DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
The Eclectic Light Company
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo?
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
Drive
Mercedes-Benz join the list of manufacturers admitting that touch-sensitive controls were a mistake
Another brand backflips and admits that touch-sensitive buttons for frequently used controls were a mistake.
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BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
PartyOn
nullagent (@nullagent@partyon.xyz)
Announcing the BYOMesh!
We've been hard at work designing what I believe is now the worlds SMALLEST & most CAPABLE LoRa companion dev kit ever!
It combines the tried and true SX1276 allowing access to the full sub-1GHz ISM band all mesh enthusiast know…
We've been hard at work designing what I believe is now the worlds SMALLEST & most CAPABLE LoRa companion dev kit ever!
It combines the tried and true SX1276 allowing access to the full sub-1GHz ISM band all mesh enthusiast know…
Talking to strangers at the gym https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are…
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude…
Three Inverse Laws of AI https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
Google
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
The Cloudflare Blog
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no…
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
catstret.ch
setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
fresh OI install, clean slate, let's see how well the updated OI Sun Ray support works
Virtual violin produces realistic sounds https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429
MIT News
MIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds
MIT researchers developed a “computational violin” — the first computer simulation that captures the detailed physics of the instrument and realistically produces the sound of a violin when its strings are plucked. Violin makers could use the model to test…
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license
Digital Foundry
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Modders, start your engines.
Ted Turner has died https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
CNN
CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87 | CNN
Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
Anthropic
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem https://tilde.run/
tilde.run
tilde.run - Let AI agents loose on production. Without the risk.
Run AI agents and pipelines on real production data. Every run is a transaction you can roll back, with every network call audited.