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O'Connor stars as a cybersecurity expert who decides the world deserves to know the truth about alien life in the Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day. He speaks with Tonya Mosley about preparing in secret to star in the summer Blockbuster, why he initially had no interest in playing Prince Charles in The Crown, and why he gets sick after completing almost every role.

David Bianculli reviews new documentaries about Martin Short and Lorne Michaels.

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As thrilling as the end was for this Knicks fan, as a friend (of a Spurs fan) I empathize -- because I had the feeling you have now for most of last night's game, only to erupt in one of the greatest group sports orgasms ever.

I have been praised for continuing to develop software long after most of my peers have retired. Why do I do it? I want to restore the power and glory of the web for writers. That's part of it. Another part is that software development is undergoing a huge revolution, bigger than the move to high-level languages that came about before I started writing software. AI tools are that big. Why would I leave now? It's like leaving the Garden last night because it looked hopeless for the Knicks. It ain't over till it's over.

@dave Congrats to the Knicks. They’ve been able to close out games.

Well, my answers to your questions, anyway. On Epstein, The X-Files, voting rights, more!

Things have been a bit quiet here at FrameLab. That silence has a reason: I have been finishing a book.

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy will be published on August 18 by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. You can pre-

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.

With 104 games over the next six weeks, and with the United States (along with Canada and Mexico) hosting, the World Cup will be all-encompassing for the near future. Soccer is a very easy sport to get drawn into, especially during a World Cup, but the complexity of the game...

Some games get you thinking about a higher power. Not because it seems like some cosmic force has put a thumb on the scale in favor of one side or the other, but because the game in question produces a result so unlikely, so ornately designed, that it can only have occurred ...

Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever. 15 years ago, billionaires had $4.5 trillion. “Now, their combined wealth totals $20.1 trillion — an amount that is equivalent to nearly a fifth of the entire world’s total yearly output.”

With the rise of AI coding agents, developers have begun experimenting with complex, multi-step upgrade requests. Since Spring is the

The post Transform your AI coding agent into a deterministic Java Spring expert appeared first on The New Stack.

Unless you’ve been living under a mousepad, you know about WeAreDevelopers. The Berlin-based software developers conference and networking event, now

The post WeAreDevelopers is coming to the US to give unsung developers a bigger voice appeared first on The New Stack.

Large language models have moved quickly from novelty to daily infrastructure in software development. We are no longer using AI

The post Cleaner AI training data, fewer bugs: Sonar’s SonarSweep explained appeared first on The New Stack.

If you follow Apple news, you’ve seen Liquid Glass, the visual language shipping with iOS 26. It was Apple’s biggest design overhaul since iOS 7, touching basically every surface of the OS: navigation bars, tab bars, sheets, context menus… We’ve been working on updating Pocket Casts for it. Here’s a bit of the thinking behind […]

As regular readers will know, I’ve written a lot about the topic of AI and consciousness (too much for some perhaps!) because I find it fascinating, in much the same way that I find the issue of whether AI is dangerous or not fascinating – something I’ve

To best trace the thread of Carlyn Ray’s ascent through the Texas glassblowing scene, you must first consider the lowly silkworm.  At the ripe young age of 10, Ray raised the caterpillars in cardboard boxes in her Dallas home, fattening them up on mulberry leaves until they spun cocoons and began to pupate. It was […]

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New #Haken single

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Day 4,382 of people asking whether “normal workers” could really move large stones without assistance from mystical sky beings. Yes. That is generally how construction functions. - - - A man approached me near the Nile today and whispered, “But have you considered… visitors ...

Watching this closely: “Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps…”

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I played the ultimate game of strategy on a variety of smart chess boards to find the best for online and in-person matches.