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After a year-and-a-half-long beta, The New York Times launched a standalone app on Wednesday that it hopes will serve as its "audio front page." The app — for now, iOS only — is "currently an exclusive benefit for New York Times news subscribers." Here's some of what it…

Normally, I would not link to something for which I have not read the source story. In this case, I will make an exception, as the original is by Wayne Ma of the Information, who has a solid track record. I hope these two summaries are accurate reflections of Ma’s reporting. Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: The […]

Around the year 2007, just after Thanksgiving, my grandmother noticed a tiny seed near the faucet of her kitchen sink that had somehow, implausibly,...

Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

What the default settings on the Apple Watch tell us about the move.

Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns out to be surprisingly easy.

just your standard information identity spacetime field

An ex-employee is thought to be to blame.

I know we’re deep, deep, deep into the moral panic about social media being uniquely awful, especially for kids. It’s driving all sorts of nonsense, including the false idea that we’re in a uniquel…

The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes

Bloomberg Technology reports on the self-destruction of a Silicon Valley icon in the podcast Foundering: The John McAfee Story.

A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

Fantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

After a lengthy argument, a right to repair comes to agricultural machinery.

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

"It is capitalism that incentivizes the degradation of our news media — disinvesting in local journalism, weaponizing social media to capture our attention and data, and devaluing media workers’ labor conditions."

Play “select” Ubisoft PC games via cloud streaming.

“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”

A requiem for a meme.

An inquiry into the latest edtech wave.

In a recent video, an independent music producer outlines the differences between Apple Music and Spotify for artists.