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Apple and a hacker's future
I was happy for years in Apple’s walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
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Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
Our report examines how Taylor Farms became one of the largest produce suppliers in the U.S. and what its power means for food safety, farmers, and workers.
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
Although age bias is still the norm, the value-add of longtime, experienced workers is beginning to take shape.
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Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction…
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RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly…
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California is chasing wealth that has feet
California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.
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Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Apple announced a new six-year commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies.
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Cleve Moler has died
Jack Little and Cleve Moler, cofounders of MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, they combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer…
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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
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Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
The Solar Sharer Offer launches 1 July 2026. Here's what changed, how the cap works, and how to maximise free daytime electricity for your home.
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OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
OpenClaw has overtaken React to become the most-starred non-aggregator software project on GitHub — just five weeks after passing Linux.
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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign
Meta censored a political organisation during a national voting campaign, blamed its own automation, then claimed its automated systems had detected another automated tool.
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Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: an open-weight 24B reasoning model with 2B active parameters, built for fast, private on-device agents. Beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw.
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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
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Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
Anthropic secures multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027, its largest compute commitment to date.
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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
Migrating to the new meshcore.io site
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.
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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.
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Cisco workforce reductions
Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction. Cisco announces a realignment of resources to support strategic investment areas and a workforce reduction.
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Google has abandoned Google News?
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down.
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404 Deno CEO not found
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly.