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This reggae band is in a nightmarish battle against AI Slop remixes

This reggae band is in a nightmarish battle against AI Slop remixes

✨ Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Music,Hit Record ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Reggae music based in California Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, released eight albums, and countless hours on the road, but lead singer and guitarist Scott Woodruff has never seen a song take off like last week's "Angels Before Me."The seven-year-old song reached No. 1 on the iTunes sales charts in six different countries, including the UK, Austria and Canada, and became a hit "out of nowhere," according to Woodruff.Stick Figure has achieved many exciting feats before, with albums…
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PlayStation Emulator Devs Beg People To Stop Spamming AI Code

PlayStation Emulator Devs Beg People To Stop Spamming AI Code

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The team behind RPCS3, the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator, took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users “stop submitting AI slop code pull requests” to its GitHub page. Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted tech bros attempting to justify their vibe-coding nonsense to kick rocks in the replies, which is somewhat less civil but far more entertaining to read. RPCS3 has been around since 2011, and it’s remained the go-to PS3 emulator of choice for the majority of users…
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Google ditches the screen with the new Fitbit Air (2026)

Google ditches the screen with the new Fitbit Air (2026)

🔥 Discover this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Face Off 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Air isn't meant to stand alone so much as serve as a data collector within Google's expanding health software ecosystem. (The company also renamed the Fitbit app "Google Health.") Built on top of the Gemini system, the Health Coach is the brains of the system, promising personalized guidance based on your habits, goals, and biometric data. Instead of just displaying statistics, Google Health Coach translates them into actionable recommendations. It can create workout plans, suggest recovery…
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but the excitement of being able to have a local model do basic tasks, research, and planning, more than makes up for it! No internet connection required! Not to mention that it’s a way of reducing your dependence on big US tech, even if just a tiny bit. I gotta say though,…
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Google renames Fitbit app to Google Health

Google renames Fitbit app to Google Health

✨ Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Crunch Time ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: More than a After a decade since its debut and five years after it was acquired by Google, Fitbit has officially been rebranded as Google Health. As part of the transition, Google also announced plans to discontinue the 12-year-old Google Fit app later this year, though details about migrating user data to Google Health will be released in the coming months.Google introduced a radical redesign of the Fitbit app last year in public beta, centered around a new…
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Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLC’s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the OPC’s press release, this $2 billion bill will cost the state’s consumers an extra $1.6 billion in the next ten years alone — that means an extra $823 million for…
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Anthropic says the “sinister” portrayal of the AI ​​was responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

Anthropic says the “sinister” portrayal of the AI ​​was responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Anthropic,Claude ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Fictional depictions of AI could have a real-world impact on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Cloud Opus 4 often tried to blackmail engineers into avoiding replacing it with another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with “misalignment.” Anthropic has apparently done more work on this behavior, claiming in a post on The company went into more detail in a blog post stating that…
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.I'm working on https://engine.buildIt's a durable orchestration system for AI code generation which solves the problem of not being able to trust LLMs to complete long running (and high quality) implementations without having to babysit…
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Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

💥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,Edward Kim,Gusto,mollie amkraut mueller,tanay kothari,Wispr 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: How will work settings change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent Wall Street Journal feature examines the growing popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be linked to dynamic programming tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette. One venture capitalist said that visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. Gusto co-founder Edward Kim apparently tells his team that in the future, offices…
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SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Most of humanity has a great propensity to think in the short-term, but generally, long-term considerations — air pollution, deforestation and emissions, for example — just aren't our thing. That's partly why scientists are deeply concerned about a recent SpaceX proposal to launch one million satellites — data centres — into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from losing the natural night sky, to losing access to space, to the environmental impact on our atmosphere.At the moment, there are roughly 16,000 satellites orbiting Earth, 14,000 of…
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