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One more bit of “metaverse fever dream” follow-up. The one company in the field that Nick Heer doesn’t mention is Apple, makers of the best-known (albeit not best-selling) virtual reality headset. Think and say what you want about the Vision platform (I still think it’s the first inning of a long game), but no one at Apple ever once gave a hint of endorsing “metaverse” hype. In fact, as I’ve noted before, at a 2022 WSJ event, seven months before Vision Pro was announced and over a year before it was released, Joanna Stern asked Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi:

Stern: You have to finish this sentence, both of you. The metaverse is...

Joz: A word I’ll never use.

“Fever dream” is right.

A follow-up point from my post yesterday linking to Nick Heer’s blockbuster “The Metaverse Fever Dream”. In particular, the connection Heer draws between the rise of “metaverse” hype and the pandemic. I always sort of knew that metaverse hype roughly coincided with the Covi...

Following a report from Bloomberg on Uber, TechCrunch has a post about companies putting a cap on AI spending:

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend.

I’m sure this is happening all over. That’s why I commented in my post yesterday that Anthropic’s revenue is not stable. It’s hard to cancel a subscription you value. It’s much easier to cut back on tokens.

Longtime tech writer and columnist and Friend of the Site Andy Ihnatko, who I have known since I started in this business (he was a columnist at MacUser!),…

The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time, including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.

Vibe coding has made it easier than ever to build applications. Getting those applications into enterprise production is still the

The post Rayfin: Microsoft’s answer to the gap between vibe coding and enterprise production appeared first on The New Stack.

Yeah, I’m  rans, bu  mos  people can’     ell. Maybe  hey can  ell I’m nonbinary, bu  mos  days  hey jus misgender me “hey ma’am” (  hough I’m no ). I was born  his way, I always knew I was a bo...

Emily Lin Zhang makes a real statement in the title of her new 30-minute documentary, “The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum“—that it’s unsolved! I’d argue strongly that her dogged research has largely filled in the missing pieces of the story of where the run of seemingly Latin text used by designers to act as placeholder (or “Greeked”) text in mock-ups since the late 1960s came from.…

Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a staff meeting and acc...

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to note that the hard part of enterprise AI is no

The post Microsoft bets the enterprise AI race will be won on data context, not model power appeared first on The New Stack.

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

I’m working on a new tool whose tagline is the title of this post: Make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development. Called Bram (“Bram runs agents mindfully”), the tool runs as a Tauri desktop app with three panes: a terminal where you use Claude Code and/or Codex, an agent pane that … Continue reading How to make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development

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A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

Anthropic laid down some sobering words on Tuesday. “A successful attack on their codebase could be catastrophic. For most partners,

The post “A successful attack could be catastrophic”: Anthropic gives more groups access to Claude Mythos appeared first on The New Stack.

The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic. “There’s a phenomenon called the rhyme-as-reason effect that says people are more likely to believe something is true if it rhymes.”

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 gambling, World Cup loyalties, griddles, window seat etiquette, and more.

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O’Farrell’s 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ was adapted into an award-winning film last year. She co-wrote the screenplay. It’s about the grief Shakespeare and his wife Agnes struggle with after their son, Hamnet, dies of the plague, and how that grief leads him to write the play Hamlet....

JS Crossword. “This crossword uses some lesser-known and cursed JS features, so I’d recommend it for people already somewhat familiar with JavaScript.” Diabolical.

The best thing about long-lived incumbent technologies like JSON and XML is that nobody really has to think about them much any more. Except for, I do occasionally, because while I’m not the inventor of either, my name’s on the front of both official specifications. Hey, it’s JSON’s 25th birthday, what a run! And what ever happened to XML? Let’s shake off the dust and have a look