Internet Archive
340 Local Newspapers Just Locked Out the Internet Archive
More than 340 local US newspapers have blocked the Internet Archive's crawler. As the record-keepers disappear, who's …
Internet Archive
journalism
digital preservation
AI
3 min read
The 'Slop Grenade' Backlash: Why People Are Done With AI-Generated Replies
A new term — 'NoSlopGrenade' — captures the growing exhaustion with AI-generated walls of text invading personal conversations. Here's why the backlash matters.
Recent Dispatches
Curated insights from the frontier.
surveillance
Seattle's Shield Program Quietly Turns Private Cameras Into a Police Network
Seattle's Shield initiative wires private security feeds into police dashboards. The legal scaffolding is thin, the …
surveillance
privacy
policing
Waymo
Waymo's Atlanta Flood Problem Just Exposed Self-Driving's Dirtiest Secret
Waymo paused its Atlanta robotaxi service after multiple vehicles drove straight into flooded streets during a downpour. …
Waymo
Self-Driving
Robotaxi
Google
Google's Antigravity Bait-and-Switch: How AI Coding Tools Are Burning Developer Trust
Google's Antigravity promised free unlimited access to top-tier models. Six months later, it's a paid subscription. The …
Google
Antigravity
AI coding
AI ethics
Is AI Just Plagiarism at Industrial Scale? The Question Nobody Wants to Answer
A provocative essay arguing that AI is fundamentally large-scale unauthorized copying just racked up 571 upvotes. The …
AI ethics
copyright
generative AI
Google
Google Just Put Ads Inside AI Search. The Free Lunch Is Over
At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google confirmed ads are coming to AI Mode answers. Here's why answer-style search was …
Google
AI Search
Advertising
AI
Why 200 Tokens Per Second Still Feels Slow
AI model launches love to flash tokens-per-second numbers. So why does the chatbot still feel sluggish? A look at what …
AI
LLM
benchmarks
Railway
When the Cloud Giant Pulls the Plug: Railway's GCP Suspension and the Risk No One Talks About
Railway's GCP account suspension isn't just a bad morning for one startup. It's a stress test of every business built on …
Railway
GCP
cloud
security
One VSCode Extension, 3,800 Private Repos Gone: Your IDE Is the New Supply Chain
A single malicious VSCode extension hijacked a developer's laptop and exfiltrated 3,800 private GitHub repositories. The …
security
supply chain attack
VSCode