23.03.2026
Inside Tehran: 'My daughter is under the rubble'
Data examined by the BBC shows the devastating impact of the attacks on Iran's capital, Tehran, since the start of the US-Israel war. According to the findings, Israel has dropped 3,600 munitions on the city in the last four weeks. Almost 40 police stations and bases for the...
I made a better chair for your bedroom
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Antibiotic Apocalypse
Doctor and special correspondent Avir Mitra takes Executive Editor Soren Wheeler, plus a live studio audience, on a journey from the operating room to inside the body to the farm to the sewers and back again—searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity’s existence...
Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events
The International Olympic Committee says women's events at the 2028 Los Angeles Games will be restricted to biological females, after years of controversy over transgender participation. Also: President Trump has again pushed back his threat to start bombing Iranian energy p...
We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
Bit of a hyperbolic framing but this looks like another case study of vibe-porting, this time spinning up a new custom Go implementation of the JSONata JSON expression language - similar in focus to jq, and heavily associated with the Node-RED platform.As with other vibe-porting projects the key enabling factor was JSONata's existing test suite, which helped build the first working Go version in 7 hours and $400 of token spend.
The Reco team then used a shadow deployment for a week to run the new and old versions in parallel to confirm the new implementation exactly matched the behavior of the old one.
Tags: go, json, ai, generative-ai, llms, agentic-engineering
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back
Chance Miller with a big scoop at 9to5Mac:
It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the
Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s
website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on
Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to...
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
Callum McMahon reported the LiteLLM malware attack to PyPI. Here he shares the Claude transcripts he used to help him confirm the vulnerability and decide what to do about it. Claude even suggested the PyPI security ...
684: It’s Not What Young People Do
Follow-up:
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Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
Apple Podcasts transcript options
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What is Marco using for a job...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Apple Charging Situation
Speaking of power adapters, this information guide from Rands in Repose is both useful and enlightening.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
You Can Jump Right to the Updates Screen in the App Store App on iOS 26.4
I mentioned the other day that I was mildly irked by a change in iOS 26.4 that moved the list of available updates in the App Store app one additional screen further into its hierarchy. Good news (via Nate Barham on Mastodon): you can long-press on the App Store app on your Home Screen and jump right to the Updates screen from the contextual menu. Nice! (This feature has been around for a few years, apparently, but it’s extra useful in 26.4).
Alternatively, you can create a Shortcuts shortcut that jumps you to the Updates screen. Just one action: open the URL itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates. Save it as an “app” on your Home Screen or an action in Control Center. Me, I’m just going to use the tap-and-hold contextual menu item on the App Store app.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Disney Drops Vaporware $1B Investment in OpenAI After Sora Got Axed
variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
Todd Spangler, reporting for Variety:
Disney has now ended its partnership with OpenAI, which included
plans for the media conglomerate to take a $1 billion stake in the
artificial-intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman.
A Disney rep said in a statement to Variety: ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google Brags About Android Web Browser Benchmark Scores on Unnamed Devices; Gullible Reporters Fall for It
blog.chromium.org/2026/03/android-sets-new-record-for-mobile-web.html
Chrome engineer Eric Seckler, on Google’s Chromium Blog, under the bold headline “Android Sets New Record for Mobile Web Performance”:
Today, we are proud to celebrate a major milestone: Android is now
the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.
Through deep vertical ...
There’s an upside-down “H” on the...
There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
NYT: ‘Melania Trump Appears With a Robot, Saying More Children Should Be Educated by Them’
nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/melania-trump-robot.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Well, at least we know who taught her to talk like that.
Link: nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/melania-trump-robot.html…
On Saturday, I’ll be live on stage with Brutal Unrest again.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Information: ‘Apple Can “Distill” Google’s Big Gemini Model’
theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/apple-can-distill-googles-big-gemini-model?rc=jfy0lk
Jessica E. Lessin, Amir Efrati, and Erin Woo, reporting for the paywalled-without-gift-links The Information:
While we have reported that Apple can tweak, or fine-tune, a
version of Google’s Gemini AI so that it responds to queries the
way Apple wants, the agreement give...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Katie Notopoulos Bids Farewell to Sora: ‘You Were Too Beautiful and Stupid for This World’
businessinsider.com/sora-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-ai-shutting-down-farewell-why-2026-3
Katie Notopoulos, my favorite Sora user, at Business Insider (paywalled, alas, but available via News+):
Eventually, my friends all seemed to get bored with the app.
As I do at most parties, I stuck around longer than everyone else,
but eventually I, too, found that the ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
MacOS 26.4 Adds ‘Slow Charger’ Indicator for MacBooks
macrumors.com/2026/03/25/macos-tahoe-26-4-slow-charger-macbooks/
Tim Hardwick at MacRumors:
macOS Tahoe 26.4 includes a new slow charger indicator that tells
MacBook users when their charging setup isn’t delivering full
power. As described in an updated Apple support document, a
“Slow Charger” label now appears in orange text in the b...