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…
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
Literary Hub
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.
Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here. We also updated …
Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility. — Beyond Plastics …
A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
OpenAI
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-opens-into-starbase-worker-death/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-opens-into-starbase-worker-death/
Scientific American
SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker’s death
SpaceX is now targeting the evening of May 21 to launch the latest and largest version of its Starship megarocket for the first time