Apple has launched Apple Watch hypertension notifications in <update with country name>. Seriously the article says "[GEO]" instead of "Brasil".

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate

Today Apple released iOS 26.2.1, 18.7.4, 16.7.13, 15.8.6, 12.5.8 (for some old devices), and iOS/macOS/visionOS/tvOS 26.3 beta 3. It's a total of ONE TERABYTE of .ipsw files. A minute of silence for archivists...

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

My non-technical sister today: "did you already update your iPhone? like the operating system? DON'T DO IT, everything is so laggy now"

They're going to do a World Cup in a country in the middle of a dictatorship that is kidnapping people and sending them to torture prisons... AGAIN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_FI...

Is there any uspol bsky labeler? Preferably run more than one person? (Otherwise they will yet again burn out two weeks in and abandon it)

When I tap a link in another app, iOS Safari opens a new tab either at the beginning or at the end of the tab list. I have yet to find a pattern for what makes it put the tab at the beginning.

siri was just found!!! 😭❤️ after all this time, we'd all given up hope, but she's alive!!

Donate to Internet Archive. Donate to ArchiveTeam. Probably don't bother with Wikipedia, they're swimming in money already.

Follow these instructions to disable Copilot in your GitHub repository: docs.gitlab.com/user/project...

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

having to increasingly aggressively block programmers who vibecode because the escalating smugness of "thank god we don't have to do the thing that we do, any more, and soon it will be dead forever" is such a fucking buzzkill

Months ago it was reported that iOS 27 was internally codenamed Buttercup, and I confirmed it later via a leak. This article says it will be codenamed "Rave". Did Apple say "ok we need an even stronger focus on AI, we're throwing Buttercup away and starting over"?

#Hugops to Apple, I don't think I've ever seen so many red icons at once

I was browsing open PRs for the Bluesky mobile app, and pack it up yall we've solved the problem of AI potentially violating copyright. We will just ask it to not Do That

Huh this game uses .pwr files, wonder if that's documented anywhere. Oh that's "Wharf" patch files made by itchio and it's open source. Neat. Oh this was made by @fasterthanli.me? What is this small world.

Project A interrupted by project B. Two days later, project B completed successfully. Now how do I convince my brain to resume project A?

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

All Cats Are Babies <3

@freya.bsky.social neat!

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

@lookitup.baby a friend just sent this news "25% tariff on imported semiconductors that are not used domestically" and commented "does this achieve, like.... literally anything except making digikey and mouser lose half their european customers?"

that's goddamn right blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

like, i think it’s telling that they have a rule for ‘stop telling people not to use LLMs’ but no rule for ‘stop telling people to use LLMs’ i could understand having both rules, but if your goal is to ‘accommodate different choices’ then surely LLM proselytisation is equally disruptive at work

"LLM shaming" spare me. 🙄 Tech dipshits trying to 'it's actually a form of bigotry to not like LLM slop.'

Just got rickrolled by the restaurant smh

I was about to take a picture of my foster kitty Sullivan’s toe beans when he stretched a biiiig stretchy all the way to his toes.

@lookitup.baby taking the kitty to see the auroras www.instagram.com/hai_tang01/r...

Wait @bsky.app DMs still don't support sending images? lol

the same box does both and he is funding it. i don't find "the spam machine may be destroying the internet and chewing at the edges of what makes life worth living, but it helps me resolve a merge conflict ten seconds faster, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not" especially compelling

Gmail welcoming the Gemini era? That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

"each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best"

The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.

Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Am in that dark bit. Still on year-end/new years holidays. I pop into work twice a week to shake inks and do maintenance cycles on printers so they start up smoothly - takes about an hour each time. Print shop aircon is *FIERCE* think I'll stay here a few hours extra just sitting!

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

@nanoraptor.danamania.com image-edit shitpost idea: Apple AirTags attached to earrings, labeled "EarTags"

@patigallardo.bsky.social youtu.be/OSacz4GHQjs

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

this is how every outlet should refer to X

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education. First time I see this particular confusion happen.

A school teacher sent a strange email to KDE sysadmins asking about login problems when trying to see their "certification" (?!), and it took me some googling to figure out that they were probably looking for the Kentucky Department of Education. First time I see this particular confusion happen.

as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber