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The man behind the legendary MPC, Roger Linn, stays focused with a single browser tab

His advice: Deep breaths, keep it simple, and maybe play a little VR mini golf.

Terrence O'Brien
Spotify says its AI remix tool is for superfans, but I’m not convinced

Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?

Terrence O'Brien
Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters

“Power under capitalism comes from capital itself, and we need to figure out how to have collective control of that.”

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Luigi Mangione supporters are back in court — this time with press credentials

A handful of supporters showed up to a pretrial hearing with New York City-issued press passes.

Mia Sato
The cost of the smart home is going upThe cost of the smart home is going up
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

Bambu was set to become the Apple of 3D printers. Then it DM’d the wrong person.

Sean Hollister
Trump is waging a silent war on legal immigration

ICE raids are the most visible attack on undocumented communities, but Trump has quietly wielded bureaucracy on legal immigrants, too.

Gaby Del Valle
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can

Google has been working on agentic AI for years. Building on the viral success of OpenClaw could finally tip the scales.

Hayden Field
The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah

Kevin O’Leary wants to cover 40,000 acres. Residents say, ‘Not in my backyard.’

Emma Roth
‘It’s in the air’: Apple TV’s hottest new shows explore different sides of OnlyFans

With Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, there’s a trend brewing on Apple’s streaming service.

Andrew Webster
Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
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An exclusive look at Google’s new teleconferencing experiments.

Sean Hollister
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people

Public opinion of the AI industry is already sinking. A parade of untrustworthy executives makes it look worse.

Hayden Field
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.

Stevie Bonifield
Why does the Googlebook exist?

Chromebooks solved a real need 15 years ago. I’m not sure Google’s new Googlebook solves anything.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all

This year’s Border Security Expo was a victory lap for Trump’s immigration policies. But with border crossings at record lows, what were vendors hawking next?

Gaby Del Valle
Data centers are coming for rural America

And the jobs they promise don’t really exist.

Abigail Bassett
There’s an internet choke point in the Middle East — is the solution in the North Pole?

90% of Europe’s internet passes through the Red Sea. An audacious cable plan in the Arctic could solve that.

Joshua Dzieza
Who is the Palantir chore coat for?

The data mining company with extensive defense contracts is making merch to signal which side you’re on.

Mia Sato
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

They should be fixed now. Hopefully.

Sean Hollister
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

A new wave of writers is porting their publications to rivals like Ghost and Beehiiv.

Emma Roth
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster

The former OpenAI CTO had receipts. But they mostly confuse her own story.

Hayden Field
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

Thousands of Yarbo robot lawnmowers and blowers have massive security flaws that can let any hacker hijack them and possibly your home network.

Sean Hollister
Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy

Influencers and vaporware collided with some interesting-looking robot vacuums, a laundry robot, and a rocket at Dreame’s US launch event.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Your feed is overrun with clips — this is the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’ behind it

They cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can it last?

Mia Sato
Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs

Unibodies, zonal architecture, shorter wiring harnesses. Ford is resorting to proven manufacturing techniques to get its EV costs down.

Peter Nelson
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question

No detail was too small to argue over for Greg Brockman.

Elizabeth Lopatto
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

Colin Angle revealed his latest creation this week: a dog-sized robot ‘Familiar’ designed for human connection, not chores.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman

Emails going as far back as 2015 give a glimpse into the foundations of OpenAI and the early tensions at the company.

Hayden Field and Adi Robertson