Old promises of new technologies.

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

This interactive online hacker app will let you simulate that you’re hacking a computer or a digital network.

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.

How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.

Online used to be a place you could leave.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.

Mapping 50 years of economic data to measure software's productivity yield.

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

How Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications.

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

The web's biggest hand curated directory of apps and experiments that simulate desktop operating systems.

Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM.