2. Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
At Google I/O we released Gemini 3.5, our latest series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.
3. I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
4. Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (www.npr.org)
While dozens of states have taken legal action against the controversial industry, Minnesota is the first state to pass a law making it a felony for companies like Kalshi and Polymarket to operate.
5. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …
6. New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence (www.apple.com)
Apple announced major accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, including new capabilities for VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.
7. Google changes its search box (blog.google)
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
8. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com)
A Python framework for self-hosted LLM tool-calling and multi-step agentic workflows - antoinezambelli/forge
9. Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
Shot from 90 perspectives, 88 focus stacked images each. Nikon Z8, full frame, f/7.1, exposure 1/160, ISO 100, Laowa 180mm macro lens, with LED light and blu...
10. Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (www.autonocion.com)
The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company's nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and
11. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
12. Disney Erased FiveThirtyEight (www.natesilver.net)
14. Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
15. Remove AI Watermarks (github.com)
CLI and library for removing visible (Gemini) and invisible (SynthID, C2PA, EXIF) AI watermarks from images - wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
17. Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack (www.emmi.ai)
18. OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media.
19. Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
20. Peter Neumann has died (www.tuhs.org)
21. Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV (www.vaticannews.va)
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, will be released on May ...
23. Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
Can you get all 100 numbers?
24. Polypad (polypad.amplify.com)
25. Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com)
A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users. Contribute to Diolinux/PhotoGIMP development by creating an account on GitHub.
26. Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die (nesbitt.io)
How your dependencies became Bernies
28. Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (nicholas.carlini.com)
I wrote a (list of) regular expressions that will play a (not very good) chess game by running a 2-ply minimax search.
29. Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver (www.kv4p.com)
30. Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action (blog.google)
At Google I/O we released Gemini 3.5, our latest series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.