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Theo writes the long ones: essays on how technology actually gets built, bought, and broken. Formerly shipped software; recovering nicely.
The subpoenas followed New York Times reporting that a Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 lacked security features found on the...
By Theo Lindgren
OpenAI’s No. 2 executive will become a part-time adviser as Sam Altman splits her product and business portfolio among s...
By Theo Lindgren
ProPublica found Google AI Overviews repeating claims from a website for a Texas LLC whose listed executives, facilities...
By Theo Lindgren
Pipes stores user credentials in WorkOS Vault and gives apps or agents access tokens for more than 100 third-party provi...
By Theo LindgrenCory Doctorow says computers force society to formalize messy human assumptions, while AI changes the lesson by producin...
By Theo Lindgren
Leigh Beadon’s July 12 roundup picked readers weighing in on Wikipedia, ICE, speech laws, porn bans and one very abused...
By Theo LindgrenA Threads post by Benedict Evans drew complaints that ChatGPT’s work tools blur chats, projects, tasks, plugins and setu...
By Theo Lindgren
John Gruber argues Apple’s iOS-style icon constraints erase a macOS design tool Apple once told developers to use.
By Theo Lindgren
Microsoft’s Xbox division is cutting about a fifth of its workforce, with acquired studios among those hit, according to...
By Theo Lindgren
The procurement startup says more than 15,000 buyers used its tool as organizers tracked searches, routing and booth int...
By Theo Lindgren
Meta disabled a Muse Image feature that let people reference public Instagram accounts in AI-generated images by tagging...
By Theo Lindgren
Mike Masnick and Ben Whitelaw’s latest online speech podcast focuses on Meta, Instagram ads, AI image permissions and pl...
By Theo Lindgren