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David Galbraith has a smart way to think about how AI will change the user interface. First he imagines taking creating prompts and wrapping them up as buttons: The best prompts now are quite simple, leaving AI to handle how to answer a question. Meanwhile AI chat suffers f...

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

Your team: Washington Commanders, and just when you and I were ready to leave all of the name discourse behind…

Generative AI (GenAI) is redefining how enterprises use the cloud. From automating infrastructure to advancing security measures, GenAI is helping

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These are trying times for Millennial soccer fans. Signs of the passage of time and the effects of aging are everywhere you look. Our old idols of physical prowess, chiseled beauty, and rakish charm are now middle-aged men whose rounded faces and time-ravaged (or Turkenstein...

This week, we discuss our top games, “dense street imagery," and first-person experiences with apps.

Rough morning for the Micro.blog servers. Woke up to a major problem with hung connections tripping up a few things. I have a few nice feature improvements ready to go, though.

Welcome to The Backlog, a series in which we will take a look back at 12 games from 2020 that, in one way or another, had a lasting impact on the video game industry.

If the most recent entry of The Backlog focused on two games that were made to play with your friends, then this edition is about a game that can isolate you, consume your life, and leave you in a daze, wondering where the hours went and when the last time you talked to another person was. That's right, it's time for Crusader Kings III.

The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.

Story. I'm on a mail list for Berkman, where I spent two years at Harvard. Alumnae of all generations are on this list, and it's interesting. Just got an email that someone was proud of having their picture taken with Susan Landau. I didn't know who she was, so I looked her ...

Thursday evening provided us with a moment that baseball does better than any other sport—taking two things that used to be special but now almost seem mundane, and then slamming them together in an alchemist's fever dream.

This particular moment came when Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies, owner of baseball's 21st four-homer game in history and the third this year, faced Atlanta infielder Vidal Bruján, the 61st non-pitching pitcher of 2025, in a showdown to see if there was any actual history to be made. There hadn't been a four-homer game since Nick Kurtz of The West Sac Nine did it...well, five weeks ago, but a five-homer game has never been done. Add in Eugenio Suarez' four-jack night back in April, and suddenly the four-homer game seemed nearly as common as the complete game shutout. This one could have been different.

Following a week of strife at the disaster relief agency, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem told FEMA employees to "be vocal" about their positive experiences with the Trump administration.

Thanks to Matt Mullenweg for the boost to yesterday's post. Glad to finally get the whole plan down in one place. Each piece of the puzzle took a while to come together in concept and then in implementation. I'm still working on all levels, last week I added a feature to Fee...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter.

On Monday, President Donald Trump put out an executive order directing, among other things, that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth make ready "a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment." The president also called for Hegseth to create a new "specialized unit within the District of Columbia National Guard, subject to activation under Title 32 of the United States Code, that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital."

A few years ago, my daughter told me that her school research project was so deep she had to venture

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For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year: Hua Hsu, New Yorker staff writer, professor of English at Bard College and author of the memoir Stay True (September 2022), discusses what college students lose when ChatGPT writes th...

Psychoanalyzing Jerry Jones is the safest and cheapest dollar there is to be made in all of sports punditry. The template is already there, and everyone uses it. He's old. He's powerful. He's competitive. He's spiteful. He's a megalomaniac with the tongue of an auctioneer. Check, check, check, check, and double check.

Thus, his decision to trade rather than sign edge rusher Micah Parsons is being painted as a radical departure in his business-doing mode because rather than give in and sign him himself at the player's preferred rate of compensation, he hate-traded him to Green Bay for useful but hardly Parsonsesque defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round draft choices.

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Ray Ratto and Israel Daramola will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.

Israel Daramola: It’s not quite autumn, but it is college football season. America’s favorite roux of bloodsport, campus pageantry, and shady bookkeeping returns in a moment of existential crisis for the sport, as playoff fever and corporate greed threaten to tear asunder the things we once held precious. Not content to make the bowl season meaningless, college football bosses' desire to expand the playoff field astronomically also threatens to devalue the regular season. 

The push to integrate AI technologies into IT departments is intense, but it must be even more so for companies

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A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.

“The Trump administration is considering taking stakes in defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday as he defended President Donald Trump’s push for a greater government role in American business.” —Reuters - ...