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Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-insider-trading.html

iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity

https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphones-running-ios-26-freeze-facetime-calls-when-theres-nudity

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/

Can we have the day off?

https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/

Internet traffic in Iran increasing

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d

On Labubu and the Hyperreal

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260525.html

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle/

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08

I found a second vote.gov – and it's registered to the White House

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS

https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

https://www.theverge.com/games/938340/valve-steam-deck-price-increase

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/canada-sweden-saab-globaleye-aircraft

SimCity 3k in 4k

https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html

XLIDE: VBA without excel

https://github.com/WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vscode

Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s

https://brilliantmaps.com/cia-maps-1980s/

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/

The VibeSec Reckoning

https://martinfowler.com/articles/vibesec-reckoning.html

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/

PostHog will train AI models with your data (opt-in by default)

https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models

Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-benchmarks

Last.fm is now independent

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says

Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/lombardy-introduces-increased-charges-of-up-to-200-per-cent-for-data-centre-construction-in-green-and-agricultural-areas-AI6Jp4ID

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273

TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

https://tsduck.io/

Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services

https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about

I'm Tired of Talking to AI

https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/

Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice

https://abc7news.com/post/bay-area-mom-thousands-scammers-use-ai-mimic-daughters-voice-fake-kidnapping-part-growing-trend/19154381/

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/

Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio

https://codeberg.org/lindenii/tunecat/

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-just-say-no-engineer-was-a-zirp-phenomenon/

From Rust to Ruby

https://xlii.space/eng/from-rust-to-ruby/

Where does next-token prediction leave us?

https://pop.rdi.sh/where-does-next-token-prediction-leave-us/

Scientists say they've reversed brain aging in mice with a nasal spray

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022018.htm

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war

https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/docs/en-US/welcome

AI tools are only as good as your judgment

https://theaileverageweekly.com/posts/your-ai-tools-are-only-as-good-as-your-judgment-and-that-s-the-point.html

Sonny Rollins, Jazz's Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sonny-rollins-jazz-legend-saxophone-colossus-dead-obit-1234715446/

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-country/

Cloudflare Flagship

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

https://www.gingerlime.com/2026/stripe-seem-friendly-to-friendly-fraud/

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, incl violent assaults on cops

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5834992