Issue No. 112

unshitnews

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

A cross-source daily digest

BBC News +1 more

Iran says it has seized two cargo ships in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels attacked

BBC News +2 more

Trump buys time for Iran deal after frantic day of diplomacy

The US president's decision marked the second time in as many weeks he has backed off a threat to escalate the war, buying more time.

BBC News +2 more

Starmer about to face PMQs as pressure continues over Mandelson security vetting

No 10 has denied claims of a dismissive approach towards vetting during Lord Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US.

More Top Stories

US News

Technology

Health

BBC News

Why aspirin is becoming a weapon against cancer

The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.

Financial

Lifestyle

BBC News

Why are so many Americans moving to Ireland?

The number of Americans moving to Ireland last year was higher than the number of Irish people emigrating to the US. Was this just a blip or the start of a more profound trend?

Opinion

TV & Movies

Hacker News · Top 30

  1. 01 Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
  2. 02 Making RAM at Home [video]
  3. 03 How the Heck Does GPS Work?
  4. 04 ChatGPT Images 2.0
  5. 05 All your agents are going async
  6. 06 MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation
  7. 07 Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code
  8. 08 Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma
  9. 09 Laws of Software Engineering
  10. 10 Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
  11. 11 Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
  12. 12 The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
  13. 13 SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
  14. 14 Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment
  15. 15 Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  16. 16 Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
  17. 17 Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
  18. 18 Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
  19. 19 Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
  20. 20 Fusion Power Plant Simulator
  21. 21 Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
  22. 22 Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
  23. 23 Framework Laptop 13 Pro
  24. 24 Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
  25. 25 A printing press for biological data
  26. 26 Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
  27. 27 CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production
  28. 28 Rock carving facts – Tanum Sweden
  29. 29 Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative
  30. 30 What Async Promised and What It Delivered