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Techmeme surfaced this May 15, 2026 Wired story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original article is Maxwell Zeff’s Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up.

What changed

OpenAI is reorganizing its product leadership again, and the important part is not just the title change. Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, is now formally leading product strategy in addition to his infrastructure work. Wired reports that Brockman had already been overseeing products on an interim basis while Fidji Simo, the CEO of AGI deployment, was on medical leave. The new memo makes that arrangement official and pairs it with a broader consolidation of OpenAI’s product surface.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Finance & economics Buttonwood column listed in the contents as Too-stablecoins and published under the subtitle Why the stablecoin market is fizzling.

The article argues that stablecoins have not yet become the financial revolution their boosters promised. They are meant to be the sober part of crypto: digital tokens pegged to the dollar and backed by safe assets such as Treasury bills. That design should, in theory, make them useful for payments, attractive as a store of value in unstable economies and helpful to America by increasing demand for government debt.

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US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad (r/news)

• Mutopiano: It’s always the ones you most suspect.
• Hrekires: Normally I wouldn’t care about consensual behavior between adults but considering Border Patrol would kill US citizens for less… please kindly fuck off.
• IlVeroStronzo: This guy just went to do abroad what he can’t do back home legally or for cheap lol

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial (r/news)

• southendgirl: Is this an Onion article?
• TheGooch01: Fucking head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.
• Ok_Pollution7093: VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at endangered Hawaii monk seal’s head (r/news)

• Nv2U: First time I’ve seen “US agents arrest…” in a headline lately and been happy.
• brispence: I’m sure there would be a line of people waiting around the island to throw a rock at this chud’s head.
• Hnl2Nrt2025: I believe there are some local people in lockup ready to greet him

CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US (r/news)

• Xsiah: Over 3000 people in the US have had measles this year - how about you monitor them and everyone they’re infecting with their stupidity, or the stupidity of their parents.
• Flash_ina_pan: K, hopefully it doesn’t spread. I don’t think I could stand dealing with the absolute shitbirds a national medical emergency tends to bring out, again.
• Loose_Clock4873: Are we supposed to drink bleach yet?

US man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC (r/news)

• dotBombAU: They are doing this all over the world.
• xdeltax97: This is everywhere unfortunately
• Haunting_Explorer376: No shit. There was a expose on the one in Vancouver a few years ago

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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)

• fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
• tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
• yacdiz (Microsoft): LinkedIn has over 20k employees. To be reduced to 5k

Getting ready to be cut (Blind)

• gahhqbuau (Synopsys): Amazon managers should be banned from joining other companies.
• luvrboi (Amazon): Once you’re PIPed it’s already over, my boy. Take the time looking for a new gig now. Line up the last day either a new gig and severance, with a lil break in between. Chefs kiss. Good luck
• flqc47 (Amazon): Dont let them define you. Pip doesn’t mean you are not good at all. Some mgr is just a selfish, mediocre person. The env not a good fit for you. Your luck begins from now!

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI (r/technology)

• marvbinks: Get ready for the lowest test scores in 133 years!
• In-All-Unseriousness: I bet someone tries to sneak in with smart glasses.
• Munchingmarshmallows: There are schools that have unproctored finals???

‘A’ Grades Are Suddenly Everywhere Since the Arrival of ChatGPT (r/technology)

• aiodigitalfootprint: So glad I graduated college before the ChatGPT boom. I feel so incredibly lucky
• Modem_Sound_67: but in terms of actual mastery of the content… probably closer to ‘F’
• LucentG: Education will need to adapt, stricter testing environments and a higher expectation from students in demonstrating their knowledge in all other assignments and grading avenues.

Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (r/technology)

• generalsilliness: Let’s get rid of the poor. They can be replaced by AI now. It’s not profitable to waste resources on them.
• anyparties: What if we had, hold on what’s it called again, affordable housing instead?
• redditobserverone: Why don’t the tech billionaires build them on their sprawling properties.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Partition Equal Subset Sum
• Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming

What the problem is really asking

The input is an array of positive integers. The task is to decide whether the array can be split into two subsets whose sums are exactly equal.

