Yes, this is exactly what I need!
🔥 — No, it's just visual trash

💀 Physics Techer Goes Viral Using "One Piece" to Explain Science

Physics teacher Oliver Castro Jiménez has gone viral for using One Piece to help students better understand his lessons.

He draws Luffy and the Straw Hat crew to explain force, motion, and the laws of physics—turning complex concepts into engaging visual examples.

🍏 Apple May Launch Ultra-Cheap Mac Mini

Apple is reportedly preparing a Mac mini powered by an iPhone chip, following the success of the MacBook Neo.

The rumored Mac Neo could feature 12 GB of RAM and an A19 Pro chip from the iPhone 17 Pro, all in a compact form factor.

Expected price: just $299. This is how Apple may try to capture the entry-level home computer market for casual users.

Would you buy a Mac like this?

❤️ — Absolutely!
🔥 — No, sticking with Windows

🌥 Claude Opus 4.7 Is Out

The new Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 outperforms competitors like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on almost every benchmark (though it still falls well short of the unreleased Mythos Preview).

It follows instructions more reliably, handles complex coding and UI design tasks better, and does a noticeably improved job recognizing high-resolution images and reading charts.

➡️ Already available on claude.ai for paid subscribers.