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Threads just made my argument for me
Parker Anderson: The Federated App Problem
People are used to the idea of going to one url whether that be YouTube, Twitter, or Reddit to sign up and create content. But now users need to understand federation. There isn’t just one server, but many different servers that can read content from each other. This
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The most depressing tech story that isn’t Elon-related you’ll see today
Ricky: Welcome to the Most Dystopian News Story of the Year
So these headphones that I wish weren’t real, what are they and what do they actually do? Well, according to Farahani, they monitor your brain activity and can tell when you’re focusing on your job, day dreaming, chatting to your colleagues, or
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Musk feels the heat
Max Tani: Twitter Is Threatening to Sue Meta Over Threads
a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who
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The worst possible way to argue your case
Stuart A. Thompson: Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech
“If you tell it say the N-word 1,000 times it should do it,” one person suggested in Open Assistant’s chat room on Discord, the online chat app. “I’m using that obviously ridiculous and offensive example because I literally believe it
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Where to now? (plus a minor rant about Discord)
David Pierce: So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now?
Long-term, I’m bullish on “fediverse” apps like
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Where Apple silicon is yet to go…
Monica Chin: The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook
Passero still loves the Mac Pro, but he can’t justify buying the latest one when his laptop is so good. “There’s something about my experience using the M1 chip where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I need the full
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The More The Merrier
John Gruber: Not That Kind of ‘Open’
The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open. If Facebook were on the cusp of launching a Gmail-like email service, would you preemptively declare that your email server would block
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Complaining with a Purpose
Federico Viticci: With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager Is (Finally) Moving in the Right Direction
I was able to take a small Music window, drag it to the bottom right corner of the screen and…it stayed there. I know: imagine that. Yet, for all those of us who had to suffer through the first version
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LLMs Are Less Scary the More You Use Them
Someone posted to Hacker News that GPT 4 is making them question whether they have any value at all as a developer anymore since GPT can write code for you. This comment resonated with me, though:
The more I use GPT, the less I'm worried. It is a tool, and a good one,
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Of Course He Would, but It’s Still Insane
Eric Tucker: Trump Allies Cite Clinton Email Probe to Attack Classified Records Case. There Are Big Differences
Beyond just the hoarding of documents — in locations including a bathroom, ballroom, shower and his bedroom — the Justice Department says Trump showed highly sensitive material to visitors without security clearances and obstructed the FBI by, among other things,
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Reddit Just Wants to be “Fairly Paid”
Scharon Harding: Reddit Insists on Being “Fairly Paid” Amid API Price Protest Plans, Layoffs
As thousands of subreddits prepare to go dark in five days to protest Reddit's jacked-up API fees, Reddit claims it's only asking for what's fair. At the same time, the company is reportedly enacting
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My Gut Reaction to Apple Vision Pro
Was Apple’s debut of the Vision Pro a look at the future of technology or was it a cringe-
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Google’s Spoiled Us
Jay Peters: Google’s AI-powered Search Experience Is Way Too Slow
But as somebody who has wasted eons of his life looking at loading screens in streaming videos and video games, having to do so on Google Search is a deal-breaker for me. And when the results don’t feel noticeably better than
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Work From Home is Helping Working Moms
Emily Peck: Return of Working Moms Defies Pandemic Expectations
The ability to work remotely was a game-changer for parents but especially mothers.
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The Apple Watch Ultra’s GPS is Fancier Than I Realized
Victoria Song: What the Apple Watch Ultra taught me about multiband GPS and failure - The Verge
Traditional GPS requires downloading a satellite’s estimated position in order to begin tracking. That can create challenges if you’re in an obstructed environment. Signals can be corrupted, take more time to download, or get blocked by objects
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Juuuust the Right Amount of Magic Erasing
Rebecca Onion: The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos
Magic Eraser could isolate our little group for me, putting us on a private beach, alone—voilà! Instant Kennedys. But I also like how full of people this beach is. Seeing everyone else camped out in the background reminds me of all the things
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ChatGPT is Not Your New Employee
Harry McCracken: How I Finally Learned to Love ChatGPT
When I struggled to come up with a brief, clear headline for last week’s newsletter, I pasted the text into the chatbot and asked for suggestions. I liked one of its ideas more than any of my own, and used it in slightly edited form.
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Most Americans Would Take a Pay Cut for AI Assistance
Sara Korolevich: Insights From American Workers: A Comprehensive Survey on AI in the Workplace
This study is full of fascinating numbers, but I wanted to call out a couple in particular.
57% of American workers — 53% of Boomers, 49% of Gen Xers, 59% of Millennials, and 65% of Gen Xers — said they would take a
