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Over the past three months, the U.S. military has been firing on boats from South America, killing more than 80 people and prompting Democrats to raise urgent questions about their legality. Now, one of these operations, which killed survivors with a second missile, has prom...

In this episode, host Anne Bovelett sits down with Troy Chaplin, a well-known figure in the WordPress community and an advocate for web accessibility. Together, they dive into the importance of accessibility in web development, sharing personal stories about what sparked their passion for the topic and how it has influenced their careers. You’ll hear […]

Suddenly, on many fronts at once, President Trump and his allies are demonstrating how central sheer sadism is to his agenda—and to how MAGA conducts politics. Trump just unleashed a hateful rant to the media about Somali immigrants to set the stage for a comi...

Though the stream didn’t work as we hoped, the recording of this year’s State of the Word, which in many ways was our best one yet, is up now.

On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shocking alleged corruption that has informed President Donald Trump’s actions towards Ukraine and the scandal of the recently proposed “peace plan” by the United States...

Today's song: Old Folks Boogie. Sooooo you know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.

Todd Vaziri, on the HBO Max Mad Men fiasco: It appears as though this represents the original photography, unaltered before digital visual effects got involved. Somehow, this episode (along with many others) do not include all the digital visual effects that were in the ...

There's a question going around in WordPressLand as to whether there are any RSS apps. Yes, of course there are. Have a look at daveverse, in the right margin. That's a feed reader. All the feeds I follow personally. When one of them updates they go to the top of the list. You can see the five most recent posts by clicking on the wedge next to the title, and from there, you can go to the website by clicking a link. That's available as a WordPress plug-in. It works.

Stack Overflow has announced the general availability of AI Assist, a conversational AI search tool that prioritizes human-verified community knowledge

The post Stack Overflow Puts Community First in New AI Search Tool appeared first on The New Stack.

Two days after the shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump administration announced a flurry of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country.  The administ...

One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabers to rattle seems to have lost its edge.

Alan Sepinwall, writing for Wired (News+ link in case Wired’s paywall busts your balls): Last month, HBO Max announced a major new addition to its library. Not only would the streamer be adding Mad Men — a show that HBO execs infamously passed on back when Matthew Weiner...

Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.

Luke and Jonathan are back from an unplanned break and pick up with Luke’s growing interest in the FAIR project. Jonathan asks questions about how things work and expresses his present, yet softening cynicism. They also talk about the Internet Archive’s new project with Automattic.

I asked ChatGPT to write an email to Sam Altman for me. It's about a possible way to compete with Google.

The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics.

Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil, reporting for Reuters: Apple does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey its concerns to New Delhi, three sources said, after the government’s move sparked survei...

If 89% of business leaders think their customers are satisfied with their conversational AI experiences, while only 59% of consumers

The post The Conversational AI Revolution Is Struggling. Here’s How To Fix It appeared first on The New Stack.

In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that vibe coding — using LLM tools to assist with writing code — can help enable many people to create apps or software that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. This has...