Wendell Berry — poet, novelist, essayist, and Kentucky farmer — has died at 92. For six decades he argued for local, rooted, agrarian life against industrial abstraction, and kept farming the same Port Royal hillside the whole time.
Tim Cook is handing the Apple CEO job to hardware chief John Ternus. Reuters sizes up what he inherits: a company far bigger and richer than the one Cook took over, but visibly behind in the AI race it now has to run.
Ben Thompson reads Nvidia's latest blowout as 'remarkable and boring — two sides of the same coin': the numbers are routine now, and everything the company does strategically is about avoiding a world consolidated around a few giant buyers.
Data Colada lays out evidence that a widely cited procrastination study was fabricated — with the statistical anomalies sitting in plain sight in the published tables. Another entry in the slow-motion replication reckoning.