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If the web were a platform for writers, how would it work?

Astro's ClientRouter is a solid abstraction for complex apps. For a simple blog, it turned out to be a workaround for things the platform now does natively — and it was quietly breaking iOS Safari's Reader Mode.

Was Tim Cook GOOD or BAD?

#DevinTownsend - Home At Night (Official Music Video). A new piece from #TheMoth.

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Is the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years: a) The Silence of the Lambs, b) The Princess Bride, c) The Return of the King (LoTR), d) Apocalypse Now, or e) Jurassic Park?

A French corporation was recently found criminally liable for enabling terrorism. “The court in Paris has just ruled that cynicism and an exclusive focus on profits can constitute a crime.”

ChatGPT Images 2.0 seems to be a big step forward. Neat gimmick in the announcement blog post to use text layout on images for the post text. (Bad for accessibility, but great as a demo.)

Cool to see Patrick Rhone on the latest Mac Power Users, talking about Apple tech and especially how we can be more intentional with our phones. On notifications, it’s so easy to be distracted by everything on the internet. Gotta deliberately turn off most of the ways our phones can interrupt us.

The president of the United States, on his blog this morning (all capitalization, punctuation, and missing/wrong words verbatim): I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the co...

This is an animal called the leaf sheep: It’s a species of slug that is partially solar-powered, like a plant. Leaf sheep are kleptoplastic organisms that steal chloroplasts from algae, store them in their bodies, and then can rely on photosynthesis for their energy needs...

Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re Looking at the Wrong Culprit. “One drive to the work I do on the Colorado River used more than 20 times the water of everything I did with AI in 11 weeks.”

The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.

For this episode of The New Stack Makers, we sat down with Jorge Palma, the PM lead for Azure Kubernetes

The post Why Microsoft is betting on temporary identities to stop autonomous agents from going rogue appeared first on The New Stack.

On Monday, Amazon and Anthropic announced a new agreement under which Anthropic commits to investing more than $100 billion in

The post Amazon and Anthropic deepen AI ties with a $100B AWS commitment appeared first on The New Stack.

The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking juicers, the Spock market, airplane seat prep, and more.

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The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.

The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock. “This clock displays the current time alphabetically.” Totally deranged…I love it.

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“Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, accusing the magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick of defamation over an article that alleged the FBI director… has a habit of ‘excessive drinking and unexplained absences,’ among other recurring behavior...