Nabiha Syed

"There’s something weirdly magical about the early internet with its clunky fan sites, pixelated GIFs, and blogs with neon text. And while most of it vanished years ago, the Wayback Machine lets you return and experience it all over again." - Sam Singleton, @pcmag pcworld.com/article/313546…

The most female-led product org in tech right now: Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung Claude Platform Head of Product: Angela Jiang Claude Platform Head of Eng: Katelyn Lesse Research Head of Product: Dianne Penn President: Daniela Amodei (Also, the fastest-growing company in history)

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

The legal community needed an open source openclaw moment. Mikeoss.com is that. But do we deserve it?

Some good news: Since 2024, over 700 independent bookshops have opened. Print book sales have risen in each of the last two years. Denmark and Norway are spending millions to get screens out of schools and bring books back. *This* is what real progress looks like.

🧵 VANISHING CULTURE is out now 📚 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but this book starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vanish… 🛒 Purchase in print: betterworldbooks.com/product/detail… #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive

CFOs realizing that their AI token budget is going to be higher than the salaries of the people they laid off

"When news publishers turn their back on libraries, they hurt themselves in certain ways. They lose evidence, they lose documentation, they lose tools that they use to do their jobs." @decka227 on the big picture of news orgs blocking @internetarchive: marketplace.org/episode/2026/0…

Glad to see that Mytos is putting back cybersecurity in the spotlight. Our main contribution to the topic has been the creation of Safetensors by @narsilou @huggingface in collaboration with @AiEleuther @StabilityAI. It has become the most popular way to share models safely and today @LysandreJik announced at #PyTorchCon that the project is joining the @PyTorch foundation to continue to scale (for example with torch core integration). Let's turn talks about cyber-security into action!

Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community. Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. Join us at the book launch. 📖 📅 Thu, April 23 🕠 5:30 PM: Doors open & entertainment 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-cu… #flash #SFevents #VanishingCulture @InternetArchive #BookTwitter @funcheapsf

Proud to be supporting this conference. Schools are instituting cell phone policies with limited evidence on implementation, impacts and tradeoffs. The variation in design and timing creates a ripe opportunity for us @Arnold_Ventures to fund rigorous research on the topic.

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

Surveillance pricing is a serious threat to the fundamentals of our economy. It erodes consumer price sensitivity, drives inequality, and amplifies the affordability crisis. But real problems demand real solutions. This Maryland bill falls short. @iamwesmoore should veto it. /🧵

I am proud to be one of the 100 journalists who signed the letter defending the @InternetArchive's essential @WayBackMachine. Corporate news outlets now trying to block archival preservation of the news is a betrayal of the ideals of journalism. x.com/i/trending/204…

Notifications for deleted messages shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content” 404media.co/fbi-extracts-s…

The FTC just settled with OkCupid and Match Group for secretly handing nearly 3 million users' dating profile photos and location data to Clarifai, a company that builds facial recognition software(!!!). The penalty? A promise not to do it again.

i made a map to monitor data centers all around the world tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!)

🔥🔥🔥A thousand writers, directors, and actors signed a letter opposing the Paramount-Warner merger. That's a HUGE deal, since there was massive fear in the industry. It was organized by @MarkRuffalo, who is as far as I can tell the Mayor of Hollywood. Ruffalo almost single-handedly turned the town.

Y’ALL. This is not a drill. The Wayback Machine is often the only source of webpages that have been scrubbed from the Internet.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: wired.com/story/the-inte…