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Daring Fireball
09 Jul 20:15 • John Gruber

Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App

9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-chatgpt-today-watch-here/

Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Codex and includes the Codex icon...

Daring Fireball
09 Jul 20:15 • John Gruber

Apple’s Classic Mac Era Forays Into ‘Apps as Tiled Buttons’ Simplified Computing: At Ease and Launcher

daringfireball.net/2026/07/whats_good_for_the_ios_goose_is_often_not_good_for_the_macos_gander

Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley): I don’t recall ever usin...

Longreads
09 Jul 20:03 • Peter Rubin

Silicon Valley Circuits

"Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future."

Daring Fireball
09 Jul 19:45 • John Gruber

★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope

In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers that was published at apple.com/privacy. Apple seemingly no longer hosts a copy of the letter. (That ten...

Rick Beato
09 Jul 19:33

Sean Ono Lennon on Steve Vai in Crossroads #guitar #guitarist #shorts

kottke.org
09 Jul 19:12 • Jason Kottke

The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...

The official trailer for Dune 3. I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.

kottke.org
09 Jul 18:48 • Jason Kottke

The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...

The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.

kottke.org
09 Jul 18:15 • Jason Kottke

Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted. “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”

kottke.org
09 Jul 17:15 • Jason Kottke

MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...

MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr: you’re given a series of place names and you need to click as close as you can to them on a globe.

Simon Willison's Weblog
09 Jul 17:09

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evaluation Report. Th...

Simone Giertz
09 Jul 16:36

Can’t believe I found this in my yard

Global News Podcast
09 Jul 16:09

US and Iran trade strikes in Gulf

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The US has carried out a second wave of airstrikes on Iran after Tehran attacked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. The perimeter of Iran's main nuclear plant, at Bushehr, was reported to have been hit. Iran said attacks on its civilian infrastructure could...

Longreads
09 Jul 16:03 • Krista Stevens

The Extraordinary Life And Quiet Death of the World’s Largest Iceberg

"Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean."

Colossal
09 Jul 15:48 • Kate Mothes

Rob Hann’s Chromatic and Quirky Landscapes Evoke Long-Distance Road Trips

Hann's subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions.

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 Rob Hann’s Chromatic and Quirky Landscapes Evoke Long-Distance Road Trips appeared first on Colossal.

kottke.org
09 Jul 15:45 • Jason Kottke

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask. “Scientific breakthroughs, artistic leaps, technological innovation — these rarely emerge from efficient retrieval of known information.”

kottke.org
09 Jul 15:27 • Jason Kottke

Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...

Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that only a few people should have fun? “This is what it means to be entertained in the United States of America in 2026. Want to have fun? Like, the most fun? Get rich, or die trying.”

Daring Fireball
09 Jul 14:24 • John Gruber

Meta Sets Default for Instagram Accounts to Permit Content Reuse by AI

nytimes.com/2026/07/08/technology/meta-instagram-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.Q5Do.Uvg5yPwCEB5H

Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The company’s new A.I. image generator has a surprising twist: It allows people to use images from public Instagram accounts. When Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence image generator called Muse Image on Tuesda...

kottke.org
09 Jul 14:18 • Jason Kottke