I for one, welcome our nanny state
There is a phrase that's come up more in the tech punditry recently: nanny state. This comes up when discussing any sort of regulation on technology. "Oh, you want social media platforms to be regulated at all? Guess you want to live in a nanny state. Meanwhile I, a big brain boy
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iPhone pre-orders might be tighter than normal this year
Ming-Chi Kuo: A recent media report claims that tight DRAM suppl...
My industry checks suggest that Apple has indeed scaled back its hardware shipment plans this year due to memory shortages.
Ten years ago, if you wanted to buy the new iPhone and get it on release day, you had to have Apple.com
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How cooked is Gemini?
Max Kan: Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking
For all intents and purposes, we believe DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab.
I think this is being a bit overdramatic. It is true that there's been a good amount of executive shakeup and that the company has failed to release any semblance
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+ Galaxy Z Fold8 Impressions
Samsung's new foldable is an early look at what Apple will be announcing next month.
Quick Reviews 3 is out now!
Quick Reviews 3 is out now and is an update about giving the people what they've wanted.
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Chapterize 2.1: iCloud sync, enhance audio, and more
Chapterize 2.1 is out today, and I know 2.0 just came out, but there are a couple things here I really wanted to get out.
iCloud sync
iCloud sync is the headliner, in my opinion, and it's changed how I use my own app. I tend to load episodes into the
Quick Reads 1.0.4 is a beefy iPad update
Quick Reads for iPhone and iPad 1.0.4 is rolling out on the App Store now, and I didn&
Quick Reads has been getting better all summer
I've been shipping a steady stream of updates to Quick Reads over the past couple months, and while
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Native app propaganda is working
No One's Happy: Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict. The third-party software embedded in these apps frequently transmits your location, device identifiers, and behavioral data
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Not all "vibe coding" is created equal
Sean Goedecke: LLMs reward expertise
the idea here — that domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs — is something I’ve also experienced in my own work. If you have a good theory of your codebase, you can push the LLM much harder than if you have no familiarity. Because you have your own sense
I was on Hacker News yesterday and didn't even notice
I don't obsessively check the metrics on this blog, but I do every now and again just to
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Linus Torvalds lays into anti-AI developers
Linus Torvalds (the creator or Linux) was spitting fire in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list just a few weeks ago:
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
And:
There are other questions around
Benchmarking all the Macs I have around for fun
Just for fun, I've use quicksubs' benchmark mode to see how fast the 4 Macs I have
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The best watch band for the Apple Watch Ultra
Josh Ginter: The Titanium Milanese Loop Apple Watch Band Review: The Best Apple Watch Band Ever Made
At $200 USD it's expensive for a band, but it's a buy-once purchase that kills any desire to own another. Best Apple Watch band ever made.
This is my watch band as well,
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The rules change when you become top dog
M.G. Siegler: What if Anthropic is Right?
Certainly part of it is just the shift from underdog to presumed leader in AI. But a lot of it has to do with the way Anthropic carries itself as a company. Whereas the strong stances and rhetoric were once seen as almost endearing, now they'
Dia becomes Arc
On Friday, I had an automatic update install for Dia, and it brought keyboard shortcut and trackpad gestures for switching
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PC gamers just don't want to buy games from Xbox, even to play on their Xbox handhelds
At the end of last year, I bought the ROG Xbox Ally X because I wanted a high-performance portable gaming PC, and that seemed like the best option of the bunch. We also happened to be on the verge of 2026, which looked like it was going to bring increased costs across the board
