Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

ON BOOKS | OPINION: 30 years later, David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ still shapes how we think about entertainment and attention

Thirty years after publication, "Infinite Jest" has settled into the background noise of American culture, faint but unmistakable. You notice it whenever the conversation turns to addiction, ...
Washington Examiner

Thirty years of anti-intellectual pretexts for hating Infinite Jest

Maybe it is heartening that people care about this so much, even if all they do with their care is write fundamentally anti-intellectual essays and form cliquey, in-the-know shibboleths about which ...
Bleeping Computer

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...
TechCrunch

Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, is challenging the app store status quo

For years now, when we think of mobile gaming, we think of app stores. Developers invest countless hours, months, or even years creating games just to surrender a significant portion — up to 30% — of ...
Business Wire

Jest Launches the World's First Marketplace for Messaging Games With $7M Seed Round and Developer Fund

Jest emerges from stealth with the first-ever marketplace for messaging games Enabled by the adoption of RCS, Jest’s new distribution platform is positioned to give rise to the next generation of ...
IEEE

Spoken in jest, detected in earnest: A systematic review of sarcasm recognition - multimodal fusion, challenges, and future prospects

Abstract: Sarcasm, a common feature of human communication, poses challenges in interpersonal interactions and human-machine interactions. Linguistic research has highlighted the importance of ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

Credit: VentureBeat made with GPT-Image-1.5 on fal.ai Until recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could ...
Orange County Register

‘Infinite Jest’ at 30: Why its editor says it’s ‘more valuable than ever’

This essay and interview appear in this week’s The Book Pages newsletter. For more information and book coverage, sign up for the free newsletter. Years ago, I taught English as a Second Language at a ...
TechCrunch

Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users

Spotify is changing how its APIs work in Developer Mode, its layer that lets developers test their third-party applications using the audio platform’s APIs. The changes include a mandatory premium ...
KUOW

30 years later, is "Infinite Jest" the best or the worst?

We made our hosts read (some of) Infinite Jest, the thousand-page novel by David Foster Wallace that turns 30 this month, to answer the question once and for all: Do we have to read this book? The ...
AOL

Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’

It’s remarkable that a book this long and experimental still merits discussions outside of niche literary circles; as literary phenomena go, ‘Infinite Jest’ is a complete aberration The thing is – ...