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A few words on DS4

http://antirez.com/news/165

I didn’t expect DwarfStar 4 (https://github.com/antirez/ds4) to become so popular so fast. It is clear that there was a need for single-model integration focused local AI experience, and that a few things happened together: the release of a quasi-frontier model that is large ...

WIRED
14 May 21:15 • Emily Mullin

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms.

Daring Fireball
14 May 20:54 • John Gruber

Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute

geoffreyfowler.substack.com/p/what-is-ai-doing-to-our-kids-im-going

Geoffrey Fowler, on his blog, which, alas, he calls “a Substack”: I’m joining the Youth AI Safety Institute as its first new employee. It’s a research and testing organization launching today under the umbrella of children’s nonprofit Common Sense Media. Backed by a $20 ...

Open Source with Christopher Lydon
14 May 20:46 • Adam

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

We’re talking about the new magic of money, or Musk-ism, as our guests call it. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff are historians of different sorts—historians of the future. Oddly enough, their hair-raising new book is ...

The post Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

Changelog
14 May 20:38 • John O'Nolan

Easy theme editing

Make quick changes to your theme code, directly in Ghost

WIRED
14 May 20:30 • Paresh Dave

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
14 May 20:18 • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is bringing Codex to the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android. It was previously

The post OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app appeared first on The New Stack.

Defector
14 May 20:18 • David Roth

The “Too Large” Gesture, With Patrick Redford

Here's a little secret about elite performers: They're always working to get better at their craft. The example I tend to use is Patrick Redford, who hosts both the Nothing But Respect and Only If You Get Caught podcasts here at Defector, but who is also always in the lab. H...

kottke.org
14 May 20:09 • Jason Kottke

How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President

One of the biggest assholes in the Trump regime is Russell Vought — and that’s really saying something; it’s a fierce competition. He’s the guy who said in 2023 that he wanted to put federal workers “in trauma”. ProPublica produced a video in Oct 2025 about how Vought is a...

McSweeney’s
14 May 20:06 • Andy Orin

I Cannot Throw Away USB Cables, and It Is Becoming a Problem

Oh, I see you are reading this on a device. Perhaps you need to top off your battery? Do you need a cable for that? A USB cable? Because I have an assortment. I have somehow accumulated several lifetimes’ worth of USB cables, and I cannot get rid of them. How about a 1.0, 2....

Daring Fireball
14 May 19:42 • John Gruber

Tim Cook Is in Trump’s Executive Entourage for China Summit

the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-tim-cook-trump-china-tech-ceo-b2975568.html

Owen Scott, reporting for The Independent:

The list of tech and financial industry titans joining the commander-in-chief during his summit with China’s president Xi Jinping includes Elon Musk, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. [...]

Trump earlier confirmed a number of high-profile attendees in a lengthy post on Truth Social, albeit referring to Cook as “Tim Apple” in the process.

While he’s in such a jocular nickname-y mood, he should drop a reference to Winnie the Pooh into some of these posts on his blog.

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Defector
14 May 19:30 • David Roth

Mark Vientos Just Kind Of Falling Down Tells The Story Of The Mets’ Season

When you lay out the chain of events that have led to Mark Vientos playing first base for the New York Mets every day, it becomes less surprising that the Mets have been one of the worst teams in baseball this season. During the winter, the organization made the decision, wh...

WIRED
14 May 19:09 • Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger

Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.

WIRED
14 May 19:06 • Louryn Strampe

Early Memorial Day Tech Deals: Sony, Apple, Beats (2026)

Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day.

Daring Fireball
14 May 19:06 • John Gruber

Google Announces Its Chromebook Successor: The Googlebook

theverge.com/tech/928479/google-googlebook-laptops-android-tease-aluminium-chromebook?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjNVSjlWdlZESmgiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTI4NDc5L2dvb2dsZS1nb29nbGVib29rLWxhcHRvcHMtYW5kcm9pZC10ZWFzZS1hbHVtaW5pdW0tY2hyb21lYm9vayIsImV4cCI6MTc3OTIxNjg2NiwiaWF0IjoxNzc4Nzg0ODY2fQ.a74WT34THV0Ih1pGO7NH4daq39ytQXdhO4EAgE6HCeI

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google’s Android Show. Bu...

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
14 May 19:03 • Manuel Moreale

Accepting tradeoffs

I live in a very quiet place. There are 30 or so people here, only one road that sees very little traffic, and woods all around us. I wake up with birds chirping, and most of the day, that’s all I can hear around me. At the same time, public transport is pretty much non-exis...

Defector
14 May 19:00 • Patrick Redford

Even A Bad Valkyries Game Is A Pretty Great Time

SAN FRANCISCO — Stuffed with dumplings, walking off the 22 bus past my neurologists' office and across Third Street up to the Golden State Valkyries' arena with the sun at our backs, I told my friend that the first thing he needed to know about the Chicago Sky is that they w...

A working library
14 May 18:57