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LLMs can be poisoned
From the Anthropic blog: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
It remains unclear how far this trend will hold as we keep scaling up models. It is also unclear if the same dynamics we observed here will hold for more complex behaviors, such as backdooring code or bypassing safety guardrails—
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When your Apple ID gets banned…
Last Friday, Paris Buttfield-Addison posted 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple, which kind of blew up.
A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account,
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Ghostty goes non-profit
Mitchell Hashimoto: Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over private profit. That structure increases trust, encourages adoption, and creates the conditions for Ghostty to grow into a widely used and impactful piece of open-source infrastructure.
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Streaming music is the lie we tell each other
Stephanie Vee: Delete Spotify? Sure, But Don't Just Replace it With Another Subscription
streaming music sucks for almost everyone involved. I believe we only do it because we’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced that renting music indefinitely is cheaper than purchasing it outright – especially since streaming companies grant us the equivalent of
Oops, I made a benchmark
I didn't really set out to do it, but my Quick Subtitles app actually makes for a pretty
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The Information has some information on Apple's 2026 lineup
The Information had a new report out this week that has a bunch of info about some upcoming Apple products. I'm not one to shy away from paying for news, but I still haven't been able to justify $1,000 per year, so thankfully MacRumors summarized the news for me. Here&
Quick Reviews receives an unexpected award
Quick Reviews just won the MacStories Selects Best New App award, and I'm over the moon about it!
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Times New Roman, Calibri, and who accessibility is for (hint: all of us)
In what might be a first for the platform, Jonathan Hoefler posted an insightful thread on Threads about a topic in which he is an expert and didn't make it vapid engagement bait. It's about the Times New Roman vs Calibri debate and how asinine basically all of it is, but
Stealing your AI chats
Idan Dardikman writing on the Koi blog, 8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions, documents how "Urban VPN Proxy" is potentially harvesting your chats with 10 major LLMs. The extension is used across millions of users on Chrome and has 10k reviews on the iOS App
Politics
"Trump derangement syndrome"
The widely adored Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered (seemingly by their son) over the weekend, and this is
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Bye, bye, Face ID
There are some new potential leaks about the upcoming folding iPhone, and this bit stood out to me:
The leaker claims Apple has chosen not to include 3D Face ID hardware or a 3D ultrasonic under-display fingerprint sensor, as both systems would add internal volume and complicate efforts to slim down the device.
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Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years?
I really enjoyed this talk by Scott Jenson, who did UX at Apple and Google, and now works with Mastodon. Here's a few choice quotes I jotted down while watching:
There are already 36 window management systems, we don't need a 37th.
And this about iPadOS 26:
The fact that they
My crazy 2026 prediction (it involves Linux)
I'm not saying 2026 will be "the year of Linux on the desktop," but it will be the year that people like me pull the trigger on a Linux installation on their gaming PC.
I just think there's been a years-long bubbling up of frustration among gamers about
My pet peeve with traditional publishing
Founded in 2011, The Verge is an exceptionally modern publisher in the grand scheme of things, but its writing style is pretty traditional. More specifically, its policy towards putting links in in articles is old school and irks me to no end.
Take this article from today about the release of GPT 5.2:
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Once something becomes easy for anyone to do, it stops being interesting.
More on Spotify metrics
Based on the best data I can find, last year Spotify had 602 million active users as of early 2025, with about 42% of those users being paid subscribers (less than half!). Additionally, 2/3 of the people on premium are on it with some sort of incentive that gets them access for free or
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It's just technology
Richard Stallman in Reasons not to use ChatGPT
I call it a "bullshit generator" because it generates output "with indifference to the truth".
We are three years into the ChatGPT era, and I feel as confident as I have at any point in those last three years that, while Large Language
More on the messy economics of streaming music
Earlier today I wrote about why I think the pay-per-stream metric is a bad singular reference point, and doubly so when it's used as a cudgel in the fanboy wars to show why your brand is better than someone else's brand. Jason Dettbarn, who is closer to the music
