I'm not clear on what would make a prescription-eyeglass site a rewarding target for account-compromise attacks, but Zenni Optical supports passkeys anyway. (My guess: fewer carts abandoned because of forgotten passwords.)

Starship’s 12th launch—the first of its v3 design—had a successful liftoff followed by its booster crashing into the Gulf of Mexico. Its upper stage skipped an engine relight, deployed 22 test satellites, survived reentry and a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, then fell over and exploded.

I'm kind of a single-issue voter with respect to the proposed merger of Dominion, my electric utility, and NextEra: Will it improve prospects for renewable energy, even at the margin? This piece makes me think it will.

Roll 1d20 for advantage from 13th Street towards 14th to see which side of statues begins combat first.

Don't think of it as a toll system, think of it as an 800-foot-tall squeegee man leaning over the Strait who looks suspiciously like the Ayatollah Khamenei.

Somewhere, this story should have mentioned how to tighten security on your Bluesky account (freedom.press/digisec/blog...), and that section should have included a pledge from Bluesky to ship passkey authentication instead of relying on the current, kludgey email-based two-factor authentication.

FYI for journalists who have availed themselves of the free-service offer from @1password.bsky.social; on my latest two-year renewal, that got me an individual account instead of the previous family plan.

The utility of embargoed news (translation from journalese: getting a copy of an announcement early so you can write a story about it in advance) evaporates when the PR rep involved doesn't answer basic questions about it.

I'm glad one of our resident financial mavens has skimmed this filing, since I don't have time to right now. This part seems bad for the company: "AI is a black hole. Incinerating cash, no demand. Doesn’t make money even ex R&D. Just a money pit."

After seeing Google spend most of yesterday morning on its plans to weave its AI features throughout Chrome, Firefox's emphasis on making AI an opt-in proposition with a choice of AI services provides quite the contrast with Google's vision of the Web browser.

#GoogleIO traffic is so bad that Google seems to have resorted to deployimg an AI traffic-light algorithm... wait, dispatching traffic-directing robots... correction, setting every light to red and having humans direct cars. (Which may get interesting when the vehicles are Waymos.)

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Had time to spare getting from Mountain View to San Jose, so I decided to try the light rail instead of Caltrain. Verdict: WTF, VTA? 30-minute headways are awful enough, but I also saw two trains arrive at MV and depart with doors closed before my train left. Also bad: view-impairing train wraps.

Taking the free MVgo bus back to the Mountain View train station was enlightening for a) hearing the driver vent about AI and robots erasing jobs for his grandkids, and b) seeing the remarkable number of RVs parked on the street (I assume not recreationally) by the Intuit buildings on Casey Ave.

Nats RF and exciting player to watch James Wood > veteran character actor turned creepy Trump cultist James Woods.

Another I/O attendee, after a discussion of tech-industry layoffs that inevitably led to Meta's upcoming self-decimation: "I don't think that Meta has any morale left."

International Router of Mystery. (As in, I assume this router on the I/O network was in use long enough in the Gulf to get associated with that area in whatever location database Windows consults to set a laptop's time zone.)

An about-us page answering obvious questions that new readers might ask should be part of the minimum viable product for a news site.

I'm now on a waitlist to try on Google's "intelligent eyewear." What finer points would you like to know about them? #GoogleIO

That was an uncommonly short I/O keynote at one hour and 50 minutes. My foot fell asleep anyway.

#GoogleIO keynote's one hardware bit: "intelligent eyewear" camera-equipped glasses that connect to your phone. The first ones from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker provide audio updates from your phone about things like directions, messages, schedule, etc.; later models will add an in-lens display.

Can confirm.

We are now 75 minutes into the #GoogleIO keynote, and Android has only been mentioned in passing--a mysterious reference to "Android Halo," a feature that Google didn't reveal in its advance announcements of keynote news.

