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The thing that's amazing about Claude.ai is that it understands how software works. I can talk to it about software the way a football coach would talk to a player about football. I gave it some instructions in English about how the outliner was going to evolve. I asked if i...

Lisa Lerer, national political correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the results and issues in the midterm primary elections for senate seats in both Texas and North Carolina.

Photo: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) speaks at a campaign rally on March 2, 2026 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)

 

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The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s. The prints were created using the photochrom process: The prints look deceptively like color photographs. But when viewed with a magnifying glass the small dots that ...

Apple’s pricing this week is interesting to me. Doesn’t matter the size or purpose of a device, everything is the same price:

• iPhone 17e: $599
• iPad Air: $599
• MacBook Neo: $599

Jason Kottke:

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?

Good question. I think bicycle still works, though.

At $599, Apple's entry-level MacBook Neo is the most affordable laptop the company has ever made.

Jason Snell, Six Colors:

Here’s the backstory: With every new generation of Apple’s Mac-series processors, I’ve gotten the impression from Apple execs that they’ve been a little frustrated with the perception that their “lesser” efficiency cores were weak sauce. I’ve lost count of the number of briefings and conversations I’ve had where they’ve had to go out of their way to point out that, actually, the lesser cores on an M-series chip are quite fast on their own, in addition to being very good at saving power!

Clearly they’ve had enough of that, so they’re changing how those cores are marketed to emphasize their performance, rather than their efficiency.

Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle for the mind. What does that make LLMs? An e-bike for the mind? A car for the mind? A jet plane for the mind?

The Synergistic Synergies Subsidiaries family is devastated to announce the loss of our Chief Happiness Architect, Wayne Tillerson, an invaluable member of our corporate family whose vacant position is already accepting applications through our HR portal. Wayne will be remem...

Four years is a long time in technology. But in AI, it’s more like an eternity. When Unleash last raised

The post Unleash raises $35M, launches Impact Metrics to govern feature rollouts at AI speed appeared first on The New Stack.

How Martin Kleppmann’s iconic book is evolving for AI and cloud-native architectures Since its release in 2017, Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The post Why the “bible” of data systems is getting a massive rewrite for 2026 appeared first on The New Stack.

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Why does personal finance feel so stressful—even when we’re wealthier than ever? Tarun Ramadorai joins Guy Kawasaki to explain why the system isn’t just confusing, but often rigged against ordinary people. Tarun is a finance professor and co-author of the new book Fixed: Why...

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

Prepping for warmer weather? Marshall's midsize portable Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks.

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as the simplest way to make a web page. I’ve been rebuilding it, but it drifted too far. So I split it in two! jottit.org is the original, rebuilt. tinypost.blog is a new minimalist blogging tool. simonbc.com/why-i-spl…

Aaron Swartz and I built Jottit in 2007 as the simplest way to make a web page. I’ve been rebuilding it, but it drifted too far. So I split it in two! jottit.org is the original, rebuilt. tinypost.blog is a new minimalist blogging tool. simonbc.com/why-i-split-jottit-into-two-apps

A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.