Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law addressing deepfakes, imposing jail time and penalties up to the felony level for people who make AI-generated nonconsensual abuse imagery of a real person.

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now,

In most industries, service providers boast about five nines availability — 99.999%. That sounds impressive: just five minutes of downtime per year. But DNS isn’t like most industries. For top-level domains, downtime is not acceptable. If a registry goes dark, hospitals, banking systems, and e-commerce all go offline with

Why declining requests is stressful, who it affects most, and how to navigate the pressure without burnout.

By transforming the shared staging environment into a multitenant, dynamic platform, teams can eliminate friction and reclaim their productivity.

Blogpost authors: Nimra Nadeem, Lucy He, Michel Liao, and Peter Henderson Paper authors: Lucy He, Nimra Nadeem, Michel Liao, Howard Chen, Danqi Chen, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Peter Henderson A longer version of this blog is available on the POLARIS Lab website, an accompanying policy brief is available online, and the full paper can be found on […]

Posted on Thursday 4 Sep 2025. 527 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

Patch Boards to IDEs

It’s remarkable that PowerPC is dead in the consumer market. …

Refuting the common and flawed argument of

“I built a Redis-compatible cache that handles 25,000+ concurrent connections on my Laptop. Here’s how Elixir made it possible.”

Discussing pros and cons of different approaches to handling software versions

Explore the original 6502 BASIC—now open source! Dive into retro code, history, and emulators. Fork it, run it, and relive computing's roots.

A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

Exploring the surprising parallels between football and software.

Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?

My system worked exactly as I hoped it would.

Posted on Friday 22 Aug 2025. 649 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

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

Proposal for SXSW 2026 on Crafting Collective Protocols for Immersive AI Worlds

Accountability is a mechanism that achieves better outcomes by aligning incentives, in particular, negative ones. Specifically: if you do a bad thing, or fail to do a good thing, under your sphere …

What I like best about Keith Teare’s latest essay, Who Owns The Front Door to AI? If it isn’t you, its game over, is that it sounds like he’s setting up the case for personal AI. …

Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple, on Mastodon: What causes bad passkey experiences By listening to lots and lots of feedback, I’ve learned that if someone’s main experience with passkeys is with a password manager that doesn’t natively integrate into the OS it’s running

The April 1926 issue of “Science and Invention” had a fascinating graphic. It explained, for the curious, how a photo of a rescue at sea could be in the New York papers almost immediate…

I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.