Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
theverge.com/report/894090/macbook-neo-pc-windows-laptop-competition-asus-footinmouth
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
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
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.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
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.
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…”
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.”
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
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.”
