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The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure.

Sahil Lavingia, previously a DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is now a career employee at the IRS. He said at WIRED's Big Interview event that he expects to work there 10 years.

The cofounder and CEO of Circle says “money as an app platform” is the next step in a digital-based global economic system that’s right around the corner.

Meta wants to make its AI hardware slicker and more fashion-forward. It also needs to make its software more usable. The way to do all that appears to be hiring design maestros away from Apple.

Surveys can now randomize answer order to avoid position bias in responses.

Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.

Ultimate tracking machine. Unusually timely metrics. Uniquely telling moments. UTM is all and none of those things.

Louie Mantia blogging about Alan Dye leaving Apple, and more generally the trend away from user-centered design:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they started making products that appealed to themselves. Because since Steve Jobs died, Apple, its executives, and its corporate employees got significantly wealthier. It wasn’t just Jony who took an interest in luxury.

The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine.

By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper. But prices won't drop for years, and consumers will spend more on gas in the meantime.

People like to rag on the Bay Area, but mayor Daniel Lurie believes there’s no better place in the world than San Francisco.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

In software I design, I like to have multiple ways to view the same data. In one context it's an outline, then flip a switch and now it's a graphic. MORE was a product we shipped at Living Videotext for the Mac in 1986. You start with an outline and flip a switch to turn ...

The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees.

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In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.

The note-taking applications on our phones are often where we go to jot down a quick reminder, a draft of a text message or a packing list. These simple text editors are there, on our phones, ready to document our fleeting thoughts.

But what do these notes from yesterday, or last month, or three years ago say about ourselves? 

Post Reports co-host Elahe Izadi recently took on this question and asked strangers if she could look into their notes app. Host Colby Itkowitz chats with Elahe about what she learned from this little social experiment.  

Today’s show was produced by Thomas Lu. It was mixed by Sam Bair and edited by Ariel Plotnick. 

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It is a strangely nice thing that putting up a post containing the link to that week's episode of The Distraction has become part of my Thanksgiving observance. Most of it still amounts to going up and down the stairs of my parents' home, and doing hours of oafish expediting and cooking in their kitchen while everyone in my family yells "What?" at each other from different rooms. But we've been doing this long enough that the collision between the undisputed king of Thursday holidays and our podcast, which comes out on Thursdays, barely even registers as jarring anymore. It wasn't until this week, after all that cooking and eating and a hard-won 10 hours of sleep, when the podcast really felt as if it was getting back to normal. We talked about climate change, the NBA, and fantasy sandwiches.

Gives new meaning to the 'internet of shit.'