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Technology reporter @cnbc.com in San Francisco. jordan.novet@versantmedia.com
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Berkeley, California
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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oh this one has movie potential www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
screenshot of article on San Francisco Chronicle website, viewed on a mobile device. Headline says: Police: Man intentionally slams into 4 pedestrians, including children, outside Truckee Safeway The first three paragraphs are visible in the screenshot. They say: A man was arrested after he intentionally drove into a Little League team fundraising outside a Safeway in Truckee (Nevada County), injuring four, authorities said Saturday. The Tahoe Titans, a local team of 11- and 12-year-old boys, was selling beef jerky to raise money for a July trip to a youth tournament near the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. By 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, they had raised $2,000 and were “in a great mood,” said team manager Bree Waters. But about 30 minutes later, she said, a visibly aggravated man walked up to their table and put a cigarette out on the sign they had made before he entered the grocery store. He came out shortly after, got into a white pick-up truck and “plowed the table down,” Waters said. Three players, three of their moms and one eight-year-old younger brother were standing near the table when it happened, as well as two people donating to the fundraiser, she said
February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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right on time for the big game
Screenshot of National Weather Service Dense Fog Advisory. The text says: URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service San Francisco CA 558 AM PST Sun Feb 8 2026 CAZ508-510-081700- /O.EXA.KMTR.FG.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-260208T1700Z/ San Francisco Bay Shoreline-East Bay Interior Valleys- 558 AM PST Sun Feb 8 2026 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE...East Bay Interior Valleys and the eastern half of the San Francisco Bay Shoreline. * WHEN...Until 9 AM PST this morning. * IMPACTS...Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you. Patchy dense fog will result in sudden changes in visibility. Visibility at times will fall below one-quarter of a mile. Use your low beam headlights, slow down, and be prepared for periods of hazardous driving conditions.
February 8, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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where the marketing dollars are going, other than Super Bowl ads
February 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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going to remember this photo for a while
screenshot of photo in Washington Post article. the photo shows a warehouse, with signs hanging above some rows full of books stacked high. many of the signs that are visible say "E2." the caption is as follows: An image disclosed in court filings shows a book warehouse that was alleged to play a role in Anthropic’s Project Panama, its project to scan, digitize and destroy millions of books. (Obtained by The Post)
January 29, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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when they ask you what Meta does with third-party cloud infrastructure, show them this
screenshot of Washington Post article. the highlighted passage is a quote that says "Avoiding risk of tracing back." Full paragraph is as follows: By April 2024, internal communications showed the company was moving to download LibGen and other shadow libraries. Chat logs show one employee asked another to clarify why they were using servers rented from Amazon for torrenting rather than those owned by Facebook. The reply: “Avoiding risk of tracing back” the activity to the company.
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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can you take me higher
chart of Microsoft capital expenditures and finance leases, in billions of dollars. going up and to the right
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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"Written by humans for humans"
Cover of ChatGPT for Seniors, magazine at a newsstand.
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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PSA i have no connection to Novee Cyber Security Ltd
screenshot of Businesswire.com press release, containing date, title, share buttons and bullet points: Jan 14, 2026 8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Novee Emerges From Stealth With $51.5M to Counter AI Cyberattacks With a Proprietary AI Hacker Share Founded by elite offensive security and AI research leaders AI pentesting platform thinks like a real attacker, uncovers novel vulnerabilities, delivers precise, personalized fixes Among fastest funding trajectories in red-hot cybersecurity venture landscape
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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you're either dancing yourself clean at the show or you're afraid to move for fear of becoming a meme www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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"We are ending the war on protein" realfood.gov
screenshot of the new realfood.gov website for the new food pyramid announced on 1/7/26. illustration shows red meat, cheese, milk, oil, avocado, some kind of cooked bird, egg, butter. text says: Protein, Dairy, & Healthy Fats We are ending the war on protein. Every meal must prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein from both animal and plant sources, paired with healthy fats from whole foods such as eggs, seafood, meats, full-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados. Protein target: 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. screenshot of Starbucks homepage in incognito Chrome browser tab. under website banner and a green banner underneath that "it's a great day for coffee" language and contains a "Start an order" button is a section with a header, alongside a green iced drink, that says "Caramel protein is here." Underneath the header is text that says "Power up with the new Caramel Protein Latte and Caramel Protein Matcha. Handcrafted with Protein-boosted Milk for up to 31 grams of protein per grande. Enjoy hot or iced with sugar-free options."
