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When To Do What You Love

September 2024There's some debate about whether it's a good idea to "follow your passion." In fact the question is impossible to answer with a simple yes or no. Sometimes you should and sometimes you

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

11th June 2026 After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them

With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter

Three years ago, when the women’s World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange place. Twitter had just transformed into X, newcomer Threads was seemingly ascend

In the Age of AI, You Need a Point of View

Whenever there are big changes in the market, there is a lot of uncertainty about what the future might look like. For technology buyers, this uncertainty makes it really hard to make purchase decisio

Content and Community

The old model for content sprung from geographic communities; the new model for content is to be the organizing principle for virtual communities. One of the oldest and most fruitful topics on

Easy is Overrated

“Something is up in academic research,” ​write​ the members of an AI Task Force convened by the journal Organization Science. As they go on to elaborate: “If you are an editor or reviewer at a journal

Quoting D. Richard Hipp

29th July 2026 Years ago, we didn’t have SQL. There were people whose job was to generate software that would query large data sets. Their job title was COBOL programmer. Then SQL comes along—I’m sim

Police to take no further action against Polanski over guillotine re-post

The Metropolitan Police has said it will take no further action against Green Party leader Zack Polanski after he re-posted a photo of a man wearing a T-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slo

'Change is inevitable' - Liverpool CEO on FSG, Iraola and consortium talks

With Liverpool stating that they have more than 26 million supporters in the USA, there is little surprise over why the Reds chose America as the destination for their pre-season tour. This has been q

Lloyd pays tribute to 'greatest' Sobers at funeral

Sir Garfield Sobers was called the "greatest all-round cricketer the world has ever known" by former team-mate Sir Clive Lloyd at the legendary West Indies player's state funeral in Barbados.Lloyd des

AI Worming through Word

29th July 2026 - Link Blog AI Worming through Word (via) Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-repl

Quoting Matthew Green

29th July 2026 Right now we’re in the midst of a historic transition from traditional public-key algorithms based on EC-based cryptography and RSA, moving over to new post-quantum algorithms based on

The Great Chinese Oil Mystery

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, experts warned that oil prices could hit $150

I'm sorry, Dave

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing t

The New iPhone Underclass

Buying a new smartphone comes with lots of decisions. iPhone Pro or iPhone Air? “Cosmic Orange” or “Deep Blue”? Now there’s a new consideration to add to the list: buy or rent? Yesterday, Apple announ

The Revelatory Cringe of Anthony Fauci

My teenage daughter has a diary. It’s pink and, most important, has an elaborate lock on it. And if I could go back in time to 2020, I might send this exact sort of journal to Anthony Fauci. Every nig

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

“A company whose users request just ten images in violation of the statute would face exposure up to $5 million in civil penalties alone. A company with a thousand violative images could be fined up t

Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies

Diamonds and dots Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.

Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

Skip to content Starliner to the rescue? “We’re feeling pretty good about that,” Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.

Dario takes it on the chin

Remember this essay from March?A lot of people have come around to that view:You can read the full story—which reviews a wide range of concerns, from business practices to a sentiment that the doomeri

Sitting down with Senra

Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints. And when they work in software or media or

French student pleads guilty and is fined for a straw-licking stunt in Singapore

SINGAPORE (AP) — A French student was fined 600 Singapore dollars ($465) after pleading guilty Thursday to a public nuisance charge in Singapore for filming himself licking a straw from an orange juic

Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) —

Urban League report says Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at American Dream

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Dream may not be dead for many Black Americans, but it is further away than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement, warns a report by the National Urban League.Rel

Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever

Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy,

The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier

Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off

Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge.A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable

How “Missing the Boat” Led Me Somewhere Better

A few months ago, I found myself wondering whether I had made a mistake. It is not a question I expected to be asking in my seventies. Like many people my age, I sometimes think about retirement, savi

Polskie myśliwce poderwane. Reakcja na atak Rosji

— W czwartek nad ranem w Lublinie uruchomiono system wczesnego ostrzegania i alarmowania, co było efektem rosyjskich ataków lotniczych na Ukrainę — potwierdził Marcin Bubicz, rzecznik wojewody lubelsk

Czołowi naukowcy i politycy obawiają się RSI. Ma być punktem zwrotnym dla AI

30 lipca 2026, 6:23. 5 min czytania Ponad 1000 pracowników firm rozwijających najbardziej zaawansowane systemy sztucznej inteligencji podpisało apel o stwor

Kurierzy zawiedzeni. Szef związkowców: Pyszne.pl równa w dół

O negatywnych konsekwencjach tych zmian w programie "Onet Rano. Finansowo" mówił Michał Lewandowski, przewodniczący związku zawodowego Konfederacja Pracy działającego w Pyszne.pl. Stwierdził, że k

Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year

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.Microsoft is working on an AI “super app” t

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf.On Wednesday’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg pre

Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.RAMageddon won’t be the only reason your next

Brave New World or Groundhog Day? Burnham revisits old ground in speech on social care

For campaigners perpetually disappointed by the failure of England’s political classes to fix England’s creaking adult social care system, the fear was that Andy Burnham’s long-trailed speech on Wedne

Icac hits paydirt as Reformers’ ‘shit sheets’ are given a very public airing

From time to time, dirt files – crudely known as shit sheets – flutter around the corridors of power in state and federal parliaments.They can be enormously damaging even if never published. While the