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In this episode of The New Stack Agents, Shortwave's Andrew Lee discusses his Gmail-centric email client that puts AI at the forefront of the user experience.

At PyCon US 2025, Cory Doctorow defined his term "enshittification," explaining how digital platforms degrade by first attracting users, then exploiting them for business customers, and finally exploiting both for the company's own profit.

Teams are left cleaning up after code that looked fine but failed under pressure.

Posted on Friday 4 Jul 2025. 775 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.

I'd love to see a bridge going from RSS to ActivityPub.

The evolution of drone shows, a concept that went from an art collective experiment in de-fanging warfare tech to a municipal favorite in record time.

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abando…

As it stands, cryptocurrency largely seems to be a fad of the previous decade, at least as far as technology goes. During that time, many PC users couldn’t get reasonably priced graphics card…

I’ve spent over a decade following the evolution of computational photography, watching as algorithms and machine learning transform how we capture and enhance visual content. During this jou…

Posted on Friday 27 Jun 2025. 444 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

Analysis: More fiction than science

You may not have to imagine a world where air conditioning uses more energy than computing for much longer. Also: As the Commodore turns.

Learn how marketing and IT leaders can implement AI responsibly for large organizations

These days, so much of what we see online is delivered by social media algorithms. The operations of these algorithms are opaque to us; commentators forever speculate as to whether they just show u…

Is demand for VR headsets really that high? Or did Meta just launch the perfect scalper bait?

Finally understanding why blogging is so important to me

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Analysis: The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers

: 22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs

Notes from a technically challenging project

If you ever look at projects in an old magazine and compare them to today’s electronic projects, there’s at least one thing that will stand out. Most projects in “the old days&#82…

As the Industrial Age took the world by storm, city centers became burgeoning hubs of commerce and activity. New offices and apartments were built higher and higher as density increased and skyline…

Human Deep Learning in the Face of AI

Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Together. Maybe they lost their edge.

QR codes are something that we all take for granted in this day and age. There are even a million apps to create your own QR codes, but what if you want to make a barcode? How about making a specif…

We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But there are places — the desert, the forest, or the ocean — where you might not hav…

The decades-old doctrine of “Web traffic in exchange for permission to crawl” is over, writes Fred Vogelstein in his latest feature for our newsletter, Crazy StupidTech, and as a result, …