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Wes Fenlon, writing for PC Gamer: Did Windows 3.1 really ship with a garish color scheme that was dared into being? That was a story I needed to hear, so I went digging for the credits of the Microsoft employees who worked on the user interface back then and found my way...

What’s going on, Internet? If a song isn’t available on Spotify or Apple Music, a lot of people these days assume it isn’t an official release. I reckon that idea is wrong.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we bring you our conversation with Jon M. Chu from WIRED’s Big Interview event, fresh on the heels of directing Wicked: For Good.

Investigative reporter Beth Reinhard first noticed it in January, when President Donald Trump’s second inauguration celebration got moved indoors because of freezing temperatures. Thousands of ticketed spectators were left to stand out in the cold, but at least 17 billionair...

Expansion teams are usually bad because they’re contingent on being bad. For narrowing the other teams’ slices of the revenue pie, they can join the league only at a high cost and at some competitive disadvantage. If they do fashion something workable from everyone’s leftove...

Enterprises are experiencing FOMO and rushing to deploy AI-based services and AI agents, but for the teams that are responsible

The post Breaking Data Team Silos Is the Key To Getting AI to Production appeared first on The New Stack.

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. I am pretty su...

Like most of us from the U.S. South, Alabama-born developer Mike Ryan has a deep reverence for Waffle House. That’s

The post Run AI Agents in the Browser With the Hashbrown Framework appeared first on The New Stack.

SaaS is dead. Punk is dead again, for approximately the four hundredth time since Sid Vicious actually died in 1979. Rock is dead. The novel is dead. Cinema is dead. Blogging is dead. Privacy is dead. Expertise is dead. Irony is dead. 

We have collectively decided that the most

As any good home gardener knows, a healthy plant can outgrow its planter. And so it is with Kubernetes jobs,

The post Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling appeared first on The New Stack.

Laura Wellington is estranged from one of her adult daughters. The Connecticut 59-year-old is somewhat famous for this, in fact, or anyway famous for her response to it. Across Tiktok and Instagram, under the name "Doormat Mom," Wellington's railing against the supposed inju...

Mateo, a child, sits at a debate table opposite an empty chair. He’s surrounded by twenty Santa Claus Deniers, each holding a red flag. MATEO: My name is Mateo, I’m six years old, and Santa Claus is real. The sound of a countdown can be heard, “3…2…1… ding.” Several Santa De...

Dads are traditionally tough to shop for—let me help with these handpicked gift ideas for fathers with great taste.

Rainy day in Austin. Looking out from my car as the skyline fades up into the mist.

OpenAI often makes fun of their own product names — “really bad at naming things” — but Google’s image product is literally called Nano Banana. 🍌

I like this blog post by Robin Rendle about whether the current disruption of search engines might be a good thing:

Perhaps the web needs to be released from the burden of this business model. Perhaps mass readership isn’t possible for the vast majority of websites and was never really sustainable in the first place.

Most blogs are not monetized with ads and shouldn’t be. There are still indirect benefits to writing on the web. Sharing for the sake of it, bringing people into newsletters or subscriptions, and building an audience that leads to other good things, jobs, friends.

Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from City Hall and Mayor-elect Mamdani's transition plans.

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Federal records show CBP is moving from testing small drones to making them standard surveillance tools, expanding a network that can follow activity in real time and extend well beyond the border.

Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at the Center for an Urban Future, discusses his organization's new report documenting the importance of the creative sector to New York City's economy, the affordability challenges the city's artists are facing, and solutions that would revive the community.

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The Magic Employment Fallacy Invoking the “Lump of Labor Fallacy” to shut down discussion of the labor market impact of AI and robotics is once again popular. Labeling something a fallacy is a powerful move. After all, who would want to hold “a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument” (common definition for fallacy) and where one will be accused of zero sum thinking?So what is the lump of labor fallacy? It is the belief that there is a fixed amount, a “lump,” of labor and so...