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Created for testing PDFObject This PDF is three pages long. Three long pages. Or three short pages if you’re optimistic. Is it the same as saying “three long minutes”, knowing that all minutes are the same duration, and one cannot possibly be longer than the other? If these pages are all the same…

Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com www.bitcoin.org Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits…

Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie and Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives. Credit...Photo…

Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless…

Photo by Jorik Kleen on Unsplash As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special…

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.” Credit...Illustration by Petra Péterffy Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has…

Authored by: Edward Beeching, Quentin Gallouédec, and Lewis Tunstall Large reasoning models like OpenAI o3 generate a chain-of-thought to improve the accuracy and quality of their responses. However, most of these models reason in English, even when a question is asked in another language. In this…

Newsletter Power On Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Have a confidential tip for our reporters? Get in Touch By June 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT This article is for subscribers only. Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC…

Disability & Society ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/cdso20 Robert Osman & Veronika Kotýnková Krotká To cite this article: Robert Osman & Veronika Kotýnková Krotká (06 Feb 2025): ‘You find out what’s important’: the crip spacetime of wheelchair users, Disability…

July 2020 ( 5 2 0 ) 2 9 9 - 7 4 8 5 w w w . p i l a t u s o w n e r s . o r g Every owner approaches operating their aircraft differently. Some pilots will make special stops to purchase less expensive fuel. Others choose to go to the most convenient airport and pay a little more per gallon. Some…

Image by Annie Ruygt A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been…

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American consumers are not yet seeing much evidence of the drastic changes President Trump has made on trade. But they are on their way. The number of massive container ships carrying products departing China for the United States has plummeted by about a third this month.Credit...Video by Maggie…

Posted 29 April 2025 I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: As the project matures and the database grows,…

Today, we’re launching a few updates to Instapaper including a public beta for PDFs, text-to-speech fixes on iOS, and support for Logged-In Sites on Android. PDF Beta If you’re interested in joining the PDF Beta, please send an email to support AT instapaper DOT com from your Instapaper login email…

Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat. Listen to this article · 5:53 min Learn more Kevin Systrom, one the co-founders of Instagram, in 2023.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times…

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had…

In March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and prepared to place a devastating phone call. Lagrange, a neurologist, had diagnosed a 42-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The woman lived in a small village in the French…

Zeynep Tufekci April 16, 2025 Credit...Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer/Connected Archives Listen to this article · 5:57 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist I remember when railing against the supposed evils of fluoride in drinking water was the work of a few voices clustered on the fringes of political…

Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET on March 24, 2025. James Murdoch was seated at a conference table in a Manhattan law office in March 2024 when he realized he was witnessing the final dissolution of his family. Three months earlier, his father, Rupert, had told James and his sisters that he was rewriting the…

ℹ️ Protocol Revision: 2025-03-26 Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Whether you’re building an AI-powered IDE, enhancing a chat interface, or creating custom AI workflows, MCP provides a…

So, about that Signal chat. On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was…

What is Devin? What makes Devin unique is its infrastructure. Unlike typical AI assistants, Devin operates through Slack and spins up its own computing environment. When you chat with Devin, you’re talking to an AI that has access to a full computing environment - complete with a web browser, code…

When it comes to Western languages, most long-form text you’ll encounter is either left-aligned (with an uneven, “ragged” right edge) or justified (with words spaced evenly across a line). But I’ve long avoided the latter in my web design work. Why? Hyphenation. To quote Matthew Butterick’s…

Memos from Howard Marks Listen to Memo Archived Memos Subscribe On Bubble Watch Exactly 25 years ago today, I published the first memo that brought a response from readers (after having written for almost ten years without receiving any). The memo was called bubble.com, and the subject was the…

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream: The costs of housing, healthcare, and education have soared far beyond the pace of inflation and wage growth.We are a democracy, but 144 million Americans – 42% of the adults who live…

Listen to this post: Log in to listen In the beginning was the mainframe. In 1945 the U.S. government built ENIAC, an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, to do ballistics trajectory calculations for the military; World War 2 was nearing its conclusion, however, so ENIAC’s first…

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists and whose intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. Automattic, the…

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to remedy what American policy makers believed was a lack of coordination among the various…

The News Seven years since its launch, the newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business. Now, it’s trying to position itself as something more: a central platform for paying creators of all kinds, untethered to the news cycle and beyond the…

I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. For some, the choice is clear, but for a little guy like me, I’m feeling awfully torn up, like a tear-and-share cheese bread during Winter Solstice! I…

After an exodus of employees at Automattic who disagreed with CEO Matt Mullenweg’s recently divisive legal battle with WP Engine, he’s upped the ante with another buyout offer—and a threat that employees speaking to the press should “exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance.” Earlier…

I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the last two decades…

Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash over alleged skewing in his new model. Silver left the ABC-owned company and launched his own Substack, the Silver Bulletin, last year. Since then, he’s become increasingly…

I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn’t because we were both traveling. However, “Automattic is doing open source dirty” is an abomination of a headline, and David’s second post Open source royalty and mad kings, is…

WordPress.org users are now required to agree that they are not affiliated with website hosting platform WP Engine before logging in. It’s the latest shot fired by WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg in his crusade against the website hosting platform. The checkbox on the login page for…

Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store October 1, 2024 For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their…