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Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

December 2022 Recently I noticed that most existing “why you should write a blog” articles (e.g.) have at least one of two shortcomings, according to me: They mostly focus on counterarguments to not starting a blog, rather than positive arguments in favor of starting one—as if people’s natural state is to produce amazing blogs and the only thing holding them back is silly misconceptions. This might be true for extreme outliers like Scott Alexander, but personally, my natural state is to play l

Read the Script to One of the Best Episodes of ‘Andor’ and Experience Greatness

One of the few rare issues with Andor being as good as it is is that we’re not getting more of it, in any format—but one that especially stings is that we came so close to being able to look at the scripts behind the smash-hit Star Wars series. We were on the verge of greatness, as a certain Imperial director would’ve put it, in 2023 when Tony Gilroy and Lucasfilm announced that season one’s scripts would be published online, only for them to never arrive. Gilroy gave us an incredibly valid reas

Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why Load Balancing at Scale Is Hard

This post is part of a series. Part 1 - A deep dive into connection management challenges. Part 2 - The nuances of HTTP parsing and why it’s harder than it looks. Part 3 - The intricacies of service discovery. Part 4 - Why Load Balancing at Scale is Hard. Load Balancing One of the most critical roles for a reverse proxy is load balancing requests across different upstream hosts. From a list of upstream servers, the proxy must decide where each incoming request should go. The primary goals

BMW Championship 2025: TV Schedule Today, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

We're down to the final 50 players as the quest for a place in the season-ending Tour Championship continues this weekend in Maryland with the BMW Championship. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Acting as the second leg of the FedExCup Playoffs, this weekend's action at the Caves Valley Golf Club has 2,000 FedExCup points av

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

Flight Deals is Google’s new, AI-powered travel search tool

The AI-ification of Google seemingly knows no bounds, and now it wants you to turn to AI for booking flights, too. Rolling out in the US, Canada and India over the next week, Flight Deals lives within Google Flights, and is designed for "flexible travelers whose number one goal is saving money on their next trip." Rather than going through the usual process of manually selecting dates, times and destinations, you just tell the AI-powered assistant your travel intentions using natural language p

Finding the best deals on Google Flights is about to get a little easier

Google TL;DR A new search tool called “Flight Deals” is coming to Google Flights. By describing when, where, and how you want to travel, the tool will find the best bargains available that meet your criteria. The feature will launch in beta over the next week in the US, Canada, and India. Finding the best deals for flights can take a lot of time. You have to figure out where you want to go, the best dates to fly, how you want to fly, and so on. Google wants to streamline this process with it

Marvel’s Best Movie of the Year is Coming to Streaming Soon

Whether you call them Thunderbolts or New Avengers, you can also call it home for dinner because one of the best, if not the best, Marvel movies of the year is headed to Disney+ later this month. Earlier today, Marvel announced Thunderbolts will make its way to the streaming platform on August 27. As noted in Marvel’s press release hyping its streaming debut, its pilgrimage to the premiere destination for all things MCU comes after the film built up a surprising amount of momentum in its theatr

Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at the Business Roundtable CEO Workforce Forum in Washington on June 17, 2025. Cisco reported results on Wednesday that narrowly exceeded analysts' expectations and issued quarterly guidance that was also better than expected. Here's how the company did in its fiscal fourth quarter comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected Revenue: $14.67 billion vs. $14.62 billion expecte

AWS launches AI agent marketplace with a hackathon and $100k in prizes for developers

Kmatta ZDNET's key takeaways The new agents marketplace will launch in beta next month. The companies will also launch an educational hub for IT clients. Developers could win a chunk of $100,000 for building agents. As is often the case with hyped-up new technologies, interest in AI agents among business leaders is soaring -- some CFOs report committing 25% of their AI budgets to them. However, practical understanding of how to implement and use them effectively remains somewhat fuzzy. A ne

Philips Hue’s new bridge could turn your lights into motion sensors

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Smart lighting company Philips Hue appears to be launching a new version of its bridge, the first in a decade. According to a product page briefly published on Hue’s website and since removed, the Hue Bridge Pro will be faster, have m

New Gemini features will give the chatbot a better memory, but also selective amnesia

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini will be able to reference past conversations without requiring you to save them individually. A new Temporary Chats feature will let you keep certain conversations out of the chatbot’s memory and training data. The features are aimed at providing more personalization, as well as privacy for certain chats. Gemini is a powerful AI assistant, but you usually have to remember to save certain chats if you want to reference them later. However, thanks to

