This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.

Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.

BYD is hiring to build its 1,500 kW Flash Charging network in Canada - 5-minute EV charging that works at -20C, a North American first.

A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

Workers are spending an average of 6.4 hours a week — almost a full working day — "botsitting" AI, pushing some to look for an exit, researchers say.

After more than a century of sharing the main entrance, Canadians were barred from using the library's US-side door by the Trump administration in 2025.

Car bulbs don’t have to be this blinding.

Amazon.com Inc. said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually.

The $20 AI subscription you use every day is a mathematical impossibility. While you enjoy flat-rate access to advanced tools like Claude Code, the raw compute costs for a power user can actually skyrocket to $15,000 a year. We are officially living inside…

As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for…

Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.

A police department for your Claude Code agents — a logging-only hook + CLI that audits the main agent and every subagent and reports rule offenses (permission bypass, out-of-scope & creden...

Many people dream of traveling to faraway places to experience new cultures and sightseeing.

I'm getting more done than ever, and I've never felt more scattered.

A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty. - coder/boo

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with…

An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read?