Stop asking AI for life advice Recent studies confirm that you're better off finding a human therapist.

LLMs are really not great at life advice

www.popsci.com/health/asking-...

sadly it is not

Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 700% Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.

There's a real "right before the collapse of the empire" feeling in the air right now. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbi...

A speech-to-text app that spends a lot of money on advertising claims that, using it, you can "write 4x faster" than using a keyboard. Is that…true? I feel like I type faster than I can think, let alone talk. Are there people out there whose ideas flow faster than their fingers?

Chills watching this. A better world is possible. Good things can and do happen. Keep believing. Keep doing the work. www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsint...

we're all spending too much of our time babysitting our technology justinpot.com/our-devices-are...

In the short term, being confidently wrong about something feels just as good as actually being correct. 

justinpot.com/pips-and-the-ar...

(that was a political post)

Taco tuesday

This App Makes Even the Sketchiest PDF or Word Doc Safe to Open When somebody sends you a document as an attachment, don't just open it. Use the free tool Dangerzone to scrub it clean of any malevolent code. Here's how it works.

Thanks to @jhpot.bsky.social for featuring our app Dangerzone in @wired.com.

This free app makes even the sketchiest PDF or Word Doc safe to open.

3 myths about keeping ants out of your house Don't bother with cinnamon.

Myths about keeping ants out of your house: www.popsci.com/environment/ho...

Things like this are sincerely useful, but they also use a staggering amount of computing power. I ran out of free cloud credits, then couldn't get it working with Ollama (it's possible it was working but is just slow).

There are so many bugs and rough edges, but when it works well it's impressive. I had it look through a folder of old/rejected pitches and asked it to surface any that could be relevant for pitching now, and actually found a few things and added them to my pitch list.

Do any of you use OpenClaw? Do you find it actually useful? I'm really curious about how people are using these tools. I've been messing around a little bit it's a fascinating mess.

This App Makes Even the Sketchiest PDF or Word Doc Safe to Open When somebody sends you a document as an attachment, don't just open it. Use the free tool Dangerzone to scrub it clean of any malevolent code. Here's how it works.

Need to open a document you think might have malware? Here's a good tool for the job: www.wired.com/story/dangerzon...

Aeronaut Is an Actual Mac App for Bluesky If you miss social media on your desktop—à la Tweetbot, TweetDeck, or the official Twitter app—then check out this macOS client for Bluesky.

If you miss Twitter's ancient Mac app as much as I do, here's a beautiful application for Bluesky: www.wired.com/story/aeronaut-...

If I ran CBS the only celebrity on this season of Survivor would be Alex Horne, who would run every immunity challenge instead of Probst.

What's a piece of software that makes your life better, every day?

Anyone else feel like they've been trying to re-find themselves lately? What's helped you?

Force Your MacBook to Only Charge up to 80 Percent (and Why You Should) Laptop batteries lag in performance as they age. But you can slow down their deterioration by tweaking your Mac’s charging settings.

Science suggests only fully completely charing your laptop when necessary—here's how you can do that with a Mac. www.wired.com/story/only-char...

I'm going to keep writing articles about the open web, just not for Lifehacker anymore. Working in media in the current age is all about improvising and I intend to keep doing that.

Yeah, they're not accepting pitches from me anymore.

‘Current’ Fixes My Biggest Issues With RSS Readers This macOS and iOS RSS reader is built to make keeping up less stressful.

I tried out a unique take on the RSS reader in this, my last Lifehacker article: lifehacker.com/tech/current-f...

4 surprising scientific benefits of music From reducing dementia to speeding up recovery after surgery, music is more powerful than you knew.

Music is surprisingly power. www.popsci.com/health/scienti...

A big part of what I do for a living is finding cool indie/open source apps and profile them. I'm noticing it's harder to find actually good stuff lately, and am wondering if it's because of the sheer volume of vibe coded crap.

Is Apple releasing a $600 laptop a recession indicator?

someone did burn it down iirc

When I was the managing editor of MakeUseOf in like 2013 I remember the editor's dream was to have more of the content on the site be submitted by readers. He wanted the comments section to replace the articles over time. This never happened, but I think it points to the mindset.

Force Your MacBook to Only Charge up to 80 Percent (and Why You Should) Laptop batteries lag in performance as they age. But you can slow down their deterioration by tweaking your Mac’s charging settings.

Force your Macbook to only charge up to 80 percent: www.wired.com/story/only-char...

there was no danger of me having one anyway