A retrospective on Tess.Design, our attempt to make an ethical, artist-friendly AI marketplace. We launched Tess in May 2024 and shut it down in January 2026.

It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I hope to get that review out soon. Almost all o…

Redox: A Rust Operating System

Cloud vendors, LLM startups, and device makers all raced to embrace it. Each had a different reason.

China wants its minorities decorative, but not distinct

New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the crosshairs, say privacy experts.

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Germany is seeing unusually strong solar power output in March, helping to cap electricity prices even as the conflict in the Middle East drives up the cost of energy worldwide.

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Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.

Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question o [...]

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices…

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

ChromeOS is a very lightweight operating system and, on top of being a solid option for low-end computers, it’s also...