For the first time since February 2023, Apple has released a firmware update for the MagSafe 3 charging cable for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Specifically, Apple last week released firmware versi...

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More than a dozen news organizations opened public repositories on GitHub during the past fortnight. Highlights below. Highlights Three newsrooms, Lighthouse Reports, Wired, and The Independent, pu…

This weekend I dug into my database of open-source GitHub repositories to see how frequently newsrooms are leaving behind signals that they’re coding with an AI agent (a.k.a. “vibe coding”). Here&#…

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I’ve been traveling a bunch and skipped a regularly scheduled post, so this is a three-week roundup. In that time, 23 news organizations created or opened public repositories on GitHub. Note: I’m b…

In the past two weeks, 16 news organizations created or opened 19 public repositories on GitHub. Highlights ProPublica released a Creative Commons licensed dataset of 4,700+ federal court cases fro…

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