Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this month, Ars retracted […]
The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces
March 2, 2026 – 11 mins read Don’t say that he’s ’hypocritical’, say rather that he’s…’apolitical’. Many technical spaces have become extremely partisan, and this has lowered their utility for all parties. This is not a new phenomenon–in recent times you can look back at COVID and the summer of Floyd, Gamergate in the early […]
Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
When a few variables belong together, we put them in a struct. Programmers do this automatically without thinking about it much. And most of the time it’s the right choice. Structs are simple, fast, and predictable. But once in a while they break down. This is the story of one of those cases. One of […]
Closure of the Weatherradio Service in Canada
Pour diffusion immédiate | 25 février 2026 Radio Amateurs du Canada (RAC) a le regret d’apprendre la fermeture du service Radio-Météo fourni par Environnement et Changement climatique Canada Pendant des décennies, Radio-Météo a été une source fiable et résiliente diffusant en temps réel des alertes météorologiques et des renseignements sur la sécurité publique destinés aux Canadiens, […]
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The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything
The advertisement is everywhere. The ice hockey player Peter Forsberg is trying on a pair of black glasses. In the viral clip he talks to the glasses, asking who is Sweden’s greatest hockey player of all time. They are not just any glasses. They are Facebook owner Meta’s new AI glasses. The glasses are marketed […]
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
February 9, 2026·12 min read I’ve spent the last six months working on a startup, building agent prototypes for one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world. As part of that work, our team relied on off-the-shelf voice agent platforms to help the company operate more effectively. Though I can’t go into […]
Welcome (back) to Macintosh
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup state and to manually delete the old backup. […]
Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool
Run shell commands from your piano Description Linux CLI tool to assign shell commands to keys on a USB MIDI Keyboard # this is a comment # # trigger can be on_release or on_press on_press # syntax: port = command # use aseqdump -p to find specific keycodes 21 = playerctl previous # first key […]
British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks. The province […]