gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website
[Eva at kibty.town]PSA for anyone who switched to Arc as their main browser (hey, that's me!): it had a giant vulnerability that the team, at the time of writing, doesn't seem to have acknowledged...
View ArticleVenture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Remains Stagnant
[Chris Metinko at Crunchbase News]"Last year, venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups cratered — totaling only $699 million and marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even...
View ArticleLong live hypertext!
[Tracy Durnell]"Links — connections between ideas — are the magic system of the Internet. They power the open web, enriching online writing. Generative AI is the parasitic dark magic counterpart to...
View ArticleRe-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal
[Kyle Orland at ArsTechnica]"Microsoft and Constellation Energy have announced a deal that would re-open Pennsylvania's shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant. The agreement would let Microsoft...
View ArticleForget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
[Matthew Hutson at Nature]"Beyond the ability to fine-tune open models for focused applications, Kal’tsit says, another advantage of local models is privacy. Sending personally identifiable data to a...
View ArticleWhat I learned in year four of Platformer
[Casey Newton at Platformer]This fantastic round-up post focuses on Platformer's decision in January to leave Substack in protest of its content policies that permitted full-throated Nazis to earn...
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Unlocking the Fediverse: The Social Web Foundation is Shaping the Next Era of...
I’m extraordinarily excited about the launch of the Social Web Foundation, which has been created to promote and support the growth of the Fediverse: the interoperable social network powered by the...
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More coverage of the Social Web Foundation
More coverage of the Social Web Foundation has been rolling in today. (See my coverage of the announcement over here.)The New Stack:The fediverse has been a critical development in the open web over...
View ArticleArc was supposed to be a key to The Washington Post’s future. It became a...
[Dan Kennedy at Media Nation]Dan Kennedy picks up on a detail in Brian Stelter's Atlantic article about troubles at the Washington Post:"The Post’s content-management system, Arc, which was supposed...
View ArticleBack to Basics
[Paul Bradley Carr]"I’ve worked at (and founded!) my fair share of billionaire-funded publications and I’ve always had a firm rule: You have to be more critical of the people writing the checks (and...
View ArticleGoogle Discover is sending U.S. news publishers much more traffic. (Social?...
[Laura Hazard Owen at NiemanLab]There are some interesting referral statistics embedded in this piece. Facebook referral traffic has fallen more than 40% over the last year; referrals from Reddit have...
View ArticleHire HTML and CSS people
[Robin Rendle]"Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”" Yes. Co-signed.Speaking of...
View ArticleIRL taking priority
We’ve been dealing with some intense family health events since Wednesday night, so I’m running on very little sleep and not updating much over here. I’ll be popping in from time to time, but probably...
View ArticleThe secret power of a blog
[Tracy Durnell]"Blogs coax out deeper thinking in smaller blocks. A blog gives you the space to explore and nurture ideas over time, perhaps growing so slowly you hardly notice the extent of the...
View ArticleDigital Divinity
[Rest of World]"Technology has transformed how we spend, study, live, eat — even how we sleep. And for the 6.75 billion people around the world who consider themselves religious, technology is also...
View ArticleHow the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power
[Molly Lempriere and Simon Evans in CarbonBrief]"Remarkably, the UK’s coal power phaseout – as well as the closure of some of the country’s few remaining blast furnaces at Port Talbot in Wales and...
View ArticleBop Spotter
[Bop Spotter]"I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar...
View ArticleHow to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the...
[Matt Haughey]"A couple months ago I was hanging out with my aunt, and she mentioned her cable+internet bill was around $250 per month. I thought that was insane and that I should do something about...
View ArticleSolving the Maker-Taker problem
[Dries Buytaert]"Addressing the Maker-Taker challenge is essential for the long-term sustainability of open source projects. Drupal's approach may provide a constructive solution not just for...
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Is There Still a Place for Print in the Future of Media?
I think there’s more work to be done to explore print as a modern product to support great writing and journalism. Lots has been said about its death — but comparatively little about its potential to...
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