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Nobody wanted to pay $20/month for Copilot Pro — twice the basic Office 365 Family plan — so Microsoft is forcing it on everyone and charging them for it anyway.

This treatment of music as nothing but background sounds—as interchangeable tracks of generic, vibe-tagged playlist fodder—is at the heart of how music has been devalued in the streaming era.

It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.

I will not mince words in my thoughts about the final pieces produced: They’re vile, lifeless things. They illustrate exactly the shortcomings of this approach, and the bankrupt motivations behind it.

Casey Newton’s diatribe against AI skeptics illustrates a broader issue in tech journalism.

Contributor churn has reached a record high. WordPress growth has stagnated for several years. The adoption of Blocks and Full Site Editing (FSE) has also been slow, with FSE adoption being almost nonexistent.

Automattic is ordered to undo several of the actions of its CEO Matt Mullenweg in its ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. “It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," Mullenweg said in a community Slack message.

Loans of around $13 billion have remained “hung” for nearly two years, bringing in interest payments but weighing on banks’ balance sheets.

Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his questionable claim that remote work is to blame for Google's AI failures.

The streaming behemoth has once again ensnared us in its icky web with their latest Wrapped campaign.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has a net worth of $4.9 billion, making him worth more than any musician in history—including billionaire Taylor Swift.

Several artifacts from the Dodgers postseason run and World Series win are featured in an exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, including game-worn items from Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, Dave Roberts, and more.

It started with a list of “funny” customer names.

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents.

LGBTQ dating app Grindr ended its remote work policies and forced employees to relocate. Nearly half of its staff left.

Zoom CEO said some employees need to return to office work because remote work is not conducive to fostering innovation or building trust.

Issues with Kagi's AI focus, finances and leadership

If you have a website, you can link your social media profiles on the website, and build up a reputation as having that website so people know where to find you if your current social media implodes.

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

Ubisoft's XDefiant is the latest live service game to quickly die.

[Wind chime noises]

Every single big tech company has piled tens of billions of dollars into building out massive data centers with the intent of "capturing AI demand," yet never seemed to think whether they were actually building things that people wanted, or would pay for, or would somehow make the company money.

Remembering the promise one year later.

The OnePlus One (codename “bacon”) was an Android phone that shipped with CyanogenMod, a modified version of Android OSP. It was marketed as a “flagship killer”; retailing for $350 USD in 2014 while many flagship Android phones were much more expensive. My favorite selling point was how open OnePlus was to custom ROMs, and there was a lively ROMing community for many years. One of my favorite pastimes involved flashing new ROMs to try out. While Android was dominant among these experiments, I did run SailfishOS at one point.

Let's (virtually) reminisce

Omnivore is a read-later app. You know, one of those things that lets you save interesting articles you encounter throughout the day and the service will go crawl the page and download the content in a nice readable format and zap it to whatever device you wanted to zap it to, so that later when you’re not anxiously toggling between the same seven feed aggregators for fifteen seconds at a time, like maybe you’re waiting in line in the grocery store and you can’t do the NYT mini because they’re on strike and you don’t cross picket lines and god forbid you have a single second of mental silence, you can open the app and begrudgingly educate yourself on something that you alleged wanted to learn about at some point in time.

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.