The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such...
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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.
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2026.43: A New Era
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 19, 2026, including the best iPad but worst phone, SS Sarandos in a storm, and You Can...
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
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Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized...
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Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
Corporate phishing tests are common, but this one was especially cruel.
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Abyssal Lapidary is making the social media rounds and I can confirm cutting gemstones is just as satisfying as it looks
I'm a chump who can't tell my gems from my minerals.
Read moreQuest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records
American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. [...]
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The first broken iPhone Duos are here
The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about the affected units, the...
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Everybody panic: A Valve developer said “HLX” in public
Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Cops Are Violent Because The US Doesn’t Have Enough Cops
One of America’s foremost thinkers hasn’t done enough thinking. Instead, he’s delivered a handful of thoughtful-sounding stuff that simply doesn’t hold up the minute readers start...
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BioWare staff “should be given the first opportunity and the federal support” to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leader
Hope. It's in short supply at the moment. Regardless, I hope that something a Canadian politician's proposed in a post scoring easy likeability points at the...
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