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For my first podcast of the year with the WordPress community, I joined the new Do the Woo podcast! It started with a little technical difficulty but ended up being a great conversation about WooCommerce, WordPress, and AI.

I’ve been watching some of the CNN live coverage from Minneapolis. Looks precarious. Sad and worried for a city that has already gone through so much.

Stay safe everyone.

SEASON 4 EPISODE 50: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: The newest crimes this week mean he's now committed 32 of the 40 "sins" Thomas Jefferson accused King George III of in The Declaration of Independence: He's telling those protesting the dead ...

Two co-founders of Thinking Machines are going back to OpenAI. Last July, a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence left for Meta.

Building a business is hard, even with funding. The near implosion of OpenAI and the board shakeup that led to these companies’ founding now feels like ancient history.

Reading this post on Daring Fireball today about the explosive growth of the iPhone made me curious what I had blogged about the launch. We tend to slightly reframe history when looking back, so older posts are a snapshot of how things really felt. My post in 2007 also collected some tweets.

The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.

In 2025, the Ada programming language made what might be considered a comeback. (But don’t call it one! Yet.) Last

The post 2025: The Year of the Return of the Ada Programming Language? appeared first on The New Stack.

Matt Richman, back in 2012: In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008 combined. In 2010, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined. Last year, Apple sold 93.1 million iPhones, slightly more than it did in 2007, 2008, 2009, a...

Luke and Jonathan enjoy a conversation with Rae Morey, publisher of The Repository. Rae shares her origin story and they discuss the top stories of 2025. We discuss 2026, Luke expresses his optimism, and Jonathan asks Rae about the sustainability of The Repository itself. Oh, and AI, of course.

Anthropic‘s $1.5 million investment in Python security is both self-interested and smart, analysts say, addressing a critical vulnerability in the

The post Experts Hail Anthropic’s $1.5M Python Security Commitment appeared first on The New Stack.

Karissa Bell, Engadget: Several of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has shuttered three of its VR studios, including Armature, Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel. VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated wit...

Really unique design for Honda’s prototype camper trailer. I like it. There’s some video and commentary here on YouTube.

Demo: rssCloud makes feeds as fast as the internet.

The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.

David Pierce writes that all the AI pieces are falling into place for Google:

Three years after being caught off guard by ChatGPT, Gemini appears to have everything it needs to take down OpenAI and everyone else.

And:

It announced an opt-in feature called “Personal Intelligence,” which connects Gemini to the vast ocean of information Google has about you in order to give you better responses.

I don’t think Gemini will ever reach the level of market share that Google search had. There’s still a lot of room for a few successful companies.

It's been around since 2009, it scales on WordPress, we support it in FeedLand, this is how you build a system that's fast that has all-replaceable parts -- it's as fast as the internet.

Josh Woodward, VP of Gemini and AI Studio, on the Google blog: The best assistants don’t just know the world; they know you and help you navigate it. Today, we’re answering a top user request: you can now personalize Gemini by connecting Google apps with a single tap. La...

At least 1,850 protesters have been killed in a brutal crackdown by Iran's government. Robin Wright, contributing writer and columnist for The New Yorker and author of several books on Iran, explains the political upheaval and why President Donald Trump has canceled meetings with Iranian officials and encouraged protesters to keep demonstrating, saying that "help" from the U.S. is on the way.

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For years, President Donald Trump has complained about Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell. He’s called him names, said he should be fired and has tried to pressure the Fed leader into lowering interest rates.

Trump’s feud against Powell escalated over the weekend, when Powell revealed that the Justice Department launched a criminal inquiry against him, alleging that Powell lied about the cost of renovations to the Federal Reserve buildings.

Host Elahe Izadi speaks to banking reporter Andrew Ackerman about what this probe could mean for Powell, the Fed and whether Trump’s consistent pressure on Powell could undermine America’s central bank forever.

Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick and mixed by Sean Carter. 

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If you’re joining the new Digg for the first time today, you might as well join the new /apple community that I’ve started! techcrunch.com/2026/01/1…