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• John Gruber

★ App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

[Update, Saturday 8 August: This story is retracted. Details forthcoming.] Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the ground...

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it...

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it...

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• Reza

The Dog

Global News Podcast

Teenager shoots 7 dead in Thailand

Teachers are among those killed and injured by a 14-year-old boy at a Bangkok school. He also took his own life. Earlier, he had killed his grandparents. Also: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign a mutual defence agreement, saying an attack on one of them would be seen as...

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• John Gruber

Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety Lawsuit

wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7?st=WwRP65

Meghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing the cost of the lan...

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• Kate Mothes

A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate ‘The Ark’

A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate ‘The Ark’Powerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love?

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 A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate ‘The Ark’ appeared first on Colossal.

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• WNYC Studios

Red Herring

It was the early '80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coast of Sweden. The navy reported a mysterious sound deep below the surface of the ocean. Again, and again, and again they would hear it near their secret military bases, in th...

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.

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Global News Podcast

Artificial Intelligence used to create new viruses

Scientists from Stanford University call the creation of new viruses by Artificial Intelligence a "significant turning point" which could revolutionise medicine with new drugs and treatments. It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI. Critics w...

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• John Gruber

Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjA0NjY3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NjUxNDc1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSjlNQ01UOU5KTFUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.pj0oCNz7Ez90rn67tMWib-ed2PxcUAhAG2-hlVQ_DRg&leadSource=article-gifting

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interactivity. The device is...

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datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13

Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13

Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4.

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datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13

Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13

Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4.

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• Jackie Andres

New York City’s Last Standing Wood Column Company Closes After 110 Years

New York City’s Last Standing Wood Column Company Closes After 110 Years"Like anything else, everything changes," says owner Thomas Lupo. "Time goes on."

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• Jason Kottke

The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades...

The video rental store as “third place”. “Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.”

Accidental Tech Podcast

703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast

Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine” Adam Wunn’s blog post Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine Follow-up: Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.] Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode Be wary ...

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• John Gruber

OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit (PDF Link)

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.59.0.pdf

This is more like it. No mealymouthing or wishy-washiness here. This is a strident defense. I’ll quote just one line for now: Apple offers nothing because it has nothing because there is nothing. Its Complaint cannot and does not state a misappropriation claim against De...

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Billy Joel on “Angry Young Man” #piano #song #shorts

Billy Joel on “Angry Young Man” #piano #song #shorts
Billy Joel on “Angry Young Man” #piano #song #shorts

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datasette 1.0a38

Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system. Site administrators wh...

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datasette 0.65.3

Release: datasette 0.65.3

Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38.

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