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Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. Inspired by […]

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OpenAI Atlas Browser Hands On: I’m Not Convinced the Web Needs a Chatbot Tour Guide

In OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, the Ask ChatGPT sidebar is moderately helpful at best. Sometimes, it’s confusingly wrong.

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'The Interview': Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Drinking and Finding God

The legendary actor, 87, is looking back with tears in his eyes.

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The Pepsi Man Is Coming to Save Samsung From Boring Design

Mauro Porcini is, amazingly, Samsung's first ever chief design officer. He's got a hell of a job ahead of him.

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Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War

We know Malala as the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the girl who survived a Taliban bullet at 15 for advocating for girls' education in Pakistan. Now in a new book, she's reintroducing herself to the world. It's called Finding My Way, and in it she writes about the mes...

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6 Best Couples Sex Toys (2025), Tested and Reviewed

No matter if you’re in the same room or an ocean away, these sex toys will help you stay connected to your partner.

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Automattic 20 & Counter-claims

It’s a bit of Automattic lore, but although I founded the company in June 2005, CNET asked me to stay on for a few more months to finish out some projects, which I did. Our HR systems have me as the second employee, after Donncha O Caoimh (still at the company!) So today is my … Continue reading Automattic 20 & Counter-claims →

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DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks

US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.

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Great to see Les Orchard reading my site again. We did some great stuff together a long time ago in Frontier. He converted code from Perl (I think) to Frontier so I could use S3 for storage for users. I still use his code to this day. He's been writing of his memories of great feed reading tools of 20+ years ago, and I keep trying to tell my friend Les that the system we have now makes those products look primitive, as it should because so many years have passed. In 2022, I decided to give RSS another try. First I did a top to bottom review of RSS, and then I built FeedLand. If you loved feeds and mourn the day the music died, I have good news, it didn't die, you all just stopped believing it could happen.

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FeedLand and WordPress

We've had a performance issue in FeedLand that we finally think we have tracked down. I'm working slowly and carefully on a new version that incorporates the new thinking. If it works, I'll tell you more about what worked and how it affecs the software (obviously for the bet...

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IBM’s Mellea Tackles Open Source AI’s Hidden Weakness

RALEIGH, N.C. — Nathan Fulton remembers the moment he realized open source AI had an infrastructure problem. Senior engineers kept

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Founders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors.

I've been following tech news for decades, and one of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology — one that's markedly accelerated over the last decade — is the shift from talking about people who create tech to focusing on those who merely financ...

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Meta Announces Ban on Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp

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Eric Hal Schwarz, reporting for TechRadar: Meta is closing the door on third-party AI assistants inside WhatsApp. Starting January 15, 2026, no general-purpose AI chatbot, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others, will be allowed to operate on the platform. The change i...

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I tried Atlas again to go find something for me on the web, and it worked, but the UI doesn’t feel right to me. Dia is lighter, more streamlined. I think Atlas tries to do a lot and doesn’t quite have a vision for how all the pieces should fit together. It’s 1.0, though.

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Trump demolishes White House East Wing; Nazi controversies hit both parties

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This week, construction crews knocked down the East Wing of the White House to make way for the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom. This demolition surprised many in D.C., as President Donald Trump had previously said his proposed addition would not significantly alter the existing structure.

Host Colby Itkowitz speaks with White House reporter Dan Diamond and Dan Merica, the co-anchor of the Early Brief newsletter, about why this construction is unlikely to be derailed and what we know about the ballroom plans. And, they discuss how past comments by Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner and onetime Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia have come back to haunt them.

Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Josh Carroll. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter. 

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AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images

AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.

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Sora Has Lost Its App Store Crown to Drake and Free Chicken

Dave's Hot Chicken is the top app in the iOS App Store, ending Sora's weeks-long reign.

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Astronomers Have Discovered Earth's Latest Quasilunar Moon

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn't left.

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The Journey Of All 1,091 U.S. Roller Coasters Ends With A Toot Around The Track

The Journey Of All 1,091 U.S. Roller Coasters Ends With A Toot Around The Track
Rick Mathews has spent most recent weekends driving thousands of miles. Sometimes he flies somewhere and then drives. Sometimes he has several flights in a weekend between all that driving. This was what was required during the home stretch of his years-long quest to ride ev...