Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 3
…I’ve had what would have been 30-minute wireless downloads take around two minutes when wired up with this dongle. — Cameron Faulkner, commerce editor Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light [Product: Glocusent…
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I spent a year trying to figure out if the Trump phone is a scam
…The obvious errors were fixed, but the display shrunk from an industry-standard 6.78 inches to a less common 6.25. This suddenly appeared to be an entirely different phone, and…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…If you could explain what wasn’t working, Claude Code could probably fix it. Andrej Karpathy, an educator and researcher who was on OpenAI’s founding team, had called this new behavior…
Internet Culture
…I missed this last week, but the XOXO organizers put together a wonderful website where you can watch all the videos from past years of the conference (which held its last iteration…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…Its gross profit margins last year were lower than the company predicted, as it had to buy last-minute compute to meet demand. OpenAI projects it will be cash-flow positive in…
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…And lastly, there’s little financial downside to finishing last in a race. (The reputational downside, however, means enhanced athletes are effectively required to give up their previous careers to participate.) While…
Electric Cars
…Now your kid can simulate standing around for 45 minutes to an hour waiting for their EV to recharge. Fortunately I don’t think there’s an app that goes along with…
Twitter - X
…Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened yet another investigation into the millions of sexualized images, some of children , produced and shared on the platform last month. It joins the EU’s DSA…
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire?
…I actually don’t remember if I talked about this the last time I was on the show. You were opposed to it the last time you were on the show. You…
Ride-sharing
…Uber’s founder and ousted CEO Travis Kalanick, last seen operating a ghost kitchen startup , is forming a new company called Atoms, TechCrunch reports , that will include food delivery, mining, and transportation…