Enjoyed this post from Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:
Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.
Enjoyed this post from Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:
Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.
Coywolf
• Jon Henshaw
Coywolf Link Checker is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that checks internal and external broken and redirected links, with inline editing, removal, and replacement. It supports scheduled auto-scans with email notifications and configurable scan speed, user roles, and custom user agents.
Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms…
Sort of says something about the potential bipartisan response to AI that Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Sam Altman all generally agree that the public should own a piece of AI. Separately, I think there should be public AI just like there are public libraries. But maybe you do that and a system of dividends.
In prep for WWDC, reading up on some things I should’ve learned about Apple Foundation Models a year ago. I think I had dismissed it quickly because the on-device models are so small by frontier AI standards.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Chris J. Preimesberger

At Snowflake Summit 26 this week in San Francisco, the conversation moved into a new direction. If last year’s focus
The post “Whoever builds the most joyous product wins”: The agent war begins appeared first on The New Stack.
The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden.
404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Jennifer Riggins

“I’ve been doing this since the ’90s — decades of building guardrails to prevent humans from breaking production. We’re now
The post Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job appeared first on The New Stack.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
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I can’t shake thinking that someone needs to build an app for phones, tablets, and laptops that is as easy to use as Signal, but under the hood uses a mix of #Reticulum, #DeltaChat, and an #OpenSocialWeb gateway.
It’s exactly what we need for this:
“Internet blackouts have become routine in Iran, imposed during anti-regime uprisings and now two wars. But this one—Iran’s fifth—was the world’s longest, according to Netblocks… some online connection is now restored, but for many Iranians, the partial reopening feels like the removal of a few bricks from the digital wall the Islamic Republic has built: Enough for Iranians to glimpse the outside world, but not enough for them to enter it, and the opening comes with the knowledge that the regime can brick the wall back up at any time.”
WIRED
• Jason Parham
Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
These are the best Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular gadgets to ensure you never lose anything ever again.
WIRED
• Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Zziwa Raymond Ian

Moving from experimentation to production in AI requires a transformation of mindset, architecture, and engineering discipline. There’s no API wrappers
The post From Jupyter Notebook to production: How to ship AI systems that actually work appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Matthew Burns

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,
The post OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Maggie Slepian
This wide-tired bike rolls comfortably over dirt, gravel, and whatever curbs you happen to bounce down.
WIRED
• Justin Pot
Modern browsers let you share a link that jumps straight to whatever text you wish to highlight. Here’s how the feature works.
WIRED
• Jorge Garay
New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.