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For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.”

What he says: Thank god football’s back. What he means: I miss my friends. - - - What he says: Can you believe Travis Kelce is going as late as the seventh round in a lot of leagues? What he means: I’ve never been more anxious about the passage of time. I graduated from coll...

Beaches along the East Coast are closing this week due to dangerous surf and rip currents brought on by Hurricane Erin in the Atlantic. Greg Dusek, Ph.D., senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, talks about the storm's path and offers survival tips for rip currents ahead of the storm's impact.

 

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Looking for a new office chair? Branch is offering 10 percent off the base price of its chairs and accessories.

I'm going to be honest, when doing accessibility audits, the term "best practice" bothers me.

Starting August 21 in the US, every edition will cost $50 more than it did the day before, thanks to Trump’s tariffs.

The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing on its own. The National Guard is training to use them on the streets of D.C.

Nearly a year after Cy-Fair Independent School District (CFISD) omitted more than a dozen chapters from our textbooks, the discourse continues over the future of the school district.  As a student in Texas, I’ve lived through the drastic changes that have come over the last few years. From removing librarians on campuses to requiring teachers […]

The post The Future of Public Education is on the Ballot in Cy-Fair ISD and Beyond appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor.

It's not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies' generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tec...

Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Los Angeles Chargers. Celebrating eight years of you forgetting that they’re no longer in San Diego!

Imagine a scenario where a team of developers assigns this task to an AI system: “Migrate our user authentication from

The post The Rise of Remote Agentic Environments appeared first on The New Stack.

Watch our exclusive teardown of the Pixel Watch 4 to see just how easy it is to remove the battery and display on Google’s latest smartwatch.

Google’s latest AI features include real-time translated phone calls in your own AI-generated voice, an AI camera coach that makes you a better Instagram husband, and a voicemail replacement.

The Pixel 10 series is here. These are the first official flagship Android phones with magnetic Qi2 wireless charging. Also in tow are the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a earbuds.

Google runs an array of tests on its Pixel phones and smartwatches throughout the development cycle. Here's a peek behind the curtain of what that testing looks like.

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan, reporting for Business Insider five months ago:

Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup Anthropic, said on Monday that AI, and not software developers, could be writing all of the code in our software in a year.

“I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” Amodei said at a Council of Foreign Relations event on Monday.

Complete bullshit, but, I guess he still has one month to go. (Via Dave Winer on Threads.)

At Automattic, we know our time is finite and precious. Here are the questions we ask ourselves before agreeing to any meeting:

The post Too many meetings? appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Five-minute short film from Apple, about people with severe hand tremors from Parkinson’s disease using the iPhone’s Action mode to shoot steady video — including filmmaker Brett Harvey, who was diagnosed at the way-too-young age of 37. There’s also a brief short with Harvey explaining the settings to shoot in Action mode by default, or to use voice controls to avoid needing to tap buttons.

Apple at its very best. If this doesn’t hit you, you’re not hooked up right.