Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.
— Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve
Tags: llms, ai, generative-ai
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt.Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping
foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor's marketing team, cc'd on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing "a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning." The stock opens up 6%.
Tags: security, ai, prompt-injection, generative-ai, llms, supply-chain, ai-security-research, andrew-nesbitt
From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record heat right now: Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052.
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Permanently on view at ARoS, "As Seen Below" is the latest iteration of the beloved series.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article James Turrell’s 100th ‘Skyscape’ Opens in Aarhus appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"A botched train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into the modern age."
A story about what being neighborly is all about. “I reported back to the neighborhood text thread, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. What came back, from one neighbor after another, was the same question: what can we do to help?”
@GoDaddy lets you experiment so you can find the layout, colors, and fonts that fit your business. Let’s get messyyyy. #FckAroundFriday #godaddypartner
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-raised-prices/
Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors:
The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today’s increases for iPad and Mac. We know this is not welcome news, and we are working tirelessly to find solutions.
I saw a few other publications quote a sentence or two from the statement, but I like to see the whole thing. It’s not long.
Link: macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-raised…
The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent. The 747 is being phased out for newer and more efficient jets. Ian Bosost takes a look at how the massive plane, which took flight only 5 months before “Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon”, came to be.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating? Some good thoughts in here from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jamelle Bouie, M. Gessen, and Lydia Polgreen.
A Bob Ross painting of a mountain summit is being auctioned off soon. “Sale proceeds will benefit Ball State University. Ball State University owns WIPB, the PBS station where Bob Ross filmed thirty seasons of The Joy of Painting.” $50-70K esitmate.
