How is Microsoft getting away with this?

Multiple unsubscribe-less emails saying e.g. "Thanks for visiting one of our Microsoft Rewards pages. You've now unlocked the full potential of Microsoft Rewards". That's the full potential to be spammed, it seems.

Redis is open source again (antirez.com)

Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal (bbc.com)

Someone at YouTube needs glasses (jayd.ml)

Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)

I use zip bombs to protect my server (idiallo.com)

Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral (thebignewsletter.com)

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining (simonwillison.net)

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python (runpyxl.com)

Internet in a Box (internet-in-a-box.org)

Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster (qwenlm.github.io)

LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo (librelingo.app)

An end to all this prostate trouble? (yarchive.net)

Firefox tab groups are here (blog.mozilla.org)

Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)

Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools (yle.fi)

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation (aclu.org)

Migrating away from Rust (deadmoney.gg)

Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week (cnbc.com)

I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors (habr.com)

Try Switching to Kagi (daringfireball.net)

Claude Integrations (anthropic.com)

Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule (fuelarc.com)

All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (danfabulich.medium.com)

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 (jepsen.io)

Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research (nih.gov)

Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad (github.com)

Sycophancy in GPT-4o (openai.com)

Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself (github.com)

The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting (happiness.hks.harvard.edu)

Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left (fortune.com)

Cloth (cloudofoz.com)

Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

How a single line of code could brick your iPhone (rambo.codes)

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)

Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model (github.com)

108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)

Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio (screenrecorder.me)

U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter (wsj.com)

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News (jasonthorsness.com)

Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers (punchbowl.news)

O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data (sampatt.com)

How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (electrospaces.net)

Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices (github.com)

Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US (developer.apple.com)

Third party cookies must be removed (w3ctag.github.io)

Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

International Workers' Day (en.wikipedia.org)

The One-Person Framework in Practice (link.mail.beehiiv.com)

Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment (waymo.com)

How is Microsoft getting away with this?

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