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Jared Newman

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Tech journo, newsletter publisher, yacht rock appreciator, fast food enthusiast. jarednewman.com/newsletters jarednewman.com/blog jarednewman.com

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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 03/08/2026
An underappreciated trend is how AI is making it harder for humans to browse the open web. Latest example: Amazon is throttling the number of product reviews some customers can read, because it's mistaking them for scraper bots: www.fastcompany.com/91581391/ama...
fastcompany.com
Amazon limits access to customer reviews for some users because it thinks they're AI
Affected users must file an appeal via email and wait several days for a response.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 12/06/2026
Celebrating a milestone this week.
Cord Cutter Weekly turns 10!

On June 10, 2016, I sent out the first issue of this newsletter to a small number of friends and family members.

Cord cutting has changed a lot since then, but I’m still finding new ways to help folks save money on TV, and I’m grateful that you’re still following along with me.

Thanks for reading, for sharing this newsletter with others, for sending thoughtful questions, and for supporting me with metaphorical coffees or Advisorator memberships. These newsletters are still my favorite thing to work on every week, and I’m looking forward to at least another decade of writing them.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 15/05/2026
Quiet changes at Bitwarden: - Longtime CEO stepped back in Feb. w/o announcement - New CEO's LinkedIn touts experience in mergers, acquisitions, and working w/ private equity. - Career page replaces "Inclusion" with "Innovation," "Transparency" with "Trust" as tentpole values. (1/2)
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 14/05/2026
The Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for referencing old web pages, listening to live concerts, playing old DOS games, and discovering all kinds of forgotten media. It's hummed along for three decades, but now AI is threatening its mission. www.fastcompany.com/91539598/int...
fastcompany.com
The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web's memory bank withstand the AI era?
Three decades after Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive to preserve humanity’s digital record, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine is confronting AI scraping fears, antagonistic publisher...
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 12/05/2026
@glennf.com Gave Mister Plimsoll a shout-out for my 10K newsletter readers. Neat app! advisorator.com/members/2026...
"Try these apps

Mac storage alerts: Mister Plimsoll is a cool app from fellow tech journalist Glenn Fleishman for monitoring Mac disk space. You can click the menu bar icon to quickly check on all your storage drives, and you can set up alerts (via iMessage, email, or notification) for when free space falls below a certain threshold. It's completely free with no ads or invasive data collection. I wish a Windows equivalent existed, but so far I've found nothing."
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 24/04/2026
Dutifully updating this list that gets longer and sadder by the week - www.fastcompany.com/91495430/her...
fastcompany.com
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining
A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 29/03/2026
Making an effort to log some thoughts about the random video games I end up playing, starting with ... 2017's The Surge! jarednewman.com/blog/2026/03...
Not that it’s any comfort to The Surge‘s characters. Through found audio notes, environmental cues, and the occasional direct encounter, the game has a haunting way of weaving various personal plotlines into the story. Seeing them through to their tragic ends is one of the The Surge‘s high marks.

