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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 I was disappointed Automattic didn't do their project in RSS first. Two-way, full fidelity, open to all feed readers not just Automattic's. That would rock the world, in a good way. # As I get deeper into the Claude-O-Verse, I get that it doesn't r...

Wish I was in San Antonio tonight. Game 2, let’s go. 🏀

The European Union spent four years drafting the AI Act, with OpenAI shipping GPT-4 to a hundred million users in two months. By the time Brussels finalised its definitions of "high-risk" systems, the systems in question had moved twice and grown various new appendages. The regulators were neither

I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

One-to-many actions, a dedicated settings page, richer analytics, and previews that let you see how an automation would have performed in the past.

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries. Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.

Who gave agents root access? On April 25, 2026, a Cursor AI coding agent deleted the entire production database of

The post How a Cursor AI agent wiped PocketOS’s production database in under 10 seconds appeared first on The New Stack.

Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct st...

Amazing line from Helen Toner’s testimony while describing the ousting of Sam Altman, about Mira Murati:

She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow, and she didn’t realize that she was the wind.

New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon. “A new generation was starting to ask - who gets to decide what is right? And who has the authority to tell us how to live?”

I’ve recorded a short video on YouTube to demo the new features in Inkwell for Mac, especially the new post window.

20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets pulled onto live TV. “Mr. Goma is being celebrated as a folk hero of sorts for anyone who has ever found themselves ill-equipped for a challenge in the workplace.”

For this episode of The New Stack Makers, we speak with Matthew O’Riordan, CEO and co-founder of Ably. Ably’s platform

The post Why long-running AI agents break on HTTP and how Ably is fixing it appeared first on The New Stack.

That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”: Every AI-generated applica...

Apple Newsroom, back in August 2024: Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and technology, information se...

Stephen Hackett blogs about the Anthropic + SpaceX / xAI news, with more questions:

Colossus 2 is believed to be up and running, at least to some degree, and xAI may no longer need the first site. Has xAI moved Grok there, leaving the original data center and its yet-to-be-built water treatment plant open for lease? How much is Anthropic paying xAI for the site? Was this a move to help bring some sanity to xAI’s books as SpaceX plans to go public?

Also with the OpenAI trial on my mind, there’s a certain perspective to the story where both Elon Musk and Dario Amodei were frustrated at OpenAI and left, at different times and for different reasons, and now they’re partners.

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.

About 12 years ago, right after we launched GiveWP, we did what a lot of WordPress builders do when something starts to work. We got distracted. We had GiveWP gaining traction, but we also shipped another product around the same time called “Maps Builder Pro”. On the surface, it made sense. It was a solid...