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A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that "Xbox is not for sale" despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/ar…

Xbox’s Millennial C.E.O., Asha Sharma, Isn’t Playing Around
“I think the industry will require disruption,” said Asha Sharma, who has overseen layoffs and divested studios since inheriting Microsoft’s flailing video game division.

Launching Saturday, Aug. 1,
which would have been Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's 84th birthday,
"Dead After Death" will delve into the Dead's music and the culture built around it
through mediums such as podcasts, photography and digital articles.
The series will be hosted by NPR journalists Felix Contreras and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento.
The two longtime Deadheads plan to feature interviews with high-profile Deadheads such as Bravo TV hos…

This is a pretty good summary of how I think about static types myself.
"Types allow moving obligations around." is also a great practical distillation.
Reminds me of epiphanies around error handling and transaction management. Asking yourself "whose obligation is it to ensure this set of data is valid" translates to a lot fewer `| None` type hints. And inversely, a lot of `| None` are a strong smell of missing clarity.
From the Parse, Don't Validate…

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Sunday, Aug. 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-aug-2

When I was about 12, I read Mark R. Johnson's paper on roguelike semiotics and dreamed of an alien mirror of reality where randomized entities and actions were represented in completely detached ways.
I don't think I knew WikiData as my initial impulse was playing around with a database of my own creation, which inevitably lost me. The most I remember of that ancient JS iteration was a strangely evocative instance where I was abstractly flitting around some psychedelic-colored…

NASA's Hubble Marks its 200,000th Orbit by Watching Lensed Supernova - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-hubble-marks-its-200000th-orbit-by-watching-lensed-supernova

Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Saturday, Aug. 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-1

Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/appl…

Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

MrBeast, whose YouTube channel recently hit 500M subs, will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year Google deal (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/988355/mrbeast-google-partnership-gemini-fi…

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI
YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year deal with Google.