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The Hacker News: Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay  —  Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase.

The author says a two-month trip to India made her realize she needed community. Courtesy of the author We went to India to introduce our son to family, and ended up healing our own burnout as new parents. Two months of community support showed us how much we were missing by parenting in isolation. We learned to trust our instincts, embrace flexibility, and lean on others for support. Six months postpartum, I collapsed on the floor after work, exhausted from eczema-driven nighttime wake-ups and the thought of another day. After third-degree tearing, iron infusions, and mood struggles, I was running on empty. As my son's first birthday neared, nights slowly improved, but daytime exhaustion ramped up as his mobility increased. My husband and I had hit a wall. Needing a reset and for our new son to meet the family, we booked a two-month trip to India. We had family support Two layovers and three flights later, we touched down in Bagdogra in the Himalayan foothills. Stepping from sterile airport air into thick humidity, we were greeted by a dozen family members offering namastes and Himalayan khada scarves. Steaming dal bhat awaited us at the family home — the copper-plated home-cooked meal felt indulgent. Kichari was ready for our son, whose grandmother spooned it in his reluctant mouth, leaving my husband and me to eat in peace — another luxury. After a year of sprinting, we finally caught our breath. The journey was grueling: over 24 hours of travel and a 12-hour time change. In India, we traversed 6,000 feet of elevation, enduring both heat and cold, and all three of us got sick. But throughout the challenges, we had a community backing us. My father-in-law rose at dawn to buy fresh vegetables for a healing soup. When our son threw up at midnight, his grandmother helped change the sheets. My parenting softened in India I observed parenting practices in our family: breastfeeding through toddlerhood, frequent babywearing, and long-term bedsharing on firm floor mattresses. Watching our son play in a village kitchen with dal bhat cooking on a wood fire nearby, I marveled at our relatives' patience. When he toppled a shoe rack for the third time in five minutes, our uncle turned it into a game while my mother-in-law smiled, unfazed. The author says her parenting softened in India. Courtesy of the author With others watchful of his safety, I leaned back with tea and let myself enjoy the moment. In the US, my parenting resource was the internet. Late-night searches insisted my son should sleep from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. with two daytime naps. In India, a community of elders provided guidance. They encouraged me to trust my instincts and follow my son's cues, not the clock. This was daunting at first — one day he took three short naps, then skipped the nap entirely the next morning in the excitement of taking an auto rickshaw to a cousin's for brunch. One evening, as we took aunts and uncles out to a restaurant, we had just sat down when our son yawned and rubbed his eyes. With rocking and humming, he soon fell asleep on the padded bench despite the chatter of conversation. The next evening, I rocked until my stomach grumbled and my shoulders ached, but he wouldn't settle. I gave in and let him play with pots and pans with his cousins for an hour while I ate dinner. My tension eased, he was happy, and he later drifted off easily on his own timeline. Sometimes, the best sleep trick is to stop trying so hard. Though it wasn't always so simple — and I still couldn't let go of tracking sleep hours — local tips boosted my intuition and showed me we were more adaptable than I'd realized. He had less toys, but more people to play with In the US, we had piles of toys. They were a survival mechanism — a toy airplane might buy me 10 minutes to finish dinner; a stacking toy might allow me to drink coffee while it's hot. In India, the dynamic shifted: relatives' homes had few toys but many playmates. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins — there was always an ongoing game of peekaboo or hide-and-seek. I didn't need a new toy to get a moment to breathe; I just needed to step back. Our son's uncle played with him while my husband and I had a meal together. A neighbor watched him outside while I showered. When we returned home, the piles of blocks and stuffed animals felt suffocating, prompting us to declutter. Then we finally knocked on our neighbor's door and invited them over to play the new games we'd been taught. We learned we don't need toys to survive parenthood — we need a community willing to share the load. Coming back to the US felt lonely Coming back to the US — from crowded village kitchens to a spacious living room with no one to fill it — felt painfully lonely. But the lessons translate. It's OK to ask for help — even an uninterrupted meal or shower helps me reset. I can drop a routine when it's no longer working. Parenting is hard — I'm trying to give myself grace. Our trip to India didn't magically fix everything. There are still 3 a.m. wake-ups. I'm still working on being patient. But it reminded us of what matters most: relationships with our son and the people we love. And sometimes, that's enough. Read the original article on Business Insider

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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing  —  The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain.  In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …

