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Office Mandates and Anthropic’s Losses: What Is the Office Day Buying?
A New York startup that requires four days a week in the office just let everyone work from anywhere for a month. Whether the experiment cost anything, or proved anything, is not yet clear from the reporting on it. The question it raises is older than remote work: what does a required day in the…
NASA and IBM Put 17 Years of Lunar Orbiter Data in Public Hands
A spacecraft launched in 2009 has spent most of the last two decades mapping the moon, and until this week the measurements it took were reachable mostly by people with institutional access and the patience to learn the tooling. NASA and IBM have now released an open source lunar model built on seventeen years of…
Zoe Kazan, East of Eden, and the Myth of the Clean Exit
In 1999, Elia Kazan received an honorary Oscar for a career in American theater. He had testified before Congress in 1952 and named eight artists as communist affiliates, and those eight were blacklisted for decades. Protesters outside the ceremony held signs calling him a snitch. His 15-year-old granddaughter watched it all on television, and her…
Two Companies, One Gap: Gemini 4 Argon Accelerates While Microsoft Loses Its Office Chief
A report from the international police organization INTERPOL, covered by CNBC, says AI is raising both the speed and the scale of cyber threats. The report pointed at agentic systems doing work that used to require a person to click, and it asked companies to prepare for attacks that arrive faster than the people assigned…
The Redesign and the Reactor
Grokipedia shipped its third visible overhaul of the year this week, a newly refreshed version 0.3 design, according to The Verge. The entries underneath are the same entries. The sourcing disputes are the same disputes. What changed is the chrome: cleaner type, a lighter layout, something that now reads as a finished product instead of…
Patrons, Not Crowds
Room magazine needs $80,000. The Canadian feminist literary quarterly, publishing since 1975 is fundraising after a 2025 staffing crisis left its books in a hole too deep for grants alone. The arithmetic in their appeal is plain: 28,000 Instagram followers, each giving five dollars, and the goal would be met. It will not go that…