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Daring Fireball
11 Oct 18:00 • John Gruber

Apple Has Indefinitely Postponed Jessica Chastain’s Apple TV+ Thriller ‘The Savant’, for Political Reasons

deadline.com/2025/09/the-savant-jessica-chastain-postponed-apple-1236553658/

Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline back on September 23: The release of Apple TV+’s The Savant has been put on hold. The decision comes three days before the thriller starring Jessica Chastain was slated to premiere on the streamer Sept. 26. No new date has been set...

Daring Fireball
11 Oct 17:00 • John Gruber

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

nytimes.com/2025/10/07/dining/saul-zabar-dead.html

Clyde Haberman, The New York Times: Saul Zabar, who across more than seven decades as a principal owner of the Upper West Side food emporium bearing his family name kept New Yorkers amply fortified with smoked fish, earthy bread and tangy cheese, not to mention pungent c...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Oct 16:36

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature Mitchell Hashimoto provides a comprehensive answer to the frequent demand for a detailed description of shipping a non-trivial production feature to an existing project using AI-assistance. In this case it's a slick unobtrusive auto-updat...

Daring Fireball
11 Oct 14:03 • John Gruber

Amazon Hamfistedly Removed the Guns From Prime’s James Bond Movie Posters

darkhorizons.com/amazon-fixes-james-bond-art-sort-of/

Garth Franklin, writing at Dark Horizons: Amazon has quietly walked back new James Bond thumbnail artwork on its Prime Video service following controversy over digital alterations to the original art. As reported here yesterday, the art was unveiled on the weekend to coi...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Oct 12:54

Note on 11th October 2025

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

Tags: vibe-coding, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms

Global News Podcast
11 Oct 12:53

The Happy Pod: Love, cake, and a long-lost mother

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We hear how a man's search for his birth mother ended in an unexpected but familiar place - his favourite local bakery. Vamarr Hunter was shocked to discover that the bakery's owner, whose company and motherly advice he'd enjoyed for years, was the woman who'd given him up f...

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 School of Magical Animals 4

Ein weiterer solider Film der Serie, wenn auch nicht ganz so gut, wie die Vorgänger. Besonders die Songs lassen leider in diesem Teil etwas nach. Aber war ne gute Zeit im UCI.

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 Bloodsport

Runde Nr. 3! Die Lage spitzt sich zu!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 Hot Fuzz

Didn't remember the action-laden ending to be this long. But apart from this, solidly funny entertainment!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Ehhh…whattt??? Jesus. This is just bonkers all the way through. It's wild! I don't really know what to make of this (yet).

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 Praxis Dr. Hasenbein

Eieiei ist das behämmert! Und wenn ich mir die Hälfte der Szenen so angucke, fand das Cast das auch!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:33

🎬 Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem

Wesentlich besser als Dr. Hasenbein. Dieser hat in der Tat einen Haufen großartiger Dialoge und Szenen. Das Gitarrensolo! Die ganzen Nasenmann-Szenen. Das Erdbeben. Muss man mal gesehen haben!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:09

🎬 Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched

Voll verhext? Voll in Ordnung!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 07:09

🎬 Bibi & Tina: Girls vs. Boys

Dekadent bereits am Morgen geguckt. Mit Popcorn. Es war super!

Daniel Pietzsch
11 Oct 06:48

🎬 The American Friend

Loved the pictures in this film. Everything's so beautiful and moody. I have never seen Bruno Ganz younger than here, I believe. And he and Dennis Hopper are simply fantastic (and the support cast, too). At first I thought the plot could've been a bit more tightened up, but honestly, I think it's really fits the movie and its characters. And it's certainly entertaining and also quite funny how clumsy they are at times.

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Oct 04:00

An MVCC-like columnar table on S3 with constant-time deletes

An MVCC-like columnar table on S3 with constant-time deletes s3's support for conditional writes (previously) makes it an interesting, scalable and often inexpensive platform for all kinds of database patterns. Shayon Mukherjee presents an ingenious design for a Parquet-back...

Simon Willison's Weblog
11 Oct 00:03

simonw/claude-skills

simonw/claude-skills One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped up on my radar was a few weeks ago when Anthropic rolled out improved Of...

Simon Willison's Weblog
10 Oct 23:39

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. Jesse is one of the most creative users of coding agents (Claude Code in particular) that I know. He's put a...

Simon Willison's Weblog
10 Oct 23:18

A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises

A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises Filippo Valsorda surveyed 18 incidents from the past year of open source supply chain attacks, where package updates were infected with malware thanks to a compromise of the project itself. These are im...

Simon Willison's Weblog
10 Oct 22:48

Video of GPT-OSS 20B running on a phone

Video of GPT-OSS 20B running on a phone

GPT-OSS 20B is a very good model. At launch OpenAI claimed:

The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of memory

Nexa AI just posted a video on Twitter demonstrating exactly that: the full GPT-OSS 20B running on a Snapdragon Gen 5 phone in their Nexa Studio Android app. It requires at least 16GB of RAM, and benefits from Snapdragon using a similar trick to Apple Silicon where the system RAM is available to both the CPU and the GPU.

The latest iPhone 17 Pro Max is still stuck at 12GB of RAM, presumably not enough to run this same model.

Tags: android, ai, openai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, gpt-oss