Best Melatonin Supplements of 2025

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The best tablets for 2025: Tested and reviewed by our experts

Tablets are the perfect middle ground between your phone and laptop, giving you the best of both worlds. Whether you want a lightweight device to binge your favorite shows, a larger screen for mobile gaming or a portable way to get some work done on the go, a tablet can do it all. They’re also great for keeping kids entertained, managing work tasks or sharing family moments through video calls. When a phone feels too small and lugging around a laptop is just too much, that’s where tablets fit in

What I look for in typeface licenses

Typeface licenses Process Journal I can’t remember the last time I undertook a design project where we didn’t use a commercial typeface. I often recommend these to clients because: The world of commercial typefaces is broad and it opens up a range of high-quality options for a project Using a commercial typeface is an easy way to level-up a design (though it won’t fix a bad design) Supporting independent foundries is important There’s no judgement on open source typefaces – I’m often pairi

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. Fifteen years ago, I laid out a theory about the future of Open Source. In The Commercialization of a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Project, I argued that if Open Source was going to thrive, people had to get paid to work on it. At the time, the idea was controversial. Many feared money would corrupt the spirit of volunt

Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

Why we're open sourcing our payments platform Since Februray, Teddy and I have worked tirelessly on Zenobia Pay. Our mission: build an alternative to high-fee card networks (Visa, Mastercard) using bank transfers as payments. We were super excited by FedNow, the Federal Reserve's instant transfer rail, which inspired us to quit our jobs and do this full time. We thought, let's build QR code payments, like Pix or UPI or AliPay, but for the US. And we did! We built an instant clearing, mobile fir

Angle brackets in a Nix flake world

At DEFCON33, the Nix community had its first-ever presence via nix.vegas and I ended up in fun conversation with tomberek 🙌. “What fun things can we do with < and > with the eventual deprecation of NIX_PATH ? The actual 💡 was from tomberek and this is a demonstration of what that might look like without necessitating any changes to CppNix itself. As a very worthwhile aside, the first time presence of the Nix community at DEFCON was fantastic and I am extra appreciative to numinit and RossComp

9to5Mac Daily: August 13, 2025 – iPhone 17 pricing, Apple vs Elon

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has four logos in it, but never fear, the Times wouldn't make it so easy that they are all in the same category. One trick I'm passing along: Memorize some of the unusual team names in the various sports leagues, like Dream or Storm or Wild. Those words show

CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

Krypto the Superdog Gets His Own Animated Series

With Superman hitting digital this week, DC Studios is using the bonus features as a way to tease expanded content within its new universe. Key among the special selections for the Superman home release is a first look at a series of animated shorts starring Krypto the Superdog. In the spin-off series Krypto Saves the Day, the adorable rascal (still modeled on James Gunn’s dog, Ozu) gets into his own heroic hijinks around Metropolis. The first of the shorts from Warner Bros. Animation and DC S

What happens the day after superintelligence?

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now With the release OpenAI’s Chat GPT-5, the world is one step closer to unleashing a general-purpose superintelligence that can cognitively outperform each of us by a wide margin. As this day nears, I am increasingly worried that we are woefully unprepared for the shockwaves this will send through society — and it’s probably not for the reaso

Your iPhone has a secret in-car feature that's seriously underutilized - here's how to access it

Lance Whitney/ZDNET I've always had a mixed experience with motion sickness. I don't suffer from it on a plane or ship, thankfully. But put me in the back seat of a car, and I often get hit by a bad case of it, especially if the ride is twisty and turny. Triggered by mixed signals across your eyes, inner ear, and brain, those feelings of dizziness and queasiness can be extremely uncomfortable. For anyone else who experiences motion sickness, you can turn to your iPhone for help. Also: Install

Mesmerizing Hypnoloid, a Kinetic Desktop Sculpture

This Hypnoloid object is sort of the opposite of a spinning top. Whereas a top contacts the surface it's balancing on only at its point, the Hypnoloid contacts the surface with every square millimeter of its surface area. The shape is called an oloid, and it's a bit difficult to understand. The 20th-century German sculptor, inventor and mathematician Paul Schatz, who discovered it, describes it thusly: "If the distance of two centers of disk is equal to the radius, then the convex hull produce

Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a confused deputy attack where the attacker causes the browser to send a request to a target using the ambient authority of the user’s cookies or network position. For example, attacker.example can serve the following HTML to a victim <form action="https://example.com/send-money" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="to" value="filippo" /> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1000000" /> </form> and the browser will send a POST request to https://e