A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me thinking about… ...

Ah, don’t you just love the Los Gatos Christmas parade? Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found ...

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The data does not point in a single direction,” they ...

Musey, a Meta Muse personal AI agent, opens its first conversation by explaining what it can do with the user's approval. Correction, September 22, 2026: this piece originally said Meta cannot access ...

5 out of 5 stars – 'The gold standard for pocket eReaders.' A 4.3-inch, 72-gram pocket e-reader that adds a touchscreen and a dual-tone front light to the open-source XTEINK X4. If you’ve been ...

The Panasonic GH5. Still a modern classic. The Panasonic GH5 and its successor the GH5 Mark II remain two of the most capable mirrorless cameras for filmmakers who need serious video specs without a ...

Two of my favorite topics here on Stark Insider are converging, so it was just a matter of time before we explore the combination of espresso and… AI. (because AI is absolutely everywhere these days!) ...

AI entered my studio, and everything changed. Not just how I create, but why. When beauty can be generated without understanding, what becomes of authorship? I looked backward first… following the arc ...

Alamo Drafthouse will rename its historic San Francisco New Mission theater the Christopher Nolan Cinema, honoring the filmmaker ahead of The Odyssey. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will rename its historic ...

RED’s Komodo-X just got a new trick up its sleeve. Thanks to a newly developed Nikon lens mount adapter, RED’s compact yet powerful cinema camera now opens the door to an entirely new class of glass.

The Pebble smartwatch, once a trailblazer in wearable technology, is making a remarkable return. Eric Migicovsky, the original founder, has unveiled two new smartwatches—Core 2 Duo and Core Time ...

I want to tell you about the moment this past week, when I stepped off a plane at SFO and wasn’t sure if Clint was going to be there to pick me up. That sounds like the setup to a bad travel story.