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Israel rushed laser system to UAE to fend off Iran’s missiles
Financial Times · Thu 30 Apr, 21:00
Deployment of equipment is one of the first examples of major defence co-operation between the two states
Financial Times
Trump adrift: the president’s second term is at risk of foundering
There are signs that voters are losing faith as problems mount for his administration ahead of midterm elections
Financial Times
How bots could help revive democracy
New AI tools encouraging deliberation could promote consensus and reduce polarisation in politics
Financial Times
Reform UK ran a council for a year. Things went badly
In Staffordshire, Nigel Farage’s party has been hit by resignations, racism allegations and the need to put up taxes
Financial Times
Man charged with attempted murder over stabbings in Golders Green
45-year-old Essa Suleiman charged after two Jewish men were attacked in north London on Wednesday
BBC News
New footage shows how Trump dinner gunman charged through security in four seconds
The CCTV shows an officer draw a firearm and open fire as the suspect sprints past.
BBC News
Billions of meals at risk due to Iran war, says fertiliser boss
A shortage of fertiliser due to the Iran conflict could reduce crop yields and push prices higher, says the boss of Yara.
BBC News
Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented modern British politics
London offers an insight into the dilemma Labour faces about which direction to take.
BBC News
British couple jailed in Iran: 'We're likely to be here for a long time'
Lindsay and Craig Foreman are facing the reality of a 10-year prison sentence following their arrest in Iran while...
The Economist
The global scramble for ports
The global scramble for ports The Economist
The Economist
Still in La La land
Still in La La land The Economist
NYT Europe
In Bulgaria, a New Government Challenges an Old Puppet Master
Delyan Peevski was a focus of protests that led to elections in April. A new government now promises to challenge...
NYT Europe
Lithuania Says It Broke Up Russian Sabotage and Murder Plots
The arrests of nine people are reminders of the threat Russia poses in Europe at a time when Washington has shifted...
The Telegraph
Nigeria wages war on the deadly fake drug trade
The country’s crackdown could be a blueprint for other countries grappling with a global crisis of counterfeit and...
The Telegraph
Elliot Anderson performance has Forest dreaming of another historic European final
Elliot Anderson performance has Forest dreaming of another historic European final
Wales
BBC Wales
'So stressful' - teachers and pupils say new GCSEs are leading to burnout
Unions warn teachers will quit and there are fears for pupils' wellbeing as classroom tests increase.
BBC Wales
'Horrendous' stress for couple forced to pay monthly mortgage twice after law firm collapse
Gabriella and Kurtiss Smith feared their home would be repossessed when PM Property Law collapsed.
BBC Wales
Pet-sitting allows us to live rent-free and travel the world
After struggling to afford rent in Wales' capital, a couple live rent-free looking after animals.
BBC Wales
Beauty spot enters fifth day of 'frightening' wildfires
Fire crews, and a helicopter, have been responding to fires in and around the Elan Valley area.
Sport
Formula 1
Race
Miami GP
Sun 03 May
Qualifying
Miami GP
Sat 02 May
BBC Sport · Football
'Where are you? Wow. It is so, so bad' - Emery's impassioned VAR rant
Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says VAR made a "huge mistake" in not sending off Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson in...
BBC Sport · Football
'If Kane scored that we'd be saying wow' - Strand Larsen shows Palace worth
Being a club's record signing brings with it pressure, but Jorgen Strand Larsen puts a difficult start behind him...
BBC Sport · Darts
Littler beats Humphries to go top of Premier League
World number one Luke Littler wins his fifth night of the Premier League Darts season to return to the top of the table.
BBC Sport · Snooker
Higgins level with Murphy and Wu leads Allen in semis
John Higgins produces a battling display to draw level at 4-4 against Shaun Murphy in the opening session of their...
The Race · F1
Everything we learned from F1's first day back
Our main takeaways from the first F1 paddock day in over a month
The Race · F1
Vote on F1 rules tweak to help Honda is suddenly suspended
Honda's hopes of getting granted extra engine upgrade opportunities through a change in the Formula 1 rules are in limbo
The Race · F1
F3 '1000 times more fun' than F1 - Stroll may be 2026 rules' fiercest critic
Formula 1's current cars are "like 1000 times" worse to drive than Formula 3 machinery, according to Aston Martin...
The Race
What we've learned about Aston Martin and Honda changes
Honda has made hardware changes to its Formula 1 engine that will be introduced alongside Aston Martin car...
Formula 1 Official
Can Ferrari and McLaren challenge Mercedes in Miami?
After five weeks without racing, it remains to be seen whether Mercedes' rivals in Ferrari and McLaren have found...
Formula 1 Official
Watch Weekend Warm-Up ahead of the Miami GP
F1 makes its return with Miami hosting the fourth round of the season. Kimi Antonelli is looking for his third...
ESPN Cricinfo
Shoulder injury sidelines Santner for 'at least a month'
Mitchell Santner returned home from the IPL, where he was part of Mumbai Indians, earlier this week, and underwent...
ESPN Cricinfo
Monty Desai takes charge as head coach of Canada men's team
"My focus will be on building a culture that translates [Canada's] potential into consistent performances on the...
Science
New Scientist
'Green' cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim
A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 18 times more...
New Scientist
Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that...
New Scientist
We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could...
New Scientist
Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of...
Nature
This organoid can menstruate — and shows how tissue can repair itself
Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01428-5Mini models of the uterus lining give insight...
Nature
Continuously graded-doped SnO
2
for efficient n–i–p perovskite solar cells
Nature, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10587-4Continuously graded-doped SnO2 for efficient...
Nature
Blood test hints at breast-tumour response to treatment
Nature, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01353-7A biomarker shows which people with certain...
Nature
Forest pests hit trees hard as temperatures rise
Nature, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01288-zDamage by certain insects and fungi tends to...
Technology
The Verge
The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the...
The Verge
Roblox’s daily users continue to drop as age checks slow growth
Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform....
The Verge
Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road
Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days....
The Verge
Apple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortages
Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues...
Techcrunch
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet
Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.
Techcrunch
As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms
Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.
Techcrunch
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says
Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its...
Techcrunch
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours,...
Wired
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Wired
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Hacker News · 14 pts
Meta's Big Tobacco PR Tactics
Hacker News · 552 pts
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Hacker News · 36 pts
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Hacker News · 308 pts
Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
Hacker News · 461 pts
For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
Hacker News · 383 pts
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
Reading List
Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes
Stratechery
Amazon's earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means...
Scientific Papers
Computer science
A Randomized Controlled Trial and Pilot of Scout: an LLM-Based EHR Search and Synthesis Platform
The Impact of LLM Self-Consistency and Reasoning Effort on Automated Scoring Accuracy and Cost
Policy-Governed LLM Routing with Intent Matching for Instrument Laboratories
Economics
Doubly robust local projections difference-in-differences
The Signal Credibility Index for Prediction Markets: A Microstructure-Grounded Diagnostic with Weighted and Time-Varying Extensions
Treatment-effect heterogeneity and interactive fixed effects: Can we control for too much?
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