January 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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you never do know how long is "temporary" SEC
screenshot of a page on SEC website. top left shows the seal and the words "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission" in capital letters. under that is a banner that says "This page is temporarily unavailable." Under that is text that says: SEC.gov is undergoing maintenance. During this time, webforms will not be available. Comments regarding Commission and SRO rulemaking should be submitted via email to rule-comments@sec.gov during this time."
January 7, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Intel told reporters last year that it "expects to return to process leadership in 2025" with the launch of 18A. today is the last day of 2025. last week Reuters reported that Nvidia looked at building on top of 18A but passed www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
December 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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still thinking about this www.ft.com/content/cd3c...
screenshot of a paragraph from Financial Times article. it says: In interviews and podcasts, he also pointed to research showing that the average American has fewer than three real friends but wishes they had five times that number. The answer, Zuckerberg posited, was for Meta to offer AI that will be a companion, as well as a secretary, personal shopper or ghostwriter.
December 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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happy 100th birthday Calvin Tomkins www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
screenshot of New Yorker article on desktop. the text says: Old age is no joke, but it can feel like one. You look everywhere for your glasses, until your wife points out that you’re wearing them. I turn a hundred this year. People act as though this is an achievement, and I suppose it is, sort of. Nobody in my family has lived this long, and I’ve been lucky. I’m still in pretty good health, no wasting diseases or Alzheimer’s, and friends and strangers comment on how young I look, which cues me to cite the three ages of man: Youth, Maturity, and You Look Great. On the other hand, I’ve lost so many useful abilities that my wife, Dodie, and I have taken to calling me Feebleman. Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Feebleman! Dodie doesn’t want me to know how old she is, but she’s nearly three decades younger than I am, and I become more dependent on her every day. If I make it to a hundred (my birthday is December 17th), I’ll be what is called a centenarian. More and more people are breaking the two-digit ceiling these days, prompting talk in medical circles about much longer life spans. Getty Images 2013 photo credited to Bryan Bedder. portrait orientation. Calvin Tomkins, left, standing on red carpet in front of a bright orange backdrop. he's a white button-down shirt with a black shirt sticking out by the collar, he's wearing a black suit jacket above the white button-down. restrained loose black pants, shiny black shoes. his left arm is wrapped around the right arm of his wife, Dodie Kazanjian, director of Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. she wears a white dress with blue Rorschach test-like decorations, that flares out and cuts off at the mid-ankle. over the dress she is wearing a tan cardigan that stops at around her elbows. she wears black pumps. she has a pleasant wide smile, large round pearl earrings. he looks confident and stern, no facial hair, white hair combed back and to the side.
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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really liked what Jimbo and Simon had to say about Alison Roman's Vegetarian Tortilla Soup
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Excel -> File -> New

on the bottom right is a new Copilot icon

this is the same place where Clippy used to show up
December 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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still thinking about this www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
screenshot of a paragraph from WSJ article. the highlighted portion says: "he thinks the real battle will be between OpenAI and Apple." the full paragraph: "At a lunch meeting with journalists in New York Monday, Altman said that while industry observers are focused on an OpenAI versus Google rivalry, he thinks the real battle will be between OpenAI and Apple. Devices will be critical to how people use AI over time, he said, and current smartphones are not well suited for the AI companions and use cases. OpenAI’s new hardware arm has been hiring aggressively from Apple recently."
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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developers might be into Claude, but it's not a smash hit with teens www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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who else is going to grunt and sweat onstage like this man
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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did not expect an Oracle booth at Reinvent
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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something new in Salesforce earnings. the company hasn't renamed itself, but it did rename its subscription and support revenue categories
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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honestly every AWS service needs a mascot
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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this website has got a way to go in the US www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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transfer of risk www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM