2025-05-09
A Turkey With No Elections?
On March 19, Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most serious political challenger. Imamoglu has served as mayor since 2019 and has defeated Erdogan’s Justice and...
Apple Files Emergency Motion to Pause ‘Extraordinary’ App Store Ruling on Anti-Steering Injunction
Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors: Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how...
Europa Universalis 5's unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator's mixed reception: 'I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking'
Paradox Tinto released a whopping 62 dev diaries before officially revealing EU5.
NOAA Will Stop Tracking Weather Disasters Because Trump Doesn't Believe in Climate Change
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, in yet another...
Quake finally makes it into the World Videogame Hall of Fame
Whaddaya mean it wasn't already in the Hall of Fame?
F-35 Flip-Flop: Why Canada Can’t Make Up Its Mind on Fighter Jets
Key Points: Canada’s troubled F-35 procurement process spans nearly two decades of indecision and reversals. Initially joining the Joint Strike Fighter program in 1997, Canada committed to buying 65 F-35s...
How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t...
How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed. I saw this in a bookstore recently and wondered if going-off-to-college teens actually read books...
Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means
Half a billion views and counting.
32 GB of DDR5 RAM for $83 will see you ready to shield bash your way through Doom: The Dark Ages
That's two sticks of 16 GB DDR5-6000 for a little more than 40 bucks each.
America’s Ultimate Gunship: AC-130J Now Armed With Harpoon Missiles
Key Points – The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, a legendary aircraft known for its powerful fire support, is getting even deadlier with the integration of the Harpoon anti-ship missile. -Traditionally armed...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: If Youre an Amazon Ring Owner, You May Be an Accidental Spy (5/9/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Uber went public...
Let's stop making "Intelligence scale" graphs with humans and AI
Published on May 9, 2025 4:01 PM GMTYou've probably seen this:or this:Or something similar to these examples.Let's stop making and spreading these.Recently, I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro to write a...
SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists' Music
SoundCloud, the music-sharing platform viewed as an accessible distribution channel for new and independent artists, updated its terms of service (TOS) to allow it to use artists' music to train...
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski
Today I learned that Charles Bukowski, “laureate of American lowlife”, wrote about the incompatibilities of early computing platforms in a poem called 16-bit Intel 8088 Chip: 16-bit Intel 8088 chip...
Behind the Blog: Brainrot and Brain Power Hours
This week, we discuss the death of Mr. Deepfakes, introducing kids to the Manosphere, and working on big, difficult, high-brain-power scoops.
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