Stanley Sharpey May 29, 2025 "The rich they live in heaven, the poor they live in hell, and I . . . live somewhere in between." – Ishmael Reed, "Middle Class Blues" "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you" – Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with…

Open Questions The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control. May 27, 2025 Illustration by Josie Norton Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the company…

This week, Miley Cyrus discussed her development as an artist over the years on an episode of The Interview podcast by The New York Times with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, from her time as a child star to now. In one segment, Cyrus explained how she makes business decisions; specifically, she shared why she…

For more than a decade, we have been told that insurgent populists are challenging a complacent post-political technocratic establishment. Combatants on both sides testify to this polarization. Poland’s Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and the country’s current prime minister,…

SummaryCompanies Anthropic's annualized revenue jumps from $1B to $3B in five monthsGrowth shows rising business demand for AICode generation a major driver for Anthropic's business SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is making about $3 billion in annualized…

Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios CloudZero raised $56 million to help companies rein in soaring AI-driven cloud costs, CEO Phil Pergola tells Axios Pro. Why it matters: Enterprises are struggling with exploding multicloud costs, especially as AI initiatives rapidly increase cloud usage. How it…

(Credits: Far Out / Press) Music Aimee Ferrier Sat 23 December 2023 13:30, UK The landscape of British music in the 1990s was largely dominated by the battle of Britpop, which saw Blur and Oasis go head-to-head in a highly publicised chart race. At the same time, Radiohead provided a healthy…

Infinite Scroll The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong? May 28, 2025 Illustration by Ariel Davis Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called…

A beginner's guide and analysis of the lyrical themes of Radiohead’s OK Computer Alexandre Aimbiré 11 min read· Nov 7, 2023 -- This is me with my one of my most prized possessions. Hailing from Oxfordshire, the English band Radiohead has consolidated itself as one of music’s most innovative and…

Image Credits:Anthropic AI Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude Kyle Wiggers 1:58 PM PDT · May 27, 2025 Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode (in beta for now) allows Claude mobile app users to have “complete spoken conversations with…

What meaning—if any—can we discern in President Trump’s decisions to impose, and then pause, tariffs on the entire world? And what does this mean for the future of world order? At the time of writing, Trump seems to be retreating from the most aggressive tariff actions, promising a new round of…

tl;dr two portable SSDs, synced with rsync; and a Backblaze bucket synced with restic: I’m finally satisfied with my infrastructure for backups, so I’m writing it up so others can benefit from it. Criteria My requirements for backup infrastructure are: Open source, to minimize the risk of backdoors.…

May 26, 2025 3 min read Write for InfoQ Feed your curiosity. Help 550k+ global senior developers each month stay ahead. Get in touch Listen to this article - 0:00 Audio ready to play 0:00 0:00 Reading list Last month, Synadia threatened to pull NATS from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…

Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a global sandwich-rating company with a hosting problem. Even if you don’t have a sandwich to rate, you might benefit from the hosting platform we built. Check it out: with a working Docker image, you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. So, you want to…

Cats Don’t Talk We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we…

1.0 Introduction In Part 2, we learn how to use the native Tensorflow C API to train/build models. Sign up Summary of calling Python from C and C from Python LeetArxiv is Leetcode for implementing Arxiv and other research papers. We code lots of research papers and these tend to be in C and Python*.…

I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I got interested in computers at an early age, but it would take me a lot longer to…

Note Tweety has changed a lot since I've written this article, and is now distributed as a web extension. If this article catch your interest, you should read the following one to learn more about the new features. I don't actively use a terminal emulator app on my computer anymore, and use tweety…

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Google Photos is being overhauled with more AI features that help users quickly edit their images without requiring advanced…

Many investors assume that they’ve “lost money” in bonds when yields rise and prices fall. However, this isn’t exactly correct. In many cases, this “loss” is just a temporary mark-to-market correction that will fully recover over time. This is especially true when investing in individual bonds. In…

Books A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready. May 26, 2025 His ambition was to be, above all, a writer. But Buckley’s true celebrity derived from being a show unto himself.Photograph by Jan Lukas The January 31, 1983, issue…

Via CNN. “I come from a country where the language of “enemies on the inside” was commonplace. I come from a country where the regime privatized the levers of power, so that authority was not concentrated in a body of law, but with one man surrounded by sycophants. “And now it is here—the…

Apply now to our third cohort! Application deadline: June 1st New tracks for agriculture & health, biotech and longevity The Roots of Progress Fellowship The 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive Join our third fellowship cohort. Write essays about progress. Make progress real. Now in its…

What is happening on the American intellectual scene? In Washington and New York, it is increasingly common to hear people say they are enemies of neoliberalism. They think liberal democracy is insufficient. They are in favour of government intervention in the economy, sceptical of free-trade deals…

Founded by Edison to bring electric light to the world, General Electric became America's most valuable company by 2001 before losing 90% of its value in one of corporate history's greatest collapses. William Cohan's Power Failure transforms this collapse into a Shakespearean tragedy about corporate…

Meta Open SourceWelcome to our community Empowering diverse communities through open source technology. Explore projects Meta Embraces Open Source Meta is committed to the notion that open source not only provides great technology for developers, but also brings the best out in people. Meta believes…

The software world tends to view open source as some kind of a boolean flag. A library either is open source or it isn’t. Is that piece of code open source? Yes? Ok. But I think we can all agree there’s a world of difference between something like the Android SDK (Apache 2.0) and a random stranger’s…

From NoCode to AI-Assisted Every few years, a shiny new technology emerges that promises to make software developers obsolete. The headlines follow a predictable pattern: "The End of Coding," "Anyone Can Build Apps Now," or my personal favorite, "Why Your Five-Year-Old Will Be Programming Before…

“In short, one may say anything about the history of the world—anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can’t say is that it’s rational.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground This past December, a wave of collective jouissance swept the internet as the CEO…

Illustration by Richard Beacham / Ikon Images Last month, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published on his firm’s website a piece of writing entitled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”. The post was, among other things, a reaction against a cultural tone of caution and…

When you own one of the best cameras for photos and videos, you’ll naturally want to pair it up with one of the best lenses for astrophotography or one of the best zoom lenses. Conversely, even if you own a basic entry-level camera, investing in the best glass you can afford can often be a more…

Spread the love When the Canon EOS R7 was launched, people stood divided about the camera, as it was an APS-C offering from the company. But it wasn’t after the reviews that one began to appreciate the device and the specifications it offered. It has been three years since we heard anything from…

Programming with LLMs is both promising and frustrating. While these AI assistants can help with coding and debugging, they often waste time too. Yet for senior engineers, pair peer programming with LLMs shows real potential. This article is a collection of blog posts written by other senior or…

My experience with motherhood started in a cold hospital room filled with fluorescent lights and beeping machines. I was isolated from my daughter’s dad for reasons I can’t even fully remember, probably some fucked-up COVID protocol. While trying to concentrate on the breathing exercises I picked up…

One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to not reinvent the wheel. It usually comes from a good place, but is typically given by two groups of people: those who tried to invent a wheel themselves and know how hard it isthose who never tried to invent a wheel and blindly follow the advice Either…

“Everywhere, everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for further ordering.” — Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology Earlier this week, I posted a screenshot of ChatGPT’s take on life in NYC, a response so oddly…