'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/18/kaggle-dataset-clinical-models-stroke-diabetes/
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/18/kaggle-dataset-clinical-models-stroke-diabetes/
Retraction Watch
‘Comically bad’ datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes
A dataset on Kaggle purportedly showing people who have had a stroke includes images of Sylvester Stallone from Rambo and other celebrities. Source Scrolling through an online image dataset, Adrian…
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/
https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/
AutoNotion
A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid…
The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company's nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
X (formerly Twitter)
GitHub (@github) on X
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories)…
Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/
https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/
Fivethirtyeightindex
An index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive.
Evals Will Break and You Won't See It Coming
https://wanglun1996.github.io/blog/your-evals-will-break.html
https://wanglun1996.github.io/blog/your-evals-will-break.html
India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indias-hottest-district-banda-shuts-at-10-am-as-mercury-breaches-48-degrees-celsius-mark-101779240653594.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indias-hottest-district-banda-shuts-at-10-am-as-mercury-breaches-48-degrees-celsius-mark-101779240653594.html
Hindustan Times
India’s hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 degrees Celsius mark
The sustained readings have placed Banda among India’s most extreme heat locations, a distinction long associated with Rajasthan's Churu and Jaisalmer. | India News
Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates
https://www.macobserver.com/news/ex-apple-software-engineer-claims-apple-deliberately-slows-down-old-iphone-models/
https://www.macobserver.com/news/ex-apple-software-engineer-claims-apple-deliberately-slows-down-old-iphone-models/
The Mac Observer
Ex-Apple Software Engineer Claims Apple Deliberately Slows Down Old iPhone Models
A viral video from an alleged former software engineer claims older iPhones are slowed down on purpose to force upgrades, sparking fresh debate online.
Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
blog.habets.se
Everything in C is undefined behavior
If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I wi...
The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/05/14/the-weird-wild-story-of-humanitys-obsession-with-gold
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/05/14/the-weird-wild-story-of-humanitys-obsession-with-gold
The Economist
The weird, wild story of humanity’s obsession with gold
A new book charts the gilded history of an ancient asset
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/01/rust-with-ai.html
https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/01/rust-with-ai.html
Cheng Huang’s corner
Learnings from 100K Lines of Rust with AI
In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that not only implements all the features of Azure’s Replicated…
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/college-students-drown-out-ai-praising-commencement-speeches-with-boos-deal-with-it-one-speaker-fires-back-as-students-heckle-positive-pitches-for-ais-role
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/college-students-drown-out-ai-praising-commencement-speeches-with-boos-deal-with-it-one-speaker-fires-back-as-students-heckle-positive-pitches-for-ais-role
Tom's Hardware
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle…
Arizona students reject ex-Google exec's positive words on AI
Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/
Torrentfreak
Anna's Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order * TorrentFreak
A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.
560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
https://bmjgroup.com/560-610-minutes-of-exercise-a-week-needed-for-substantial-heart-benefits/
https://bmjgroup.com/560-610-minutes-of-exercise-a-week-needed-for-substantial-heart-benefits/
BMJ Group - Helping doctors make better decisions
560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
Current exercise guidelines are too low, suggest researchers Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to get the same benefits Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial…