The manufacturers of Zorin OS, a Linux distribution, or operating system (OS), similar to Linux Mint, which I use, claim there have been nearly eight-hundred-thousand downloads from Windows devices in the last month. This approximately coincides with Microsoft effectively ceasing support for their popular Windows 10...

Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge: In an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day, they [Altman and Ive] said they are currently prototyping the device, and when asked about a timeframe, Ive said it could arrive in “less than” two years. We only have to wait another two years to...

For another point of view, sorry POV, which I suggest you should read in full, Germany based linguist and writer, Burk: People stopped typing URLs. Entirely. No one goes to “juliawrites.com” anymore. They go to TikTok. Or Substack. Or Medium. Or Twitter. Or anything that has a feed and an algorithm. Well most people...

John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball: Uni Watch, to me, epitomized a certain mindset from the early web. To wit, that there ought to be a blog (or two or three) dedicated to every esoteric interest under the sun. You want to obsess about sports team uniform designs? Uni Watch was there. For a good long stretch,...

Megan Greenwell writing for Talking Points Memo, AKA TPM: When Vice News stopped publishing in February 2024 — nearly eight years after Gawker’s demise, five after OG Deadspin’s — it marked the final nail in the coffin of the era in which any media outlet was thought of as cool. On one level, that’s for the best; I...

A provider of adult video content — I’ll refrain from naming them, in the hope of stopping network content filters getting upset — is suggesting the age of their audience be verified through the operating system (OS) of their device. Note: the link is to a blog post by the provider, not to any NSFW content. I can’t...

When it comes to blogging there are few rules. Write content that is somehow meaningful might be one of them though. I think it’s down to the individual to determine what constitutes meaningful. In the hey-day, the so-called golden age of blogging, there were plenty of people prepared to offer definitions of...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, posting on X: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it’s supposed to do! It finally does what it’s supposed to do. Am I to think AI agents were not supposed to include em-dashes in their input (and here I go) — unless said use was...

Made by Las Vegas based software developer Pablo Enoc, who’s also behind indie RSS aggregator powRSS, lettrss will send a chapter of the book you’re reading to your RSS reader each day. Here’s an idea with merit. Reading novels is just about the last thing I get to each evening, and I don’t usually cover much ground...

The Booker Prize, which recognises English language novels published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has unveiled a new award: the Children’s Booker Prize, which will be awarded for the first time in 2027. The Children’s Booker Prize, which will launch in 2026 and be awarded annually from 2027, will celebrate the...

Flicks list of Australia’s twenty-five most beautiful cinemas is almost enough to tempt me back into going to film screenings instead of streaming from home. Of those on the list, I’ve been to Golden Age Cinema and Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace. I used to practically live at the Ritz Cinema during my days as film...

Elissa Welle, writing for The Verge, with some apparent clarification regarding Mozilla’s proposal to launch an AI browser: AI Window will be one of three browsing experiences offered to Firefox users in addition to the private and classic windows. Long time Firefox users were concerned Mozilla intended to turn the...