EXCLUSIVE 21 MAY · 09:14 EDT
FEATURE / TECH

# The 200-mile commute is officially a software product now.

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## Inside the club where the synthesizers boot Linux.

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SCIENCE / OPEN

## An open-weights climate model just out-predicted the agencies.

By A. Park · 8 MIN
STORYSTREAM

## Live updates — 21 May.

Newsroom feed in chronological order. Every entry stamped, every post a permalink. No infinite scroll cosmetics — this is the git log.

21 MAY
10:42 EDT
AI REPORTING

### OpenLabs releases a 32B model — the weights are CC-BY, the demo is on a Game Boy.

The fine-print buried in the model card hints at training on a 1.4T token mix scraped from public-domain newsprint.

By J. Holloway 3 MIN↗ READ
21 MAY
10:15 EDT FEATURE / POLICY

### Inside the room where the EU wrote its open-weights rule.

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21 MAY
09:48 EDT
HARDWARE

### Framework ships its 16″ refresh — the bezel is still wider than your faith in repair.

Same socketed mainboard, 14% better thermals, a controversial new keyboard tray.

By S. Park 5 MIN↗
21 MAY
09:30 EDT REVIEW

### A nine-out-of-ten week for the cheap thing.

By L. Diaz · 14 MIN ↗
21 MAY
08:55 EDT
CREATORS CULTURE

### The first creator union finally has a contract — and a strike clause.

Eleven creators, two collectives, one platform. The whole document is 18 pages.

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SCIENCE

### The Mars rover sent back a panorama. It looks like a screenshot of 2008 Photoshop.

JPL releases the un-stitched RAW frames. We rebuilt the panorama in Affinity.

By A. Park 4 MIN↗

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## The verdict desk.

Scores out of ten, in serif type because somebody has to do it properly.

PHONE

### Pixel 11 Pro Fold

8.4
/ 10

Hinge finally feels permanent. Camera bar still arrives in the room four steps ahead of you.

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### Framework Laptop 16 — 2026

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Three years in. The bezel is wider than the optimism, and the optimism is still considerable.

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### // Color

Primary Hazards
Jelly Mint#3cffd0
Verge Ultraviolet#5200ff
Console Mint Border#309875
Purple Rule#3d00bf
Surface & Canvas
Canvas Black#131313
Surface Slate#2d2d2d
Image Frame#313131
Hazard White#ffffff
Absolute Black#000000
Text & Interactive
Secondary Text#949494
Muted Text#e9e9e9
Dim Gray#8c8c8c
Deep Link Blue#3860be
Focus Cyan#1eaedb
Story-Tile Accent Palette
Tile Yellow#ffe34d
Tile Pink#ff7eb6
Tile Orange#ff7a3a
Tile Blue#4d8aff
Tile Purple#b95eff

### // Typography — display, sans, mono, serif

Role | Family | Size | Weight | Line ht. | Tracking | Preview
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Hero Wordmark | Manuka / Archivo Black | 107px | 900 | 0.80–0.95 | 1.07px | The Verge
Secondary Display | Manuka / Archivo Black | 90px | 900 | 0.80–0.95 | — | Read louder
Tertiary Display | Manuka / Archivo Black | 60px | 900 | 0.80–0.95 | — | Hazard tape
Large Headline | PolySans / Space Grotesk | 34px | 700 | 1.00 | — | Live updates
Heading Wide | PolySans / Space Grotesk | 32px | 400 | 1.10 | 0.32px | Inside the room
Heading Medium | PolySans / Space Grotesk | 24px | 700 | 1.00 | — | Story tile
Thin Capitalized Eyebrow | PolySans / Space Grotesk | 19px | 300 | 1.20 | 1.9px | A fashion whisper
Body | PolySans / Space Grotesk | 16px | 500 | 1.60 | — | Long-form reading body.
Mono Button Label | PolySans Mono / Space Mono | 12px | 600 | 2.00 | 1.5px | SUBSCRIBE
Mono Timestamp | PolySans Mono / Space Mono | 11px | 500 | 1.20 | 1.1px | 21 MAY · 09:14
Serif Body | FK Roman / Newsreader | 16px | 400 | 1.30 | -0.16px | A print-voice pull.

### // Radius — eight discrete steps

2px INPUTS
TYPEWRITER TAGS
3px INLINE IMAGES
4px NESTED IMAGES
SMALL BUTTONS
20px PILL CARDS
COLOR BLOCKS
24px FEATURE TILES
PRIMARY PILL
30px LARGE PROMOS
40px OUTLINED CTAS
50%AVATARS
ICON BUTTONS

### // Components — pills, blocks, timeline

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Secondary — Dark slate pill | #2d2d2d | none | 24px | Sign in
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StoryStream tile | #131313 | 1px #ffffff | 20px | Timeline entry
Color-block tile | #3cffd0 | none | 24px | Featured story
Active nav (mint underline) | transparent | 0px -1px 0 inset #3cffd0 | — | Tech

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