Mozilla draws a hard line on Chrome’s Prompt API, Mozilla itself uses Claude Mythos to fix 423 Firefox security bugs in a single month, LinkedIn is caught fingerprinting browser extensions on every request, Shai-Hulud lands in PyTorch Lightning, and Anthropic teams up with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman to spin up an enterprise AI services company. Meanwhile V2EX is having a Claude-Code-fatigue moment.
Louis Rossmann picks up the legal tab for the OrcaSlicer dev Bambu Lab is suing, NYT documents how Meta’s AI push is grinding employees down, Debian commits to reproducible packages as a release requirement, Zed ships a theme builder, a fresh FreeBSD execve LPE drops, and Simon Willison highlights Andrew Quinn’s case for reinventing four wheels — but not a thousand.
Louis Rossmann picks up the legal tab for the OrcaSlicer dev Bambu Lab is suing, NYT documents how Meta’s AI push is grinding employees down, Debian commits to reproducible packages as a release requirement, Zed ships a theme builder, a fresh FreeBSD execve LPE drops, and Simon Willison highlights Andrew Quinn’s case for reinventing four wheels — but not a thousand.
Google quietly broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android, a viral ‘I went back to AWS’ postmortem hits 732 points, Bun’s Rust rewrite crosses 99.8% test compat, Timothy Gowers walks through using ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on real math, and the EU calls VPNs a loophole to be closed. Plus Simon Willison’s piece on the WebRTC voice-AI problem and a fresh io_uring zcrx LPE.
Google quietly broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android, a viral ‘I went back to AWS’ postmortem hits 732 points, Bun’s Rust rewrite crosses 99.8% test compat, Timothy Gowers walks through using ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on real math, and the EU calls VPNs a loophole to be closed. Plus Simon Willison’s piece on the WebRTC voice-AI problem and a fresh io_uring zcrx LPE.
Simon Willison breaks down what the xAI/Anthropic Colossus deal actually means, HN argues agents need control flow not more prompts, AI slop debate hits the front page again, Anthropic ships a finance-agents stack, Google DeepMind publishes AlphaEvolve impact, and Chrome quietly retracts its on-device AI privacy claim.
Simon Willison admits vibe coding and agentic engineering are collapsing into one thing, Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro is 75% off through May 31, AWS’s Middle East UAE region needs months more to recover, and TypeScript 7.0 Beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler.
Cloudflare lets agents create accounts, buy domains, and deploy on their own; Anthropic raises Claude limits and signs a SpaceX compute deal; Valve open-sources Steam Controller CADs under CC; AWS Middle East UAE region still months from full recovery.
Chrome silently installs a 4GB Gemini Nano model, Bun ports its core from Zig to Rust, an Async Rust ‘still MVP’ rebuttal goes viral, Google ships Gemma 4 with speculative decoding, Coinbase cuts ~14% of staff.
GameStop bids $55.5B for eBay, Microsoft Edge keeps all passwords in process memory in plain text, an ‘I’m worried about Bun’ post lands the same week as the Zig→Rust commit, OpenAI walks through low-latency voice infra, GitHub has another incident, and the EU mandates removable phone batteries from 2027.
Kimi K2.6 beats Claude/GPT-5.5/Gemini on a coding challenge, DeepClaude pairs Claude Code’s loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenAI’s o1 outperforms ER doctors on triage, ‘Agentic Coding Is a Trap’ lands, Mercedes commits to physical buttons, and TUIs are back.
VSCode auto-injects ‘Co-Authored-by: Copilot’ into commits whether or not you used Copilot (1500+ comments), VideoLAN’s dav2d ships an open AV2 decoder, NetHack 5.0 finally lands, Ladybird posts April progress, Ask.com shuts down, Russia Poisons Wikipedia.
Simon Willison calls DeepSeek V4 ‘almost on the frontier’, Uber burns its 2026 AI budget in four months (entirely on Claude Code), Grok 4.3 ships, Apple accidentally bundles a CLAUDE.md file in its Support app, the TI-84 Evo, and Spotify adds Verified human-artist badges.