Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets published Thomas Pynchon was known to avoid the press and refuse interviews.

Last weekend, I saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Great movie. It has gods, monsters, storms at sea, an impossible journey, and a runtime that, to be honest, had us praying for landfall. A few days ...

On the occasion of the Semiquincentennial (250 Years) of the United States of America, Write Out Loud will join the celebration, bringing three programs to the San Diego region that highlight the ...

Chainguard is racing to fix trust in AI-built software - here's how ...

A drastic weather pattern change is about to induce an acute case of weather whiplash for most of the country. During the next few days, a record-setting Western heat wave will settle in while ...

Working in the command line offers many benefits, but the main one is the ability to automate tasks with scripts, thereby streamlining workflows. This tutorial explores how to apply simple scripts in ...

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the ...

“Bonus programs delivering needed local housing,” the Dec. 28 commentary by Colin Parent, presents bonus density programs as a success story but ignores the most critical issue in San Diego’s housing ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...