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Gemini is catching ChatGPT
Lauren Forristal: Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
In comparison, Meta AI has reported nearly 500
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OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done
Richard Lawler & Hayden Field: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads
OpenAI says its ad test will only appear for logged-in users on free or ChatGPT Go accounts, while maintaining that “Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what’s most helpful to
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Micro app 9: Railway Monitor
This micro app is a really simple one. Basically, I am working on my next app, which will be a
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Xcode gets agentic coding
Apple released Xcode version 26.3 in beta today, and it introduces a new agentic coding feature. This is different from the coding assistant they've had since last fall, and my first impressions are that it is more capable. This is good, because what Xcode had before was far, far, far behind what
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+ Apple's financial success masks a potential generational folly
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The massive success of the Nintendo Switch
Ollie Reynolds: It's Official, The Switch Is Nintendo's Best-Selling Console Of All Time
So what are the specific figures? Well, the Switch has now sold a total of 155.37 million units, while the DS was previously sat atop the throne at 154.02 million. The Switch 2, meanwhile, has
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+ This one isn't a micro app…
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Micro app 8: Capacities to Obsidian sorter
This will be a short one because this app exposed an issue for me more than solved a problem long-
Yearly Run Goals
I am once again happy to announce a new app is available. Yearly Run Goals is available now on the
Quick Notes 2.0 is out now
Quick Notes has a major update out now that has my favorite new feature in the app, a whole new
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UbiSoft is serious that this game is totally coming out
Zack Zwiezen: Beyond Good & Evil 2 'Remains A Priority For Us,' Ubisoft Says
Ubisoft has confirmed with Kotaku that it is still working on the long-in-development sci-fi sequel Beyond Good & Evil 2. This follows previous reporting that the game survived Wednesday’s massive restructuring, which saw seven games
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+ Don’t call me a vibe coder
I think I'm an early adopting into the future of mainstream development.
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Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume)
McKinley Franklin: White House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)
Guests include director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Linsa Su; Mike Tyson; socialite and Fiat
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The White House is creating their own reality
Violet Jira writing for NOTUS: White House Admits to Sharing a Fake Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest
The White House communications team posted a digitally altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was weeping during her arrest by federal agents. The
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Micro app 7: Quick Tier List
I'm excited to share another micro app with you today, and this time, I'm making it
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Micro app 6: SRT Tester
This is probably the quickest I've gone from zero to functioning app in this series so far. Last
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What's making us stupid now?
Nicholas Carr writing for The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
The
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Thing that everyone with a functioning brain said about tariffs is indeed happening
Tom Fairless writing for The Wall Street Journal: Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their
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