Daughter’s memoir portrays Steve Jobs as cruel, behavior enabled by others
TL;DR In Lisa Brennan-Jobs' memoir Small Fry, she recounts repeated cruelty from her father, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, and describes…
Controversy over adding TSO memory-model controls for Arm CPUs in Linux
TL;DR A patch series would expose and allow selecting a TSO memory model on some Arm CPUs via new prctl()…
SQL Studio — Fast, Elegant SQL Client by a Single Developer for Analysts
TL;DR SQL Studio is a newly announced SQL client positioned as a fast, hand-crafted tool for engineers and analysts. It…
Aphex Twin and ex-Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahashi discuss musical standards
TL;DR In a 2017 interview, Tatsuya Takahashi and Richard D. James traded views on how technical and cultural standards shape…
WIRED’s Guide: The 70 Best Movies to Stream on Disney+ Right Now
TL;DR WIRED compiled a list of the 70 best films available on Disney+ as of January 2026, spanning recent releases,…
Why a Chinese Robot Vacuum Firm Launched Two Spin-Off Electric-Car Brands
TL;DR At CES, two previously little-known EV brands—Nebula Next and Kosmera—appeared with luxe electric sports-car prototypes that have ties to…
Notion Portals: Add row-level permissions and client-facing portals to Notion
TL;DR A startup is pitching Notion Portals, a layer that adds row-level permissions, column hiding and branded client portals on…
Sopro TTS: 169M-parameter streaming zero-shot voice-cloning CPU model
TL;DR Sopro is a lightweight English text-to-speech model that uses dilated convolutions and cross-attention instead of Transformers. It supports streaming…
Texas court briefly bars Samsung from TV tracking, then vacates TRO
TL;DR A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order that barred Samsung from collecting smart-TV viewing data, citing allegedly deceptive…
Debate Grows Over Adding TSO Memory-Model Support to Arm CPUs
TL;DR Patch sets would expose an x86-style TSO memory model on some Arm processors via new prctl() controls, allowing user…