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There’s more than one king size in the mattress world. Our sleep expert helps parse which one might fit your needs.

America's One Big Beautiful Bill is going to make buying electric rides more expensive—so the clock is ticking to bag a bargain.

For her new book, journalist Carter Sherman interviewed over 100 young people about why they’re not having sex. She says they’re “very horny” but also more isolated, self-conscious, and fearful.

BobWP shares insights on the podcast’s rebrand, focusing on evolving content, elevating community voices, and repurposing past episodes, plus series changes aimed at storytelling.

During a congressional hearing yesterday, Republican lawmakers accused university leaders of failing to do enough to combat antisemitism on their campuses. That’s a claim that the university officials strongly rejected. The hearing was the latest attempt by Republicans to us...

On Tuesday, we learned that inflation rose last month. The New York Times said inflation “accelerated,” ABC News noted it “surged,” and other reports observed that President Trump’s tariffs are starting to produce long-predicted price hikes...

In open source communities, it’s easy to focus on just one platform. Whether you’re deep into WordPress, Drupal, or another CMS, it’s tempting to stay within your comfort zone. But stepping outside your usual ecosystem can offer valuable insights not just about other tools but about your own. One theme that emerged in a conversation […]

If there’s one phenomenon I can’t wrap my head around is the proliferation of people who are tech-savvy and nerdy enough to know what RSS is but are also unable to discover my RSS feeds. A non-trivial percentage of the people subscribed to both my blog-to-email newsletter a...

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On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the conversation around the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. David explains why Trump’s move has triggered backlash from par...

Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

In related client API news, Dave Winer has also been hammering on this recently from his perspective working on WordLand and the long history of the MetaWeblog API:

But the web is what matters, not my product or yours. Even if your product is huge, it’s only part of the web. This is how we build, how we get back on track. Somehow we need to get a simple bridge that lets all blog content flow to Mastodon.

Lear year, I really wanted to see Mastodon adopt an open posting API. I even wrote a FEP to fix some limitations in how APIs were too hard-coded to Mastodon’s capabilities. It went nowhere.

AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

Steve Bate has a long blog post about why ActivityPub’s client-to-server protocol has not been implemented:

Yet despite its promise, ActivityPub C2S has seen minimal real-world adoption. Most Fediverse platforms — including Mastodon, the dominant implementation — have actively avoided supporting it. Instead, they expose custom APIs that tightly couple client behavior to server internals.

More clients should use Micropub. It is also a W3C recommendation, but unlike C2S, Micropub is already widely implemented and has evolved through extensions to accommodate most real-world use cases.

Alright, friends, in honor of attending the (alleged) last-ever Wu-Tang show at Madison Square Garden, I thought it appropriate to tell the story of the time I got to see the greatest, most hype, most chaotic energy hip hop show that I've ever seen, or that I ever will ...

Drew Saur, pushing back on my post slagging on the Commodore 64: I cannot argue with your nostalgia. It is uniquely yours. That said: The Commodore 64 as cheap-feeling and inelegant! Oh my. I was fourteen when the Commodore 64 came out, and I want to convey — in as bri...

xAI's new $300 monthly subscription comes with two AI companions powered by its most capable model to date. I tried them. It got weird.

Mira Murati and several other former OpenAI researchers are behind the buzzy AI startup, now valued at $12 billion and officially out of stealth.

Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier, was found dead in his jail cell in 2019 following his arrest on child sex-trafficking charges.  The circumstances around his death, which was ruled a suicide by hanging, and crimes have spurred fringe conspiracy theories, mos...