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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
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
Stealing your AI chats
Idan Dardikman writing on the Koi blog, 8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy"
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"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
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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.
My crazy 2026 prediction (it involves Linux)
I'm not saying 2026 will be "the year of Linux on the desktop," but it will
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
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+ What is easy is boring
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,
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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
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