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Apple unveils new accessibility features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/

Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates powered by Apple Intelligence

Apple announced major accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, including new capabilities for VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.

Apple Newsroom

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There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

https://kottke.org/26/05/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going

There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.: The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth ackno

kottke.org

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CopyFail: From Pod to Host

https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-pod-to-host

Copy Fail: From Pod to Host. - Xint

A walkthrough of Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) as a container escape primitive: from a 4-byte page cache write to host root on Kubernetes. | Vulnerability Research, AI for Security, Open Source Projects

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Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/

Infomaniak secures its independence and its DNA for the long term • Infomaniak

Infomaniak transfers the majority of its voting rights to a Swiss public-benefit foundation. Your cloud remains sovereign, independent, and true to its values. Forever.

Infomaniak Network News

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Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan

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Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.

BBC

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Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates

https://www.macobserver.com/news/ex-apple-software-engineer-claims-apple-deliberately-slows-down-old-iphone-models/

#apple #iphone

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Everything in C is undefined behavior

https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html

Everything in C is undefined behavior

If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I wi...

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Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)

https://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/

Nostalgic Kits Central - Information on Heathkit and others

Pictures schematics and lots of other information on Heathkit - EICO - Allied Radio - EMC - Paco - Precise - Dynaco - Stancor and Conar kits

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Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows

https://andlukyane.com//blog/minimax-m27-workflows

Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows – Andrey Lukyanenko

An evaluation of MiniMax M2.7 used through Claude Code on three workflows I run regularly — writing code for a Kaggle competition submission, drafting and auditing Obsidian vault notes, and refactoring an old PyTorch project — with Claude Opus 4.7 as the comparison baseline.

artgor

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India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indias-hottest-district-banda-shuts-at-10-am-as-mercury-breaches-48-degrees-celsius-mark-101779240653594.html

India’s hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 degrees Celsius mark

The sustained readings have placed Banda among India’s most extreme heat locations, a distinction long associated with Rajasthan's Churu and Jaisalmer. | India News

Hindustan Times