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If you can see everything, you may see nothing at all. That’s what SREs and DevOps engineers are learning as

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Unsurprising open corruption from FIFA & the Trump regime: FIFA rents an office in Trump Tower. “The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” That’s called a bribe.

Nobody wants to think about officiating, much less talk about it. Joyce Carol Oates knows it. The NBA Finals are no occasion for rational nonpartisanship. The middle ground is out of reach. If I want to say something straightforwardly true about the officiating, like, "Ref...

Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic Labs, the team responsible for figuring out what the most capable AI models ca...

About a year ago, Google demoed a diffusion model at its I/O developer conference, but went quiet about the technology

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On Tuesday, Anthropic debuted Fable 5, the first — and much-anticipated — generally available Mythos-class model.  Anthropic says it can work

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The fastest-moving conversation in AI developer tooling this week began with a job description. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code

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On Wednesday, AWS announced that its Graviton5 processor is now generally available and powers two new Amazon EC2 instances: M9g

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Last week, Microsoft shut down 73 of its own GitHub repositories following a malware attack that would steal developers’ credentials

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After WWDC is always a good time to reflect on priorities. This year’s event for me was about refinements and focus.

On the technical side, I’m hoping to use Apple Foundation Models as a fallback when bigger models can’t be used. But since my Mac app is outside the App Store, I’ll be limited too, apparently without private cloud compute.

Congrats to Apple on a good week. The reaction I heard from folks seemed overwhelmingly positive. Onward! There’s a lot to work on.

Thinking about a point raised by Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel at The Talk Show last night, that regular people may not totally get the privacy of Apple’s private cloud compute. Will they trust it more than giving personal context to ChatGPT? All these years of Apple ads about privacy should help.

Excellent Stratechery update this morning about Fable and more broadly how Anthropic’s “only we can be trusted” messaging also helps their business:

It’s fascinating to observe: me, the rational business analyst, sees a hard-nosed but understandable business decision to cut off would-be competitors; Anthropic employees and advocates, the true believers, see a regrettable but understandable safety decision that ensures that responsible and thoughtful people — themselves, of course — will be the ones guiding our AGI future.

The Institute for Nonprofit News released its ninth annual INN Index on Tuesday, analyzing data reported from hundreds of its members to understand the state of nonprofit news in 2025. The Index remains one of the most detailed snapshots of the revenue and audience picture across nonprofit newsrooms; this year’s data set primarily draws on...

Welcome, soccer fans from around the globe, to the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. We hope you have a pleasant stay with us and enjoy all the exciting experiences North America has to offer. Oh, and by the way, we’re monetizing the oxygen. Yes, ...

It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.

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It's quite possible that the best moment of Brazil's 2026 World Cup happened a month before the tournament even started. The day was May 18, the occasion the announcement of World Cup roster. The tension was high, almost all of it weighing on whether or not Neymar, in what would be his first Brazil appearance in two years, would get called up. When manager Carlo Ancelotti did read his name, the country went wild.

The UFC event on the White House's South Lawn is the president's birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.

I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look

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2018: "I can say what happened to Melo. He failed Linsanity. God came to his rescue. Gave him a player who was glad to be in the NBA, who would mold his game to make Melo the star that he was always capable of being. Melo didn't want anyone else in the spotlight. Goodbye Lin. Just imagine what the three guys in this picture could have done. The only thing in the way was Melo's hubris."

Thomas Bangalter, one half of the legendary duo Daft Punk, played a 75-minute DJ set for The Lot Radio the other day. He played tracks by Boards of Canada, Burial, Sonic Youth, and even Daft Punk (full setlist). The set is also available on Soundcloud. Bangalter also put ...

As of publication, the New York Knicks maintain a 2-1 edge in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. It's been an entertaining, nervous, and extremely high-level series, and this week on Nothing But Respect, Harry and I sought out two returning champions. Devon Walker...