Thursday, May 07, 2026
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Shell’s profits jump as Iran war delivers windfall
Financial Times · Thu 07 May, 08:04
Energy major warns of lower gas production after damage to its facilities in the Gulf
Financial Times
Emirates soars to record profit despite Iran war grounding planes
Dubai airline says it has restored most flights after conflict closed airspace and sent jet fuel prices soaring
Financial Times
Inside the Mandelson scandal: ‘Keir didn’t even like him’
How the prime minister’s search for a political operator to liaise with Donald Trump dramatically backfired
Financial Times
The leverage layer cake behind HSBC’s private credit losses
HSBC did not lend to collapsed mortgage provider MFS. It took a $400mn hit anyway
Financial Times
Apple, Berkshire and the virtue of patience
Waiting for outstanding opportunities has paid off but it is getting increasingly difficult
BBC News
Two Britons self-isolating in UK after leaving hantavirus cruise ship
A British man is among three people evacuated from the ship while two other Britons are self-isolating in the UK.
BBC News
Watch: Passengers told virus-hit ship 'not infectious' after first death
YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was on board the ship, and filmed the announcement made on 12 April.
BBC News
Iran considering US proposal as Trump says war will be 'over quickly'
Mediator Pakistan says it is "endeavouring to convert this ceasefire into a permanent end to this war".
BBC News
Shocking stories of nursery abuse have emerged. Now cameras may be used to prevent more
With reports of abuse and deaths fuelling concern among parents, questions are growing over whether CCTV can offer...
The Economist
Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia
Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia The Economist
The Economist
How worried should you be about hantavirus?
How worried should you be about hantavirus? The Economist
NYT Europe
Starmer Braces for Local Election Losses Amid New Era of UK Politics
Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform...
NYT Europe
Starmer Faces a Major Test in a Set of UK Elections: What to Know
Local elections in England, and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, take place on Thursday. The governing...
The Telegraph
‘Build it and they will come’: How to turn your garden into a hedgehog haven
From DIY shelters to simple feeding tricks, readers reveal their tips for helping hedgehogs thrive in their gardens
The Telegraph
Irrepressible PSG show size of task facing Arsenal in Champions League final
Irrepressible PSG show size of task facing Arsenal in Champions League final
Wales
BBC Wales
Drivers 'chucking stuff out of windows' blamed as litter on 99% of main roads
Sweet wrappers, drinks containers and fast-food packaging were the most common items, campaigners said.
BBC Wales
Attenborough superfan, 6, draws 100th animal for broadcaster's birthday
Despite the 94-year age gap, six-year-old Max Evans-Browning calls Sir David his "favourite person".
BBC Wales
Polls open for voting in Senedd election
Polling stations open across Wales to elect 96 members to the expanded Welsh Parliament.
BBC Wales
Bonnie Tyler recovering after being taken to hospital for surgery
The Total Eclipse of the Heart singer is being treated in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home.
Sport
BBC Sport · Football
From ego-ridden team to complete package - why PSG pose ultimate test
Luis Enrique's expertise at rebuilding a culture as well as a team means Arsenal will confront the complete package...
BBC Sport
The AI fitness instructors selling unreal gains
A BBC Sport investigation finds misleading adverts for fitness apps that use AI-generated instructors to make...
BBC Sport · Football
Late Bayern pressure not enough as PSG return to Champions League final
Harry Kane's injury-time equaliser earns Bayern Munich a 1-1 second leg draw at the Allianz Arena as holders PSG...
BBC Sport · Football
Inside Man City's WSL title-winning season
Manchester City have won a first Women's Super League title in 10 years - but how did they achieve it?
The Race · F1
The biggest annoyance drivers still have with 2026 F1 cars
Though the rule tweaks for Miami helped, F1 would be to wrong to feel drivers are now happy with the 2026 cars
The Race · F1
Why F1's slowest car has a new urgent problem to fix
Aston Martin and Honda have addressed their biggest F1 problem but as the issues run so deep, there is immediately...
The Race
Gary Anderson's take on the grey areas Ferrari's exploiting
Some of Ferrari's latest F1 car upgrades are pushing the limits of the 2026 rules, reckons Gary Anderson
The Race · F1
What's going on with Mercedes' 'unacceptable' F1 starts
While Mercedes remains unbeaten in grands prix, it has another less enviable streak in 2026
Formula 1 Official
The transformative upgrades behind Red Bull's turnaround
Mark Hughes examines the extensive changes that Red Bull made to the RB22 for the Miami Grand Prix weekend.
Formula 1 Official
All the sports megastars at the Miami Grand Prix
Formula 1 always attracts sporting royalty, but Miami took it to another level – here are all the megastars at the...
ESPN Cricinfo · Cricket
Former India Under-19 cricketer Amanpreet Singh Gill dies at 36
Amanpreet Singh Gill played youth one-dayers and a three-day Test in 2007, touring England, Malaysia and Sri Lanka...
ESPN Cricinfo
Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood unlikely for Pakistan ODIs as dates overlap with IPL
Australia's three-match ODI tour will begin on May 30 in Rawalpindi before the final two matches are played on June...
Science
New Scientist
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally beginning to...
New Scientist
Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone...
New Scientist
Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think
Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these...
New Scientist
Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread...
Nature
Author Correction: Enteric neurons increase maternal food intake during reproduction
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10201-7Author Correction: Enteric neurons increase...
Nature
Author Correction: Multidimensional profiling of heterogeneity in supratentorial ependymomas
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10602-8Author Correction: Multidimensional profiling...
Nature
Anaesthetized brains can still process podcasts
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01480-1Neuronal recordings taken during surgery reveal...
Nature
Two-qubit logic and teleportation with mobile spin qubits in silicon
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10423-9A device architecture comprising silicon-based...
Technology
The Verge
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis...
The Verge
Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2
It turns out Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just...
The Verge
Google shuts down Project Mariner
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the...
The Verge
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington...
Techcrunch
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference...
Techcrunch
A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
Techcrunch
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Techcrunch
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Wired
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Hacker News · 1334 pts
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Hacker News · 1040 pts
Appearing productive in the workplace
Hacker News · 108 pts
Permacomputing Principles
Hacker News · 68 pts
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
Hacker News · 181 pts
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Reading List
Microsoft Earnings, Apple Earnings
Stratechery
Microsoft unveils its new agentic business model, and Apple confronts shortages in memory and...
Scientific Papers
Computer science
LCM: Lossless Context Management
Constraint-Aware Execution Planning for Hybrid Space-Ground Compute Workloads
Endogenous Regime Switching Driven by Scalar-Irreducible Learning Dynamics
Economics
The Adversarial Discount - AI, Signal Correlation, and the Cybersecurity Arms Race
Scalable Structural Estimation of Networked Infrastructure: Exact Decomposition for Localized Coordination
It's complicated: A Non-parametric Test of Preference Stability between Singles and Couples
Congenital Heart Block
Comorbidities in parents of individuals with congenital heart block: a Swedish nationwide study
Diagnostic Yield of Serial PR Interval Screening for Fetal Heart Block in Anti-SSA/SSB Pregnancies
The Prevalence of Fetal Complete Heart Block and the Role of Positive Autoantibodies in Pregnant Women with Rheumatologic Diseases
Maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnancies affected by mixed connective tissue disease
Prenatal Diagnosis of Immune-Mediated Fetal Complete Heart Block Revealing Maternal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus