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I’m on my first United flight with Starlink, and wow! I ran a fast.com test and got 110 mbps down and 38 mbps up, which is insane. 28ms ping times. While flying! When you think of all of the engineering and technology coming together to let me blog this it’s really incredible.

“Ivory tower design system”. That’s a more common four-word combination than people may think. A centralized design system is, by nature, detached from the people using it. It’s a downside that I’ll take every single time. But it’s a real issue.

Better control over the firewall

Train a bot to create emails for you

The cheapest path into MacOS is cheaper than normal today, thanks to this sale.

The Washington Post has fired opinion columnist Karen Attiah due to social media posts she made after the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, according to Attiah's own Substack as well as an email, from Washington Post human resources staff, obtained by the newsletter Status.

Attiah had worked with the Post's Opinions department for 11 years. From 2016 to 2021, she was editor of the Global Opinions section; at the time of her firing, she was a columnist. In the wake of Kirk's death in Utah and a school shooting in Colorado that same day, she wrote a number of posts on Bluesky about gun culture and political violence in America.

Says something about Vimeo’s decline that I heard about them being acquired not from the tech news websites that I read all the time, but from Cartoon Brew in my RSS reader:

Vimeo, once the internet’s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal.

There is a narrow space for an indie-focused, YouTube alternative. Hosting video is difficult.

Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion in the UK during US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

CEO Sam Altman announced an age-prediction system and new parental controls in a blog post on Tuesday.

According to the most recent Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report (OSSRA), 97% of all scanned codebases contain open

The post The Hidden Costs of Rushing Open Source Upgrades appeared first on The New Stack.

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the United States economy has been in flux. While high inflation has slowly cooled off in recent years, consumers are still feeling the pressures of a weak job market and rising prices at the grocery store. Now the Federal Reserve looks to be ...

It's really simpler than really simple.

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis. Roach has done deep dives on human cadavers, the digestive system and the science of sex. ...

MongoDB AMP, a new platform for modernizing legacy applications into scalable services on the popular open source document-oriented database, was

The post Agent-Infused MongoDB Tackles Application Modernization appeared first on The New Stack.

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about sex, Tool, Jimmy Fallon, an abundance of Michaels, and more.

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It’s funny to me that Apple made the new battery pack exclusive to the iPhone Air. If I really wanted the thinnest possible phone, no way I’m putting a case or extra battery on it. Even the bumper seems like too much.

Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.

In the indictment, prosecutors claim Tyler Robinson planned Kirk’s killing in advance, citing rooftop surveillance, engraved bullets, and a written note as they seek the death penalty.

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned down, it’s part of a coordinated effort by the radical left to incite violence. - - - If a gunman murders nineteen children at a...

As you probably know by now, thanks to the infinite supply of news on the subject, today new OS versions came out for Apple gadgets. Yes, it’s the one with that idiot Liquid Glass. Yes, I hate it. No, I don’t hate it because it’s different from what I was used to before. And...