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After the tragic passing of Alex Hay, his Shortcuts apps will continue development under Snailed It Developement LTD with community member Rosemary Orchard's team.

Sometimes, there are words where everyone thinks they know what it means, and also, that everyone else also has the same idea of what it means. But then it turns out that terms like ‘fediverse’ can have surprisingly vague edges. If someone talks about the fediverse to you, it’s easy to imagine a cluster of […]

They're designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?

You can now detach the Sidebar from Microsoft Edge.

Apple’s iPad Pro with M2 is powerful enough to be a laptop replacement.

Rachel Ingalls’s fiction stages encounters between unhappy housewives and the uncanny.

Twenty-five years of the iMac.

Christopher Nolan talks about writing and directing the new film Oppenheimer, about the man who's known as the father of the atom bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nolan also directed the WWII movie Dunkirk, The Dark Knight, and Inception. The film is about Oppenheimer's leading role in the race to develop the bomb before the Nazis. But after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he became an arms control advocate, opposed building the hydrogen bomb, and was targeted during the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s.Later, Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by James McBride.

Mark Zuckerberg announced new features arriving soon on Threads.

If we follow best practices, we create the perfect web. In this case, what’s the point of web designers if there’s a recipe? Content, rules and pattern fatigue are major obstacles to creativity online.

When conservative writer Richard Hanania’s old posts, originally published under a pseudonym, came to light, people were shocked at just how racist and reactionary they were. Perhaps less shocking were the tech moguls who were revealed to be supporting him.Guest: Anil Dash, technologist and writer, and the head of GlitchIf you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work.Podcast production by Evan Campbell

Some very retrograde opinions being spouted by a “futuristic” industry’s leaders.

The Internet Archive's online book lending library is not protected by the fair use exception to copyright, a New York federal court ruled.

UMG, Capitol and Sony have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive worth over $400m in damages.

Announcing the inital release of the Fediverse Safety Enhancement Project

Search is coming to Mastodon soon. An AMA with the Lemmy developers. Misskey grows and incorporates.