Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
The best part about blogging is the comments, and after I posted “I wish that when you use Find My to find your iPhone, it would also flash the flashlight, which would be great for finding it in a bag or a dark room.” Michael Wender and David Artiss jumped in that it’s already there! … Continue reading Find My Update →
McSweeney’s
• Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
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At CES 2026, the company also announced a new smartwatch, stylus, Bluetooth tracker, and even a weird AI pendant.
WIRED
• Luke Larsen
Lenovo brought a Legion gaming laptop to CES this year with a rollable OLED display that expands horizontally by six inches.
Built on Shards of Silicon: Robert Alexander's Tech Blog
• Robert Alexander
FeedLand enables social blog discovery
Buttondown supports multiple languages and regional date formats for subscriber-facing content.
eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/
Problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks you always want to know everything about all the options, no matter how convoluted they are, based on incorrect assumptions about what you're doing. You ask a simple question with a simple answer and they write you a four page briefing on everything. At least they do seem to give you the correct answer up front. They ought to work on making these things manageable, and btw for these reasons I believe they must write the most shitty code when they're left to write the whole thing. If they have a different better mode, please let me talk to that one! :-)
WIRED
• Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave today announced an industry breakthrough in its approach to building and controlling its upcoming gate model
The post Fewer Wires, More Qubits: D-Wave Tackles Quantum Computing’s Cable Problem appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Parker Hall
New televisions from Amazon, Hisense, TCL, and others are designed to display fine art and look like a painting when they’re switched off. It’s all thanks to smaller living spaces and new screen tech.
Defector
• Israel Daramola
The Financial Times has a nice illustrated guide to the leadership team at Twitter/X, where things are going about as you’d expect.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
“It is a massive surprise,” said one astronomer who measured the high temperatures of gas in galaxy cluster that existed 12 billion years ago.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
