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Special solvers solve special crosswords. This week's puzzle was constructed by Erik Agard and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Erik is a crossword editor and would like to dedicate this puzzle to his dad John and brother Vince, the football fans of the family (le...

Last week, the U.S. military killed eight people and stranded six others in three illegal boat strikes, bringing the total number of people killed by “Operation Southern Spear” to at least 215. The ongoing campaign—allegedly targeting drug smuggling—has long ceased to be maj...

Brady Tkachuk will join his co-podcaster Matthew on the Mar-a-Lago Panthers. Let's address the hockey stuff first. A scary forward group gets even scarier, and more irritating to play against; there are no real soft spots or ceded shifts in the three top lines. After a lost ...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and a proposed nuclear weapons AI data center in Michigan have earned the ire of community leaders.

Joseph speaks to Jake Hanrahan all about Patreon, YouTube, and getting journalism in front of people.

Books written for younger audiences are being relocated to adult sections at alarming rates. We asked experts to predict what that means for the rest of us.

Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called ‘the weights.’ ‘In the weights’ means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.”

Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless supply of bad news. “We are the same species as we were thousands of years ago. What’s changed is the size of the world it’s asked to scan for threats.”

As we celebrate Pride Month, it felt like the right time to return to this meaningful conversation with Raquel Willis.

Louis CK: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

People who reinvent RSS often say they did it because it was missing a feature they needed. But it specifically supports extension via namespaces so you can build on existing standard. They're really easy to do, increases interop, you might work with other products right out of the box, and save time for other who want to be compatible with you. People should study the internet, how it developed, ts philosophy, before they go off and try to re-create it, it rarely works. What's the point?

Bluesky: "If Obama had called McConnell’s bluff on the Garland nomination, the court would be 5-4 instead of 6-3. And if RBG had stepped down, it would’ve been 5-4 in favor of Dems.

Ben Thompson closing out today’s post:

The only possible way to curb Apple’s dominance is through competition, and if Apple wants to open up a vector for competitive hardware to arise, that’s fine! And, if in response to competition, they open up their platform, that’s great too.

AI is the best opportunity to compete with Apple and Google since the launch of the iPhone. And yet hardly anyone is going for it. It’s easy to complain that Apple fumbled around with AI for a couple years, but no potential new competitors capitalized on it.

Basic Apple Guy has a rundown of the new icons in Golden Gate compared to their Tahoe predecessors:

The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adjusted, and the refraction in the Liquid Glass effect has changed significantly, especially in icons like Journal.

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Although I’ve seen a highlight or two, I have not overcome my FIFA+Fox+Trump disgust to watch any of the World Cup so far. MAGA dipshit Alexi Lalas is high on the list of reasons not to tune into any of Fox’s braindead coverage, but it sounds like he’s being dragged on the r...

John Steinbeck was already suffering serious heart trouble when, in 1962, he and his dog clambered into a pickup with a camper topper for a cross-country trip chronicled in his famous final book, Travels with Charley. Six decades later, Austin writer Lauren Hough sets out in a 2001 Dodge Ram van with her dog, a […]

The post A Queer Texan Retraces Steinbeck’s 10,000-mile trip appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Amongst friends and family, I’m known as something of a digital curmudgeon. I’m usually the one person in group chats who does not use an iPhone, a habit I gave up in 2012 when I sensed that Apple was enclosing the entire mobile space. I stopped visiting Facebook and Instagram a decade ago, and I … Continue reading "Quitting A Digital Habit"

This is probably the definitive post about web browsers on video game consoles.

It was Cloudflare’s announcement of Markdown for Agents a few months bac that made everything click for me. I’m revisting the note I had saved in my Obsidian vault in preparation for my upcoming Cloudflare for WordPress course and decided to write out what I learned so far on Cloudflare’s intentions as I see them. […]

The post Cloudflare is quietly building the agent cloud appeared first on Remkus de Vries.

On Sunday, Cape Verde scored one of the best and most meaningful goals of the 2026 World Cup. In the 21st minute of their group-stage game against historic powerhouse Uruguay, just the second World Cup game in the tiny archipelagic nation's history, midfielder Kevin Pina sto...