A personal reflection on awareness, deception, and what we are at the root I began thinking about an interesting parallel a few weeks ago, and now, on this early morning LNER train to Leeds (en route Manchester), I couldn’t help but put my thoughts together. The more I sat with it, the more it felt…

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ECB President Christine Lagarde has called for Europe to break its dependence on American payment infrastructure, warning that every card transaction sends European consumer data to the United States. A coalition of 16 banks thinks it has the answer. QUICK ANSWER What’s happening? ECB President…

Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s…

We’ve spent years talking about how AI is transforming journalism. As I write this, I’ve already counted at least nine Nieman predictions this year that talk about AI. I think we’d see a much more substantive transformation in journalism if we started by simply learning how to use our computers.…

The two men chop peppers, slice aubergines and giggle into the camera as they delve into the art of vegan cooking. Both are wearing ski masks and T-shirts bearing Nazi symbols. The German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for…

Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces. By | November 11, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 2002, Season 4 Last.fm circa 2003; via Last.fm Flickr account. What we…

I loved this reflection by Andrej Karpathy about how he has never felt so far behind as a programmer. In particular, this line resonated strongly with me: I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure…

In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would ​set you back​ between $2.50 and $3.00. To…

A couple of months ago, I received a request from a random Internet user to add CSRF protection to my little web framework Microdot, and I thought it was a fantastic idea. When I set off to do this work in early November I expected I was going to have to deal with anti-CSRF tokens, double-submit…

annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique…

Netflix is the frontrunner to become Warner Bros.’ new owner, but the war for control of the legacy studio isn’t over just yet. Paramount Skydance has made its own outsize offer for the company that would give CEO David Ellison even more control over the news and entertainment landscape. And while…

Part Of RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage see all updates Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Your next smartphone or PC might cost more amid a global…

Today, we're introducing Find Friends — a contact import feature that makes it easy to find people you know on Bluesky. Social media started as a way to connect with people you actually know. Over time, that got lost in the noise of algorithms and engagement incentives. We're carrying those original…

‍ AWS CEO Matt Garman outlined 3 solid reasons why companies should not focus on cutting junior developer roles, noting that they “are actually the most experienced with the AI tools”. 3 Reasons AI Should Not Replace Junior Developers In a tech world obsessed with AI replacing human workers, Matt…

Another big Pebble update today! TLDR: Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!Pebble Appstore now has a…

The head of the department delivering the UK government's digital identity scheme has rejected the £1.8 billion cost forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), but is not willing to provide an alternative until after a delayed consultation on the plans. The OBR, which provides…

The Chrome team at Google recently built a new browser. It takes a query or prompt, opens a bunch of related tabs for you, and then builds you a custom app for whatever you’re trying to do. Ask it for travel tips and it’ll build you a planner app; ask it for study help and it’ll build you a…