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Theo writes the long ones: essays on how technology actually gets built, bought, and broken. Formerly shipped software; recovering nicely.
Cory Doctorow’s latest Pluralistic essay rejects “post-political” centrism and argues that the core political divide is...
By Theo Lindgren
A Department of Energy pilot hit its July 4 target, but the reactors produced no meaningful electricity and still face e...
By Theo Lindgren
The ELIZA Archaeology Project is documenting Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1960s MIT chatbot, its code, its culture and its long t...
By Theo Lindgren
The appeals court limited no-bond immigration detention under Section 1225(b)(2)(A), while still allowing a three-month...
By Theo Lindgren
MIT Technology Review reports that vermifiltration and solar geoengineering are both running into the less glamorous wor...
By Theo Lindgren
John Gruber said Malik, who built GigaOm and later joined True Ventures, had been writing from a Stanford ICU while awai...
By Theo Lindgren
The game industry group opposed a California Stop Killing Games bill, then defended a claim that private servers infring...
By Theo LindgrenEFF says officials are using cease-and-desist letters, lawsuits and intermediary pressure to restrict online abortion in...
By Theo Lindgren
Meta says its new Muse Image model uses public Instagram photos when prompts tag usernames, with controls for reuse of a...
By Theo Lindgren
PACER downloads will rise to 12 cents per page for five years as courts say they need money for a more secure records sy...
By Theo Lindgren
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said Om Malik requested a small family prayer ceremony and announced a September cel...
By Theo Lindgren
The open protocol lets apps publish machine-readable sign-up instructions for agents using OAuth-based flows, according...
By Theo Lindgren