Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s permissions features are out of balance But what Apple’s testing in the latest macOS Sequoia betas is brutal because there’s no end to it. It’s a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel. Yesterday, I was prompted to
Benj Edwards: Major Shifts at OpenAI Spark Skepticism About Impending AGI Timelines The moves have led some to wonder just how close OpenAI is to a long-rumored breakthrough of some kind of reasoning artificial intelligence if high-profile employees are jumping ship (or taking long breaks, in the case of Brockman)
Samantha Cole on the always lovely 404 Media: Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI When asked about legal and ethical aspects of using copyrighted content to train an AI model, Nvidia defended its practice as being “in full compliance with the
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…a Mac user wants to use an iPad but they can’t because of some list of requirements that iPadOS simply doesn’t achieve. They love the iPad hardware and think it’s more than powerful enough, but the software holds
What makes a product last forever? What tech products do you own that you'll never have to replace?
David McCabe writing for the New York Times: Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules The government argued that by paying billions of dollars to be the automatic search engine on consumer devices, Google had denied its competitors the opportunity to build the scale required to compete with
Kev Quirk: Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version of the Air?
This is a simple appreciation post for the AeroPress coffee maker. If I want to make a single cup of coffee and I want it to be as good as possible, I’ll reach for the AeroPress every time. For some people, that’s enough to win the argument already:
I’ve started rewatching The Rings of Power in preparation for the second season, and just 2 episodes in I’m reminded how wonderful it is. I also can’t forget how deranged the discourse over this show was when it came out, Here’s famously level-headed Elon Musk said
Epic Games in a press release today: Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile Stores In exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon. That’
James Mangold, director of films like Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Walk the Line, on the MCU-ification of most of big cinema in an interview with Rolling Stone: It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of IP entertainment because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I
Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways using wired headphones in 2024 “changes everything” like a clickbaity YouTube video, but I will say that the proliferation of USB-C on pretty much every device is slowly returning the
Lucas Shaw for Bloomberg: Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses All told, the cost of[Severance] ballooned to more than $20 million an episode, making it one of the most expensive projects on TV. Severance costing way more per episode than the famously expensive final
This one is members-only largely because I don't want it to get too much reach, but it's a true story of how I did great work as a seasoned pro and some folks assumed I had to have used AI features to shortcut my way to the finish line. I'm happy to say it was all me.
Steve Peoples for the Associated Press: Kamala Harris smashes fundraising record with stunning $81 million haul over 24 hours Kamala Harris is smashing fundraising records as the Democratic Party’s donors — big and small — open their wallets for the vice president in the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden’s