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• John Gruber

More on the Lack of an Included Charger With New M5 MacBooks in Europe, Including the U.K. and Norway

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/16/m5-mbp-no-power-adapter-in-europe

While poking fun at EU regulations leading Apple not to include a power adapter with the new M5 MacBook Pro across Europe, I wondered why the U.K. — which left the EU five years ago — was affected. DF reader C.A. wrote, via email: We did indeed leave the EU, but remain a...

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Emperor Palpatine

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.

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Claude Code for web - a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic

Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It's an asynchronous coding agent - their answer to OpenAI's Codex Cloud and Google's Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview access over the weekend and I've already seen some very promising results from it. It...

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• Jason Kottke

Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My...

Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My First Months in Cyberspace. “It was a miracle and it changed my life. All of our lives.”

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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code

DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running on the NVIDIA Spark by having Claude Code effectively brute force the challenge of gettin...

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• John Gruber

How London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft

nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/europe/london-police-phone-theft-china-gang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u08.0dqv.RfHSG9CDuk4i&smid=url-share

Lizzie Dearden and Amelia Nierenberg, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): For years, London’s police assumed most of the phone thefts were the work of small-time thieves looking to make some quick cash. But last December, they got an intriguing lead from a woma...

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• John Gruber

Kickstarter Campaign for Ben Zotto’s ‘Go Computer Now!’, a Book on Sphere, the Nearly Forgotten Personal Computer Company

kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

Ben Zotto: Name every pioneering personal computer you can think of from the 1970s. The MITS Altair 8800. The Apple-1. The IMSAI 8080. You may even know about the SWTPC 6800 or Processor Technology Sol-20. There’s a computer missing from that list, and it’s an important...

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• John Gruber

David Hockney’s Xerox Prints

myartbroker.com/artist-david-hockney/articles/david-hockney-xerox-prints

Erin-Atlanta Argun: While Hockney is perhaps best known for his larger-than-life swimming pool paintings, bold coloured acrylics are certainly not his only forte. Contrary to the old saying, Hockney is a jack of all trades and a master of all he has worked with: from pai...

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• John Gruber

Counterpoint Research Claims iPhone 17 Sales Are Up Year-Over-Year in the U.S. and China

cnbc.com/2025/10/20/apple-stock-iphone-17-us-china-sales.html

CNBC:

Apple shares rose 4% on Monday as a new report showed iPhone 17 sales off to a strong start in the U.S. and China.

The iPhone 17 series, which dropped in September, has outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in the U.S. and China within its first 10 days of availability, according to data from Counterpoint Research.

Just because a research firm claims iPhone 17 sales are up 14 percent doesn’t mean they are up 14 percent. These are estimates, not hard numbers from Apple — and Apple doesn’t share actual sales numbers with anyone. Some headlines get this right, but most don’t.

Link: cnbc.com/2025/10/20/apple-stock-iphone-17-us-china-sales…

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• John Gruber

Apple and NBCUniversal Introduce the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle

apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-and-nbcuniversal-introduce-the-apple-tv-and-peacock-bundle/

Apple Newsroom: Apple and NBCUniversal today announced the launch of the Apple TV and Peacock Bundle, available beginning October 20. The first-of-its-kind bundle offers the services’ complementary array of award-winning originals, marquee live events and sports, beloved...

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• Jason Kottke

Sumo Tourists in London

I’m totally charmed by these snaps of some of the best sumo wrestlers in the world touring London. The athletes were in London for a 5-day event at the Royal Albert Hall. London’s Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japa...

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• John Gruber

Major AWS Outage

theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

Jess Weatherbed, The Verge: A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for around four hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. As of 6:35AM ET, the AWS s...

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• John Gruber

Photos From Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.

theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/10/photos-no-kings-protests-across-america/684600/?gift=xw1ABCFnadCHxRLYMsWCkxkq7lcITrmN2tq1-jBOYrA

Picking up steam, these protests are.

Link: theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/10/photos-no-kings…

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• Jason Kottke

Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy...

Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.”

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• Jason Kottke

Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman

How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures by Indonesian artist Irene Saputra, aka Nengiren. She explained to Colossal what the figures signify: Nona Kecil’s evolution mirrors my own journey as an artist. Initially, she adorned simple OOTDs with muted colors and straightforward patterns. However, the turning point occurred three years ago when I embraced motherhood. Balancing time between my son and art intensified my experimentation, leading Nona Kecil to explore more expressive and elaborate outfits. (via @antichrista) Tags: art · embroidery · Nengiren 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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• Jason Kottke

I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music...

I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music that arose in post-revolution Czechoslovakia, influenced by new age, ambient, and minimalism music newly imported from the west.

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• Jason Kottke

Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next...

Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next 5 years. This is interesting: “Select races and all practice sessions will also be available for free in the Apple TV app.”

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• Jason Kottke

Photos of the No Kings protests & rallies that happened in big...

Photos of the No Kings protests & rallies that happened in big cities and small towns all across America this weekend.

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• John Gruber

Mux: Video API for Developers

mux.com/video-api?utm_campaign=fireball&utm_source=DF

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Modern video should be simple to ship and scale. Mux makes it easy to build live and on-demand video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.

Upload a video, get back a playback URL. No transcoding headaches. No CDN setup. Go further with the building blocks of your video: thumbnails, transcripts, and storyboards. Use them to create exactly what you want.

Future-proof your video stack with infrastructure trusted by Patreon, Substack, and Synthesia. Get started free, no credit card required. Use the code FIREBALL for an extra $50 usage credit, when you need it.

Link: mux.com/video-api?utm_campaign=fireball&utm_source=DF

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• Jason Kottke

Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue

This is incredible: artist Kara Walker took a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia until 2021, chopped it up, and reconstituted it into a disfigured beast. It’s part of an exhibition of several such works called Monu...