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John Gruber

Nextpad++

notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/

Windows Notepad is, more or less, the Windows peer to MacOS’s TextEdit — the built-in system text editor. For years, it was really basic — more basic than TextEdit. Recently Microsoft has started beefing it up, though, culminating last year when they added fucking Markdown s...

CogDogBlog
• CogDog The Blog

The Best Holes of Curiosity

… are the ones you dig yourself. After more years than I prefer to calculate, little matches the joy and super charge energy of a session of web rabbit holing, of hopping from one link to another, and finding something at the other end I might never have thought existed. That’s what the web, with […]

WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave

Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI Onto His Kids, Sam Altman Says

Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.

WIRED
• Molly Taft

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Before the Spurs game, moment of silence for Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins… but then it fades to a Draft Kings commercial. Really in poor taste. I don’t think I had strong opinions about all the gambling promotion until now. 🏀

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois

The new FinOps problem isn’t cloud bills

At Google Cloud Next 2026, Finout co-founder and CEO Roi Ravhon and Google Cloud FinOps lead Pathik Sharma discussed how FinOps is rapidly evolving for the AI era.

At Google Cloud Next this month in Las Vegas, The New Stack sat down with Finout co-founder and CEO Roi

The post The new FinOps problem isn’t cloud bills appeared first on The New Stack.

WIRED
• Will Knight

The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy

China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

Google approved two of our apps in less than an hour today, one app in what felt like minutes. Maybe they are automating more of the review? Whatever they’re doing, I like it.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

I should’ve had tacos for lunch. Obama stops in Austin for a visit:

Former President Barack Obama stopped by an Austin taco restaurant Tuesday afternoon alongside Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico and gubernatorial hopeful state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, according to videos shared online.

Scripting News Valid

I have regained control of my Twitter account. I really missed it, truth be told. Thanks to Scoble for helping here. As he so often has.

Scripting News Valid

This bit of code kept coming up, so I wanted to make it easier to find.

WIRED
• Lily Hay Newman

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world's most valuable data.

Daring Fireball Valid
John Gruber

Kagi Snaps

help.kagi.com/kagi/features/snaps.html

Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com (r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is effectively the same as do...

Lever Time - The Lever Supports Webmention
• David Sirota

Morris Katz: Can the Mamdani Maker Do It Again?

Morris Katz: Can the Mamdani Maker Do It Again?

The upstart strategist behind Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win believes the Democratic Party is broken — and candidates like Graham Platner can rebuild it.

WIRED
• Ej Dickson

MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility

RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.

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John Gruber

Seriously, Give Kagi a Try

daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google, I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a specific article I remember r...

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John Gruber

Search Ads as a Vector for Travel Scams

wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the-simple-travel-scam-that-cost-a-seasoned-traveler-over-12-000-7d317f20?st=WDTpv5

Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-service number. (There...

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

I’ve avoided essentially live-blogging the OpenAI trial, because I know everyone is sick of AI, but maybe I should have blogged a little more. I’ve listened to significant portions of the testimony, probably 10-15 hours over the last week. Feels like it’s winding down now that Sam Altman is done.

@prisonjournalism.bsky.social - Prison Journalism Project

I put hope on layaway after being sentenced to life without parole, but a recent event made me optimistic again. https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/05/12/has-real-change-finally-come-for-californias-lwop-community/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky

WIRED
• Jeremy White

The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Collaboration Is Here for Real

With Instagram awash with inaccurate AI-generated concepts for its Royal Pop collab, Swatch was forced to reveal the genuine article.