Defector
• Lauren Theisen
Defector
• Bekah Waalkes
Defector
• Chris Thompson
McSweeney’s
• Taylor Harris
WIRED
• Simon Hill
Welcome to Walmart deals for folks who'd rather not shop at Amazon. These are the best gadget deals at Walmart this Prime Day.
Nieman Lab
• Amy Ross Arguedas
This year’s Digital News Report marked a notable milestone: for the first time, social and video networks overtook news publishers as a source of news globally. As audiences continue to migrate toward digital intermediaries for news, AI chatbots are emerging as the next platform to watch. Findings from our 2026 survey show that one in...
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
The Anker 737 is my personal go-to power bank, and it's on sale for Amazon Prime Day.
WIRED
• Scott Gilbertson
Pick up this deal on Jackery's whole home backup battery and be ready for the next power outage.
Updated the Inkwell app for Mac this morning. If you haven’t tried it yet, I think it’s a very nice version of our Inkwell feed reader. Includes subscribing to blogs, of course, but also making text highlights, viewing conversations, and replying to Micro.blog posts.
Thinking about...
• Timothy Snyder
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Joyce Vance's live video
I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player made by Dunstan Orchard and Kristina Dutton. Despite their virtuality, the buttons are delightfully clicky and the attention to detail is impressive.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
The Linux Foundation on Tuesday declared its intent to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard that gives
The post Can DNS become the basis for AI agent identity? appeared first on The New Stack.
WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
Prime Day isn't just about cheap TVs. It's also about cheap stuff to watch on your cheap TV.
Released Inkwell for Mac, version 1.5. This update adds OPML file import and export and other minor improvements.
I still have “wow” moments with AI. Codex Security was one of those… It reviews the Micro.blog backend source regularly and not only flags potential bugs but also drafts patches. Today another one: I asked for a draft of release notes and it guessed to put them directly in the edited appcast XML.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.
The Texas Observer
• Justin Miller
Texas does not have enough water. Texas also cannot get rid of the water it has. Both of those things are true right now, and in the dry stretch of West Texas where the two collide, they are turning into the same problem. On one West Texas cattle ranch, the problem looks concrete. Old and […]
The post Texas Has a Water Shortage and a Water Glut. They Are the Same Problem. appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Step into a virtual Criterion Closet. “A walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.”
Defector
• Hallie Lieberman
