London Mayor Blocks Palantir
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir
the Guardian
Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir
Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing
Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid
https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/
https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/
Discover SWNS
Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid - Discover SWNS
A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored - thanks to specially-developed chewing gum.
Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]
https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf
https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/
https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/
Crocidb
This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarking the blog from four continents.
Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460
arXiv.org
Multi-Stream LLMs: Unblocking Language Models with Parallel...
The continued improvements in language model capability have unlocked their widespread use as drivers of autonomous agents, for example in coding or computer use applications. However, the core of...
Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries
https://www.dontbeasucker.blog/p/the-butterflies-in-your-stomach
https://www.dontbeasucker.blog/p/the-butterflies-in-your-stomach
www.dontbeasucker.blog
The Butterflies in Your Stomach Are Planning a Coup
It only took 250 years for American elites to forget why they hated monarchy
Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126
https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126
Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT
https://pythongiant.github.io/KVBoost/
https://pythongiant.github.io/KVBoost/
Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/
https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/
404 Media
How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
After five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Radnor Township High School in Pennsylvania has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grapple with how to response to deepfake crimes involving children.
FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time - FSFE
The Free Software Foundation Europe has been granted permission to intervene at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case T-359/25 - Apple aga...
Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
ModelRift — OpenSCAD code editor & AI 3D model builder
OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon | ModelRift Blog
A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat
https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat
GitHub
GitHub - unprovable/ShadowCat: Single file optical file transfer using a browser
Single file optical file transfer using a browser. Contribute to unprovable/ShadowCat development by creating an account on GitHub.
Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circle-medical/jobs/onMKAG9-mobile-engineer-android
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circle-medical/jobs/onMKAG9-mobile-engineer-android
Y Combinator
Mobile Engineer (Android) at Circle Medical | Y Combinator
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