NPR and PBS Aren’t Entitled to Your Tax Dollars www.thefp.com/p/npr-and-pb...

A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Love this one from 1981 before IBM's launch. And that box on Dan/Bob ❤️ @harrymccracken.com

Apple’s Dictation System Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’ ​ Summarize ​ The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/t...

DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...

227. CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/227-ces-20...

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A lot of people at the Nvidia CES keynote. Largest public keynote I’ve experienced (2x my recollection of Xbox/NT/tablet at old Aladdin) Blackwell has 4000 TOPS

Apple Explores a Face ID Doorbell and Lock Device in Smart Home Push by @markgurman // Apple entering home security is very exciting (to me). It is an area that requires strong integration across components, not just a doorbell cam. 1/3 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

On the Toll of Being a Disruptor. It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/223-on-the...

Benedict Evans puts together a yearly slide deck looking broadly at the industry while diving in with specific numbers and a lot of charts (90 slides). It is always a gem. via @benedictevans This year is about AI (of course). It is super. ben-evans.com/presentations

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DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly bloomberg.com/news/article... // True insanityt. There's so little distribution advantage to web browsing. If there were then Edge would have succeeded. This is not about consumers or benefits but about penalties and politics.

I'm halfway through Hardcore Software by @stevesi.bsky.social‬. It's a lengthy one, but I'm really enjoying it and would not mind if it was twice as long. #books

Caturday

View out my side window going through a parking lot.

A recent thread on how productivity evolves with GPT, especially given Adobe new this week. Features are additive&make more creators. Domain experts remain&go on to do more advanced work. Ppl up-leveled, not fired. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/ai-chatgpt-and-bing-oh-my-79c47e62c666

206. On Congressional Hearings On Artificial Intelligence (May 2023) https://open.substack.com/pub/hardcoresoftware/p/206-congressional-hearings-on-ai?r=3y2k4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Going to a yoga class with an all Taylor Swift playlist. AMA. 🙏

Bard adding dark mode is one thing. Announcing it as a top line feature is something different entirely.

I just put a new screen protector on my phone with a result of no bubbles and no dust. AMA. Gonna rest now.

A 3d graph of “internet” traffic in the US in sept 1991. Each white line is 100GB or about 20 of todays streaming households represented. There were a total of 500,000 computers on the entire internet. via book “InfoCulture”.

Attack!

Some excerpts from a June 1997 Wired magazine article with punditry/predictions for “saving” Apple that was in dire shape. https://substack.com/profile/6628468-steven-sinofsky/note/c-15623305

New social platform so need to get this out there to set the tone correctly. ST:TOS >> ST:TNG

Cake.

Exciting new…acronym from Jim Cramer.

Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from AI traoning https://vice.com/en/article/pkapb7/a-photographer-tried-to-get-his-photos-removed-from-an-ai-dataset-he-got-an-invoice-instead // I thought for sure this loophole of not saving the photos would be employed to skirt copyrights. Here it is.

The Diplomat on Netflix is so so good!

In all recipes the cook is the invisible ingredient.

Seattle spring.

When an innovation hits the market and/or an scale player enters an known market, there's a predictable pattern. Generally the press focuses on scale and what scale players will do to either dominate with their entry or by using their assets. What happened on August 12 1981? 1/

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Does anyone know the verification procedure for this app? ☑️

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