It’s the common mistake of talented people to believe it’s they who possess the talent and not the other way around. Talent is a tenant that collects rent. I don’t say this to undercut her abilities. It’s the opposite: She is talent incarnate, manifestly representative of its boons and its Faustian bargain. Talent reduces you to a host. Your best stuff visits you while you fumble haplessly for pen and paper to take dictation. Your worst stuff? It’s when you try too hard. When you interfere. It’s a cruel arrangement. You are a secretary at best, a captive at worst.

The tales about the medieval thinkers and Galileo are little lies. The big lie of which they are the foothills is the Renaissance. The main elements of the Renaissance myth are familiar enough: the sudden dawning of a new outlook on the world after a thousand years of darkness, the rediscovery of ancient learning, the spread of new ideas of intellectual inquiry and freedom, investigation of the real world replacing the sterile disputes of the scholastics, the widening of the world through the discovery of America and the advance of science, the reform of religion. Apart from a few quibbles […]

And the Internet as a whole? It’s full of bullshit. It’s also full of assholes. I am stunned by how awful people are on social media. Dismissive, mean, sneering, ignorant. The worst of how we can be. Pouncing on the opportunity to show how superior they think they are and in the process making me want to leave the species and become a frog instead. These are the kind of people we go to a lot of trouble to avoid in real life. On social media they’re unavoidable. They are legion and they come with the territory. I don’t want […]

In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu item. There are just not enough good metaphors to do something like that. But even if there were, the premise itself is questionable: if everything has an icon, it doesn’t mean users will find what they are looking for faster. And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the best they could, given the goal. But that’s not true either: they did a poor job consistently applying the metaphors and designing the icons themselves.

Apple’s annual spend at TSMC grew from $2B in 2014 to $24B in 2025. That is 12x in 12 years. Apple went from 9% of TSMC revenue to 25% at its peak and settled to 20% in 2025. More striking is Apple’s dominance at node launches: consistently >50% since 20nm and in some cases near 100%. Apple effectively funded the yield learning curve for every major node transition since 20nm.

China has successfully flown the world’s largest and most powerful airborne wind turbine, a milestone that could bring cheaper, more reliable green energy and strengthen the country’s leading role in the global clean energy transition.

Games Workshop, the maker of the tabletop phenomenon Warhammer 40,000. Founded in 1975, the company now employs more than 3,000 people across paint factories, plastics plants, design studios, a sprawling headquarters in Lenton, and the jewel in its multi-billion-pound crown: Warhammer World. Its reclusive chief executive, Kevin Rountree, of whom no public photographs exist, was named The Sunday Times “business person of the year” in 2024. The company’s market capitalisation recently rose above £6 billion — higher than EasyJet, Marks & Spencer, or Manchester United.

HRH Crown Prince announces the launch of #King_Salman_Gate, a transformative multi-use development in the Holy City of Makkah

My hot take is that I'm starting to suspect that everyone would just prefer kids spending excessive amounts of time in front of a TV and not anything else.

By writing your Readme first you give yourself some pretty significant advantages

This is the complete set of Distant Early Warning playing cards, by media theorist and pop culture philosopher Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980). It’s designed for you to pick a card when you need inspiration from a McLuhanesque thought, notes Jeff Trexler.

Welcome to the world of BonziBUDDY! He will explore the Internet with you as your very own friend and sidekick! He can talk, walk, joke, browse, search, e-mail, and download like no other friend you've ever had! He even has the ability to compare prices on the products you love and help you save money! Best of all, he's FREE!

just 5 percent of companies—are generating substantial value from AI. But that value is twice the revenue increase and 40 percent greater cost reductions when compared to companies that haven’t invested in AI capabilities. This 5 percent has figured out how to extract real, scaled value from AI, and that value is going to continue to grow, as is the way of technological gains. Meanwhile, 60 percent of the more than 1,200 companies studied for the report have little or nothing concrete to show for their investments

Bill Smart has never heard the word “solarpunk”. But the softly spoken 77-year-old lights up when given the definition from Wikipedia: a literary, artistic and social movement that envisions and works towards actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. Solar refers not just to renewable energy but to an optimistic, anti-dystopian vision of the future. Punk is an allusion to its countercultural, do-it-yourself ethic. “That’s us!” says Smart

You can now choose your preferred companion on Kagi Search! And more companions coming soon.

Forget Los Santos! We asked AI to imagine what Grand Theft Auto V would look like if it were set in the bustling, chaotic, and vibrant streets of India. – Note Don't think this is realtime

When Ramón Méndez Galain’s phone rang in 2008, he could hardly believe who was on the other end of the line. It was the president of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, and he was calling with an offer: Would Galain, a self-described simple university professor, be interested in serving as the country’s energy secretary?

This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings – it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets.

The crisis that began during the financial crash of 2008 is still unfolding. What began as a banking collapse was turned into a crisis of living standards and the democratic system. Popular support for privatisation and austerity collapsed long ago, but our political class continues to prioritise assets and profits above all else. Faced with historically speaking moderate social democratic alternatives, such as the 2017 Labour Party manifesto, they react like an immune system swarming to destroy a virus. The unsurprising result is that the far right is ascendent, and now within touching distance of power. It is using the […]

The introduction of Titans and the MIRAS framework marks a significant advancement in sequence modeling. By employing deep neural networks as memory modules that learn to memorize as data is coming in, these approaches overcome the limitations of fixed-size recurrent states. Furthermore, MIRAS provides a powerful theoretical unification, revealing the connection between online optimization, associative memory, and architectural design.