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Light rain started as soon as I left the house to walk the dog this morning. Because rain was not in the forecast I was not wearing rain gear and assumed the waterworks would stop momentarily. Instead, the rain turned heavy and after the dog and I were thoroughly soaked, I cut the walk short and returned home. At which point the rain immediately stopped. Is this how my day is going to go?

Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit that helped to define the open source revolution back in the late 1990s. Though its Firefox web browser was superseded as the […]

The San Francisco Standard and Amazon deliver on a summer filled with packed crowds and unforgettable film screenings.

To honor the iPod, Apple has placed a first-generation iPod (loaded with music… previews!) on its “page not found” page.

It’s a thorough emulation, right down to the era-specific preloaded music and the “secret” breakout game.…

The New Republic has a new piece out by Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach called How the Consulting Class is...

The Sound of Silence In its attack on the midterm elections in California, the Trump DOJ has taken an extraordinary...

Volvo expects the EX60 to become one of its best-selling vehicles ever, with over 50,000 orders already in Europe. But as demand builds, Volvo is struggling to ramp up production.

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Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.

Kesicke Farm's fall festival wraps up with something most kids will never forget, a candy drop from the sky. Continue reading…

Dolly would have loved to see this donation come in. Continue reading…

First Lady Melania Trump successfully secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to the city of Oleshky. Both nations agreed to temporarily stop all military action in Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid to enter and to prepare a civilian evacuation through a designated safe passageway. The localized ceasefire will begin on October 29, […]

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With midterm elections quite literally right around the corner now and polls indicating that Donald Trump's party is about to lose its congressional stronghold, it would be an egregious understatement to say that, if he wants to avoid his almost inevitable impeachment, the ...

During today's Kansas Senate debate, Democratic hopeful Adam Hamilton made Sen. Roger Marshall look ridiculous when the Kansas Republican claimed only Republicans can lower the cost of fuel. It's because Republicans are in charge that fuel costs have skyrocketed. Hamilton ...

Kate Neale Cooper's kids loved playing dress-up. They're creative and crafty and lovers of storytelling. They probably would have ended up being Halloween kids no matter where we lived, she writes. "But being on one of America’s best streets for trick-or-treating gave them no choice, and it made something magical happen in our house."

Tesla has officially cancelled the Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand. Reservation holders are getting emails today telling them their orders are void and their deposits will be refunded.

Australians started putting down A$150 to reserve the electric pickup in November 2019. That’s almost seven years of waiting for a truck Tesla now says it won’t build for them.

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We drove down the freeway from San Francisco to Cupertino with a pretty good idea of what Apple would be announcing, but with no idea how it would transform Apple forever.…

As someone who both maintains their own Linux server and dabbles in web development¹, I’d always noticed the update repository for PHP was surprisingly just called ppa:ondrej/php and wondered why exactly that was.…

Government websites and public services across Europe went offline this week as organizations responded to two newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities.

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Linux is already part of the AI developer’s desktop toolkit. Nvidia’s DGX Spark, which became available to order on October

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