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Logitech's latest full-size office keyboard has no USB port and is powered purely by ambient light.

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum argues that President Donald Trump is making a miscalculation in his second term. Instead of consolidating power before plundering the state, Trump has reversed the sequence, imposing massive tariffs that rais...

And where we go from here

1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare.

2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad.

3. There are almost no places to rest, and even when you find them, they cost money.

4. You need to watch a lot of YouTube video essays to make sense of anything.

5. You mutter “What fresh hell is this?” every ten minutes.

6. There are some really lovable characters, but you hardly ever see them.

7. No matter how bleak it gets, you can’t stop scrolling.

8. People on Reddit swore it was going to happen—but a lot of us didn’t believe them

10. Religious fanatics keep attacking you.

11. You might not make it to the end.

Both: 1–11

The serial website builder Riley Walz launched a project that tracked San Francisco parking enforcement in real time—until the public data feed was cut off.

There is some riveting drama in the Ruby community around company sponsorships, and directory nudging similar to what happened with Advanced Custom Fields and Secure Custom Fields. This post does the best summary: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover. I will only add that Automattic attempted to sponsor RailsConf and … Continue reading Ruby Drama →

A large majority of software development teams are now using AI, marking a fundamental shift in how code gets written,

The post AI Has Won: Google’s DORA Study Shows Universal Dev Adoption appeared first on The New Stack.

Posted a quick 1-minute video on YouTube (boo!) to demo a new feature to install Open Graph preview cards for Micro.blog themes, even if you don’t use the full design from the theme.

President Donald Trump has made the search for finding a “cure” for autism a centerpiece of his public health agenda. This week he shared major developments in that effort. On Monday, the Trump administration announced that the Food and Drug Administration would be adding a ...

The new sites will boost Stargate’s planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.

Unfortunately picked today with an expected high of 100° as the day I should start taking long walks again.

Experts fear that Donald Trump’s anti-painkiller tirade could lead to an increase in risk factors for autism, and don’t trust the administration to assess data as it continues to search for a cause.

Oklahoma State has announced that head football coach Mike Gundy has been relieved of his duties, bringing an end to a 20-year run at the school. The Cowboys have not had a winning season since 2022, but the final straw seems to have come after last Friday's embarrassing los...

After the tremendous success of Salt Fat Acid Heat, chef and author Samin Nosrat realized she needed to recalibrate her life. "I really believed on some level if I achieved all of these things, that that would fill this hole of loneliness in my heart," she tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger. Nosrat's new book, Good Things, is about sharing food with the people you love.

Also, Justin Chang reviews Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie. 

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The agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area. Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime.

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 football, B-movies, peanut butter, and more.

Your letters:

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago. Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical a...

Smarten up your sluggish TV with $11 off a Roku Streaming Stick Plus.

I’ve had a couple side conversations recently about centralized video. John Gruber makes a strong case today that this needs to be solved soon:

With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independently, as it is for written content. I don’t know what the answer to that is, technically, but we ought to start working on it with urgency.

Jan Lehnardt said it best in a Mastodon post: “What the f*** is going on with Ruby?” What’s going on

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