Long Reads/

2mos ago

Lula’s party advances five-day workweek push in Brazil

A proposal backed by Brazil’s Workers’ Party targets the escala 6×1 system, which keeps many low-wage workers on six-day...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Sony says PlayStation discs end in 2028, and players are furious

Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028, shifting new releases to digital formats and igni...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Cory Doctorow frames AI layoffs as the latest big con

The Pluralistic writer ties multi-level marketing, political fortunes and AI spending to the same social trick: making f...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

Doctorow says Thiel-linked Dialog asked him to pay to speak

After Wired reported leaked details on Dialog, Cory Doctorow said the private club had repeatedly solicited him for paid...

By June Castellano

2mos ago

SmarterChild documentary campaign nears its Kickstarter target

Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies are seeking $15,000 on Kickstarter for a feature documentary about trying to make amends wi...

By June Castellano

2mos ago

Iris sidesteps macOS squircle icons outside the Mac App Store

The Mac photo app’s direct-download version now offers alternate Dock icons and face tiles using an AppKit API barred fr...

By June Castellano

2mos ago

A 1973 RFC captured two chatbots irritating each other

Vint Cerf’s RFC 439 records a 1972 session between PARRY and DOCTOR, run from separate systems and accessed through UCLA...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

ProPublica: Trump Jr. had hidden stake in refinery backed by Reliance

Reliance invested nine figures in America First Refining after U.S. pressure on India and a Trump Jr. visit with Anant A...

By June Castellano

2mos ago

Comcast moves to separate NBCUniversal from its broadband business

CEO Mike Cavanagh said Comcast has “changed our mind” on keeping media and internet access under one roof, according to...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

2mos ago

ELIZA research project revisits the chatbot that started the genre

The ELIZA Archaeology Project is documenting Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1960s MIT chatbot, its code, its culture and its long t...

By Theo Lindgren

2mos ago

Web ELIZA build exposes the rules behind the 1966 chatbot

Ant and Max Hay’s browser reimplementation runs Weizenbaum’s DOCTOR script locally and adds tracing tools for inspecting...

By June Castellano

2mos ago

Mexican speech laws are being used against journalists, Times reports

Politicians have invoked laws against gender-based political violence and terrorism to punish satire, reporting and crit...

By June Castellano