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If you've ever wanted to bounce ideas off your favorite historical figure, Ailias gives you the chance.

Need the power of a Linux desktop in a laptop? Kubuntu Focus’ latest laptop is perfect for developers, video editors, and anyone who needs serious computing power.

There’s a good way to throw out the ISS. And then there’s a really bad way.

In his first State of the Union address of his second term, President Trump offered a rosy portrait of a United States that has lost confidence in his leadership. He also relentlessly baited Democrats, who want to win back control of Congress in the midterms this fall. David...

The Vantrue E1 4K Pro is the smallest dashcam I've seen with high-resolution video and great daytime license plate capture. But the night, it comes.

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has just taken another bad turn for Donald Trump. NPR reports that the Justice Department has withheld key documents from the publicly-released Epstein files. Guess what: They apparently relate to charges that Trump potentially abused a ...

Swiss shoemaker On’s newest kicks—the LightSpray Cloudmaster 3 Hyper—are laceless shoes with a single-piece, stretchy, sprayed-on toe box.

On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” Atlantic staff writer David Frum opens with his take on President Trump’s reaction to a recent Supreme Court defeat on tariffs, arguing that the real issue is not just economics but the president’s drive for unchecked power. ...

PLUS: The Substack post that tanked the markets, continued

One of the Social Web Foundation's initiatives for improving ActivityPub will soon be a reality for the network.

Mark Gurman reports about upcoming touchscreen Macs:

…the Mac will gain a refreshed, dynamic user interface that can shift between being optimized for touch or point-and-click input, said the people.

I hope that for developers who have already adopted Liquid Glass in some way, there won’t be major changes needed for touch in the next macOS. Apple’s yearly update schedule tends to create too much busywork for developers.

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to:

• Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
• Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
• Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
• Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Watch it here.

I’ve been playing with OpenClaw a lot, and I’m using Obsidian intensely with it. All my processes and even my OpenClaw’s core files live in my Obsidian vault. I

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

Jason Snell and Myke Hurley:

We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2025 in depth, with our added opinions on every category. Jason chooses to be a rascal, and Myke tries to give ten out of five.

Upgrade is always a good podcast, and their annual “Jason discusses this year’s Apple Report Card” episode is always one of my favorites. But when Jason got “rascally” regarding MacOS 26 Tahoe in this one, I wanted to reach out and strangle him.

When it’s not distracted by negotiations with the Pentagon, Anthropic’s focus has long been on the enterprise. On Tuesday, it

The post Anthropic accelerates its Cowork enterprise play appeared first on The New Stack.

AI agents don’t slot neatly into the way enterprise data stacks were designed. A typical agent needs transactional state (e.g.,

The post Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it appeared first on The New Stack.

Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad ...

For a show on Hulu called Tell Me Lies, synth-pop band Chvrches covered Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. Lovely.

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