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The Talk Show: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/06/26/ep-403

Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.

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Wavelength Is Shutting Down at the End of July

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Wavelength: We’re sad to announce that we’re shutting down Wavelength. We’re so grateful to our users and community — you’ve been amazing. On July 31st we’ll turn off our servers, which means that you’ll no longer be able to sign in, create a group, or send messages. Yo...

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• Hrishikesh Hirway

Vagabon - Water Me Down

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Last year, Vagabon released her third album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, which I’ve been listening to a lot. So I wanted to revisit an episode that I recorded with her back in 2020, about her breakout song "Water Me Down." The episode also features the voice of Eric Littmann, wh...

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Microsoft Edge Has an ‘Enhanced Security’ Mode That Disables the JIT

bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-edge-just-got-a-super-duper-secure-mode-upgrade/

Sergiu Gatlan, writing for Bleeping Computer in 2021 (thanks to Kevin van Haaren): Microsoft has announced that the Edge Vulnerability Research team is experimenting with a new feature dubbed “Super Duper Secure Mode” and designed to bring security improvements without s...

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Reuters: Amazon Is Considering $5 Monthly Charge for Improved Alexa

reuters.com/technology/amazon-mulls-5-10-monthly-price-tag-unprofitable-alexa-service-ai-revamp-2024-06-21/

Greg Bensinger, reporting for Reuters: Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, accordi...

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Gurman Just Pantsed the WSJ on Their Report About Apple and Meta Working on an AI Deal

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/apple-spurned-idea-of-iphone-ai-partnership-with-meta-months-ago

Salvador Rodriguez, Aaron Tilley, Miles Kruppa, reporting for The Wall Street Journal Sunday morning (News+): In its hustle to catch up on AI, Apple has been talking with a longtime rival: Meta. Facebook’s parent has held discussions with Apple about integrating Meta Pla...

The Rewatchables

‘The Bad News Bears’ (1976) Wth Bill Simmons and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em right up your ass after they rewatch the 1976 classic ‘The Bad News Bears,’ starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

Last week I mentioned Apple’s prohibition on JITs — just-in-time compilers — in the context of their rejection of UTM SE, an open source PC emulator. Apple’s prohibition on JITs, on security grounds, is a side issue regarding UTM SE, because UTM SE is the version of UTM that...

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★ WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence

An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud — Steve Jobs invited Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to Cupertino to pitch them on selling the company to Apple. Dropbox, Jobs told them, was “...

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🎬 Split

Movie poster for “Split”.

I liked Anya Taylor-Joy's performance. And James McAvoy is good, too. But the movie as a whole did not grip me. I just didn't find it suspenseful. The main character is not menacing enough. And there's way too much going on, and as a result the plot suffers. A bit of an eye-roller.

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★ Training Large Language Models on the Public Web

Yesterday, quoting Anthropic’s announcement of their impressive new model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I wrote: Also, from the bottom of the post, this interesting nugget: One of the core constitutional principles that guides our AI model development is privacy. We do not tra...

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Birdie in the Cage

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People have been doing the square dance since before the Declaration of Independence. But does that mean it should be THE American folk dance? That question took us on a journey from Appalachian front porches, to dance classes across our nation, to the halls of Congress, and...

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🔗 March 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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I’m on a roll!

Three birthdays and a studio visit.

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#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

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Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Cloaked: https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off – ShipStation: ...

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'The Longest Yard’ (1974) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan agree to shave 21 minutes off this podcast in order to rewatch the 1974 classic ‘The Longest Yard,’ starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Ed Lauter. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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🎬 Late Night with the Devil

Movie poster for “Late Night with the Devil”.

Such a great plot and so well executed. I assume this is a pretty low budget film, and all the more respect to make it so entertaining. Spooky, suspenseful, with great acting and some nice gory special effects.

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592: I Think He Won the Game

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Pre-show: Marco’s nethers and the Vision Pro The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024 Theatre (App Store link) Sandwich SpatialGen ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen Microsoft Recall 7 June: Microsoft Recall will be opt-in 13 June: Microsoft Recalls Recall Micros...

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🎬 Peeping Tom

Movie poster for “Peeping Tom”.

It was late when we started this, and I didn't pay full attention the whole time. But this was still a fantastic surprise. A great story with a really creepy dude and a lot of suspense. Never seen it in a movie old movie like this. But it did remind me of Psycho. Generally this was pretty Hitchcock-like. And Hitchcock I like. And so do I like this one. Recommended!

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🎬 Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Movie poster for “Four Flies on Grey Velvet”.

*sigh* Argento! He has really good ideas and can certainly film those, too. But the crazy outrageous story and unbelievable dialogue still annoys me.

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🔗 February 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

photojournal.danielpietzsch.com/2023/February

Here are some fresh and ice cold photos!

Ski vacation in Austria and Elfi's birthday.