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Bryan Carney: Who Needs Meta or Google for News? Use ‘Really Simple Syndication’ So what crushed the promise of RSS and its designed-in accessibility to everyone — otherwise known as “open standard”? And how can we revive that version of RSS in an era when the big platforms are flexing their
Jay Peters: Substack Wants to Make Itself a Better Place for Readers, Not Just Writers Substack wants to make the platform a better place for readers and will be adding features to its reading apps so that they “feel increasingly useful and fun,” My top suggestion with a bullet is
Thomas Claburn with the spicy headline: "ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip" (technically the only code a coin flip can offer is a boolean value, but I digress): ChatGPT, OpenAI's fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software
David Wallace-Wells: Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine A couple of decades later, it looks like a golden age for new treatments. New trials of breast-cancer drugs have led to survival rates hailed in The Times as “unheard-of,” and a new treatment for postoperative
Casey Newton: It's Time to Change How We Cover Elon Musk Before Musk, the person setting the day’s news agenda on Twitter was Donald Trump. As it became clear during his first campaign that Trump mostly did not tell the truth, the press corps gradually brought more
James Bentley: iPhone 15 Pro Schematics May Have Just Broke Cover — Here Are the Big Design Changes They Reveal As well as this, the sides seem to be smoother, making it easier to fit into your pocket. This corroborates previous reports. And as I wrote when I first got the
Mike Masnick: Meta Begins the Process of Ending News Links in Canada But the blame for this disappointing result needs to go fully on the Canadian government. This law is bad. The entire structure of it is an attack on the open web, suggesting that governments can force some companies
There is a pull request created by Mastodon head honcho Eugen Rochko called Change hashtags at the end of the post to render out-of-band that has me quite happy. In short, it is a change that would let users flip a setting that extracts hashtags from the bottom of posts
Philip Berne: Apple Needs a Foldable iPhone Soon or iPhones Won't Be Worth Buying Apple, I’ve got good news. The iPhone is refined enough. It is refined well beyond what other manufacturers even care to accomplish. Other phone makers could build a phone that pays just as
Abner Li: Compared to Wear OS, watchOS 10 Apps and Widgets Are Next-Gen This layout/template works because it uses all the available space. It comes down to the Apple Watch being a rectangle and Wear OS watches being circular. The circle, while iconic and a point of pride for
Louise Matsakis: ChatGPT’s Performance Is Declining in Some Areas ChatGPT’s capabilities have shifted dramatically over time, according to a new study by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The findings provide more evidence for recent user complaints about the chatbot’s declining performance in
Mike Masnick: Elon Starts Bribing His Biggest Fans as He Admits the Company Is Still Burning Cash The more interesting bit here, though, was him admitting that the company was “still negative cash flow.” Remember, in February, he had said the company was “trending to breakeven” and in April had
Casey Newton: Five Reasons Threads Could Still Go the Distance The company has released well over a dozen social apps over the past decade, many of them springing from a standalone division of the company devoted to that purpose. But few of them, if any, acquired millions of downloads. Even
300 Times a Day When I’m writing, I need as little distraction as possible; I need to get the words out. I do Markdown, but asterisks, octothorps, and other formatting text are visual noise. When I get to publishing the piece, yes, show me all the formatting details because
John Voorhees: The Case for Videogame and App Preservation The problem extends to apps too. Craig Grannell, with the help of Internet sleuths, set out to recreate the list of 500 apps and games that debuted on the App Store as its 15th anniversary approached. Grannell’s Google Spreadsheet currently