We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Cool. Atlanta’s alarm sounds like a red alert. Nobody has moved despite it going off for ten minutes.

It’ll take Meta about 13 hours to make back that revenue in New Mexico. And about 4 and a half minutes to make back the fine in Los Angeles. (Google owes about 19 seconds worth of revenue.) These fines are in no way punitive.

RIP to the car that was never going to come to market anyway. Gonna leave a big Sony-sized hole at CES though. www.engadget.com/transportati...

Project Hail Mary was really well done. It was nice to feel something good for a couple hours. 👎👎

Fun fact: The Amazon Fire Phone lived longer than the Samsung Galaxy Tri-Fold.

They … weren’t already?

Went to bed with the moon shining brightly through my window. Woke up to most of it missing on the drive to the gym. Briefly concerned that the age of Seveneves was upon us.

Thank you, Amazon, for the product safety alert for the grill brus I bought more than a decade ago. … That was a close call.

Oooooo. This might get me to finally kill the legacy blogblogblog cruft that’s still in my feeds. techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/c...

Wait … wut?

Time to pause our YoutubeTV subscription and try to go antenna-only for a while. Just can’t justify $83 a month when we’re only home for maybe 5 hours a day in which we might watch.

The irony of quitting drinking on Groundhog Day is not lost of me. Kinda poetic, actually. Anyway, six years down. One day at a time to go.

The soccer in Shrinking is better than the soccer in Ted Lasso. I will not be taking questions at this time.

The soccer in Shrinking is better than the soccer in Ted Lasso. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Switched to Carrd for ye olde family landing pages. Ghost was awesome — and I still definitely recommend it if you’re gonna #blogblogblog. But it’s way more than I need. Carrd was super easy and you can’t beat $19 a year.

Snow. Again. In Florida.

As I was saying … daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

Why, exactly, is the Verizon bill credit opt-in?

Even Apple’s almost-certainly offshored support chat has just about had it.

Even Apple’s almost-certainly offshored support chat has just about had it.

In: Brand-new 14-inch M4 Pro Out: 2019 16-inch Intel i9 It’s like a whole new world. The good: Smaller bag. Less weight. Things … work. Fast. SD card reader. Unclear: Less RAM. Maybe should have gone 2TB or more.

In: Brand-new 14-inch M4 Pro Out: 2019 16-inch Intel i9 It’s like a whole new world. The good: Smaller bag. Less weight. Things … work. Fast. SD card reader. Unclear: Less RAM. Maybe should have gone 2TB or more.

He walked so hockey players could …

Mood.

In a world full of “content” and AI slop, this is good old-school blogging. And the point is spot-on. blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/30/n...

This is where we peaked.

I have a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro. It's old. Runs old. I had an LLM look at a couple crash reports and make suggetions, and it now has a second lease on life. ... My question is why doesn't an operating system do this itself.

After months of bagging my head on all the things, I just finally realized my Mac keyboard only pastes in plaintext, but right-clicking to paste does rich text. Dunno why. Don’t care. But, damn.

I was wrong — it *is* possible to loathe Joe Buck even more.

This used to be one of my favorite devices at home. … Guess it’s time to finally get rid of it.

Interesting to see this on YouTube TV now and not just YouTube proper. (Not seen is the button trying to get me to unpause.)

Whispers in MacOS … “Go to sleeeeep.”

Whispers in MacOS … “Go to sleeeeep.”

Just had to explain to my 2006-kid college kid who only knows cell phones why wiretapping is called wiretapping. Can’t wait till her Fourth Amendment studies go digital.

This is pretty good for old people, too. (Who, unlike the teens it’s targeted at, might actually read it.)

On this, one of the six days of the year in which I have legit time to veg out and play video games, I very much miss the simplicity of Google Stadia.

Tell me you don't know what "bypass" means without telling me you know what "bypass" means. If you're looking at something that's already been decrypted, then you're not bypassing anything. (And the reblogs are even worse.) www.threatfabric.com/blogs/sturnu...

It just works.

Brilliant take on A House of Dynamite that’s fair to the movie and fair to the subject matter. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...

It’s about damn time. espnpressroom.com/us/press-rel...

More fun with vibe coding. A ridiculously long, multi-file response for what should have been a five-line change in code. It’s hard to believe it’s not doing this in purpose. But on the other hand I could see it trying to be overly helpful. I still have a better context window.

I regret to inform you that multi-billion-dollar AI tools can still be pretty dumb.

Claude still can’t get the current year correct, but at least it sees the humor in it.

This was one of the more honest conversations about thecurrent state of the internet, journalism and “content” that I’ve heard folks say in public. pca.st/episode/cb8c...

This was one of the more honest conversations about thecurrent state of the internet, journalism and “content” that I’ve heard folks say in public. pca.st/episode/cb8c...

Brilliant.

Really kinda interesting to see Apple use the registration mark in its headline for the F1 deal. Damned near unprecedented, if not the first time.

OK, this is pretty cool. And I just uploaded a brand standards PDF to Claude to create a Claude Skill to reference later. Took it a few tries to get the SKILLS.md file right, though. O_o www.anthropic.com/news/skills

That attention to detail just shines though.