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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 lung-cancer

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 scrutiny to the candidate’s

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 iPhone 12 Pro back in

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 to pay other companies for

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 much attention to detail, they

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 Google in designing the

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 some areas. All the doomsayers

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 I need to see these

Vijay Prema - The Mindful Technologist: Reddit Exodus - Using Lemmy From My Existing Mastodon It can take some time to get your head around this, as we are normally used to siloed apps where you actually need to log into the other app using your existing account to do anything. This is the Fediverse, so it

Galia: When Work Didn’t Follow You Home “The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you—via email, text, Slack, whatever—is completely alien to contemporary young people,” Kois explained. But this reality made a huge difference when it came to the perception of busyness and exhaustion.

I know, I'm writing a lot about Threads recently, but I think it and it's future federation are just super interesting. Anyway, this post was making the rounds a bit this week, and it basically lists all the bad things Meta has done over the years, which is fair enough. It

Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand new protocol called AT

Martin Pengelly: Elon Musk Goes Low Against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads Spat Intensifies Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire. Elon is making Twitter so insufferable (because he’s insufferable) that 100 million people signed up