As a tech journalist I naturally gravitated toward the story of Hackett, whose subtle stutters and stammers in the game’s later videocasts hint at a growing discomfort with playing the company shill. We eventually learn that he was once an award-winning journalist, who switched over to corporate PR to better provide for his family. This tends to work out handsomely for the PR people I know in real life; not so much for Hackett.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 06/03/2026
Guess I'm buying some Korean smooth jazz/funk today #bandcampfriday neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/super-...
neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com
Super Brass 2, by Super Brass
10 track album
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 20/02/2026
hey, this sucks www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...
reddit.com
From the baseball community on Reddit: Baltimore Orioles with AI Art On their Broadcast for the first game of Spring Training
Explore this post and more from the baseball community
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 20/02/2026
I was having trouble keeping track of everything that's been delayed, discontinued, or made more expensive because AI data centers are hogging all the RAM. So I made a running list: www.fastcompany.com/91495430/her...
fastcompany.com
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining
A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 29/01/2026
Love to have AI mark my newsletter sign in page as malicious
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Chris Davies @cdavies.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When you're next furious that MN kids are going hungry, well, there's a fund for that; & when you're livid that brave observers may struggle with rent, there's one for that; & when you're heartbroken about pets being left behind when their owners are kidnapped, well, there's a fund for that, too.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 14/01/2026
Not even a pity mention that maybe Verizon dislikes missing out on international roaming fees when customers buy cheap eSIMs for travel
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 08/01/2026
Once again this was a great time
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 07/01/2026
CES
Two humanoid robots, sprawled face down on the floor. I think they might be dead.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 18/11/2025
TIL there is a term (and corresponding Wikipedia page) for the low brass sound, popularized by Inception, to produce a dramatic effect in movie trailers - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM
en.wikipedia.org
BRAAAM - Wikipedia
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 14/11/2025
Meant to share this earlier! Our smart fridges, Echo devices, and car dashboards are just glorified advertising surfaces now. www.fastcompany.com/91432377/sam...
fastcompany.com
Tech giants promised ‘ambient computing.’ We got digital billboards instead
The screens we’ve installed everywhere have started to turn against us.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 11/11/2025
I don't know about you, but I get all my TV reviews from THE VARGE
Toshiba M550 TV Review from a site called VARGE, URL is pcvarge.com, with a logo that looks very much like The Verge but in red.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 30/10/2025
Who had "Evernote buys AOL" on their bingo cards? www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/y...
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Bending Spoons scoops up AOL in $2.8B debt-fueled deal
: Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
"So I told my wife I'm in Skate or Die, and I ask her why she's smiling. She knows I cant skate!"
Rodney Dangerfield on stage
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VGMuseum (ReyVGM) @vgmuseum.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Electronic Arts totally stole Ariel and Rodney Dangerfield's likeness for their Skate or Die/Ski or Die series, didn't they?
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 23/10/2025
Translation: Someone's got to pay for all this AI stuff www.techmeme.com/251023/p21#a...
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Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 13/10/2025
I feel you should all know about this blog that has spent the last decade attempting to document every type of sandwich in existence - www.sandwichtribunal.com
sandwichtribunal.com
Sandwich Tribunal
A sort of sandwich death panel
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 26/08/2025
I just swiped up on my paper notebook because I was running out of room to write on the page, how's your day going?
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 30/07/2025
Certainly I've left money on the table by not hosting my newsletters on Substack. On the upside, I don't have to worry that my readers might inadvertently get a swastika in their push notifications www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a...
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 24/06/2025
Big day for my little newsletter operation. (Read the note at the top.) advisorator.com/members/2025/06/24/…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 19/06/2025
Little scoop: Max quietly updated its support pages in Feb to note that it's showing 50% more ads on its ad-supported plan. It's also showing ads in the middle of HBO shows despite initially promising not to. www.pcworld.com/article/2820...
pcworld.com
It’s not just Prime Video: Max shows 50% more ads now
Max's support pages acknowledge that it's showing 6 minutes of ads per show, up from 4 minutes last year. Ads now run in the middle of HBO programming.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 18/06/2025
