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Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge: In April, a federal judge demanded that Apple begin allowing web links, cease restricting how links are formatted, and enable developers to offer external payment options without giving the company a cut of their revenue. Apple promptly appe...

Amenra does an acoustic guitar cover version of maybe my favourite Portishead song. So good! Love how the guitar is recorded and you hear all sorts of background sounds, as well as the player doing the percussion probably live while playing guitar.

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Marco Arment, moved to write his first blog post in 11 months: For unspecified reasons, Apple has declined to participate this year, ending what had become a beloved tradition in our community — and I can’t help but suspect that it won’t come back. (A lot has changed in ...

Follow-up: Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial) macOS 26: Tahoe? macOS 26 supported hardware Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview MacRumors coverage Molly White’s newsletter Polycom “star”/”spider” phones V...

As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis

gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05: Try the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro before general availability Announced on stage today by Logan Kilpatrick at the AI Engineer World’s Fair, who indicated that this will likely be the last in the Gemini 2.5 Pro series. The previous model ID was gemin...

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Solomon Hykes just presented the best definition of an AI agent I've seen yet, on stage at the AI Engineer World's Fair:

An AI agent is an LLM wrecking its environment in a loop.

I collect AI agent definitions and I really like this how this one combines the currently popular "tools in a loop" one (see Anthropic) with the classic academic definition that I think dates back to at least the 90s:

An agent is something that acts in an environment; it does something. Agents include worms, dogs, thermostats, airplanes, robots, humans, companies, and countries.

Tags: ai-agents, llms, ai, generative-ai

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats This is very worrying. The New York Times v OpenAI lawsuit, now in its 17th month, includes accusations that OpenAI's models can output verbatim copies of New York Times content - both from training d...

Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly

Guilherme Rambo reports on a weird iOS messages bug:

The bug is that, if you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who’s also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name “Dave and Buster’s”, the message will never be received.

Guilherme captured the logs from an affected device and spotted an XHTMLParseFailure error.

It turned out the iOS automatic transcription mechanism was recognizing the brand name and converting it to the official restaurant chain's preferred spelling "Dave & Buster’s"... which was then incorrectly escaped and triggered a parse error!

Tags: xml, ios, xhtml

Next Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf is happening!

Marcus Mendes, in a piece at 9to5Mac with multiple spoilers for next week’s keynote: Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in Markdown from Apple Notes, which is something third-party apps have supported for years. Granted, this is a niche feature, b...

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Wayne Ma, reporting last month at The Information (a paywalled website so obnoxious that they force $300/year subscribers to click through an article-blocking popover pitching them on upgrading to a $500/year subscription), and summarized here by MacRumors: However, the ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a scheme they’ve dubbed “Local Mess” — used by Meta since September 2024, and Russian search engine Yandex since 2017 (!) — to de-anonymize Android users’ web browsing across millions of websites that include Meta’s and Yandex’s respective...

Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica: This abuse has been observed only in Android, and evidence suggests that the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica target only Android users. The researchers say it may be technically feasible to target iOS because browsers on that platform a...

Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto, reporting last week for NOTUS (“News of The United States” — a seriously good up-and-coming national affairs publication):

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.

Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.

Shocking that these dipshits would generate their report with whatever came out of an LLM and not actually check — let alone, you know, read — the cited studies.

Link: notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report…

Dyson:

Join James Dyson as he introduces the new Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones cleaner. Our latest, most advanced floorcare technology — now available in Japan.

Nine minutes, short and sweet. I watched the whole thing and loved it. If it had been pre-recorded, I bet I wouldn’t have gotten more than two or three minutes into it, even though the video would have been more polished. There’s just something compelling about a live demo, even when you’re watching on YouTube.

(The new PencilVac looks cool too, but it seems too good to be true. I’ll be interested to hear from reviewers whether it, uh, actually sucks or kinda sucks.)

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=ve6JuJV17FQ

Hard not to see the invitation and this new animation as a hint that the much-rumored UI redesign/refresh is, indeed, going to be glassy.

Link: x.com/gregjoz/status/1929558230990049758?s=12