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What happened

NVIDIA’s official technical blog published How the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform is Solving Agentic AI’s Scale-Up Problem, a post about the hardware, networking, compiler, and serving-stack design needed to make long-context agentic inference both fast and economical at frontier scale.

The post starts from a useful premise: agentic inference is not just ordinary batched inference with more tokens. A single user session can expand into a sequence of model calls, tool invocations, observations, retries, subagents, and long conversation state. Each branch carries its own system prompt, tool definitions, accumulated KV cache, and new tokens. When that state is routed through trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts models, the serving system has to move activations and cache-dependent work across many accelerators while still keeping per-token latency low enough for an interactive product.

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Looking back at Earth

Phil Plait’s article turns a familiar question inside out. Instead of asking how humans might detect extraterrestrial civilizations, it asks whether another civilization could detect Earth, assuming its technology were roughly comparable to ours.

The setup is timely because exoplanet science has changed the scale of the problem. Astronomers have found nearly 6,000 planets around other stars, and extrapolations suggest the Milky Way may contain hundreds of billions of planets. Even if only a small fraction resemble Earth, the number of potentially habitable worlds could still be large. That makes life elsewhere a serious scientific possibility. But detectability is a separate question. A living or technological planet can exist without being obvious across interstellar distances.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 14, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original post is Calif’s First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5.

What happened

Security firm Calif says its engineers, working with Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, built a working macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 hardware in five days. The claim is notable because the target was not an old or lightly defended system. Calif says the exploit ran on bare-metal M5 hardware with kernel Memory Integrity Enforcement enabled, targeting macOS 26.4.1 from an unprivileged local user and ending with root access.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 China column listed in the contents as Chaguan: Tech transfer and published under the headline The world wants Chinese tech.

The article argues that the politics of technology transfer have flipped. For decades, Western governments and companies worried that China was forcing, coaxing or stealing foreign know-how. Now many of them face the opposite problem: China has become strong enough in electric vehicles, batteries, robotics and other advanced industries that outsiders want Chinese knowledge, factories and production methods to move abroad.

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Epstein abused me while under house arrest, survivor tells US lawmakers (r/news)

• Beautiful_Special702: Hard to read stories like this and not wonder how many failures happened behind the scenes…
• Tramadol_Lollies: Just want to say how strong these women are for testifying, even with the powerful in the world doing its best to look away.
• Klutzy-Ad-9700: It still blows my mind that the files exist, but we just haven’t seen them. Proof of all sorts of horrific things, just sitting there, but we aren’t allowed to look at it.

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched (r/news)

• avatinfernus: Wow.. the lack of empathy is…off the charts
• Anneisabitch: It’s not even the first time something like this has happened. Another baby was born in that same jail on the bathroom floor.
• run85: In jail because she was accused of substance abuse while pregnant. Then, this is how she is treated while pregnant and giving birth. Wow, Alabama cares so much about babies!

More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise in France after gastroenteritis outbreak (r/news)

• fc_dean: Those cruises are a literal bacteria / virus breeding ground, aren’t they.
• aka_linskey: Norovirus is the worst. That sounds awful.
• SlayerBVC: It’s honestly amazing that the Cruise Ship industry has survived as long as it has considering how the ships are the ideal conditions for these viruses and infections to spread.

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries (r/worldnews)

• Koekoes_se_makranka: Lmao ok, as if he wasn’t doing it already
• RSwordsman: Good to see that they were following the law until now by only doing approved special military operations.
• Thiht: That’ll fix Russian economy

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? (r/AskReddit)

• FriskiTeddy: The classic Google Street view
• elphaba00: Friend was cleaning his bedroom. Found a notebook he didn’t recognize and started to flip through the pages and read it. It was his wife’s journal of her threesomes – of which he was not invited to.
• DaddyDeluge: Worked with a guy who wrote letters with chocolate for two girls for Valentine’s Day. He mixed up which was which, and the girls got the wrong letters. It blew up in his face while he was at work.

TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Taylor Lautner. (r/todayilearned)

• UltimaGabe: Didn’t he also date Taylor Swift? Was his plan always to end up with a wife with the same name as him?
• Necessary_Nothing471: The Taylors Lautner
• oldfogey12345: They could have just both changed their last name to Taylor and cut out all the confusion.