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Consumer Reports: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead. “More than two-thirds of [tested products] contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day.”

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More than 170 *US citizens* have been detained and held (and “dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot”) by immigration agents this year. “Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.”

TIL: Exploring OpenAI's deep research API model o4-mini-deep-research

I landed a PR by Manuel Solorzano adding pricing information to llm-prices.com for OpenAI's o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models, which they released in June and document here.

I realized I'd never tried these before, so I put o4-mini-deep-research through its paces researching locations of surviving orchestrions for me (I really like orchestrions).

The API cost me $1.10 and triggered a small flurry of extra vibe-coded tools, including this new tool for visualizing Responses API traces from deep research models and this mocked up page listing the 19 orchestrions it found (only one of which I have fact-checked myself).

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, deep-research, vibe-coding

A singing group designed for women with post-natal depression has been shown to deliver long lasting improvements in their wellbeing. A three year study found that it helped them with symptoms like low mood, stress and anxiety and that these benefits lasted for several month...

The AI water issue is fake Andy Masley (previously): All U.S. data centers (which mostly support the internet, not AI) used 200--250 million gallons of freshwater daily in 2023. The U.S. consumes approximately 132 billion gallons of freshwater daily. The U.S. circulates a l...

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away Extremely high signal 2 hour 25 minute (!) conversation between Andrej Karpathy and Dwarkesh Patel. It starts with Andrej's claim that "the year of agents" is actually more likely to take a decade. Seeing as I accepted 2025 as the...

One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert. Open Culture’s Colin Marshall writes: Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copie...

John Casey, the owner of one of the last rubber stamp stores in NYC, shows how he makes stamps by hand. This short video is from a few years ago; the shop is still open.

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Using UUIDv7 is generally discouraged for security when the primary key is exposed to end users in external-facing applications or APIs. The main issue is that UUIDv7 incorporates a 48-bit Unix timestamp as its most significant part, meaning the identifier itself leaks the record's creation time.

This leakage is primarily a privacy concern. Attackers can use the timing data as metadata for de-anonymization or account correlation, potentially revealing activity patterns or growth rates within an organization.

— Alexander Fridriksson and Jay Miller, Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

Tags: uuid, postgresql, privacy, security

A few readers took exception to this bit from my post Wednesday regarding the new M5 MacBook Pro: The base 14-inch model, with the no-adjective M-series chip, is for people who probably would be better served with a MacBook Air but who wrongly believe they “need” a lapto...

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

I’m not really into commemorative coins, and I have to say I suspect Steve Jobs wasn’t either, but it’s a nice little recognition. No mention of it from the Mint, but the $1 value of the coin is the same as the salary Jobs drew from Apple.

Link: usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-releases…

Should form labels be wrapped or separate?

James Edwards notes that wrapping a form input in a label event like this has a significant downside:

<label>Name <input type="text"></label>

It turns out both Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows and Voice Control for macOS and iOS fail to understand this relationship!

You need to use the explicit <label for="element_id"> syntax to ensure those screen readers correctly understand the relationship between label and form field. You can still nest the input inside the label if you like:

<label for="idField">Name
  <input id="idField" type="text">
</label>

Via Chris Ferdinandi

Tags: accessibility, html, screen-readers

Blockbuster sports streaming news from Apple Newsroom: Apple and Formula 1 today announced a five-year partnership that will bring all F1 races exclusively to Apple TV in the United States beginning next year. [...] Apple TV will deliver comprehensive coverage of Formul...

Speaking of Eddy Cue, he was the guest on Matthew Belloni’s excellent podcast, The Town, this week. (Overcast link.) Just a great interview in general. Cue doesn’t do many interviews but he’s my favorite Apple executive to hear speak, because he’s the least rehearsed and mos...

Over the past five years TikTok has radically changed the online world. But trust us when we say, it’s not how you’d expect. Today we continue our yearslong exploration of what you can and can’t post online. We look at how Facebook’s approach to free speech has evolved since...

I’ve seen a bunch of these before, but it’s cool to scroll and get your tiny mind blown over and over again. Human cognition and perception is such a trip. (via neatorama) Tags: optical illusions · photography 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Last sunday, I’ve been out photographing with Florian again. We went to the MüGa park in Mülheim. He has the pictures:

• florian.photo/2025-10-12
• florian.photo/2025-10-13

I’ve added a field of view value and more formats – 16mm, Super 16, APS-H and 70mm/IMAX – to my 35mm equivalent focal length tool.