Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web”
(i) In general.—A public company that is not predominantly engaged in 1 or more financial activities, and its Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Crypto is the financial system for AI. Serpin Taxt ...
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom
Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire … X: @elatable . Bluesky: @mranthropology , @turoczy , @metacurity.com , @sauthoff , and ...
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Phil Hoad / The Guardian : An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appe...
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base
In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company … Bluesky: @romitmehta.com . Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . X: @obrien , @profschl...
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet. Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives for content creatio...
Google launches Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests in terminals by connecting Gemini models to local codebases
This repository contains the Gemini CLI, a command-line AI workflow tool … The Keyword : Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent Vinay Patel / International Business Times : Google's Gemini CLI Lands in...
A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy … Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online , @ricmac@mastodon.social...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely telling. Joe Rosenthal / @...
Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people now have a World ID, and WLD's market cap is $550M+
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg : Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @zbs.bsky.social Mastodon: Richard MacManus / @ricmac@mastodon.social : In-depth story about my favourite dystopian app, Sam Al...
Meta rolls out a beta of Threads' fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated tools like Mastodon
tbh, same. ✨ The big idea: Threads is helping people find community, no matter which platform they use. … Mastodon: Alex Standiford / @alexstandiford@fosstodon.org : Looks like Meta kept good on its ...