One of the more important numbers revealed in the I/O keynote so far: $100. As in, the monthly cost of a new tier of Google's AI Ultra plan required to use the Gemini Spark "personal AI agent" shown off there. High-end AI is nowhere near the too-cheap-to-meter status of so many cloud services.

Holy shit Plex. (I paid $91 for this pass less than two years ago.) www.plex.tv/blog/new-lif...

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is not an AI huckster and has done some impressive work, but even him saying "artificial general intelligence is just a few years away" at #GoogleIO is just not that persuasive after years of AI-industry types predicting the imminent arrival of AGI.

For all of you who have said you just want written instructions instead of having to watch a video: The #GoogleIO keynote introduced Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search that returns text summaries from YouTube clips. (The creators of those clips may not be thrilled about the lost views.)

I don't think there are that many places where you can wear this lid from the I/O swag bag and get the nerd laugh that Google is going for here.

Good morning from #GoogleIO, where I am still getting ready (in the sense of not having finished a second cup of coffee).

On my way to Mountain View for #GoogleIO, which means you all get some Train Content first.

I'm sure Elon will take this defeat with his characteristic maturity.

You still can't go wrong dropping a reference to Silicon Valley the show when moderating a panel in Silicon Valley the place.

Of all the TV networks imaginable, ESPN2 has some good Train Content: the soccer-centric docuseries Last Train to North America.

Absolute civic malpractice (I'd @ Austin Police, but of course they're not here).

This @caltrain.com ride down the peninsula is a little more enjoyable than usual because of the passengers dressed in their Bay to Breakers finery.

An SFO tip I finally picked up last year: BART from the airport to Millbrae is not only absurdly overpriced but may not even save you time compared to the SamTrans 292 bus.

Here's a real photo of the Reflecting Un-Pool that I took yesterday. In addition to everything else wrong in that AI slop Trump posted--like the pool is too wide and the Lincoln Memorial is reversed--it doesn't even have the right kind of blue.

Happy 15th STS-134 launchiversary to all who celebrate! This was the first space launch I got to see in person--close enough to feel the sound rush over me--and it remains one of the most exciting moments of my life.

Correct take. As I wrote here a month ago, public-sector unions proclaiming a permanent right to taxpayer-funded Calvinball work rules give organized labor a bad name.

Speaking as a poll worker and as somebody who thought well of Polis as a congressman (I interviewed him onstage at an under-attended conference in 2013), this is some pathetic, delusional behavior by the governor.

A large metal Grateful Dead emblem on a Cybertruck is this year's dismal successor to a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. (I wish I were making that up, but I saw the trapezoidal truck in question, with "III III" D.C. plates, this afternoon on 695. I'll bet some of you in the District have as well.)

@dc.baddrivers.lol MD 8FL9002

Journalistic vandalism.

Aptly enough, there's a grammatical flub in this thread about the complications of adding post editing here and what sort of guardrails might be required.

Why is Netflix, the company that has been obsessing over its recommendation algorithm for more than a decade, sending me a push notification to watch the Rousey-Carano fight? I have zero interest in that, as my viewing history should make obvious.

Waking up from an end-of-flight nap when the wheels hit the runway is both jarring and, as an avgeek, personally disappointing--you miss one of the most interesting parts of the flight that way.

On my way to YVR via SkyTrain, a ride made more enjoyable by the excited reactions of two kids in the front seats of this driverless train. Thanks, @websummit.bsky.social; see y'all next time, Vancouver.

This is a telecom plot twist I did not see coming: AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon announce a joint venture to ensure that satellite-to-phone roaming--this press release doesn't specify any current providers or even orbits--can end dead zones in the U.S.

Today in remote tech support for family members: Looks like Safari on my mother-in-law's iPhone is stuck on the "Your device has been locked due to detected illegal activity" scam. discussions.apple.com/thread/79584...

Sometimes you can tell in the first minute of an onstage interview that the other person speaks at sufficient length that you'll have to leave out some questions... and the panel I wrapped up half an hour ago was the other kind.