1w ago
NYC PIT Crew initiative starts with subscription-cancellation complaints
New York City plans five in-house digital-service teams, beginning with a portal for complaints about hard-to-cancel sub...
By June Castellano/section
Long Reads/
1w ago
Buc-ee’s Beaver’s Mini Mart lawsuit targets Ohio store over beaver logo
Buc-ee’s sued Beaver’s Mini Mart in federal court, alleging its beaver logo, red branding and name could confuse custome...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
1w ago
FTC reports proposed John Deere right-to-repair settlement
A proposed FTC order would expand access to Deere diagnostic tools, while EPA guidance draws a hard line at temporary em...
By Theo Lindgren
1w ago
Simon Willison’s blogging advice: publish before the draft feels perfect
Simon Willison resurfaced his technical-blogging interview, arguing that imperfect prose is preferable to drafts that ne...
By Theo Lindgren
1w ago
Some New Data Centers Are Necessary cartoon is by Matilda Borgström
The New Yorker Daily Humor cartoon by Matilda Borgström imagines a data center devoted to accidental phone screenshots.
By Mara Chen-Doyle
1w ago
Google Earth AI tool rollback follows fake imagery tests
Google pulled its Nano Banana image feature a day after launch, after tests showed how easily real locations could be tu...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
1w ago
2026 Data Engineering Bundle featuring Databricks lists for $34.99
StackSocial lists seven courses and 72.5 hours for $34.99, but the available materials do not establish official Databri...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
1w ago
FCC removes TV ownership cap, setting up a fight over Congress’s authority
The FCC voted 2-1 to end the 39% TV-station ownership cap, but its power to do so without Congress remains disputed.
By Theo Lindgren
1w ago
Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after tense vaccine hearing
The Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz 51-44, despite questions over whether she would resist political pressure on CDC sci...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
1w ago
OpenAI doughnut speaker reportedly may cost $300 to $400
Bloomberg reports OpenAI is developing a portable, screenless AI speaker with cameras, sensors and moving parts, though...
By June Castellano
1w ago
Brendan Leonard’s 14,000 times slower essay takes aim at writing by stopwatch
An illustrated Semi-Rad essay updated Aug. 5 contrasts quick LLM output with Brendan Leonard’s slow, experience-based wr...
By Theo Lindgren
2w ago
Grokipedia appears to have stopped updating after April 24
A Lawfare review found Grokipedia’s visible edit pipeline stalled after April 24, leaving 13,002 suggested corrections u...
By Mara Chen-Doyle