There’s a lot of Psychology happening with early 2000s nostalgia slop but especially among zoomers it does seem like there’s just a real hankering for less phone, and therefore the time before phone is the glorious past to which we must return

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

My cats are printing this article out and leaving it all over the house as a hint.

dispatch from a NYC climate week debate on whether "AI is humanity's best hope for solving climate change"

"Though this new project continues the trend in which Smith never seems to stop talking, he did decline, through a spokesperson, to be interviewed for this column."

It would be helpful if press releases got to the point quicker and led with something like "we are launching a new microgrid financing program" instead of "we are launching an initiative for resilient community energy systems"

The future is an AI-generated brainrot video of audio clipped from an AI-generated podcast, with a comments section filled with AI-generated spam.

Sometimes it’s important to note what’s not said. Or said only 11 times at today’s Apple iPhone 17 event. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

$3k per pirated work feels pretty low to me, but they don’t ask me these things www.cnet.com/tech/service...

I made the mistake of taking a sip while reading this and literally spat it out when I got to that last part

From gaming and the camera to new AI skills and the battery, I've been putting Google's new flagship phone through its paces.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple and OpenAI's deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone users is an "anti-competitive scheme" that hurts competitors like xAI.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

As someone who lived above a nightclub and got home from work after midnight in the summer/fall of 2013, I'll accept "Happy" by Pharrell Williams as the winner here. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

on the one hand I agree with this piece in principle. on the other hand as soon as people get sentimentally attached to punctuation (see: people who make a big deal about liking the Oxford comma) I feel obligated to find ways around it. This is an immature response which I will never, ever abandon

I believe there should be a Pulitzer for Bonkers Reporting and this should win for 2025.

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

I just finished this and everyone should read it. Powerful, important, heartbreaking.

My latest review for @cnet.com: UFO 50 on the Switch 2 🕹️ 50 fictional retro games, some genius, some insane #UFO50 #IndieGames #Switch2 www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

give me the forbidden shrimp

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

I will miss calling it the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company.

ChatGPT is powerful, but not every task is safe for AI.

In time, every single one of us will announce plans to build something at the former GM Lordstown Assembly.

Apologies to the people in the auto body repair shop who had to endure me talking to ChatGPT without earbuds. Here’s why I ruined your morning: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

NEW scoop for @cnet.com: Google’s AI filmmaker tool, Flow, has helped creators make 100 million AI videos in only 90 days. I talked to the folks behind Flow about the milestone and what’s coming next for the company. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Headlines Used to Have One Sentence. Not Anymore.

aww yeah the first of that thing that won't matter until like January

Ketchup is already a smoothie

🎶 She's been bricked and I'm drowning slowly Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere She's been bricked and I'm drowning slowly . . . 🎶 bsky.app/profile/hell...

This is gross and an abomination who would eat these?* *I would. I would eat these. I *will* eat these.

Breaking: Ziff Davis is doing layoffs today, affecting 15% of the union. The majority of the workers being laid off are at CNET, along with several across ZDNET, Mashable, and Lifehacker. Ziff Davis has been on a buying spree this year, acquiring 5 other companies. www.theverge.com/news/715220/...

Today, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis is slashing its staff of 23 valuable ZDCG colleagues — just weeks after it finalized even more corporate acquisitions and boasted about profitability being "up." Ziff Davis is putting its spending spree ahead of its own workers. 👇

Ford exec: How are you going to get these robots to pay union dues? Walter Reuther: How are you going to get them to buy Fords?

FireSat is a very cool satellite program for identifying wildfires when they're still small. They released the first images last week, which I wrote about at CNET: www.cnet.com/science/thes...

This is a lovely piece about, among other things, why obituaries matter. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"As my own generation of perpetually laid-off colleagues has learned the hard way, any good gig or thriving publication is always one lawsuit or lost investor or algorithmic tweak or reactionary election away from doom." www.cjr.org/analysis/jou...

Only a surprise if you haven't been to West Virginia.

A tool lets you pick which public radio stations most need donations: adoptastation.org

kiss cams are the surveillance state btw

In my mind Gangnam Style will hold this throne forever.

"I know what you are." "Say it. Out loud." "... Fancy autocomplete."

The difference between a hot dog and AI is that one is basically artificial, unhealthy if overdone (and often harmful in even small doses), mass-produced in socially harmful ways and available basically everywhere, and the other is $1.50 at Costco.

A week ago I visited the BP Station Where Rutherford B. Hayes Was Born.

Ten writers of whom I have read five-plus books:

 Phil Dick
 Annie Dillard
 John McPhee
 Hanif Abdurraqib
 Wendell Berry Raymond Chandler Mike Davis John Le Carre Ross Macdonald Anne Lamott

made it 90 minutes into the week before the doom set in

don't tell Cleveland I said this but they should put it in Columbus instead

The best airport in the country is LaGuardia. The worst airport in the country is LaGuardia.

Inside of you are two wolves. Each of them finds two wolves that work under them, who then in turn find two wolves each for themselves and so on. The profits increase as more wolves come on board. One of the Wolves made $100,000 last year working from home.