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Podcast: AI should behave like a computer.

Now that my laptop is completely full of stickers, moving on to pins on my bag. Starting with just Mickey.

There are many words you could use to describe Nicole Tompkins, the disabled protagonist of “Shaky,” Audible’s recent 9-part comedy audio series: passionate, wild, talented, messy. But she’s also kind of an asshole.  That’s not a role that disabled people have often been able to play in fiction—neither pure nor villainous, just a regular messed-up […]

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Nintendo announced the latest Switch 2 games Thursday, along with a new Monster Hunter expected next year.

Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.

Like many companies, commercial Python distributor Anaconda has pivoted into being an AI tools company, and in doing so, solidifies its

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Just read my credit card number, expiration, and 3-digit code to someone over the telephone in a crowded coffee shop. YOLO! 🤪

Mark Zuckerberg, concluding a 600-word essay ostentatiously typeset in the style of web pages circa 1994^*:

Meta believes strongly in building personal superintelligence that empowers everyone. We have the resources and the expertise to build the massive infrastructure required, and the capability and will to deliver new technology to billions of people across our products. I’m excited to focus Meta’s efforts towards building this future.

What about the metaverse? Wasn’t that the thing? What Zuckerberg, and thus Meta, actually believe strongly in is jumping on whatever trend becomes a hype bubble. The company’s soul is empty.

* Actual web pages from 1994 didn’t include nearly a megabyte of JavaScript to display 3 kilobytes of text.

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Apple has voiced its opposition to the case many times over the last year. Now, it has officially filed its answer to the DOJ’s antitrust complaint, pushing back forcefully against the allegations. As a refresher, the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit focu...

This week we’re announcing an improvement to photo storage and photo scaling for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, our $10/month plan that also includes up to 5 blogs, email newsletters, bookmark archiving, and highlights. For years now, we’ve scaled photos down to about 1800x...

It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed reader. I mention Pocket Casts because it's the podcast client I use on my phone, but I would obviously like to see them all support an API, ideally a common API.

"Behave like a computer. That's where we start." ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it's a very fantastic improvement over search engines. That's reality. Having used ChatGPT and various other AI tools for over two years now, and using it in my programming work every day...

People are starving in Gaza. They are starving because the Israeli government is not allowing enough food to enter, and because what food becomes sporadically available can be claimed only by those willing to enter the death traps engineered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundati...

To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section or find Observer political reporting here.

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A new crypto mining company is flexing the Trump name and connections to get ahead.

“I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."

We’ve got some news to share with you. Ever since The New Stack was launched 11 years ago, our content

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Google Zero is slightly misunderstood. The problem is not that Google is nefarious in no longer sending traffic to your website. (They probably don’t care very much one way or the other.) The real problem is you’ve depended on Google for your business. You’ve been obsessed w...

Perhaps you think that a rematch between two teams who played what might be the most thrilling WNBA Finals in league history should have arrived before the penultimate day of July. Sometimes it's best for these things to simmer, though, and in this case the time away served ...

Good perspective from Om Malik on Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence post and similar past statements:

Most CEOs defend their existing moats. Zuckerberg systematically abandons them. He understands that Facebook’s real asset isn’t the blue app. Instead, it is the graph of human attention and relationships.

As I’ve written about before, Mark is pretty good at what he does, and it’s just a shame that he’s dedicated his company to ads, attention, and AI slop.