A rainy day in San Francisco. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images No one is happy in Silicon Valley, Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das says. Not the average tech worker, not the middle manager, not even the founders who've struck it rich. He said that while the AI boom is creating huge wealth, workers are facing an existential crisis. In San Francisco, the AI boom is creating fame, fortune — and existential dread. As rapid technological development widens the gap between the haves and the have-nots, a sort of machine-age ennui has set across San Francisco, says Deedy Das, a partner at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. Das said in a post on X, which had almost a thousand responses by Sunday afternoon, that over the past five years, the fortunes of a small group of employees at leading AI companies, like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia, as well as some smaller startups, have "skyrocketed." Money, however, it seems, really doesn't always buy happiness. Those who've made it feel a "profound" lack of purpose, Das wrote, as some of them watch their wealth multiply from less than $150,000 to over $50 million in a matter of years. "It flips your life plans upside down." Many, he said, are hitting that threshold young, long before they expected to be financially set. He recalled asking one founder why they didn't simply sell their company. The founder's response: If they sold, they would have money — but lose the attention and relevance that came with always building. The under-$500,000 bourgeoisie, meanwhile, feel like they're on a path with no end, Das wrote. As layoffs ripple through the industry — most recently at Cloudflare and Coinbase, which both cited AI as a reason for the cuts — once lucrative roles are fading away. "Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful," he said. Middle managers, too, are unhappy, Das wrote, as another wave of the "Great Flattening" rears its head. "They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies." Instead, people are racked by a new kind of existential dread, Das said. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" he wrote. This other half has a name, too: Several users in the replies called it a "permanent underclass." One possible solution: Move to New York. New York City-based tech blogger Packy McCormick, responding to Das on X on Saturday, said that amid 70-degree, sunny weather in New York City, he was heading to a kite festival. "I haven't heard the words 'agent' or 'token' once all morning," McCormick wrote. "Greatest city in the world." In the end, everything is relative. Das said that it can be easy to scoff at the "champagne problems of the valley." One user in the replies summed it up: "May you get everything you want quickly and with little effort," they wrote. "An old curse." Read the original article on Business Insider

Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash  —  Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 billion all-cash deal, the French holding company said Sunday.

Owen Walker / Financial Times: Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation  —  Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles.  Copying articles to share with others …

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Police in Le Chesnay, France, guard a Swatch store on Saturday as crowds gathered to buy its new pocket watch, a collaboration with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Henrique Campos / Hans Lucas via AFP Audemars Piguet and Swatch dropped their new collaboration on Saturday. Police responded to Swatch stores worldwide due to large crowds. Some fans camped outside the Times Square Swatch store days ahead of the debut. The release of the new Audemars Piguet and Swatch pocket watch was not exactly fine-tuned. Throngs of enthusiasts and resellers, who hoped to turn a profit, swarmed Swatch locations around the world this weekend for a chance to snag a piece of the Royal Pop collection. Hype around the release — a mashup between Audemars Piguet's sleek Royal Oak and Swatch's POP line from the '80s — has been building since the companies unveiled it on Tuesday. Audemars Piguet watches can cost tens of thousands of dollars, making its partnership with Swatch, an affordable brand, all the more enticing. The excitement around the collaboration was so intense that dedicated fans camped outside stores for days in advance. By Saturday morning, the furor had reached dangerous levels, forcing Swatch to close several stores across the United States and Canada due to "public safety considerations." As the day went on, the company announced additional store closures. "Some of our stores had to be closed in accordance with our security staff and local authorities to ensure a safe environment for everyone," the company said in a statement shared online. That list included a Swatch store at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Long Island, where one TikTok user at the scene captured footage and shared it on social media. The video showed a large, jostling group of people gathered inside the parking garage. The TikTok user, who asked not to be named, told Business Insider that police officers used pepper spray on the crowd. A spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department said he could not confirm if pepper spray was used. He said officers arrived at the Roosevelt Field mall at about 1:40 a.m. after store employees called, and that "several" people were arrested. The TikTok user, who goes by ggchang.nyc online, said the event felt disorganized from the beginning. He arrived at the Swatch store around 1:30 a.m., though some people had been waiting outside for hours before that. He said confusion over which lines attendees should stand contributed to the chaos, which came to a head around 6 a.m when employees began letting people purchase the pocket watches. People in the back of the crowd grew antsy and began pushing toward the front, he said, creating an uncomfortable squeeze he compared to a wave. He said the situation felt especially intense because police officers were shouting and making physical contact with attendees amid the uproar. He left the product drop around 8 a.m. — without a new watch. Swatch, in response to the bedlam, asked fans "not to rush to our stores." "The Royal Pop Collection will remain available for several months. In some countries, queues of more than 50 people cannot be accepted, and sales may need to be paused," Swatch said on Saturday. Some of those who managed to get a watch were quick to put it on eBay, where it is already going for as much as $15,000. Swatch is selling the pocket watches for about $400. Read the original article on Business Insider

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<p><strong><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/">GDS weighs in on the NHS&#x27;s decision to retreat from Open Source</a></strong></p> Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/">poorly considered decision</a> to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as part of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/">Project Glasswing</a>.</p> <p>Now the Government Digital Service have joined the conversation with <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-open-code-and-vulnerability-risk-in-the-public-sector">AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector</a>, published May 14th. Their key recommendation:</p> <blockquote> <p>Keep open by default. Making everything private adds additional delivery and policy costs, and can reduce reuse and scrutiny. Openness should remain the default posture, with closure used sparingly and deliberately. </p> </blockquote> <p>While they don't mention the NHS by name, Terence speaks the language of the civil service and interprets this as a major escalation:</p> <blockquote> <p>Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting <em>without biscuits</em>". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public.</p> </blockquote> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gov-uk">gov-uk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/terence-eden">terence-eden</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics">ai-ethics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research">ai-security-research</a></p>

Billions of rows might be the exception, but for everything else, Pandas is still a highly reliable tool. The post Pandas Isn’t Going Anywhere: Why It’s Still My Go-To for Data Wrangling appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27  —  Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27.  —  Apple's Siri app in iOS 27 will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market.