I want to talk about money.

(Ugh, I know. How crass.)

Specifically, how much money authors make, or more accurately, don’t.

I signed my publishing deal in 2023. My advance was £2,500. That’s it.
I was paid £1,250 on signing, which, spread over 18 months…

Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Robots powered by Gemini Robotics models can learn complex actions like preparing salads and even folding an origami fox.

<p>The Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin is a powerful developer diagramming tool that brings Mermaid.js diagramming directly into your Visual Studio Code environment. Whether you’re visualizing software architecture, documenting API flows, fixing bad documentation…

It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.

Earlier today, CEO Matt Mullenweg shared with Automattic employees the following message.

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Add a progress bar and playback controls to YouTube Shorts, Instagram, and Facebook Reels.

Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and their implications for our understanding of racial ...

Thunderbird is getting a bunch of new features

One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.

Wall Street suffers its worst day since 2020 but the White House tells investors to "trust in President Trump".

The ultimate ssh powered services for developers

Imagine if anyone could punch in a phone number from the largest U.S. cell carrier and instantly retrieve a list of its recent incoming calls—complete with timestamps—without compromising the device, guessing a password, or alerting the user.
Now imagine…

What makes an AI system an agent? Stephen O'Brien's litmus test cuts through the confusion to define what separates agents from assistants.

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We introduce PaperBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to replicate state-of-the-art AI research.