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My concern is that Mozilla is too excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

My mother sent me many beautiful gifts for Christmas, including lovely ones that she made herself. I will cherish them. However, she also sent one utterly confounding gift, which overshadows the others by sheer force of its strangeness.

It's a game, which is generally a good gift because I like games. I especially like ones that are easy to understand and do not have whole booklets of rules and requirements. When I first unwrapped this game, I figured it couldn't possibly be complicated because it was so small.

"I don't have time for this." That might be the name of a podcast. I just ended one with that exact phrase, and it totally fits the way I feel about these rambling diatribes by the time I'm about to sign off.

Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he

The post Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing appeared first on The New Stack.

CrunchBang was a Debian-based Linux distribution that was minimal and pretty popular among hard-core users. CrunchBang eventually ended, but gave

The post CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang appeared first on The New Stack.

In a world where AI was suddenly everywhere, what will be remembered about 2025? How can we tell future generations

The post Year in Review: AI’s Cultural Surprises – and Spectacular Failures appeared first on The New Stack.

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.

The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.

As 2025 comes to an end, The Sunday Special is looking back on the year in culture. This week, on our final episode of the podcast, we’re talking about movies. The potential acquisition of Warner Brothers by Netflix has dominated entertainment news in recent weeks, but the y...

Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

The whole illustration is just weird looking, for one thing. As for sloppy details, the tree is in soft focus but somehow has a crisp edge, the carton is labeled both “Whole Milk” and “Lowfat Milk”, and the “Cow Fun Puzzle” maze is just goofily wrong. (I can’t recall ever se...

Tim Chambers has his yearly predictions post for the open web. I enjoy these posts and I agree with most of his predictions for 2026. But there is one prediction that I think is too optimistic: The ActivityPub Fediverse (excluding Threads) will cross 15 million registered u...

When you're buying a house, the most important thing to check is the roof. Get two inspections. Get three. A house with a good roof will keep you dry. A house with a shitty roof isn't really a house is it?

Our 17th most-read article of 2025. - - - Originally published April 25, 2025. - - - Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps in my very own driveway (anywhere but a g...

At 3:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, my phone buzzed with the alert that would reshape the way I think about

The post The 3 a.m. Call That Changed The Way I Design APIs appeared first on The New Stack.

Today, we revisit one of our favorite episodes from the past year: about the science of how dogs make us calmer, happier — and maybe even more trusting.

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Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars.

This came up on Kottke. I'm going to try commenting on other old school blogs more. Want to see if we can reboot the original sphere as a way of priming a new one.

We love Pluribus because it has all the features that we find irresistible.

1. AppleTV.
2. The makers of two previous huge hits.
3. An unsung and much loved star in the last hit.
4. An intriguing sci-fi plot.
5. It’s pretty good adventure type thriller in the first episodes that settles into a slower sexy love story.
6. A clever final scene in the final episode.
7. A typical long wait for the next season.

But all this is incidental, what really matters is that we’re all involved, have opinions, and thank goodness it doesn’t actually matter like the other stuff we debate.

I rated Common Side Effects as Loved, the second highest rating on Bingeworthy.