Apple announces M6 & M5 Ultra processors along with new Mac Mini and Mac Studio computers, Walmart finally caves and will support Apple Pay, and France bans unsolicited marketing phone calls. 🔗 Links…
A promotional video for new AirPods appears to have been leaked, BMW shows ads to drivers on its car dashboard screens, and there is a correct orientation when putting down your case-less phone. Mario…
Safari has one major advantage over Chrome, Hugging Face fends off a cyberattack by a rogue language model, and OpenAI will reportedly ship a ChatGPT device replete with speaker, microphone, and…
MacOS upgrade shenanigans continue, SpaceX loses billions in first “earnings” report, LLMs are surprisingly good at financial advice, and Dan describes his new high-fidelity audio system. 🔗 Links…
Apple might be building servers powered by M7 Ultra processors, S&P downgrades Oracle’s debt, and open-weights large language models narrow the gap with frontier models. 🔗 Links Why Oracle’s recent…
Redis is open source again, Synology wants to restrict you to their own branded disks, and someday the “A” in “A.I.” may stand for “advertising”. Redis is open source again Synology drive lock-in…
Open-source projects continue to contend with “AI”-generated issue reports, and opinions abound regarding Apple’s “Liquid Glass” and other user interface design changes. Dr. Demento announces…
Impressions of Apple WWDC 2025 announcements: “Liquid Glass” UI design unified across all 26-series operating systems, Messages & Phone app enhancements, and new Apple Intelligence APIs for app…
Web sites try to thwart “A.I.” bot scrapers, Stack Overflow is almost dead, bot slop may soon plague GitHub, and Apple may need a new CEO in order to change. Neal.fun Internet Artifacts Deep Sea Stack…
Cotypist autocompletion for MacOS is available in beta, Google wrecks search results on purpose, SoundCloud adds “AI” training to TOS, and authors imprison themselves in Substack’s walled garden.…
