Daring Fireball · John Gruber
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Today in Tabs · Rusty Foster
Over Leveraged
The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.
Interconnected
Headless everything for personal AI
It’s pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans use today. By services I mean things like: getting a new passport; finding and booking a hotel or a flight; managing…
Bernard Leong | AI Strategy & Executive Education · Bernard Leong
When Code Gets Cheap, Judgment Gets Expensive - The Story of Building Arrakis Engine
Building Arrakis Engine in 18 days proved one thing: AI pair programming lowers the cost of implementation while raising the value of judgment. Domain expertise remains irreplaceable.
FOREVER WARS · Spencer Ackerman
So You Lost A War To Iran
And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK
FOREVER WARS · Spencer Ackerman
Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks
Whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the Iran War, now we have to talk about humiliation—and what emerges from it
Justin's Linklog · Links
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD This is actually a really good article about Tesla, "full self-driving" (FSD), supervision, automation, risk and liability: Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an…
Justin's Linklog · Links
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) – Last Week in AWS Blog
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) - Last Week in AWS Blog This from Corey Quinn, on Amazon's recent AI-related production outages, is very good: A healthy engineering culture, when confronted with "your AI tool contributed to a production incident," responds with: "Yeah, that tracks. Here's what…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Donald Knuth on Claude Opus Solving a Computer Science Problem
Justin's Linklog · Links
peon-ping
peon-ping "AI coding agents don't notify you when they finish or need permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow. peon-ping fixes this with voice lines from Warcraft, StarCraft, Portal, Zelda, and more — works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Kiro, and Google…
Justin's Linklog · Links
The Computer Disease
The Computer Disease I love this Feynman quote, regarding what he called "the computer disease": "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
★ Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
Eric Blue's Digital Home · ericblue
Memspan.ai: Portable Memory for LLMs
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last couple of weekends, I ran into a problem that had been quietly bothering me for a while. I’ve used ChatGPT heavily for years. Over time, it accumulated a lot of useful context: how I work, what I’m building, preferences, projects, and long-running threads that make future…
Daring Fireball · Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
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Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want
They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan The post New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want appeared first on Press Watch.
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
DHS’s pack of liars
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says The post DHS’s pack of liars appeared first on Press Watch.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
★ OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities
With the other personalities, you’re choosing between flavors of bullshit. With Efficient, you’re choosing no bullshit.
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · info@lukew.com
Let the AI do the Onboarding
Anyone that's designed software has likely had to address the "empty state" problem. While an application can create useful stuff, getting users over the initial hurdle of creation is hard. With today's technology, however, AI models can cross the creation chasm so people don't have. If you're designing a spreadsheet…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Google Earnings, Meta Earnings, The Cost of Reality Labs
Google's earnings are great, and GCP alone justifies more capex; Meta, meanwhile, is being punished for not having a clear product application for AI.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Apple Is the Exclusive New Broadcast Partner for Formula 1 in the U.S.
SEO Blog by Ahrefs · Glen Allsopp
15 Ahrefs MCP Use Cases for SEOs & Digital Marketers
MCP, which stands for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that companies can use to integrate their external tools and data with compatible AI assistants. Imagine you’ve recently launched a new clothing brand and want to find eCommerce stores…Read more ›
The Technium · Kevin Kelly
Weekly Links, 10/03/2025
AI agents like to post and do better if they blog: We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won’t Stop Posting
PressThink · Jay Rosen
About Jay Rosen’s 1986 PhD dissertation, ‘The Impossible Press’
It should be obvious here that I am trying to extend my life span, even as I know that the odds favor eclipse. The post About Jay Rosen’s 1986 PhD dissertation, ‘The Impossible Press’ appeared first on PressThink.
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Recently, someone was asking my old creative partner, Gordon Smith, how to get a book published. Gordon told them: “You should do what my mate Dave did.” I asked Gordon what he thought I’d done that was so … Continue reading → The post WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Wiley Hodges’s Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
DATA IS NOT DICTATION
In 1917, Britain was being starved to death by German submarines. In February alone they sank 84 merchant ships, then in March they sank 103, in April they sank another 155. The Royal Navy had 3,000 ships of … Continue reading → The post DATA IS NOT DICTATION first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Meta’s Steak Sauce Demo Should Have Been Dumber
John Walker, Kotaku Rather than because of wifi, the reason this happened is because these so-called AIs are just regurgitating information that has been parsed from scanning the internet. It will have been trained on recipes written by professional chefs, home cooks and cookery sites, then combined this information…
pamela fox's blog · Pamela Fox
Filter the tools from MCP servers
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Get your Claude Code muzak here
I suggested last week that Claude Code needs elevator music… Like, in the 3 minutes while you’re waiting for your coding agent to write your code, and meanwhile you’re gazing out the window and contemplating the mysteries of life, or your gas bill, maybe some gentle muzak could pass the time? WELL. Mike Davidson…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Hyper Tension
The iPhone 17 is the 19th generation of iPhone. The Pro Max is the 50th iPhone model and the 2TB version is the 158th variant, not including color variations. The table showing all the previous variants, models and generations is shown below. Config # Model # Generation Year of launch Model Memory (GB) 1 1 […]
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
U.S. Customs Searches of Electronic Devices Rise at Borders
Rajpreet Sahota U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released new data showing a sharp rise in electronic device searches at border crossings. From April to June alone, CBP conducted 14,899 electronic device searches, up more than 21 per cent from the previous quarter (23 per cent over the same period last…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
The Joy of (new) Numbers
In the latest, (Fiscal Q3, Calendar Q2 2025) conference call, Tim Cook made a welcome announcement: “We also recently marked a significant milestone. We shipped the 3 billionth iPhone since its launch in 2007.” This was welcome because the company has not been providing iPhone unit shipment numbers since Q4 2018.…
inessential.com
Tough Season in the Apple Fields
We’re adopting Liquid Glass for NetNewsWire 7, which we’ll release some time after the new versions of macOS and iOS come out. Stuart Breckenridge has been doing great work on getting this done — and he’s written up a couple blog posts (with screenshots!) on his progress. See: Adopting Liquid Glass, Part II…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025)
Today's links Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes: And the grifters who love them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Banana split history; Heinlein plots; Hacking a jeep Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep…
Maggie Appleton
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
⌥ ‘Apple in China’
When I watched Tim Cook, in the White House, carefully assemble a glass-and-gold trophy fit for a king, it felt to me like a natural outcome of the events and actions exhaustively documented by Patrick McGee in “Apple in China”. It was a reflection of the arc of Cook’s career, and of Apple’s turnaround from […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented
On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died. 5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era. Just as it is baffling to consider how much time […]⌥ Permalink
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
goo.gl, Google’s Link Shortener, Will Stop Working Next Month
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Netflix Earnings, Apple and F1
Netflix advertising will change the service; then, F1 might be headed to Apple TV, and it might work.
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
FISH WHERE EVERYONE ISN’T
Yang Jingru was 18 years old and representing China in the Women’s 1500m Speed Skating at the 2024 Olympics in Gangwon in South Korea. The conventional way to race is for the skaters to stay in a bunch … Continue reading → The post FISH WHERE EVERYONE ISN’T first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
What LLMs Know About Their Users
Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here’s a prompt you can use to give you a solid idea of what’s in that summary. I first saw this shared by Wyatt…