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I hack on hardware a whole bunch, at Inanimate and at home. AI is in the cloud. Interaction is in my room and in my hands. The job always begins by wiring together those two ends. So the second thing I do, every single time, is bring up real-time messaging using JSON over we...

The next FediForum online conference is next week. I’ve missed the last couple of events because of travel, even though I registered for them! Hope I can attend this one.

“NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.” And: “We think we’re looking at organic matter that’s been preserved on Mars for 3.5bn years.”

Trying to get my AI spending under control, I’m having the server randomly switch to the “flex” pricing tier in GPT-5 when there’s background work that doesn’t need to be instantly fast. So far so good.

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see tomorrow.”

IT uptime is now firmly established as a board-level priority. It’s not hard to see why organizations are paying a

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In the world of Netflix’s Bridgerton, the wildly popular Regency romance adapted from an equally popular book series, some things are constant: The women wear organza and brocade gowns; everyone takes long walks in manicured parks, and longer reclines in ornate sitting rooms...

Near the end of the New York Knicks' Game 1 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, the rowdy home fans started chanting, "Fuck Trae Young!" This despite the fact that it has been several years since Young earned the city's ire by knocking the Knicks out of the playoffs....

Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

ReciproCard: “Start by searching for your home library above to instantly see every free reciprocal agreement you qualify for.” Use this to have more options for Libby ebooks.

Get those lost minerals back with the help of our top electrolyte powders, tablets, drops, and chews for athletes, partiers, and everyone in between.

It’s actually happening:

The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.

“The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications.”

1. Install Baby Gates Baby gates are great for keeping babies out of places you don’t want them to go, like inside your home. String several gates together with zip ties to form a barrier around the perimeter of your property. Most babies aren’t smart enough to figure out ho...

You don't want any old gaming laptop. Here's my take on which to get based on hundreds of hours of testing.

A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

The geopolitics of our moment

My grandmother sent me a photo last week. In it, a white candle burns inside a metal bucket. Balanced on the bucket’s rim are the cast-iron grates from the gas stove—the stove that no longer has gas. And, on top of the grates, sits the coffee maker. The idea is that the candle’s small, dying […]

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Platform engineering requires something of a leap of faith. Developers need to “believe” that foundation-level tools, libraries, and repositories will always offer

The post Eclsipse Foundation offers enterprise-grade open source alternative to Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace appeared first on The New Stack.

H2O Audio’s stab at a sub-$100 pair of bone-conduction workout headphones just misses the mark.