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The surprising challenge to run the best web apps locally
Tim Bradshaw for the Financial Times: Apple Wants AI to Run Directly on Its Hardware Instead of in the Cloud
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Pedestrian deaths have been rising for a decade. Mostly in America, and mostly at night. Why?
Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz for the New York Times: Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
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The Beeper Mini saga
Beeper: Beeper Mini Is Back
In the first 48 hours, it was downloaded by more than 100,000 people. The
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A great year for games, a great year for players, and a tough year for the people making those games
Ash Parrish writing for The Verge: Geoff Keighley failed to recognize a terrible year for game developers - The Verge
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LLMs can be quick to discriminate, and that says more about us than we’d like to think
Devon Coldeway writing for TechCrunch: Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely
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The harmful mythology of “we didn’t use CG”
Todd Vaziri: FXRant: The Most Egregious Example of "We Didn't Use CGI" Mythology (So Far)
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Big month for plagiarism
Case Marshall writing for Polygon: Hbomberguy’s 4-hour YouTube plagiarism video set social media abuzz
Brewis systematically goes through Somerton’
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Google releases Gemini Nano, which runs locally on Pixel 8 (just like Apple should next year)
Casey Newton reporting on Google’s update to their AI backend, Gemini
In accordance with Google’s preference for chaotic
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Disney belittled Pixar’s brand
Charles Pulliam-Moore for The Verge: Pixar’s Turning Red, Soul, and Luca are getting theatrical releases
Today, Disney and Pixar
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You have every right to block whoever you want (and a quick story!)
Joan Westenberg: The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it
It's your right to choose
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Casey Newton’s internet problems vs. platform problems
Casey Newton: How Facebook helps predators find each other
This year Stanford found equally disturbing CSAM issues at networks including
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A blog without a website
theunderground.blog is a blog that only exists in RSS form. There is a home page, but that’s it.
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How Be My Eyes is working with OpenAI to make a more accessible future
Steven Aquino writing for Forbes: Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley Talks OpenAI Boardroom Saga, ‘Life-Changing’ Tech, More
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Batman: Arkham Knight is another terrible port on Switch
Richard Leadbetter writing for Eurogamer: Arkham Knight on Switch is disastrously poor
Lighting is savagely downgraded, texture quality is a
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Decentralization is the cherry on top
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on his new podcast, Dot Social:
Decentralization isn't a feature in and of itself.
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Does Birchtree have the rizz?
Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times: Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year Is … ‘Rizz’
“Rizz” — Gen Z (or
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Greenlight everything
Tim Wu for the New York Times : Mergers Like JetBlue’s Proposed Acquisition of Spirit Usually Turn Out to Be
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Puzzmo, my favorite new website of 2023, has already been acquired
Andrew Webster for The Verge: Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up
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