I love that the conclusion of the @theverge.com Vergecast is that the best AI gadget is the gadgets you already have, but working together. 1. Phone 2. Watch 3. Headphones We don't need a new form factor for a personal AI device. www.theverge.com/podcast/9650...

Today’s Vergecast: Watch, headphones, phone: Which AI gadget is best?

So far, there have been exactly zero great AI-first gadgets. But that hasn’t stopped the tech industry from trying to figure out what shape and size these new gadgets might take, and whether any of th...

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Tech workers are not worried about AI taking their jobs, they are worried about being expected to do more for less. People are divided about AI, tech is in chaos, productivity is up, quality is down, burnout is rife, but some are still optimistic. www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-w...

How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two

Results from our second annual tech worker sentiment survey

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It was really inspiring to hear about the work of @aria-research.bsky.social at an event at BALTIC Gateshead yesterday. ARIA is a UK research funding agency modelled on DARPA in the US, but with a scope that spans the whole of science and technology for economic and societal benefit. aria.org.uk

In case it needs saying, 35-40°C in the UK in June is not normal. We are a planet of boiling frogs 🐸 Feeling helpless? Here are eight ways you can help fight #GlobalHeating today www.unep.org/news-and-sto... #ClimateCrisis

Here are eight simple ways you can fight climate change today

By walking more, tweaking your diet and conserving energy, you can help the world avoid a full-blown climate catastrophe.

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This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...

Greta Thunberg warns 40°C heatwave about to hit UK 'is only the beginning'

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I've had a great time at #TechNExt26 this week. High quality production, some thought provoking talks, and most of all good conversation. Thank you to everyone who came to my talk yesterday about the #WebOfThings and Krellian's #SmartBuilding solutions.

It has been a long and winding road, but Krellian finally has a product that people can buy. medium.com/krellian/ann...

Announcing Krellian Commercial Pilot

Meet your net zero targets whilst saving money.

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Trillionaires should not exist. It would take the average American 16 million years to earn $1tn. There is no way that one human can be "worth" that much more than another human, no matter what they have achieved.

Just two weeks until my talk at TechNExt Festival, "Making Buildings Smarter with the Web of Things" www.technext.co.uk/programme/ev... If you're interested in smart buildings or the Web of Things, please join me for this free talk at the The Catalyst in Newcastle on Thursday 18th June.

AI needs the open web, but it also poses an existential threat to it. LLMs rely on the content that humans create for their training, whilst also undermining the business models that incentivise people to create the content in the first place. nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-b...

If you'd have told 16 year old me that Microsoft would one day release their own Linux distribution, I wouldn't have believed you. www.zdnet.com/article/micr...

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.

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Did Lean Startup get a conscience? www.incorruptible.co As someone who has been trying (and often failing) to follow the Lean Startup methodology for many years it has raised lots of questions for me about speed vs. long term impact. I am looking forward to reading this book.

Incorruptible by Eric Ries — Why Good Companies Go Bad

Eric Ries's new book — Incorruptible — on why successful companies turn on their founding values, and how to build ones that don't. Out May 26.

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Googlebooks will run a desktop version of Android with a Gemini-possessed cursor. Seems like the beginning of the end for ChromeOS, with serious implications for education in particular. Should we be building an open source web-based replacement..? www.theverge.com/tech/928479/...

Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

Google has a new operating system and a new laptop platform, but no hardware just yet.

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I'm delighted to share that I will be giving a talk at TechNExt Festival 2026 called "Making Buildings Smarter with the Web of Things". technext.co.uk/programme/ev... #TechNExt #TechNExtFestival

This pay package implies Elon Musk believes a 1 million person settlement on Mars is feasible within his lifetime. I'm not anti space travel, but imagine if those kinds of resources were put into solving the climate crisis on our actually habitable planet. www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-...

SpaceX Board has set a Mars bonus for Elon Musk

SpaceX has given Elon Musk the goal to put one million people on Mars.

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Typical that in the week I finally caved and paid for a Copilot Pro subscription after getting hooked by the Opus models in their free trial, GitHub removes Opus models from the Pro subscription. I guess I will have to start using my brain again. github.blog/news-insight...

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.

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Very excited at the prospect of the Web Thing Protocol joining a standards track at the W3C, as the "WoT Thing Protocol". This would be the next step towards standardising a universal web-based application layer protocol for the Web of Things. #WoT #IoT lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...

A reminder that whilst countries fight reckless wars and set fire to gas fields and oil refineries, our climate is being pushed beyond its limits. Humans living on the surface are only experiencing 1% of the dangerous global heating. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high

State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

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My microblogging is split across Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky. Twitter (I refuse to use its porn name) is full of vitriol, Mastodon is all geeks and Bluesky feels like a political bubble. Conversations feel fragmented, engagement is rock bottom and it's just not the same.

I've been working on the first time setup for Krellian Hub, which involves creating a temporary Wi-Fi hotspot and captive portal, before connecting to another Wi-Fi network. It turns out that not even Claude can figure out how to use the NetworkManager DBus API. 😩

I recently found myself writing a desktop app, and realised that for the first time in my career I could actually implement the Model View Controller design pattern as it was originally intended (as opposed to the disjointed approximations we use in web apps).

New blog post: Putting the Web back in the Web of Things tola.me.uk/blog/2026/03... We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. 🧵

Putting the Web back in the Web of Things

We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. I this blog post I provide a deep-dive retrospective into the last 1...

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New blog post: How I think Web Apps Should be Installed tola.me.uk/blog/2026/02... There's currently a discussion at the W3C about how web apps should be installed from web browsers. Here's how I think it should work.

How I think Web Apps Should be Installed

There's currently a discussion at the W3C about how web apps should be installed from web browsers. Here's how I think it should work.

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When addressing shortcomings of current models LLM advocates like to say that the models are the worst they are ever going to be, but what if the training data is the best it's ever going to be? #AI

nixCraft@cyberciti.biz · 7mo ago

This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent web is over.

📢 Announcing WebThings Gateway 2.0 webthings.io/blog/2025/12... Build your own smart home hub. The WebThings community are very excited to announce the WebThings Gateway 2.0 release, with a new groups feature and W3C WoT standards support.

Excited to welcome @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social to @nclgreenparty.bsky.social today Jamie thinks deeply about how we tackle inequality and the impact of a broken economic system on people and planet As former North of Tyne Mayor he brings so much to our teams working with our communities. Welcome!

Hands off our BBC Donald. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

BBC to fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed

Corporation will argue it did not have rights to air film in US and it did not cause serious reputational harm

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Copilot just correctly diagnosed that my regular expression wasn't matching because it contained invisible zero-width space characters. The problem? It put them there in the first place. #DontTrustAI

📣 Strawman Proposal: Web Thing Protocol HTTP Sub-protocol w3c.github.io/web-thing-pr... A dedicated HTTP-based application protocol for the Web of Things.

This is why I have trust issues. #AI