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This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The A...

Thursday, June 4, 2026 Having fun rolling stuff out on Elon Musk's X.# The Knicks in the Finals # I didn't write about the Knicks prior to last night's game because I had no idea what to write. # The Knicks in the Finals is something I had a hard time understanding,...

Jean Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician who twice served as rector of the University of Paris. His subject was the will, and he made an austere claim: the will follows the intellect. Show a rational creature the greater good and it'll pick the greater good.

Another screenshot from the upcoming Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. I don’t edit blog categories often, so I was always fine with this as a web-only feature until now. Adding it to the Mac version is handy for filtering posts. Lots of small UI improvements in this release.

👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.

Micro.blog - @dave

👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.

Micro.blog - @dave

👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News: And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and torched his ow...

After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem

The future was telegraphed.

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): For sure
Price: $45

The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you should come. You’ll even enjoy the prelude, mingling with fellow DF readers and listeners.

Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.

I’m a bit in awe of Parish Khan’s Mac Cable Bandwidth Calculator, an interactive web site that lets you visualize the combination of cable and Mac you need to drive particular displays, based on their resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.…

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Google & Microsoft held developer keynotes the past few weeks, with Apple's WWDC conference happening soon. The growing crisis of AI-generated deepfakes in schools. And China's dominance in actuator manuf...

Microsoft is overhauling the Windows Insider program, streamlining its confusing channels and finally letting you enable new features on demand. Find out why this long-awaited change could get veteran enthusiasts—and frustrated dropouts—back in the game.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider, Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis: “A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.” It’s a great movie, and feels apt AF at the moment. Here’s the original segment on 60 Minutes, which ran an entire half hour.

What’s going on today is like if — instead of getting shady, threatening, and litigious — the tobacco companies had just purchased CBS, purged the staff at 60 Minutes, and hired a bunch of pro-cigarette stooges to replace them.

Tired of Google's AI overviews? This episode breaks down your actual options for search alternatives on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including tips most Apple fans have never tried. See just how easy it is to reclaim your Safari searches with an alternative engine and take back c...

“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by Famous Philosophers.

Minor bummer that I wasn’t expecting when doing more local LLM work in my app: the mlx-swift package adds quite a bit to application size on disk. Micro.blog for Mac jumps from only 10 MB to about 50 MB. Still relatively small for 2026, though.