Among the frenzy of videos promoting healthier diets, marathon running, and sobriety, one trend catching on with young people—ironically on social media—is the idea of a digital detox, taking time away from our phone’s most addictive apps to improve everything from sleep to focus. The idea has…

The town that launched a global self-care industry 12 February 2026 Lizzie Enfield Alamy Long before wellness became a global industry, a small town in eastern Belgium shaped how Europeans thought about health, leisure and water. In Spa, the original spa is reclaiming its place in the story. I'm…

Why writer Arundhati Roy's cult classic film is still relevant in India 8 days ago Zoya MateenDelhi The Film Heritage Foundation Starring Roy herself, the film tells the story of a group of students navigating life in Delhi On a sticky Delhi afternoon in the late 1980s, a group of architecture…

The title of The Uncool refers to rock critic Lester Bangs’s assessment of Cameron Crowe, whose adventures as a music journalist were loosely depicted in his 2000 movie, Almost Famous. Long before he became a film-maker, the teenage Crowe travelled around the US interviewing some of the biggest…

More Canadians this year are seeking out Disney magic across the Atlantic Ocean, as fewer foreign visitors come to the United States even though worldwide travel trends remain robust. Travel agencies and companies that specialize in Disney vacations – and other types of travel – are noting…

6 min read On a recent afternoon at a beach club in St. Bart’s, a group of revelers were engaged in a spirited discussion on the topic of second passports. To summarize, scoring one was something akin to landing a rare Picasso—another classic example of how the harder something is to get, the more…

Amodei compared humans and AI working together to the mythical Centaur, a human-horse mule BRO Vector/Getty Images and Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images 2026-02-13T06:05:37.357Z Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available…

From grown men eating ice cream – gasp! – to Noël Coward sweating in the desert and a baseball team without pants – a new exhibition celebrates images from the era-defining magazine Fast moving photography … Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1952. Photograph: Loomis Dean Wed 11 Feb 2026 02.00 ESTLast…

Some moths are drawn to the flame and some butterflies to the wheel. The exquisitely beautiful, mercurial and prodigiously talented 90s singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley was drawn to the music business. And this contractually demanded endless touring and a multi-album commitment when he’d already…

Cicero, the Roman Stoic, once wrote to his friend Varro, pending a visit to his home: “If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want.” This same desire for good books and natural beauty is at the heart of Byung-Chul Han’s In Praise of the Earth, in which he reflects on gardening as…

If you've ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes that this ancient practice is quite the opposite: Meditation is…

Prologue: The Dragon That Couldn't Be Slain A Denver company that developed legal software tried. They failed. A game studio that made software for Disney tried. They spent over a year and hundreds of thousands of dollars. They had a team of programmers in Armenia, overseen by an American PhD in…

This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we’ve had 13 years of this experiment. The traditional 13-year anniversary gift is lace—intricate, impressive, and vulnerable to a snag if…

This past Saturday, I did something radical: I put my phone away for 12 hours and spent an entire day in a new place with a small group of friends, walking around and chatting without texting, checking email, tweeting, updating Facebook, uploading photos to Instagram or otherwise engaging at all in…

TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over. LLM coding tools have changed it fundamentally for the better or worse. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds, August 2000 When Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, made this quip in response to a claim about a…

Keep waiting Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online. Jon Brodkin – Feb 13, 2026 5:13 pm | 109 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size…

In the beginning, I was a self-hosting purist. If an app existed, I wanted to own the instance, the database, and the Docker Compose file behind it. I convinced myself that this total control was the ultimate productivity hack, a bespoke digital cockpit where I owned every byte. But as my dashboard…

GitHub is adding support for the Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex coding agents, via its Agent HQ AI platform. The capability is in public preview. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, GitHub…

Gboard isn't part of the Google Play Store's 10 billion download club, but it's one of the best ways to type on Android. While Gboard has something to offer everyone, for those who want to type faster, you must learn to use features like Glide cursor control to type faster with great accuracy. The…

the cat’s pajamas, the elephant’s whiskers Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence” The material properties change gradually from base to tip for better navigation, more precise manipulation. Jennifer Ouellette – Feb 12, 2026 2:00 pm | 14 Credit: MPI-IS/A.…

This is a guide for isolating LLM agents in virtual machines, using libvirt and virsh on Linux servers. Running LLMs in VMs isolates them from the host system, mitigating numerous security risks such as destructive operations or unauthorized file access (i.e. private keys, secrets, credentials for…

Detail of the cover for The Making of Prince of Persia (2020) Welcome! Thanks for checking in. It’s another Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and this is the slate: 1. Animating in the early days of the personal computer. 2. Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1. Computer animation…

THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE exclusive In his first newspaper interview since 2019, the pop star as he’s never been seen before: off duty, in Italy — and photographed by Martin Parr MARTIN PARR / DMB The Sunday Times Magazine Saturday February 14 2026, 12.00pm, The Sunday Times In the summer of 2024…

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to…

The Interop Project is a cross-browser initiative to improve web compatibility in areas that offer the most benefit to both users and developers. The group, including Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla, takes proposals of features that are well defined in a sufficiently stable web…

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans. It has cast quite a spell on the tech industry. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas…

15th February 2026 We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of…

tl;dr: I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. The last month was a whirlwind, never would I have expected that my playground project would create such waves. The internet got weird again, and it’s been incredibly…

This article was first published on Big Think in January 2024. It was updated in December 2025. Will there ever be another Harry Potter? Between 1997 and 2007, it seemed like every child (and most of their parents) was reading J.K. Rowling’s timeless fantasy novels about a skinny, bespectacled…

When I explain that Claude Code has changed my relationship with developing software completely, I’m under-exaggerating… if that’s even a thing. This off-the-cuff piece started as a unposted social update that read: Watching Claude Code adeptly use every type of Unix command shows me that a) you can…

Notebooks February 16, 2026 Themes: Philosophy The classical ideal of self-formation has been replaced by a sterile cult of productivity, simulating work and leisure while forfeiting both. Caspar David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs on Rügen. Credit: Photo 12 Amateur language learning is apparently…

We are so back 🚀— Peter Steinberger (@steipete) November 20, 2024 When I sold my shares of PSPDFKit after building the company and making it my identity for over 13 years, I was very broken. I’ve been pouring 200% of my time, energy, and heart’s blood into this company, and towards the end, I just…

The brain, wrote Charles Scott Sherrington, is an “enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern”. The British neuroscientist created this striking image more than 80 years ago, a time when mechanised looms, not computers, embodied the idea of technology. Even so, the…