Here’s my second piece for Wirecutter, reviewing a whole mess of USB-C hubs. Fun topic and I learned a bunch doing it! www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 23/03/2025
The decline of popular music in one chart (via the always-great Can’t Get Much Higher newsletter – www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/why-did… )
A chart titled "Let's talk about sax" showing the % of Billboard Hot 100 number one hits with a saxophone. It drops off suddenly in the 90s.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 18/03/2025
This is huge!
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 14/03/2025
RAB Thoughts: jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/14/rab…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 13/03/2025
“This Is Not The Song I Wrote” is really clever musically: jarednewman.com/blog/2025/03/13/thi…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 11/03/2025
New Advisorator: What to do when uBlock Origin stops working.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 07/03/2025
Bandcamp Friday. Clarity of Cal. You know what to do.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 28/02/2025
Another action-packed Cord Cutter Weekly: - The sports streamers have realized they're charging too much - DirecTV's cheaper pay TV packages - Broadcaster pushing to kill ATSC 1.0 - Some good deals on Apple TV boxes Read it here!
cordcutterweekly.com
Sport streaming's too expensive, DirecTV's skinny bundles
It’s taken a couple years, but regional sports networks are starting to realize they charge too much to stream local games.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 25/02/2025
Here's how to actually use that Kindle Bulk Downloader that everyone keeps mentioning, even if you've never seen a terminal before - advisorator.com/members/how-...
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How to download all your Amazon Kindle e-books in bulk
Jared Newman   |   February 23, 2025 On February 26, Amazon will disable the option to download Kindle e-book files from its website to your computer. This won't affect your ability to read e-bo...
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Pranay Parab @pranayparab.com · 22/02/2025
I like to set aside some time for cleanups over the weekend and this time, I've used @advisorator.com's excellent advice to disable those awful "Sign In With Google" pop-ups advisorator.com/members/2025...
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Stop the "Sign in with Google" pop-ups
Banishing one of the internet's most persistent low-grade annoyances.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 21/02/2025
Why is the internet so dull now?: jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/21/why…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 20/02/2025
“They don’t respect you.”: jarednewman.com/blog/2025/02/20/the…
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 18/02/2025
Are you so annoyed by those "Sign in with Google" pop-ups in Safari that you'd set up a custom style sheet or ad filtering rule to get rid of them? Have I got the article for you!
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Stop the "Sign in with Google" pop-ups
Banishing one of the internet's most persistent low-grade annoyances.
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Chance Miller @chancemiller.me · 14/02/2025
God forbid Netflix does something user-friendly for once.
9to5mac.com
Netflix confirms it didn't mean to support that Apple TV feature everyone has wanted for years - 9to5Mac
Netflix has taken a break from raising prices to confirm that it didn’t mean to support that Apple TV feature...
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 13/02/2025
It has come to my attention that there is a Windows 95 watchface for Pebble.
A Pebble Time Steel smartwatch with a Windows 95 watchface, including a start button over a teal background with a "Date/Time" window in the foreground.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 13/02/2025
Do yourself a favor and get yourself some Black Blood of the Earth: www.funraniumlabs.com/the-black-blo…
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I wrote about Avowed, and the limits of big fantasy games www.vulture.com/article/avow...
vulture.com
Can Anyone Build a Better Skyrim?
New video game Avowed invites the comparison, but it’s — almost — more interesting than that.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 12/02/2025
Every menu item is a bland reconstruction of popular dishes and you're only allowed two bites before they take it away from you. Upcharge for shared plates.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 11/02/2025
You'd think Apple would have the most complete information about AppleCare+ coverage options, but no. (From this week's newsletter buff.ly/40SSDPs )
Sadly, Apple itself is no longer a reliable source for AppleCare+ information. Its AppleCare product page doesn’t mention two-year plans and doesn’t show the price of basic plans without theft and loss coverage. The online AppleCare+ portal, meanwhile, doesn’t list annual pricing, and Apple’s online store only sells Theft and Loss plans. All this has the effect of keeping customers in the dark and getting them to pay more than intended.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 10/02/2025
- John has pretty good taste - His points are sound - Pretty much everyone disagrees with him
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 09/02/2025
Here we go again.
It's a whole packer brisket rubbed with salt and pepper.
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Jared Newman @advisorator.com · 07/02/2025
“Search in Bing for ‘how to uninstall Microsoft Edge,’ and you’ll find a Microsoft support page for how to uninstall Edge. It doesn’t tell you how to uninstall Edge.” (by Michael Crider) – www.pcworld.com/article/2602335/mic…
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