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Motherfucking Owen got me so good. Remember the intern intro blog last year where Owen made a goofy little remark about there being a Fibonacci sequence of Defector interns? I took this as a joke, obviously, because as he established, this would get out of hand very quickly. But I remembered it. A year later, […]

Viewed from one angle, Tom Thibodeau losing his job as head coach of the New York Knicks, a development reported this afternoon by Shams Charania, appears deeply unfair. Here's a guy who led his team to a 51-win regular season, a trip to the Eastern Conference final—kicking ...

Screenshot of a couple blog post drafts I might publish this week. You can tell I primarily wrote these on my Mac, because whenever I compulsively hit command-S, Micro.blog saves another version. Every few months I need this feature to restore some deleted sentence.

In the race to showcase AI adoption, companies are increasingly appointing Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) — a move that may

The post A Chief AI Officer Won’t Fix Your AI Problems appeared first on The New Stack.

I wanted to collect the thoughts that have been swirling in my brain about AI. Not to add another think piece to the pile, but to record them so I can understand where my head was at on the topic. Kind of a future letter to myself.

Rachel Abrams and Natalie Kitroeff officially join Michael Barbaro as co-hosts of the show. Welcome to the next chapter.

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I tend to write about whatever is most fascinating at the time. In the 2000s, that was blogging itself and the transition to Mac OS X, in the 2010s that was the rise of closed platforms, and now it’s indie blogging and AI. If our robot overlords don’t destroy us, the 2030s will be something else. 🤪

A heads-up to Mastodon folks, I’m disabling the fediverse posting from my blog for a couple weeks. You can always follow me on Micro.blog or via RSS. This feature can help quiet the timeline, great for traveling and thinking and working.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the earliest official D.C. Pride event. D.C. is also hosting WorldPride, one of the largest international celebrations of LGBTQ+ communities in the world. But some LGBTQ+ people say it doesn't feel like a time for celebration. Amid mou...

In application security, one of the promises of AI agents is that they will be able to test and scan

The post Aptori Is Building an Agentic AI Security Engineer appeared first on The New Stack.

Stick, Murderbot, and Side Quest are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

Changing my profile photo on Micro.blog for the first time in forever. The last one was a selfie from Disneyland years ago, and the bad cropping always annoyed me a little.

While detailed instrumentation of CPUs has been available for some time, GPUs are still commonly treated as black boxes. Zymtrace,

The post Zymtrace Launches End-to-End GPU and CPU Observability appeared first on The New Stack.

A quiet news week, with some more updates from PeerTube and PieFed.

“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the law and marching to the beat of his own legal drum, the president chose the latter.” “The president’s solutions-focused approach...

The parts of the web/tech industry we lit on fire and probably aren't going to get back.

The last few years have shown that large language models (LLMs) have impressive capabilities in analyzing, understanding and generating text

The post Dream 7B: A Powerful and Open Diffusion Language Model appeared first on The New Stack.

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about bacon, the NBA Finals, graphology, and more.

Will:

LAS VEGAS — "We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we're literally in the first inning," one of the Winklevoss twins gloats. "And this game's going to overtime."

It's the first day of Bitcoin 2025, industry day here at the largest cryptocurrency conference in the world. This Winklevoss is sharing the stage with the other one, plus Donald Trump's newly appointed crypto and AI czar David Sacks. They are in the midst of a victory lap, laughing with the free ease of men who know they have it made. The mangled baseball metaphor neither lands nor elicits laughs, but that's fine. He's earned, or at any rate acquired, the right to be wrong.

If you followed the Knicks through the playoffs as I did, I recommend the latest episode of the Bill Simmons podcast. It began with talk about the fan base and that got me thinking. We don't know what would happen if the Knicks were in the Finals. Honestly. It could be the antidote to the crazyness. Maybe the reason things are so fucked up is that it's been 52 freaking years since the Knicks won the title. Something happens every so often, the energy field around the Knicks shifts -- Patrick Ewing, Melo, Linsanity and now Brunson. It'd be interesting to map that out against events in the world at the corresponding times. We won't find out this year. In the same way I sensed that New Orleans was doomed when I went to school there, I have a strong feeling connecting the Knicks to something not sure what, but it feels big.