Jared Newman
@advisorator.com
Tech journo, newsletter publisher, yacht rock appreciator, fast food enthusiast. https://jarednewman.com/newsletters https://jarednewman.com/blog https://jarednewman.com/
An underappreciated trend is how AI is making it harder for humans to browse the open web. Latest example: Amazon is throttling the number of product reviews some customers can read, because it's mistaking them for scraper bots: www.fastcompany.com/91581391/ama...
Amazon limits access to customer reviews for some users because it thinks they're AI
Affected users must file an appeal via email and wait several days for a response.
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Quiet changes at Bitwarden: - Longtime CEO stepped back in Feb. w/o announcement - New CEO's LinkedIn touts experience in mergers, acquisitions, and working w/ private equity. - Career page replaces "Inclusion" with "Innovation," "Transparency" with "Trust" as tentpole values. (1/2)
The Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for referencing old web pages, listening to live concerts, playing old DOS games, and discovering all kinds of forgotten media. It's hummed along for three decades, but now AI is threatening its mission. www.fastcompany.com/91539598/int...
The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web's memory bank withstand the AI era?
Three decades after Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive to preserve humanity’s digital record, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine is confronting AI scraping fears, antagonistic publisher...
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@glennf.com Gave Mister Plimsoll a shout-out for my 10K newsletter readers. Neat app! advisorator.com/members/2026...
Dutifully updating this list that gets longer and sadder by the week - www.fastcompany.com/91495430/her...
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining
A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.
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Making an effort to log some thoughts about the random video games I end up playing, starting with ... 2017's The Surge! jarednewman.com/blog/2026/03...
Guess I'm buying some Korean smooth jazz/funk today #bandcampfriday neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/super-...
Super Brass 2, by Super Brass
10 track album
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I was having trouble keeping track of everything that's been delayed, discontinued, or made more expensive because AI data centers are hogging all the RAM. So I made a running list: www.fastcompany.com/91495430/her...
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining
A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.
fastcompany.com
When you're next furious that MN kids are going hungry, well, there's a fund for that; & when you're livid that brave observers may struggle with rent, there's one for that; & when you're heartbroken about pets being left behind when their owners are kidnapped, well, there's a fund for that, too.
Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8mo agogo to standwithminnesota.com and pick someone on there and give them $5. tomorrow go back and give someone else $5. do it every day for a week and you will have made life immediately & materially better for 7 different people, at the cost of $35, and you will feel so much better than you do now.
Not even a pity mention that maybe Verizon dislikes missing out on international roaming fees when customers buy cheap eSIMs for travel
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 8mo agoVerizon and the corrupt Trump FCC are killing rules that make it easier to switch carriers via fully unlocked phones. The decision is based on a lie that adhering to these public interest provisions is increasing "fraud," a lie Reuters is happy to parrot in its headline journalisms!
Once again this was a great time
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 9mo agoHere's part 5 of this week's Better Offline coverage of the Consumer Electronics show, featuring @adamconover.net @edwardongwesojr.com @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @karissabe.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @advisorator.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline
TIL there is a term (and corresponding Wikipedia page) for the low brass sound, popularized by Inception, to produce a dramatic effect in movie trailers - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM
BRAAAM - Wikipedia
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Meant to share this earlier! Our smart fridges, Echo devices, and car dashboards are just glorified advertising surfaces now. www.fastcompany.com/91432377/sam...
Tech giants promised ‘ambient computing.’ We got digital billboards instead
The screens we’ve installed everywhere have started to turn against us.
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I don't know about you, but I get all my TV reviews from THE VARGE
"So I told my wife I'm in Skate or Die, and I ask her why she's smiling. She knows I cant skate!"
Electronic Arts totally stole Ariel and Rodney Dangerfield's likeness for their Skate or Die/Ski or Die series, didn't they?
Translation: Someone's got to pay for all this AI stuff www.techmeme.com/251023/p21#a...
Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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I feel you should all know about this blog that has spent the last decade attempting to document every type of sandwich in existence - www.sandwichtribunal.com
Sandwich Tribunal
A sort of sandwich death panel
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I just swiped up on my paper notebook because I was running out of room to write on the page, how's your day going?
Certainly I've left money on the table by not hosting my newsletters on Substack. On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
Big day for my little newsletter operation. (Read the note at the top.) https://advisorator.com/members/2025/06/24/want-to-go-passwordless-read-this-first/
Little scoop: Max quietly updated its support pages in Feb to note that it's showing 50% more ads on its ad-supported plan. It's also showing ads in the middle of HBO shows despite initially promising not to. www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
It’s not just Prime Video: Max shows 50% more ads now
Max's support pages acknowledge that it's showing 6 minutes of ads per show, up from 4 minutes last year. Ads now run in the middle of HBO programming.
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Here’s my second piece for Wirecutter, reviewing a whole mess of USB-C hubs. Fun topic and I learned a bunch doing it! https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-usb-c-hubs-and-docks/
The decline of popular music in one chart (via the always-great Can’t Get Much Higher newsletter – https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/why-did-we-stop-using-saxophones )
