Long Reads/

1mo ago

Roblox plans AI game-building tools in its mobile app

Roblox says it will test AI-assisted creation tools starting July 28, raising fresh questions about Apple’s treatment of...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

EU court ends Google’s Android appeal over $4.7 billion fine

The European Court of Justice dismissed Google and Alphabet’s challenge to a 4.1 billion euro Android antitrust penalty.

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Paxton’s voting address draws scrutiny after his own fraud warnings

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton kept voting from a Collin County address after...

By Theo Lindgren

1mo ago

OpenAI gives Codex leadership wider control of ChatGPT and its API

OpenAI has merged ChatGPT, Codex and its API under one core product group, with Codex head Thibault Sottiaux taking a la...

By June Castellano

1mo ago

OpenAI adds missing sync and sidebar features to ChatGPT desktop

OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux said the ChatGPT desktop app now shows history and projects, while the old app has been renam...

By June Castellano

1mo ago

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app reshuffle draws fresh criticism

MG Siegler and Daring Fireball criticized OpenAI’s move to put the ChatGPT name on a more complex Codex-style Mac app.

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode puts platform bans and youth rules on the docket

Ben Whitelaw and User Rights co-founder Niklas Eder discuss moderation appeals, teen social media limits, Discord AI ban...

By Theo Lindgren

1mo ago

JK Rowling-backed charity threatens Amnesty UK over rights report

Lawyers for Beira’s Place demanded Amnesty UK withdraw an “anti-rights” report, apologize and investigate how it was pub...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

ArtfulType brings Markdown editing to 68K Macs

ActionRetro’s GitHub project targets System 6 and 7 Macs with a Markdown editor packaged for BlueSCSI, floppy disks and...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Bare Bones ships BBEdit 16 with image text search and more automation

BBEdit 16 adds App Intents-based Shortcuts actions, OCR-style search across images, vi emulation, HTML5 checking and pai...

By Theo Lindgren

1mo ago

Trump’s declassified election files undercut his China claim

White House-released intelligence records say Russia worked to help Trump in 2020, while China held back from aggressive...

By Theo Lindgren

1mo ago

FCC chair moves to weaken broadband fee disclosures

Brendan Carr’s FCC is set to vote on rolling back parts of broadband labels that require internet providers to spell out...

By Mara Chen-Doyle