Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side
After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax.
TUESDAY, 05 MAY 2026, 01:38
After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax.

HOUSTON, TX Blockware, a vertically integrated infrastructure platform spanning AI/HPC compute infrastructure, Bitcoin Mining, data center hosting, and marketplace liquidity, today announced a strategic partnership with MicroBT, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of Bitcoin mining hardware. The partnership pairs a large strategic investment in Blockware with a long-term procurement...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It’s been an epoch in AI since then, and while DeepSeek has released...
Oakland, Calif., where Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, starts on Monday, is not exactly known as a hub of the tech industry.
The impact of the ruling was not immediately clear, but it could send a chilling signal to Chinese tech founders seeking to team up with foreign companies.
Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest financial partner, will to continue to license the start-up’s technology but will no longer be its exclusive licensee.

Industry warns national treasury’s biggest exchange-control rewrite in 60 years could undo South Africa’s hard-won crypto gains.

The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and OpenAI may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary.

Experts say counterfeits lack UV filters, increasing the risk of eye damage, and urge shoppers to check for safety marks
While many will be enjoying the spring sunshine, experts have cautioned against wearing fake designer sunglasses, warning they could do more harm than good.
As the College of Optometrists notes, sunglasses not only protect the eyes against glare on sunny days, but can also...

It comes after months of scrutiny by Chinese regulators over deal struck with Facebook owner.
“There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States,” says Andy Hunter, the founder/CEO of Bookshop.org.Fast Company checks in on his site, which gives over 80% of its profit margin to independent bookstores, structuring itself as a B Corporation (a for-profit company certified for its social-impact) while providing an alternative to Amazon and other...

The horror of sports lessons put three in 10 of British 50 to 65-year-olds off exercise for life. I wish I’d known sooner that movement can feel so good
Surprising news: three in 10 50- to 65-year-olds in a recent Age UK survey said school sports memories had put them off exercise “for life”. Only three in 10? When it comes to exercise, there are surely two kinds of people – the handful...
Public stock exchanges “appear to be warming to climate tech startups,” reports TechCrunch. “Or at least some of them.”This week, nuclear startup X-energy went public, raising $1 billion in an upsized share offering that appears to have delivered a windfall for its investors, including Amazon [and Google]. Retail investors apparently can’t get enough, with the stock popping 25% in its first...

This puzzle has bite
Did you hear about the snake that liked maths?
I’m sure you did – it’s one of the oldest jokes in the book.*
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Study finds monitoring and adjustment of medication where needed can help protect mothers’ heart health
New mothers who had hypertension in pregnancy could reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and potentially early death through daily blood pressure checks at home, research suggests.
Women who regularly monitored their blood pressure in the weeks after giving birth, and had doctors tailor...

Recognised since antiquity, the constellation has a rich mythological tradition
The northern hemisphere’s spring evenings are dominated by the unmistakable outline of Leo, one of the few constellations that resembles the creature it represents, the lion.
Leo is most easily identified by its distinctive “backwards” question mark, referred to by astronomers as the “sickle” asterism and...

Prendwick, Northumberland: On a crisp, cold walk, I’m reminded that winter still clings on, and that familiar constellations are far from alone
The red sun rising over the radar station on Alnwick Moor picks out the tall shape of a hare at our end of the meadow. It lopes forward a little way – forever appearing, as hares always do, to be on the brink of a forward roll – and then pauses,...

Inaudible infrasound from old pipes and ventilation systems may affect how people feel, research indicates
For believers in the paranormal, unsettling sensations brought on by old buildings can be a sinister hint of loitering spirits. But new research points to a more mundane explanation: inaudible sounds from aged pipes and boilers.
Scientists investigated the impact of infrasound on a group...
“California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Oregon and Washington have all passed comprehensive right-to-repair regulations,” reports CNBC, “covering everything from consumer electronics and farm equipment to wheelchairs and automobiles.” And the consumer movement “continues to gain political momentum” across America…As of this year, advocates are tracking 57 right-to-repair bills...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres:Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene… Now the Supreme...
Are AI agents already facing Indirect Prompt Injection attacks? Google’s Threat Intelligence teams searched for known attacks that would target AI systems browsing the web, using Common Crawl’s repository of billions of pages from the public web).We observed a number of websites that attempt to vandalize the machine of anyone using AI assistants. If executed, the commands in this example would...