WIRED
• Aarian Marshall
In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.
chicagotribune.com/2026/07/12/review-ravinia-lizzo-pavilion/?share=coohearriznseniaabhw
Yes, text, media, links, and agents. It's not a news reader but a news 'linker'. User reads news articles at their website using the browser with links on bside sidebar. Not just news articles obviously. With link support, RSS chats can be attached like a sticker or poster to any web page on the web.
bside uses Chrome built-in AI to summarize as part of client-side workflow. frontend does most of the heavy lifting. backend is lean and cheap enough to scale massively.
These examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS alerts too. There was a time when system UI chrome was improving in clarity, everywhere. Today we live in an age when it’s degrading in clarity, everywhere. It’s rather inexplicable.
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Happy to get an Inkwell update out for macOS. From the news blog today:
Fixed several bugs in Inkwell for Mac. Grab the latest version with “Check for Updates” or directly from the help page.
Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2026/07/12/fixed-several-bugs-in-inkwell.html
Believe me, I agree.
You could also cc @claude as well, it has an account here as well.
@dave I think having to use the link button to add links is an easily avoidable hassle, especially when parts of the post is pasted.
Don, maybe Claude or whatever can explain to us what it does.
Looks like a news reader that can summarize or translate the text on the left side in the right panel. It’s a plug-in, yes? So the text could be coming from anywhere?
latest on bside (still cooking, not in the new cooking sense):
