No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance
On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology…
ABC and SBS coverage of the Middle East isn’t perfect – but the proposed solutions are ill-conceived and dangerous
After 40 years at the public broadcasters I know they must be accountable to all of the public and for editorial decisions they make, not ones imposed on them Follow…
Dwayne Johnson on Why Live-Action ‘Moana’ Isn’t “Too Soon” and the Viral Reaction to His Onscreen Wig: “I Get It, I’m a Pretty Well-Known Bald Actor”
Johnson reprises his role as demigod Maui in the live-action adaption, which comes 10 years after the animated hit.
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
iRobot’s newest floor cleaner isn’t a robot
The Roomba Electro Plus is iRobot’s first manually-operated floor cleaner. | Image: iRobot iRobot just announced its first-ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor…
Japan’s Kiuchi Says Government Isn’t Pushing for Low Rates
Media reports that claim Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is attempting to steer interest rates lower aren’t accurate at all, according to Japan’s Growth Strategy Minister Minoru Kiuchi.
Fixing Social Security Is Easy, but It Isn’t Simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnE83A1Z4U Since the mid-1990s, Social Security trustees have warned lawmakers that insolvency was coming in the 2030s. Why are lawmakers seemingly content to wait until we reach that cliff, now…
The Administration Isn’t Even Pretending Anymore
The official line remains the same: The 10-month campaign of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has nearly stopped the flow of drugs by sea into…













