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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disru...
New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs.
Linux 7.1 arrives with a rewritten NTFS driver, Apple Silicon battery reporting, and Steam Deck OLED audio fixes alongside massive legacy code removals. You're reading Linux 7.1 brings new NTFS driver...
by Joey Sneddon
I like this analogy from Alice Bartlett’s blog: I think with AI you’ve got to be building the software equivalent of escalators if you’re going to do it for prod. That way if the AI goes away y...
tl;dr: Tangent is a new incubator in Singapore I’ve just started. It is deliberately not a venture capital incubator. Instead, Tangent looks for ideas that solve real problems in existing markets...
by The Tangent thesis
The Guardian reports on an upcoming social media ban for teens in the UK: Keir Starmer is to ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions descri...
I enjoyed this recent Q&A with Brandon Sanderson from London. But also, do I actually want the Mistborn movie? As much as I loved the Lord of the Rings movies, part of me wishes I had never seen t...
There’s also a fake power company to jack up prices thanks to the fake data center. | Image: FBI Last year, the FBI opened a Cyber Range in Huntsville, Alabama, for simula...
by Terrence O’Brien
Ava did it, then Manu did it, then Thomas did it. So now I'm joining in. I haven't written a lot about AI on this site, so maybe this will give you all some insights as to what my...
Satya Nadella writes on his blog for the first time in a while, about how companies will evolve with AI: I believe human agency will be the driver of token capital growth. Humans will set ambitious g...
Added a new movies feature that people have been asking for. When blogging about a movie or TV show from Micro.blog, it can now include a little movie poster on your blog post. There’s a prefere...
Yesterday David Sacks had a long post on X with the administration’s side of the story on the Fable ban: The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to...
For the regular planning workshop at work (my second since I started), I have to be in Schwäbisch Hall from Monday to Wednesday. As train tickets are cheaper on Saturday than on Sunday and I was eager...
Pretty happy with how Micro.blog 3.7 turned out. In addition to the Liquid Glass update, the new post text editor has been completely rewritten, now matching the Markdown highlighting on the web. Lots...
According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been access...
by Terrence O’Brien
Can someone who's more green fingered than me tell me is this is giant hogweed please? It's all over one of our fields, so if it is I'll need to get someone in to get rid of it....
Unlock a party. | Image: Conclave I have this vivid memory of walking to pick up my oldest from school in June of 2022. For a variety of reasons, I was in a very bad place...
by Terrence O’Brien
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - JUNE 11: In-Beom Hwang #6 of Korea Republic scores his team's first goal past Matej Kovar #1 of Czechia during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match be...
by Brad Bourque
So I shot a family day-in-the-life session a couple of weeks back. Nothing unusual on the face of it, just a family at home on what was basically an ordinary Wednesday. I'd brought a handful of lenses...
by Kevin Mullins
Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney...
by @edent
We’ve been enjoying Star City and also catching up on For All Mankind season 5. 📺
The NEW ZHIYUN MOLUS X100 RGB Foto and Video Light has arrived for a deep testing The NEW ZHIYUN MOLUS X100 RGB Foto and Video Light is made for the outdoor and quick setup photo set. You can powe...
by Malte
You don't really ever have to explain why a universal remote is a good idea. You have a bunch of stuff that needs controlling; this thing controls them all. Many companie...
by David Pierce
“Waktu tidur, nafas kamu bunyi,” Abang, suami saya, berkata suatu hari. Saya menatap Abang dengan wajah horor. Hari itu libur dan saya menghabiskannya dengan kegiatan paling menyenangkan di akhir min...
by gentle
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on e-bikes, power stations, and how to work anywhere, follow Tho...
by Thomas Ricker
Since 2018, my business partner Jon and I have built our company remotely. We've never lived in the same city. To communicate, we rely mostly on Slack.This past year, we had some disagreemen...
by Justin Jackson
Dear friends,I was taking pictures of Greg in a Brooklyn studio. My friends Willem, Jimmy, and Paul were there too, all shooting on different formats. I chose to shoot with my Pentax 67ii, with its bi...
BTW the Gift Articles feed works really nicely in the blogroll.
And thanks to the Knicks for being such a great team. Never ever in a million years did I imagine saying that. More proof that you never know what's coming. Even the most unlikely and inconceivable ev...
One thing I want to know -- where do I tune in to get the most of Clyde talking about this series.
One of my favourite jazz albums to listen to is The Poll Winners because of its amazing sound engineering. It can even make ordinary audio gear come alive. I was astounded to learn that...
by Winnie
People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knicks that are the future. The Knicks will keep growing. The Knicks beat the Spurs...
Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City.
Sunday, June 14, 2026 Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City. # New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs. # People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Before I go further let me just be clear. If the MacBook Neo is the Mac you can afford then it's a nice computer. You can build apps, edit video, and do effectively whatever you want on it. It&ap...
by Matt Birchler
JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use a...
Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code to deciding whether to trust it, which mak...
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
× Part of degoogling my life meant dropping the YouTube app. The only thing I actually used it for was the subscription feed: what the 10 to 15 channels I follow have posted, newest fir...
by [email protected] (Philipp D. Dubach)