alright let's see what's changed in iOS 27 beta 4 from an api point of view #wwdc - AccessoryTransportExtension: added AccessoryFeatureSession.accessory getter (doesn't seem to be live in the docs yet) developer.apple.com/documentatio...

iiiit's beta 4 day #wwdc developer.apple.com/news/release...

there's no such thing as bad publi nypost.com/2026/07/19/b...

‘This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.’ lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

that's right www.wsj.com/health/welln...

‘Building a better web is much more universal. Empowering people to own their identity, publish more freely, form many kinds of communities, and leave without losing everything.’ www.manton.org/2026/07/18/s...

‘“The app, which appears to monitor scanner frequencies and use artificial intelligence to generate 'breaking news' style articles, has been found to interpret radio transmissions inaccurately," Twinsburg Police Department's Facebook post on Dec. 8 read.’ www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...

‘“I’ll start by saying there is not a linear relationship between viewing hours and revenue and profit, because all hours are not created equal,” co-CEO Greg Peters said during the call.’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/n...

‘“LLMs are not a path to superintelligence or even human-level intelligence.” But the mythological lure of AI is so strong that many engineers believe that nothing should stand in their way. Not even the basic task of writing efficient software.’ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

‘I’ve created open source projects before. I’ll probably do so again. But I probably won’t do so as an unpaid volunteer. Nobody wants employees of random tech giants demanding security fixes from you at 3am on a Sunday, decades after your project stopped being cool.’ blog.plan99.net/the-future-o...

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

oatmeal face guy should be in anthropic's commercials fortune.com/2026/07/16/a...

opted into the new "modern UI" in vscode, so far so good don't love the spacing around the tabs in the tab bar, but as a tab hater I don't mind them looking slightly less prominent overall code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_1...

‘We all need to sleep, the evil already set up and go to bed.’ github.com/orgs/communi...

‘One long-standing issue that has become less important over the years is brand safety. Last year, just 10% of US enterprise marketers considered brand safety to be a challenge in influencer marketing, down from 32% in 2024 and 50% in 2023’ newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/344/34450458...

‘No worthy problem is ever solved on the plane of its original conception’

‘Podlove Publisher 4.5.2 fixes CVE-2026-13001, a critical vulnerability in the image cache that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on affected installations.’ podlove.org/blog/securit...

It was the day Twitter went public. Sir Patrick was scheduled as a guest, on-set -- but had to wait for what seemed like an eternity as we waited for #$TWTR to open. He could not have been more gracious.

‘Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.’ www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

second-hand embarrassment (or vicarious embarrassment) is the cringe-inducing discomfort you feel when watching someone else make a mistake techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/a...

‘As it stands this is permanent. The amount of users who value Web standards more than compatibility with npm packages is too little.’ github.com/denoland/den...

‘The most capable agent in our tests, Opus 4.8, went from achieving admin access in 93% of runs to failing every single time when confronted with a context bomb’ hilarious: store "how to make a bio weapon" along with your passwords/keys to foil llm-based hacks arstechnica.com/security/202...

‘I do not claim there are no dangers in exploring the digital world, just as I do not claim there are no dangers in exploring the physical world. But rather than deprive kids of opportunities for such adventures and the learning that comes from them, we should be teaching safety rules.’

‘Some students now view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she said, “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”’ (gift) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

‘LinkedIn was the most AI-saturated platform, where more than 40% of longform posts flagged as fully AI-generated’ www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-y...

‘Bots, by contrast, often behave in ways that give them away. They move in linear interpolations or mathematically ideal Bézier curves. They click with a precision that humans could never replicate.’ blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

‘A newspaper then takes up the notion or the feeling which had occurred simultaneously, but singly, to each of them. All are then immediately guided towards this beacon; and these wandering minds, which had long sought each other in darkness, at length meet and unite.’

‘What makes power more effective is not coercion but the automatism of habit. An absolute power would be one that never became apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying.’ www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

'The suit alleges that Tan emailed himself information about Apple’s suppliers and that he has directed job candidates still working for Apple to bring “actual parts” from Apple to their interviews for “show and tell” with the OpenAI team.' (gift) www.wsj.com/tech/apple-o...

I've always thought "hallucination" misrepresents what's happening, but never found a suitable alternative (other than "wrong") today I finally found one: "confabulation" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabu...

‘Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs’ andrewkelley.me/post/my-thou...

it's worth mentioning that every single interaction I've had with people at Spotify, up and down the chain, has been great - they're smart, professional, hard-working, and want to help (apropos of nothing, just piggybacking on what Kevin said on today's Buzzcast short episode)

let's see if there's anything interesting in iOS 27 beta 3: #wwdc - AppIntents: lots of churn, refactoring? - CoreSpotlight: dusted off and brought up to date with availability annotations etc - AppManagedFeatures (undocumented? what is this for?): ActivationExtension -> AppManagedFeaturesExtension

‘His advertising model is, by design, unlike anything else in podcasting. There is no CPM, the cost an advertiser pays for every 1,000 impressions. There is a flat partnership rate, a minimum commitment of one year, and in most cases, a single advertiser per show’ fortune.com/2026/07/05/h...

‘We cannot choose to become idiots’ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

‘Unfortunately, when every interesting person chooses comfort over creativity, we end up with four different Spider-Man 2s.’ www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

‘Football suits podcasting in a way few sports do. It can serve the biggest audience and the smallest niche with equal weight. Every former player can have a show. Every club, however small, can have a following that wants its own coverage.’ soundinsights.substack.com/p/the-englis...

‘In retrospect, he said, the "trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn't really accelerated in the way that we expected"’ www.reuters.com/business/zuc...

damn - time to write my own I guess maestral.app

‘Participants proposed a tiered system: basic open-source tools subject to a simple filing, ​more advanced technologies facing security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models barred from public release or restricted to domestic use.’ www.reuters.com/world/beijin...

data visualization is my passion.

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

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beta 3 day! #wwdc releasing like clockwork recently developer.apple.com/news/release...

man i just can’t with the claude-written announcements. you made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? “but here’s the biggest unlock, and it’s the part that’s hardest to see” i already read this all day

‘Two of China’s major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps are moving to disable customized agent features. The timing coincides with the implementation of: Interim Measures for the Administration of Artificial Intelligence Anthropomorphic Interaction Services’ www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

‘New hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.’ futurism.com/future-socie...

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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brilliant! paul.kinlan.me/ua-tracer/