Graybeard has a theory that software drives people insane
Graybeard has a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes"…
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LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns ‘not true’
TVs were also said to be recording, scanning local area networks, logging data, and recording audio while in standby.
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Today Cognition is introducing SWE-2, Cognition’s most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…
Don’t let anyone take away your big box of cables
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just Blog!” Blog scrolled across this skeet…
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and…
Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.
iPhone Duo
iPhone Duo. The largest iPhone display ever. In a thin, foldable design. 48MP Dual Fusion camera system. A20 Pro chip. All-day battery life.
AirPods 5
Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design and even better sound quality.
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
No Man’s Sky Cosmos
Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos.…
GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks
A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design…
Shopify acquires Tailwind
Tailwind is joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who…
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
Desertant is building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialised models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
How to build a printer
If you're giving Nishantjosh e-paper, Nishantjosh is going to make an e-printer.
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Meet Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. Learn what it can do across everyday tasks, how it works, and how it helps you get…
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
Google is introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.