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Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan Teaches Its Citizens How to Fly Drones. “I may not be a soldier, but if [a China invasion] ever happened here, as a citizen, I’d like to have the ability to help in some way.”

I’m curious what model Codex cloud (that can automatically check GitHub PRs) is using. It often catches bugs that regular GPT-5.5 misses. Perhaps just a different, more comprehensive prompt.

AI researches are in such demand, they shuffle between companies often, and it’s hard to tell which hires are meaningful. Anthropic likes to say that none of their founders have left. Now Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. He was the co-author of the transformer architecture. A big deal.

There was a problem overnight with some uploads taking too long to go to our CDN, which could lead to broken images in some parts of Micro.blog. Everything back to normal now.

James Chang has built a project that upgrades the file-sharing stack on Apple’s long-discontinued Time Capsule hardware so that it will work on modern OS versions:

This is a modern Samba setup that runs directly on the Time Capsule itself; macOS 27 can connect to the Time Capsule as a network share, and use it for Time Machine backups…

You get the full Apple experience reproduced: after you install this, you do not have to worry about it again, even if the device IP address changes.

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Compare the badass parade in NYC to the deplorable demo Trump had at the White House last week. The people meeting the people to love each other. How much better and more American could it get.

Commented implementation of signupDialog here, and will include the version in FeedLand Home. So that's the official version.

The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

The best entrepreneurs don’t always come from comfort—they often come from disruption.

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to e...

Beneath soaring ceilings, in a small darkly painted gallery off the main hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two immense sunflower paintings hang side by side. The paintings are bigger than I expected them to be, big enough that when I watch people pose between them, the...

In late 2020, months after the murder of George Floyd, our colleague Justin Ellis moved back to his hometown of Minneapolis to begin work on a book about black life in the city, where promises of racial harmony have gone unkept to generations of black residents. The city's g...

Portugal began its World Cup with a goal befitting a real contender. In the sixth minute, the Portuguese pinned the Democratic Republic of Congo in their own box, fired a dangerous cross from the right side that skittered across the face of goal before being cleared, recycle...

The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.

For most of its 30-year history, Postgres has been viewed as a transactional database. Organizations trust it with customer records,

The post The database storage problem is solved. Here’s what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack.

On Friday, June 12, the United States government ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all

The post Fable 5 ban: 4 open models responded before Anthropic could restore access appeared first on The New Stack.

Recently, a crucial RAG pipeline used by one of our corporate clients began hallucinating about financial numbers without notifying us

The post Your AI pipeline is broken, and your dashboards don’t know it appeared first on The New Stack.

In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation—on June 19th, 1865.  But freedom in Texas was achieved both after and before formal emancipation.  Following June 1865, those newly freed Afro-Texans who’d heard the news still had to […]

The post From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas appeared first on The Texas Observer.

In 1863, Betty Simmons was about 20 years old, and her 3-year-old son, Charlie, would soon be made to work in the field.  In her 1938 interview with the Federal Writers’ Project, Simmons said: “[They take them young].” (These interviews were rendered by government workers in an excessively heavy dialect—in this case, for example, “Dey […]

The post Betty Simmons, a Texan in Slavery’s Last Years appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Assume You Will Be Hacked. “As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. The result has been a change in the scale, speed, and sophistication of hacks…”