Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to
The Economist
Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don’t want to
That means targeting mechanisms engineered to rewire the brain’s reward system, writes Marie Potel-Saville
1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
Electrek
1966 Ford Mustang converted into a Tesla with working 'Full Self-Driving'
A Tesla auto parts shop owner in Sacramento spent about $40,000 and two years converting a 1966 Ford Mustang into...
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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
Strix
Securing a DoD Contractor: Finding a Multi-Tenant Authorization Vulnerability - Strix
Zero tenant isolation, exposed military training data, and a five-month responsible disclosure timeline.
Heat pump sales rise across Europe https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-prices-surge/
pv magazine
Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge
Residential heat pump sales increased 17% across 11 European countries in the first quarter of 2026, following a sharp rise in gas and oil prices after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in March, says the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730
X (formerly Twitter)
Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning (@L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N) on X
Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords into memory in cleartext — even when you’re not using them.
Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database https://pomiferous.com/
Pomiferous
Pomiferous home
The worlds most extensive apples website
“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-kerbal-space-program-and-they-have-an-ex-spacex-engineer-on-the-team-interview
Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-03/trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-opaque-trusts-that-rival-etfs
Bloomberg.com
Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow Into Opaque Trusts
A little-talked about investment product is taking over the 401(k) world, and offering asset managers a way to increase exposure to private markets.
Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra
Sierra
Better customer experiences. Built on Sierra
We’re raising $950 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of over $15 billion. We have never had such conviction in the opportunity for Sierra and our customers.
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html
Nytimes
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
OpenAI
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.
Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story
stripe.dev
Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.
Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/04/28/2003856358
TAIPEI TIMES
Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
the Guardian
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say
Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/testing-macos-on-apple-network-server.html
Blogspot
Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs
It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server , Apple's first through-and-through...
Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
GitHub
docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2