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Airbyte on Tuesday launched Airbyte Agents, a new service that precomputes and indexes a company’s business data, allowing AI agents

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Pocket forests. “The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.” The key is densely planting diverse & native species…this isn’t just planting some trees.

Meet the new round, same as the old round. The first two games of the Carolina Hurricanes' series with the Flyers have looked eerily similar to the Canes' first two against the Senators to start the playoffs. In Game 1, the top seed in the East thoroughly dominated their ene...

In the media tumult (which is to say dungstorm, only less crassly) that followed the introduction of new Toronto Maple Leafs GM John Chayka, the tweet dinging him for naming his children after cheeses was neither the rudest nor the most substantive critique he face...

Still following the OpenAI trial. Crazy:

“I thought he was going to hit me,” Brockman says of Musk. “I truly thought he was going to physically attack me.” Musk was angry that no one wanted to agree for him to have majority equity. As he was storming out of the meeting, Musk asked Brockman and Sutskever when they planned to leave OpenAI. They were confused.

I think most Elon Musk’s detractors probably admire his long-term vision with EVs and space, but he’s clearly erratic. This story is believable to me. Losing his cool, unconcerned with personal relationships, just the big picture.

Growing and emerging software toolsets and standards are prone to love-it-or-hate-it reactions. Bun, an all-in-one JavaScript, TypeScript & JSX runtime

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It's interesting what Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle at Automattic have created with the WordPress feed reader, hooking it up to Activity Pub and AT Proto, the same way they hooked up those protocols to the standard WordPress blogging functionality (not sure how technically accurate this is). They're also supporting the Google Reader api for users of products like NetNewsWire.

Jeff Bezos is of course one of the biggest names in tech, but he doesn't have much of a public personality. I saw him speak in the early days of Amazon, and in that role, he came off as a great but controversial entrepreneur (he had no interest in profits). He spoke fast, had a weird laugh, but totally fit the part. Not sure about today as he pivots to being a personality, with his wife in every picture with him. Did the real Bezos get lost in there somewhere?

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 hating your boss, Raising Cane’s, paper wallets, and more.

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Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne learns how fisheries from Iceland to the Great Lakes are using 100% of their catch — and shares his tips for making fish head soup.”

My doctor is using an AI dictation app for health providers that (with patient permission) can summarize and organize notes from a visit. Because I’m fascinated by this, he let me look at the notes and they were really good. It fits with my essay this year. More time with patients, less busywork.

Following the latest iOS update which requires UK mobile Apple device users to verify their ages, Pornhub’s parent company Aylo is lifting its ban—but only for people using iPads and iPhones.

A report on the IETF AI Preferences Working Group (AIPREF) interim meeting at the Cisco Innovation Lab in Toronto from April 14th to 16th

On Monday, the Supreme Court temporarily reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be prescribed via telemedicine. Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at The Nation and author of Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into...

Zellnor Myrie, New York State Senator (D-20, parts of central Brooklyn including Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Park Slope), talks about his bill that would allow survivors of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein to seek damages from the Epstein estate, plus other budget-rel...

Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, MSNOW commentator and the author of  The U.S. Constitution:  A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader (Simon & Schuster, 2026), explains the Constitution and how all the problems inherent in the founding are contained in it, not solved by it.

Photo: The first page of the US Constitution. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration via Wikimedia Commons)

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WNYC has been targeted by scammers who posed as hosts and offered authors interviews -- for a fee (which WNYC would never do). Rachel Tobac, co-founder and CEO of Social Proof Security, and Kenneth Atkins, assistant director of IT and data security at WNYC, talk about how to spot sneaky online phishing scams, and how to deal if you fall for it.

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In collaboration with the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, FRONTLINE examines the deal between presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele to hold U.S. deportees at CECOT and what each leader stood to gain.

Interesting article in The New Yorker about “Disney adults” and going into debt: So-called Disney adults have become a subject of online fascination, with many people now questioning how much it costs to be one. Almost two million people have watched a video, posted in Nove...

The voice actors from the original film have returned for the sequel—and not everyone is happy about it.