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I’m a famous mystery novelist, power-walking enthusiast, and spunky widow who, despite my husband’s death, has not had my joie de vivre diminished in the slightest. Meeting me, perhaps you’d surmise that I’m a glass-half-full kind of gal who loves socializing, travel, and di...

America’s culture of cruelty and those who dare to notice.

Fight the scourge of unsolicited rings and pings from spammers, scammers, and telemarketers.

The company’s RTX Spark chips might finally turn the “AI PC” into reality.

How your front fork and rear shock work, so you can hurt less and have more fun.

The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted.

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.

Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.

I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.

Editor’s Note: This article is co-published with ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on state and federal efforts to restrict local control. No state has taken over as many local public school districts as Texas. Just since 2020, the state education agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of […]

The post Will New School District Takeovers Follow the Model—and ‘Chaos’—of Houston ISD? appeared first on The Texas Observer.

The challenges of decentralized networks, data sovereignty complexities in hosting, and the importance of local connections within the tech community to foster collaboration and growth.

At the front lines of the Ebola crisis in Central Africa, badly equipped health workers with little outside support are losing the fight against one of the worst outbreaks in history. Declan Walsh, a New York Times correspondent covering the outbreak, takes us to the epicent...

Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.

Donald Trump just named William Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, replacing the outgoing Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is best known for abusing his administration position to ransack the mortages of Trump’s enemies for fake pretexts to get them pr...

Third in the series of my #Mastodon tutorials: How to deal with unwanted content. Covering reporting, muting, blocking, word filters and notification settings. If you learn something you didn't know before from my video, please do let me know!

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What happens when you look at the economy through the lens of Taylor Swift—and realize it was never built with women in mind? In this episode, economist Misty Heggeness unpacks how women are reshaping economic systems by opting out, redesigning, and building their own paths ...

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 This podcast is called MacWrite for the web. A coral reef for writing. I think the pieces are coming. We just need a little Ice-nine.# Dries: "For an Open Source company, the test is not only what they build for themselves. It is what they help build...

In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on growing extremism in the Democratic Party. Frum compares this to the paranoia and conspiratorial thinking that cost the Republican Party dearly in the 2010s and cautions the Democrats...

AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over for humans. As expected, UnFiOS devices are under att...

In an absolutely horrible development for users and historical tech, Microsoft will let perfectly functioning old software suddenly break due to an expiring certificate. Tim Hardwick at MacRumors reports:

Microsoft has actually renewed the suite’s certificate, but the fix can only be delivered through a software update.

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