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My year of rebuilding Jottit is wrapping up, and I’m looking for what’s next. Full-time or freelance, fully remote. If you’re building something for the open web and need a developer, get in touch: simonbc.com/looking-f…

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Lots of changes in this release as Claude and I learn how to work with each other in new ways. We have a list of bugs, I keep a list, and add to it regularly. One of the big problems was I had trouble using the Markdown editor feature as opposed to the default wizzy edito...

A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.

Plus: Rich Parents Bet Their Kids on AI, Meta Faked Kids To Trap Rivals

Sites from Tencent, ByteDance, and Baidu set curbs like daily word limits for authors and stricter standards to combat poor-quality automated fiction.

A quirk in Vermont election law — coupled with struggles to recruit Republican candidates — has led H. Brooke Paige to once again run for multiple statewide offices.

The bush has been growing here since the observatory’s founding in 1885, if not longer. For 141 years, without missing a season, observers at Blue Hill have recorded the date when the first berry ripens. Their data provide a unique picture of the effects of a warming climate, and its impact on one of New England’s favorite summer treats.

President Trump called a major bill to address the housing crisis “the most comprehensive and consequential housing legislation in the history of our country,” and a Congress controlled by his own party passed it by overwhelming margins. So why is he refusing to sign it? Mic...

I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.

Below are some of the top e-bikes I’ve hand-tested for every price range, current as of July 2026. With summer already on us, it’s a great time to be in the saddle and out there riding! Check out the awesome e-bikes below, any one of which could become your next electric bike.

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  The reopening of the Ninth Ward has become something of an East Village epic.  When the New Orleans-inspired bar closed on Feb. 14, 2016, the expectation was that it would return after an 18-month renovation and an addition to ...

Last year I quit my job to rebuild something from my past. Jottit was a tool Aaron Swartz and I made in 2007, back when the web was small and personal and a little weird. You typed something, clicked a button, and had a page online. It disappeared years ago, and I always reg...

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

A new study suggests that apoB, a blood test that measures harmful cholesterol particles, is better than standard LDL cholesterol testing for deciding who needs more intensive treatment. Researchers found it could prevent more heart attacks and strokes while remaining cost-effective for the U.S. healthcare system.

The world is like this and therefore I feel like that. That seems right. It’s raining, so I’m sad. The person cut me off in traffic and so I’m angry. Ford makes better cars, so I like them more than Chevys. Occasionally, this cause and effect is what happens. But more often, it goes in […]

The MIT Museum will acquire the project archives of I.M. Pei, making it the site of the largest single collection of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's work. The collection includes tens of thousands of drawings, dozens of models, and over a million pages of manuscripts documenting projects like the Louvre's glass pyramid and the JFK Presidential Library.

Ever since the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in June, MAGA personalities have really gone off the rails. Many angrily started saying it’s time for the U.S. to find new ways to bar women from coming to this country and having babies. Some are talking about&n...

Researchers discovered that artificial streetlights can trap thousands of woodlice in mesmerizing circular "death spirals" never before seen in the wild. The surprising finding suggests that light pollution may be unintentionally altering the behavior of even the smallest ground-dwelling animals.

Supported by U.S. intelligence, Vietnamese authorities have dismantled a massive network of over 100 pirate sites. Seven suspects have been charged with running a mass copyright infringement operation that included the now-defunct piracy giant HiAnime.to, allegedly earning $12.8 million in advertising revenue. The crackdown follows shortly after the U.S. called out Vietnam over its lacking anti-piracy enforcement.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Supported by U.S. intelligence, Vietnamese authorities have dismantled a massive network of over 100 pirate sites. Seven suspects have been charged with running a mass copyright infringement operation that included the now-defunct piracy giant HiAnime.to, allegedly earning $12.8 million in advertising revenue. The crackdown follows shortly after the U.S. called out Vietnam over its lacking anti-piracy enforcement.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.