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The inevitable has happened. The Phoenix Suns have traded Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets, as first reported by Shams Charania. In return for the 36-year-old 15-time All-Star, Phoenix gets Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 pick in this year's draft, and five future second-round picks.

The Rockets reportedly made Durant's small list of preferred trade destinations, but the Suns were still able to wrangle a decent haul for the perennially disgruntled superstar. For his part, Durant learned he was being traded while on stage for a panel at Fanatics Fest in New York City.

The company debuted its autonomous ride-hailing service Sunday. The limited program is invite-only and uses around 20 cars—signs that Tesla has a long way to go to catch up to its robotaxi rivals.

Joe Rossignol at MacRumors: Apple has marked its day-old The Parent Presentation video on YouTube as private, meaning that it is no longer available to watch. Apple has also moved The Parent Presentation to the bottom of its College Students page, effectively burying it....

My thanks to Drata for sponsoring this last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.

Tom Nichols, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D. Vance did last week) trying to ja...

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors: A bit of sad news for old iPods: Macs might be losing FireWire support. The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Redd...

Most people outside of Micro.blog don’t pay attention to our news blog, so quoting this here too:

Fixed an issue where mentions to Mastodon users weren’t actually sent to remote servers if Micro.blog hadn’t yet cached the ActivityPub info for that user.

If you’re on Bluesky, we also automatically mirror our bug fixes and features to the micro.blog profile over there.

People talk about "regime change" as if the only regime that could change is the one in Iran.

Trump may not want regime change in Iran, but he definitely wants regime change in California.

He's going to war with Iran to hide his war with the United States.

We need a war-ready Democratic Party.

Governor or mayor is not a job for peaceniks.

Dave Winer will be keynoting WordCamp Canada in Ottawa:

I’m also not happy with the tech industry of the US. I’d like a fresh start, a return to our roots, with the assumption that the people control their destiny and the role of developers is to give them to the tools to try out new ideas.

There is still so much potential where the fediverse and blogging overlap.

It’s important to regularly clean the wax out of your hearing aids. Here’s how.

Today's song: Peace in our time.

In May, a webpage at Anthropic.com promised its Claude Large Language Model (LLM) was “writing on every topic under the

The post Why Did Anthropic Discontinue Its Claude-‘Penned’ Blog? appeared first on The New Stack.

More on the vision for WordLand and RSS. Imagine that WordLand is the editor of a twitter-like system built around RSS. It saves your writing to WordPress, where it is published on a website and via RSS. You don't have to use WordLand or WordPress, because RSS is an open fo...

I'm keynoting the WordCamp Canada conference in October in Ottawa. It's the first conference I've attended since before the pandemic. The timing is ideal, and the location is significant. As an American, I don't want to try to attract people from around the world to a meeti...

We did the research (and taste-testing) for you to determine whether greens powders are worth your money, and if so, which ones.

The stylized and wide keycaps, paired with a deep and snappy typing experience, make for a competent mechanical keyboard, if you don’t mind the space-age aesthetics.

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms.

This sticky-note dodecahedron for your desk lets you color-code in style.

When Jacob Hoff and Samantha Greenstone met, they became instant best friends. Then, even though Jacob was gay, they realized that their feelings for each other were evolving beyond the platonic, and they decided to give romance a try. On this episode of “Modern Love,” Hoff ...