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The best no-log VPNs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

Trust is fragile, especially when it comes to security software. I've tested the best no-log VPNs, which claim not to keep records of their customers' online activities to protect their privacy.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

The Fall of Roam

Article URL: https://every.to/superorganizers/the-fall-of-roam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023423 Points: 75 # Comments: 28

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Netflix has figured out a way to make ads even worse using AI

Netflix will embrace AI-generated ads, whether we like it or not. The streaming service will roll out AI-generated ads in 2026 that will play in the middle of a show or whenever users hit pause for its ad-supported plans. During Netflix's Upfront event for its advertisers, Amy Reinhard, the company’s president of advertising, showed off the upcoming feature for interactive midroll and pause ads that use generative AI...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Turner’s rarely seen watercolours take centre stage in Bath

Exhibition at Holburne Museum features 32 experimental land and seascapes that chart artist’s evolutionWhy JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years onIt is, says the curator Ian Warrell, a little like peering over JMW Turner’s shoulder as he puzzles out how to create the sweeping land and seascapes that made him one of the greatest ever.An exhibition of the artist’s rarely seen watercolours is opening in...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet,...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Here's the first image of an incredible dual-sided, back-to-back transparent 17-inch touchscreen display

AUO unveils stunning transparent 17-inch touchscreen display that shows different content on each side.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Best Memorial Day deals 2025: Save on handpicked early tech deals live now

Memorial Day is still a few days away, but sales are already here. These handpicked deals on TVs, outdoor gear, headphones, smart home accessories, and more are up for grabs.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Premier League Soccer: Stream Leicester vs. Ipswich Live From Anywhere

It's a battle between two relegated sides at the King Power.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

TikTok's Raunchy Love Letter to the National Parks Might Actually Save Them

Viral thirst traps on social media are raising eyebrows... and alarm bells about budget cuts.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Here are the best iPad deals you can get right now

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Prime Day,many great iPad deals are attainable outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s more affordable iPads. The most recentiPad Pro and […]

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Edit and convert PDFs with ease thanks to this A$37 app

Take control of your documents with PDF Converter and Editor. Easily convert, edit, and manage PDFs with this lifetime license, now just A$37 with code SAVE20 through June 1.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

'Love Island USA' Season 7: Release Date and Time on Peacock

Islanders for the new season have not yet been announced but we have a premiere date.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Marvel, Disney VFX artists agree to first union contract

VFX artists at major shops have set an example with their first union contact.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

China has launched the first 12 satellites of a planned 2,800-strong orbital supercomputer satellite network, reports Space News. The satellites, created by the company ADA Space, Zhijiang Laboratory, and Neijang High-Tech Zone, will be able to process the data they collect themselves, rather than relying on terrestrial stations to do it for them, according to […]

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022484 Points: 43 # Comments: 12

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Ditching Obsidian and building my own

Article URL: https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/building-my-own-pkms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022448 Points: 210 # Comments: 243

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Suspect identified in ‘intentional’ explosion at Palm Springs fertility clinic

Man, 25, who died after car bombing, reportedly wrote he was against bringing people into world against their willFBI investigators have identified the person suspected of detonating a car bomb outside a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic on Saturday – and dying in the process – as 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus.A bureau official said agents had determined Bartkus held “nihilistic views” before Saturday’s blast...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Activision is abandoning Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile

Activision announced on the official X account of its Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile title that it would sunset updates and delist it from the Google Play store and the App Store. Activision is giving players a last chance to download the departing game, which will be removed by the end of today. According to Activision, Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile "has not met our expectations with mobile first players like it has with...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure

I built this project as a way to learn more about NLP by applying it to something weird and unsolved.The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th-century book written in an unknown script. No one’s been able to translate it, and many think it’s a hoax, a cipher, or a constructed language. I wasn’t trying to decode it — I just wanted to see: does it behave like a structured language?I stripped a handful of common suffix-like...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

This new Netflix series blends Black Mirror bleakness with cringe comedy and it's an ideal weekend binge-watch

