Facebook’s wants to turn basic link sharing into a paid feature

Meta is experimenting with charging users to share more than a couple of links on Facebook. While still a limited test, the ...
Wall Street Journal

Why AI Workers Won’t Let Bots Do the Most Basic Tasks

I tend to assume people who work in artificial intelligence live like the Jetsons. Even if they don’t have robot maids, surely they automate as many tasks as possible, right? Stella Dong is a ...
TravelPulse

‘Basic’ Business Class Is Coming to US Airlines—What Travelers Should Know

In 2026, business class is going basic. That seems to be the plan for major U.S. carriers like Delta and United Airlines, which both have hinted at forthcoming launches of unbundled business ...
The Conversation

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis

Andrew White does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...
NBC Chicago

$725M Facebook settlement payments have started to go out. When can you expect yours?

Check your email: You may finally be getting a check as part of a $725 million Facebook settlement that dates back to 2023. The settlement, which was reached with Facebook parent company Meta ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
New York Post

Sharon Stone slams ‘Basic Instinct’ reboot: ‘Good f–king luck’

Sharon Stone doesn’t approve of the planned “Basic Instinct” reboot. During a new interview on “Today,” the 67-year-old actress slammed Amazon MGM Studios’ intentions to remake her iconic 1992 erotic ...