1. Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (fightchatcontrol.eu)
What is the difference between Chat Control 1.0 and Chat Control 2.0? A clear overview of both EU laws, their timelines, and where things stand today.
2. StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (streetcomplete.app)
OpenStreetMap surveyor app
3. All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face (allaboutcookies.org)
The EU's new mandatory ADDW rules could make roads safer by altering distracted drivers, but its privacy safeguards and data handling rules remain a gray area.
4. Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software (gamefromscratch.com)
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
5. Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament (www.heise.de)
With a procedural trick, proponents in the EU Parliament are pushing for reactivation of indiscriminate scans of chat messages shortly before the summer break.
6. 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (30papers.com)
A curated reading list of foundational AI and deep learning papers, hosted in full with plain-language explanations of difficult terms.
7. Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (github.com)
The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand - MaximeRivest/riddle
8. A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Support my channel at https://awesomeforsale.com/Learn a better way to tie a drawstring knot that stays secure but is easy to adjust and release. This step-b...
9. 98% Isn't Much (whynothugo.nl)
10. Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)
Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy.
11. Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (davit.app)
Free, open-source, fully native. Run Linux containers on Apple silicon with Apple
12. How to sequence your own DNA at home (bradleywoolf.com)
I have now sequenced my own genome 5 times with an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION. This means collecting them from a swab, prepping them for sequencing, running them through a sequencer, then doing analysis over them.
13. Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
To coding agents what tmux is to terminals. Runs where your agents run: close the laptop, ssh from anywhere, nothing dies.
14. China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes (www.bbc.com)
The 69-year-old helped companies secure valuable contracts in exchange for money, a court heard.
15. Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)
16. Amazon Without the Knockoffs (knockoff.shopping)
A free, fair-source Chrome extension that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon search results.
17. Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM) (ternlight-demo.vercel.app)
On-device sentence embeddings — engine, weights, and tokenizer in 7 MB of WASM. Search the React docs entirely on your CPU.
18. Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch) (www.nwo.nl)
Het Tulp Fonds dat in 2025 door OCW en NWO in het leven werd geroepen, biedt internationale toponderzoekers de kans om hun onderzoek in Nederland voort te zetten: enerzijds omdat wereldwijd de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, anderzijds omdat hun kennis en expertise een enorme impuls geeft aan de innovatiekracht van Nederland. De eerste voordrachten vanuit kennisinstellingen zijn inmiddels gehonoreerd, zodat 34 toponderzoekers die onderzoek doen op voor Nederland urgente vraagstukken ons kennislandschap zullen komen verrijken en versterken.
19. Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal (www.euronews.com)
The Manifesto Library is located inside Livraria Lello in Porto, and is dedicated to books “that challenge power, censorship, exclusion, and dominant narratives.”
20. Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again (www.dw.com)
21. Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks (spectrum.ieee.org)
In places with unreliable networks and no data-center infrastructure, smaller is better
22. Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (pgdog.dev)
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
23. Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors (ciphercue.com)
Vendor attribution study of 19,450 European company websites. Cloudflare is the largest internet-facing infrastructure vendor in every one of seven EU markets.
24. Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com)
Open-source AI coworker, with memory. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.
25. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font (github.com)
A QR code generator in a TrueType font: https://qr.jim.sh/ - jimparis/qr-font
26. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