It's proven divisive with the critics, but I had a very good time with Bad Thoughts.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

US treasury secretary says Walmart will ‘eat some of the tariffs’ after Trump demand

Scott Bessent claims he received assurance in a personal call with company’s chief executiveThe US retail giant Walmart will “eat some of the tariffs” in line with Donald Trump’s demands, the president’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent insisted on Sunday, claiming he received the assurance in a personal phone call with the company’s chief executive, Doug McMillon.A spokesperson for Walmart said the company would not...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

Buckaroo is my open source project. It is a dataframe viewer that has the basic features we expect in a modern table - scroll, search, sort. In addition there are summary stats, and histograms available. Buckaroo support Pandas and Polars dataframes and works on Jupter, Marimo, VSCode and Google Colab notebooks. All of this is extensible. I think of Buckaroo as a framework for building table UIs, and an initial data...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Spaced Repetition Memory System

Article URL: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_memory_system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022225 Points: 141 # Comments: 12

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Serie A Italian Soccer Livestream: How to Watch Parma vs. Napoli From Anywhere

Gli Azzurri could move a step closer to clinching the title as they go in search of a win at the Stadio Ennio Tardini.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Serie A Italian Soccer Livestream: How to Watch Inter Milan vs. Lazio From Anywhere

Internazionale need a win at San Siro to keep their double hopes alive.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

The first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague promises to leave you breathless

The trailer teases a movie about the making of one of the great movies ever made.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Instagram investigation finds sexual content is served to Teen acounts

In an investigation by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us, Instagram was found serving sexualized, racist, and harmful content to protected Teen accounts.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Show HN: Model2vec-Rs – Fast Static Text Embeddings in Rust

Hey HN! We’ve just open-sourced model2vec-rs, a Rust crate for loading and running Model2Vec static embedding models with zero Python dependency. This allows you to embed text at (very) high throughput; for example, in a Rust-based microservice or CLI tool. This can be used for semantic search, retrieval, RAG, or any other text embedding usecase.Main Features:- Rust-native inference: Load any Model2Vec model from...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

RBA interest rate cuts expected to drive home-buyer activity but economists doubtful of ‘boom market’

Though analysts still expect multiple rate cuts this year, expectations for major drops are evaporatingAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs soon as they were told to vacate their Adelaide rental, Nikki and Matt started looking to buy a property amid fears an anticipated string of interest rate cuts would send prices soaring.At an auction in early May,...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

NSW police’s ‘extraordinary’ search powers a ‘blank cheque’ to target Indigenous youth, lawyers say

Low rate of successful searches of people subject to firearm prohibition orders, which never expire, raise fears scheme is being used to conduct surveillance without judicial oversightAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn 2019, a 14-year-old boy appeared before a tribunal in New South Wales.He was the subject of a firearm prohibition order (FPO), which...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Peacock Premium drops to only $25 for one year

Another great streaming deal has hit the internet: one year of Peacock Premium is only $25 right now. Just use the code SPRINGSAVINGS at checkout to get $55 off the standard annual price of the Premium plan. Just note that this tier does include ads, and the deal runs through May 30. Peacock is a decent platform and made our list of the best streaming services. It doesn't get the attention of Netflix or Disney+, but...

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Heybike’s Alpha step-through e-bike is an affordable, all-terrain dreamboat

The Heybike ALPHA is an affordable, all-terrain mid-drive e-bike that rides like a traditional push bike and comes in at $1,699.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Building my childhood dream PC

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/2168/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021824 Points: 137 # Comments: 52

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

SNL Weekend Update brings back the joke swaps for Season 50 finale

SNL 'Weekend Update' hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che brought back their tradition of trading jokes to end the season.

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

You Asked: Best OLED for PS5, straight talk for oldies, and GTA 6 weigh-in

On today’s You Asked: We’re all in mourning after another delay to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, but we answer your questions in anticipation. And, in a world of so many OLED TV choices, which one pairs well with a PlayStation 5? New OLED jitters @LunaQueeniemon asks: My four-year-old LG CX 55-inch TV […]

Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends