The interface I want and the performance I'll have to wait for... Table of contents Codex: How it works Codex is currently a chat-first experience. You gain access by being invited or by paying for the Pro ($200/per month) subscription. Once you've got access, you start by enabling multi-factor…

Before we dive into the topic, let me introduce you my new friend catsay, a simple Go program which eats stdin and speaks like a cat: Cute! ... but it's not what I want to talk about. What makes this screenshot very exciting is, it's a Linux lightweight virtual machine running on Starina operating…

On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books. Place Gambetta, Bordeaux’s iconic square framed with majestic 18th-century limestone façades, was under construction. ‘It’s always like this,’ the owner told me with a…

“Man* is by Nature a migratory animal,” the elderly Frederick Douglass reflected in an 1887 speech about his global travels. “It does not appear that he was intended to dwell forever in any one locality. He is a born traveler.” A generation after him, Maya Angelou observed that “you only are free…

It is a slow, myocardial rhythm. Like a heartbeat or the glowing pulse of a traffic light at midnight, it’s a hypnotic beat that’s all too familiar. From Microsoft Word to Google Docs, the blinking cursor is a companion that compels us throughout text documents and text messages and naughty Google…

Copilot Code Review now supports all programming languages in public preview. This has been one of the most common requests from users. Previously limited to select languages, Copilot now provides AI-powered feedback on any programming language used in a pull request. This helps teams streamline…

Canon has won what is being dubbed the “highest honor” at the 2025 Red Dot Design Award with the Canon EOS R1. Beyond the technology and performance of the camera, the new cross pattern grip on the camera received a special mention. As with all Canon 1-series cameras, the ergonomics are second to…

Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static typechecker that analyzes Python code to ensure type consistency and help you catch errors throughout your codebase before your code runs. It also supports…

Typically today’s tech unicorns would employ thousands of staff across sprawling corporate campuses in order to power a global comms juggernaut, however one messaging platform stands in stark contrast. Telegram, the encrypted messaging service founded by the Durov brothers, has achieved what many…

I recently saw a tweet[1] about how people should go about starting startups/businesses, and it caused me to formalize my intuitions around two distinct types of tech businesses I am familiar with. I’ll call them $O(n)$ startups and $O(n^{2})$ startups. Throughout this essay, let n represent the…

The US has signed two landmark agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) that that will noticeably shift the balance of power. The deals have economic, geopolitical, and national security implications and taken together we believe these bilateral deals reinforce…

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 25 minutes ago Thomas Germain@thomasgermain Grant Hindsley/ BBC (Credit: Grant Hindsley/ BBC) CTRL+ALT+DEL, but make it forever. As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and…

Backlog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes this possible. Simply assign an issue (or multiple issues) to Copilot just as you would another developer.…

In 1862, Japanese travelers arrived in Europe for the first time in 240 years. Their nation, isolated from the rest of the world for so long, was reluctantly opening to the outside world. Imagine being a member of this group — 40 men, many of them samurai, venturing out into a world full of…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will invest €70 billion into Europe's technology sector by 2027, aiming to close the innovation gap with the United States. This initiative seeks to strengthen Europe's position in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and military drones and to draw…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: The Annotated Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L.W. West III, with an introduction by Amor Towles Library of America, 238 pp., $35.00 Reviewing The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald in these…

Republicans in Congress, taking their marching orders from Donald Trump, are on track to enact a hugely regressive budget — big tax giveaways to the wealthy combined with cruel cuts in programs that serve lower-income Americans. True, the legislation suffered a setback last week, initially failing…

(CNN screengrab) A note from Aaron: Today’s newsletter was all edited and ready for publication yesterday afternoon when the sad news broke that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. As someone who has a great deal of admiration for Biden’s accomplishments, values,…

as i waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it. Stretching in every direction was a wall of dense, gray, tragically boring fog. And here I was about to…

The Trump administration conceded this weekend what economists, CEOs and consumers already knew: Americans pay for tariffs. Why it matters: Nearly a decade of Trump trade arguments held that foreign countries, not Americans, paid the ultimate cost of a trade war. But the president and his economic…

Western Societies Are Growing More Equal, Not Less Daniel Waldenstrom May 19, 2025 Shoppers in New York City, December 2022 Eduardo Munoz / Reuters DANIEL WALDENSTROM is Professor of Economics at IFN Stockholm and the author of Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. Subscribe to…

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That…

Canon EOS R5 Mark II review Key specs Type: Mirrorless Sensor: 45MP full-frame back-illuminated stacked CMOS sensor Lens mount: RF/RF-S ISO range: 100-51200 Viewfinder resolution: 5.76m dot OLED Video capability: 8K up to 60 FPS, 4K up to 120 FPS,2K up to 240 FPS, FHD up to 240 FPS Weight: 1.64 lbs…

In the spring of 1991, when I was a junior at Princeton, I took John McPhee’s seminar on nonfiction writing. Back then, I was an English major who hoped to become a novelist, and I focused primarily on writing short stories. I had no real interest in nonfiction. I hadn’t published a single word in…

Today, I’m talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft and one of the company’s AI leaders. This is Kevin’s third time on Decoder, and he’s one of my favorite guests. He thinks a lot about the relationship between technology, art, and culture, and he’s unusually willing to…

As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android ahead of I/O 2025. This native experience starts on a homepage of your notebooks with filters at the top for Recent, Shared, Title, and Downloaded. The app features a light and dark mode based on your device’s…

Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2015, her 3-month-old son Karl died on his first day of day care. Heartbroken and furious that she hadn’t been with him, Scorah wrote an op-ed about…

The central fact about child rearing by my parents was the equal intellectual status of everyone in the family. My sister and I did not get a vote on the family budget; we were not the ones who had earned the money. But in any disagreement the question was always who had good arguments, not who was…

Merger mania FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs Verizon got FCC approval after ending DEI. Now Charter and Cox plan to merge. Jon Brodkin – May 19, 2025 1:20 pm | 26 Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr speaks during the 2024 Conservative…

This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live! Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand in March of this year. Over the course of…

Podcast Dept. For years, “Chapo Trap House” and other podcasts have paired anti-capitalist ideas with the rhetorical style of social media. Is a new form emerging? July 26, 2021 Two shows harness a progressive energy, but they differ sharply in affect.Illustration by Miguel Porlan On the evening of…

President Trump’s chaotic implementation of new tariffs has roiled markets and wrecked decades of international cooperation and free trade agreements. At the heart of these actions, and one of the motivating forces of his political movement, is the belief that the de-industrialization of the U.S.…

Words and Images: Joshua Holko www.jholko.com Backstory: I have been a full-time professional Nature and wildlife photographer for almost thirty years (www.jholko.com). I have specialised in Polar and sub-polar photography and have made over 100 expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. I have…

May 16, 2025 Canon News Some news from the interweb of eager rumor mills. The Canon EOS R7 Mark II is in the spotlight (again). Canon’s once-glorious 7D line – the go-to for wildlife photographers who wanted a “diet 1D” – might be soon released in a new iteration as the EOS R7 Mark II. The rumor…