Dries Buytaert says you have to grow the ecosystem, not just yourself.
Defector
• Giri Nathan
Jannik Sinner Gets Too Close To The Sun, Falls Early In French Open
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...
The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’. “The energy required to deceive is unsustainable. Reality is relentless. The tyrant who chooses to fight it is doomed.”
Defector
• Chris Thompson
James Wood Will Mightily Thwap The Baseball In Whichever Direction He Pleases
The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best...
Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of energy gets freed up for living, instead of being spent on wondering about how to live”.
Remarkable People
• Guy Kawasaki
What It Takes to Build an Incorruptible Company
Silicon Valley taught founders how to move fast, scale quickly, and dominate markets.
TWiT.tv
• Mikah Sargent
Hands-On Apple 233: Apple Watch Customization
Coywolf
• Jon Henshaw
Panic announces Transmit 6: Here's everything that's new
Panic has announced Transmit 6, a major upgrade to its file transfer app after years in maintenance mode. It features a redesigned interface, persistent activity view, the return of Transmit Disk for mounting remote shares in Finder, scheduled syncs, and a faster sync engine.
Defector
• David Roth
The New York Jets Will Now Try Being “AI-First”
Defector
• Dave McKenna
After 40 Years, The Guys Who Made ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Are Almost Famous
Defector
• Ray Ratto
The Canadiens Have A Weird Fetish For Not Shooting The Puck And They’re Making It Everybody’s Problem
TWiT.tv
• Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
iOS Today 804: iMessage Apps
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Oluwadamilola Oshungboye
Why OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams

Companies adding AI to their products often think that a powerful model is the key to successful integration. This assumption
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404 Media
• Jason Koebler
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The Sun Is Undergoing a Mysterious Change and Nobody Knows Why
Astronomers discovered that magnetic activity in the Sun is being squeezed into a more tightly confined area under its surface, which has implications for space weather forecasts and heliophysics.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription
On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The States and Redistricting
After the Supreme Court decision that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Daniel Squadron, co-founder of The States Project, former New York State senator and author of the forthcoming book The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union (Zando, 2026), talks about the interplay between state legislatures and the redistricting fights happening now.
Photo: Oliver Larkin, Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s 23rd district, speaks during an emergency town hall that he held to address Florida Republicans’ newly approved congressional redistricting map (seen on wall) on May 04, 2026 in Coral Springs, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
NYS Finally Has a Budget
Albany lawmakers finally passed the state budget, eight weeks late. Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, reports on the key provisions in the deal.
Photo: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani testifies at the 2026 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing in Albany on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. (Photo by Michael Appleton courtesy of the Mayoral Photo Office)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC