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So far in my review of agentic development over the past year and heading into 2026, I’ve looked at some

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scripting added the program Common Side Effects to the database.

The year 2025 proved to be a transformative period for the JavaScript ecosystem, marked by a shift toward performance optimization

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Astronomers think they may have captured starlight from the first generation of stars, which shone more than 13 billion years ago.

This copycat controller can’t clone the PS5’s best features, but it’s a solid option for Xbox and PC gamers.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Billy Strings has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music. He has a new album, ‘Live at the Legion,’ and he brought his guitar to our studio. He spoke with Sam Briger about healing himself through songwriting.

Also, Icelandic jazz-pop star Laufey spoke with Terry Gross about her classical training in cello, breaking out online during COVID, and her first arena tour. Her recent album is ‘A Matter of Time.’ 


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Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.

Choosing a mattress for your guest room, Airbnb, or VRBO rental is challenging. This hybrid is up for it.

In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.

In the AI boom, chatbots and GPTs come and go quickly. (Remember Llama?) GPT-5 had a big year, but 2026 will be all about Qwen.

The future of conflict is cheap, rapidly manufactured, and tough to defend against.

Finished reading: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. A little bit cozy fantasy, a little bit romantasy. Fairly quick read, trying one last push to finish a couple books before the new year. 📚

In science, theories eventually get discarded if they lack explanatory power. This mechanism acts quite slowly at times, as we can see in the case of string theory. But over the course of history it has worked quite well. Nobody spends time on the phlogiston theory of combustion. It is at best of historical interest but doesn’t inform current science or engineering. In philosophy on the other hand, texts continue to be studied, no matter how impractical, useless, or even detrimental the ideas...

Enterprise IT teams now are navigating an evolving landscape defined by distributed applications, hybrid clouds, complicated API ecosystems and a

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It is to our sorrow that even though the magnificent and manic Timberwolves-Nuggets hoop orgy started later and had a 50-point(!) overtime to sustain its value as post-holiday entertainment, the news of the day was earlier, far more mundane, and could not even cover you thro...

Over the past year, I’ve met with customers and partners across every major industry, from healthcare and public sector to

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The cafeteria at Ballard High School during lunch is a loud place. Students are talking and laughing, playing card games and going out to the courtyard for an informal recess. On Fridays, students have started playing bingo. It’s a big change from the past couple of years —...

Sarah Kendzior is a political writer who I greatly admire. Her frustration sounds a lot like mine. I wrote in 2017 that the bankers in tech should watch out because Twitter had just elected a president, and its market capitalization was so low that it was bound to get bought...

Game Of The Year is a designation that inevitably gets handed out several times a year, and not always with good reason. Recency bias can be a malign influence, it can be hard to stay objective in the moment, and the season moves so fast that it's difficult to remember what ...