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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.
Read →The Best Soundbars (2026): Sonos, LG, TCL, Bose, and More
I tested soundbars of all shapes and sizes—these are the best for clear dialogue, booming bass, and realistic surround sound.
Read →The Best Air Purifier of 2026: Tested Picks for Every Room
Protect your home against dust, pets, allergens, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.
Read →New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
Read →The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
The latest iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.
Read →F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour
Formula 1’s latest venue might be fun to drive, but the race was processional and dull.
Read →New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40
The Swedish automaker gives its small SUV a sympathetic makeover.
Read →"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.
Read →Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Valve's new $1,059 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR "revolution."
Read →Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles
Isotopic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.
Read →A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.
Read →Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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