Jared Newman

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Tech journo, newsletter publisher, yacht rock appreciator, fast food enthusiast.
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New York Yankees relief pitcher Jake Bird grunts like Wario send toot
Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its website as longtime execs step down

What is going on with the beloved open-source password manager?

Fast Company

Quiet changes at Bitwarden:

- Longtime CEO stepped back in Feb. w/ no announcement by the company.
- New CEO's LinkedIn touts experience in mergers, acquisitions, and working w/ private equity.
- Career page replaces "Inclusion" with "Innovation" and "Transparency" with "Trust" as tentpole company values.
- Plan description page drops the phrase "Always free"
- Premium plan price doubled in Feb, but Bitwarden is only notifying customers 15 days ahead of their next renewal.

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. https://www.fastcompany.com/91539598/internet-archive-at-30-ai-scraping
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 publishers, and rising storage costs that threaten the future of the open web.

Fast Company
Dutifully updating this list that gets longer and sadder by the week - https://www.fastcompany.com/91495430/heres-every-cool-tech-thing-the-ai-ram-crunch-is-ruining
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining

A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.

Fast Company
Making an effort to log some thoughts about the random video games I end up playing, starting with ... 2017's The Surge! https://jarednewman.com/blog/2026/03/28/the-surge-an-old-school-souls-like/
Guess I'm buying some Korean smooth jazz/funk today #bandcampfriday https://neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/super-brass-2
Super Brass 2, by Super Brass

10 track album

Neoncity Records
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: https://www.fastcompany.com/91495430/heres-every-cool-tech-thing-the-ai-ram-crunch-is-ruining
Here's every cool tech thing the AI RAM crunch is ruining

A running list of electronics getting delayed, discontinued, or more expensive.

Fast Company

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@bradlinder/115583295468565142

Having flashbacks to Beeper, where we get a brief glimpse of glorious interoperability and then Apple kills it

IMO it's more of a HROOMMPH than a BRAAAM