Summary #1 for 2025-05-16

Welcome back, Alex! Hope the camp was a blast. Bit of a change from that lovely 24c sun and wind – London’s greeting you with slightly cooler temps today, topping out around 18.7c. No rain expected though, perfect for getting those legs moving.

Ready to shake off that travel? Your most important task today: Exercise! Although there’s nothing specific scheduled in Training Peaks for today, make sure you get something in to ease back into it. It’s clear and light until well after 8:30 PM (sunset is 20:47), so plenty of time for a run whenever suits after your morning meetings.

Your day looks like this:

• LYB - Single Instance - Catch up at 9:30 AM.
• Backend stand-up at 10:30 AM.
• Frontend stand-up at 11:00 AM.
• Dinner with Matt at 7:30 PM.

Why did Tara get a ticket to the Sunday Times Rich List party? She heard they were handing out free samples of the economy!

News bits:

• MPs to debate assisted dying bill again after major changes
• Billionaires fall as King rises in latest Sunday Times Rich List
• MPs call for year-long delay to farm inheritance tax
• The Papers: Starmer’s scramble after ‘Albania snub’
• UK should learn from Dubai, says Reform MP Tice
• WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea
• Ex-FBI boss James Comey investigated for seashell photo seen as threat to Trump
• Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
• Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
• The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
• A leap year check in three instructions
• NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
• A Tiny Boltzmann Machine
• Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
• Qatar’s Gift to Trump Is Unsold Plane It’s Been Trying to Dump for Years
• Told Apple CEO Tim Cook that I don’t want him to build in India: Donald Trump
• President Putin sacks commander-in-chief of Russian Ground Forces
• ‘My heart goes out to the beloved people of Ukraine’ — Pope Leo XIV receives list of Ukrainian POWs at Vatican
• Apple reassures India of commitment despite Trump’s objections
• Russia has already started its summer offensive in Ukraine
• Trump Says US Should ‘Take’ Gaza And Turn It Into ‘Freedom Zone’
• College student asks for her tuition fees back after catching her professor using ChatGPT
• Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
• Trump Tells Tim Cook to Stop Building iPhones in India
• Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair
• Former FBI Director James Comey takes down Instagram post after conservative uproar
• Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
• xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa
• Sitting for hours daily shrinks your brain, even if you exercise. Research showed that even older adults who exercised for 150 minutes a week still experienced brain shrinkage if they sat for long hours. Memory declined, and the hippocampus lost volume
• In Hawaii, scientists have identified a newly discovered species of carnivorous caterpillar, nicknamed the “Bone Collector.” It drapes itself in the dismembered remains of dead insects, wearing them like macabre camouflage, hidden from the sharp eyes of predators.
• ADHD symptoms appear to influence women’s orgasms | The researchers found that women with inattentive ADHD symptoms reported lower orgasmic consistency than those without ADHD symptoms or with other subtypes.
• The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated | New research shows that people with high fitness levels in their late teens also have a reduced risk of dying from random accidents. This suggests that previous studies have probably been misleading.
• Feelings of frailty can set in at 40. Loneliness, feeling older than your age and a negative attitude to ageing are all associated with early stages of frailty, even in people as young as 40. Many people assume frailty is something that happens when we get much older.
• Conservatives privately support several firearm policies, but don’t publicly demand them. The findings demonstrate that the majority of Americans support a range of firearm policies. The issue is that more conservative communities tend to support these policies in private.
• World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease. Little KJ Muldoon, now nearly ten months old, is doing well after receiving three doses of a gene-editing treatment to mend a mutation that had impaired his body’s ability to process protein.
• ‘Hero’ Teen Gamer Thwarts ‘Mass Casualty’ Attack on California School
• Woman missing for weeks in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains found alive in snow-covered cabin
• Pope Leo XIV calls for release of journalists imprisoned for ‘seeking truth’
• Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
• Between January 1 and April 30 of 2025, 82.2% of electricity generated in Portugal was from renewable sources.
• The Domino Effect: States Prioritize Affordable Transportation Choices over Traffic
• Record decrease in Brazil deforestation in 2024: Report - World News