Giovanni Colantonio thought he was going to write a simple news post about Russia banning Grand Theft Auto 6. It turned into something different.

There’s something sad about seeing a humanoid robot lying on the floor. Without any electricity, these bipedal machines can’t stand up, so if they’re powered down and not hanging from a winch, they’re sprawled out on the floor, staring up at you, helpless. That’s how I met Atlas a couple of months ago. I’d seen […]

Substack is notifying some users that the email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a "security incident" last year. In an email to account holders, Substack CEO Chris Best said that a hacker had accessed internal data without authorization in October 2025, but that passwords, credit card numbers, and other […]

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Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will “vanish” into an LLM is “nonsense”: we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack  —  Too much of what is going on is a race to get to a theoretical end state of a whole new world of business and technology.

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal  —  Amazon.com Inc. must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace, according to the nation's antitrust watchdog …