Defector
• David Roth
WIRED
• Natasha Bernal
The Nvidia CEO reveals his consuming love for Google’s image generator, the artsy side of Grok, and what exactly he uses Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT for right now.
In a piece I wrote yesterday on my WordPress blog, I offered to do a virtual handshake with the people who worked at Netscape when it disappeared just as RSS 0.9.1 was being adopted by the blogosphere in 1999. I never considered their point of view, but in fairness, they never would talk to us except to dictate and dominate. In the piece I try to explain how it all looked from my point of view, that of a developer who had adopted RSS in favor of my own earlier format. Most of the stories miss the real innovator here, and when you find out who it is you will be surprised. (It's not me, most of my job re RSS has been fairly thankless and not creative. I wish other people would share the load. And definitely not profitable, but still worth doing because the web is the only place independent developers can work without the interference of big tech companies.)
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
An AI-generated show on Russian TV includes Trump singing obnoxious songs and talking about golden toilets.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
The open web is a patchwork of ideas, creativity, and discovery that thrives on its openness and diversity. But what happens when websites go offline, hosting bills lapse, or platforms disappear? The reality is that content is lost every day to link rot, expired services, and vanished archives while silently erasing important stories and knowledge. […]
WIRED
• Parker Hall
Samsung's flagship soundbar system sounds as excellent as ever, filling rooms with massive Dolby Atmos goodness.
McSweeney’s
• Ralph Gamelli
The Texas Observer
• José Luis Martínez
In the coming years, Texas is set to receive billions of dollars to address the ongoing opioid crisis that has taken the lives of more than 10,000 Texans between 2020 and 2023, per state data. Already, the state has allocated over $100 million in funds to cities and counties. Some local governments have begun to […]
The post How Texas Localities Have (and Haven’t) Spent Settlement Funds to Fight the Opioid Crisis appeared first on The Texas Observer.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Jessica Wachtel
Elixir is an alternative to JavaScript-based web development that claims to offer faster development and lower costs. In this developer
The post Getting Started With Elixir and Phoenix, a JS Alternative appeared first on The New Stack.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
A massive hack of a popular dashcam company; the sentencing of someone Sam has covered for years; and the mass firings around Charlie Kirk's assassination.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
The ultrathin iPhone Air is better than you’d expect, but it still costs too much for just a slim frame.
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
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Big, beefy batteries mean you might not have to charge your iPhone every day anymore.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
Meta’s next face computers are set to be revealed at its Connect event on Wednesday evening. Some details may have already been leaked, but you can get the full rundown by tuning in live.
WIRED
• Sandro Iannaccone
Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass.
The Daily
• The New York Times
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Our sponsor GoDaddy's Airo Site Designer is an AI tool that quickly creates WordPress sites from simple prompts, making it easy for anyone to go online fast.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
ChatGPT accounts will inform parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will the move protect kids — or simply drive them elsewhere?
