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• John Gruber

PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo

theverge.com/report/894090/macbook-neo-pc-windows-laptop-competition-asus-footinmouth

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge: Somehow, the PC makers still don’t see it coming. Here’s how [Asus CFO Nick] Wu described the MacBook Neo, specifically its 8GB of RAM limitation: “I think when Apple positioned the product, it’s probably focused more on content consu...

Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes

27:39
Stephen Spencer has set his daughter's stories to music. What started as something he posted for his few followers has turned into a social media sensation, with fans around the world left smiling, laughing or even crying by the catchy tunes and often bizarre lyrics. Also: ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting Jannis Leidel

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

— Jannis Leidel, Sunsetting Jazzband

Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, python, ai, github

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI a...

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• John Gruber

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

Maggie Harrison Dupré, writing for Futurism: Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes attributed to a real person. The article — a write-up of a viral incident in which an AI agent seemingly published a hit piece about a human...

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• John Gruber

Lil Finder Guy

basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

Basic Apple Guy:

Where I and the rest of the internet take this from here remains to be seen. All I know is that Apple should definitely keep this Lil Finder around.

But no, I do not think this is the last we’ve seen of Lil Finder Guy…

Apple’s MacBook Neo ad campaign on TikTok — and seemingly exclusive to TikTok — is the most fun they’ve had with a campaign in ages. I love it.

Link: basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

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We have the solution to all your problems! Or actually, just this one specifically.

We have the solution to all your problems! Or actually, just this one specifically.
We have the solution to all your problems! Or actually, just this one specifically.

Visit the link in our bio to back the Laundry Chair on Kickstarter.

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• Jason Kottke

KDO: 28 Years Later…

It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. 47,300 posts since March 14, 1998. I...

Global News Podcast

Iran says US Kharg Island attack a failure

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On Friday President Trump said the US had obliterated military targets on the Iranian oil hub island of Kharg and threatened to target the oil infrastructure there if Iran stopped ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran accused Washington of a failed mission and war...

Global News Podcast

US strikes Iran’s key oil island

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President Donald Trump says the United States has carried out strikes against military targets on Kharg island, Iran's main export terminal for oil in the Gulf. Writing on social media, he said he'd decided not to destroy the oil infrastructure on the island. US media report...

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• John Gruber

Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’

apple.com/50-years-of-thinking-different/

Tim Cook: At Apple, we’re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn’t let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today — our incredible teams around the world, our developer community, and e...

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• Jason Kottke

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost episodes of classic Doctor Who have been discovered. Both are from the William Hartnell era and feature the Daleks.

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• Jason Kottke

The Great Friendship Flattening . “I amass bits of...

The Great Friendship Flattening. “I amass bits of knowledge about my loved ones — my sister’s boyfriend published a poem; my friend left her job — as a spectator, in the same way that I might learn about an influencer’s favorite books…”

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Planets and Bright Stars

An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion.

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• Jason Kottke

Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real”...

Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real” Anymore. “A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.”

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Here's what surprised me:

Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium.

OpenAI and Gemini both charge more for prompts where the token count goes above a certain point - 200,000 for Gemini 3.1 Pro and 272,000 for GPT-5.4.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, llm-pricing, long-context

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• Jason Kottke

10 Hours of Ambient Freezer Drone

Some genius has taken an audio sample of the hum of a grocery store freezer, cleaned it up, and extended it into a 10-hour video. The freezer’s hum, variously compared to Brian Eno’s music and “an electrical gong bath”, went viral enough to warrant an article in the Guardi...

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• Jason Kottke

Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore...

Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore online. “Almost every institution with a significant collection of medieval manuscripts digitizes many of their most significant works and makes them freely accessible online.”

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting Craig Mod

Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five days. I am now using the best piece of accounting software I’ve ever used. It’s bla...

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• John Gruber

NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’

nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-ai-model-delayed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.vI_6.4j717gwtFem0

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times: Meta’s new foundational A.I. model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short of the performance of leading A.I. models from rivals like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic on internal tests for reasoning, codi...