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Can the US really take control of Iran's oil?
President Trump says the US is in serious discussions with what he described as a new and more reasonable regime to end military operations in Iran. Also: Russia comes to the aid of Cuba by sending more than 700,000 barrels of oil to the communist island. Thieves in Italy mak...
Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer
Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here's how he describes it:
Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts ...
llm-mrchatterbox 0.1
The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About
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Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II
Humans are returning to the Moon - hear all about it on the BBC’s space podcast. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is following Nasa’s mission to loop around the Moon, with a new episode every day. Starts on Monday 30 March 2026. Search for 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II where...
29.03.2026
Trump says he could 'take the oil in Iran'
President Trump has said he could "take the oil in Iran" and possibly seize Kharg Island through which most Iranian oil is exported. He spoke to the Financial Times, as thousands of US ground troops arrived in the Middle East. But Mr Trump later told reporters a deal could b...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Version History: ‘The Macintosh’
For your weekend viewing enjoyment:
But in almost every way that mattered, the Macintosh was right.
Right about how we’d use computers going forward. Right about the
idea that computers needed to be less complicated. Right about the
fact that caring this deeply about bot...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
WorkOS
My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring the week at DF. Their latest is a CLI that launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration into your codebase. No signup required. It creates an env...
Pretext
Pretext
Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the react-motion animation library.
Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM. The usual...
Pretext — Under the Hood
Tool: Pretext — Under the Hood
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Verge: ‘Rank the Best Apple Products From the Last 50 Years’
theverge.com/cs/tech/900477/apple-50-anniversary-rank-products
Look, I’m all for democracy, but a poll whose results currently have the Extended Keyboard II down at #47 is a poll that makes me angry.
Link: theverge.com/cs/tech/900477/apple-50-anniversary-rank…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Talk Show: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’
For your weekend listening enjoyment: Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro.
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Python Vulnerability Lookup
Tool: Python Vulnerability Lookup
I learned that the OSV.dev open source vulnerability database has an open CORS JSON API so I had Claude Code build this HTML tool for pasting in a pyproject.toml or requirements.txt file (or name of a GitHub repo containing those) and seeing a list of all reported vulnerabilities from that API.
Tags: tools, python, supply-chain, vibe-coding, security
The Global Story: Are we heading for World War Three?
It’s been almost a month since Israel and the US launched their war against Iran, and already there have been strikes in more than a dozen countries, with reports of over 2,000 people killed across the region. As the war drags on and more countries get involved, there are co...
28.03.2026
Yemen's Houthis launch missile attack on Israel
The Houthis in Yemen have carried out a second missile and drone attack on Israel, and have warned they'll keep conducting strikes in the coming days. Earlier on Saturday the Iranian-backed group launched its first attack since the US and Israel began their war on Iran a mon...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing
512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-could-have-saved-the-mac-pro/
Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels:
I’ve thought a lot about the bad timing Jones mentions. Had Apple
stuck to the original timeline, and killed off the 2013 Mac Pro in
favor of an iMac “specifically targeted at large segments of the
pro market,” back in 2017, Apple could ha...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS
daringfireball.net/2024/03/quickly_toggling_closed_captions_on_apple_tv
While I’m bitching about Netflix’s craptacular new video player on Apple TV, let me quote from a piece I wrote two years ago (also complaining about Netflix’s tvOS app):
Turns out there are two better ways:
If you use the Control Center Apple TV remote control on your
...