Summary #10 for 2025-04-22

Alright Alex, Happy Earth Day! Hope you’re having a good one so far.

First things first: Exercise! Your run scheduled for 11:05 AM might be past, but the good news is the weather forecast for the rest of today shows zero rain, completely clear until tomorrow morning. Perfect conditions to get your run done this afternoon while it’s still bright out before sunset at 8:08 PM. Get those legs moving!

Calendar-wise, aside from celebrating Earth Day, the morning stand-ups look to be wrapped up or off the cards, fitting for a holiday. You’ve got that Engineering team hiring discussion at 4 PM.

Scientists recently unveiled a colour never before seen by the human eye… they’re calling it “Olo”. I’m pretty sure it’s the same colour Tara turns when she spots an unattended snack on the counter.

Quick hits from the news:

• Royal Navy’s flagship HMS Prince of Wales departs on major deployment
• Putin suggests Russia open to direct talks with Ukraine as strikes continue
• Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, minister says
• Nationalities of foreign criminals to be published for first time
• Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
• Women deny stalking Madeleine McCann’s parents and siblings
• The Vivienne hid ketamine struggle to protect family, sister says
• Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (HN)
• Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (HN)
• Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (HN)
• Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (HN)
• Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data (HN)
• A new form of verification on Bluesky (HN)
• Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (HN)
• Venezuela accuses El Salvador of human trafficking as prisoners caught in row between authoritarians (Reddit)
• Kremlin satisfied with US statements that Ukraine will not join NATO (Reddit)
• US Imposes Tariffs Up to 3,521% on Southeast Asia Solar Imports (Reddit)
• Carney urges Canadian doctors in the U.S. to come home (Reddit)
• Algeria drops French, adopts English as university language (Reddit)
• Scientists unveil ‘olo’: A colour never before seen by the human eye (Reddit)
• Bar says Netanyahu demanded personal loyalty, obedience to him and not Supreme Court (Reddit)
• White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown” | Trump insists defense secretary who shared secrets on Signal “doing a great job.” (Reddit)
• Airbnb now shows the full price of your stay by default (Reddit)
• China Just Powered Up the World’s First Thorium Reactor — and Reloaded It Mid-Run | They used declassified US documents to develop the technology. (Reddit)
• Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation (Reddit)
• EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits | That would put America on the same level as China for espionage (Reddit)
• An Uber drove away with her kid. Then Uber wouldn’t connect her or police with the driver | Toronto police found 5-year-old, with the unwitting driver, without company’s help (Reddit)
• This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” | As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI are individually worthless. (Reddit)
• Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit. Footage of apes consuming fermented breadfruit leads researchers to ask if it may shed light on origins of human feasting. (Reddit)
• [Over 1 in 5 boys and men in Canada and US may meet diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder. Yet they remained overlooked. Boys and men often face barriers to seeking help for eating disorders, including stigma and shame, fear of judgment, and lack of gender-affirming treatment options.](https://reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k4vcwm/over_1_in_5_boys_and_men_in_canada_and_us may/) (Reddit)
• Use of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic chemical found in what is known as “magic mushrooms,” has increased significantly nationwide since 2019… (Reddit)
• Physics Experiment Reveals ‘Quantum Rain’ For The First Time (Reddit)
• A new study shows beet juice… could offer significant endurance gains (Reddit)
• High-fat, high-sugar diets impact cognitive function (Reddit)
• Consuming more conservative media was associated with lower vaccine uptake and less trust in science. (Reddit)
• Czechia independent of Russian oil for first time in history (Reddit)
• Man gets trapped in Lake Michigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend (Reddit)
• 10 charts prove that clean energy is winning — even in the Trump era (Reddit)
• Russian Economic Officials Brace for Lowest Oil Prices Since Pandemic (Reddit)
• Women’s flag football is growing on college campuses with NFL’s help (Reddit)
• Engineered brain cells offer new hope for treating Alzheimer’s (Reddit)