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Daring Fireball
28 Jun 17:48 • John Gruber

PuffPal, an App for Accessing Cannabis Clubs, Leaked 1 Million Users’ Passports

theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjdjV0Y5TTBuM0ciLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTQ3MTU3L3Bhc3Nwb3J0cy1kYXRhLWJyZWFjaC1jYW5uYWJpcy1jbHViLXN5c3RlbXMtbmVmb3MtcHVmZnBhbCIsImV4cCI6MTc4MzA5NDY0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzgyNjYyNjQ2fQ.7SjX6B8AAGhzsdrtD5asJWBwzQvTDUD31hWte7K1oec

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): If you’ve visited a cannabis club in Spain, [Sammy] Azdoufal says, chances are your photo ID was among them — and possibly your phone number, address, your favorite strains of cannabis, and how much you consumed each mon...

Simone Giertz
28 Jun 16:48

This table is 10 years in the making

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Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
28 Jun 13:46

March 2026

A bike tour, my birthday, playing two gigs with two bands, attending one other concert, Halde Hoheward with Florian, and the usual random frames in between. (43 photos)

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 23:36 • John Gruber

Micron Executive Sumit Sadana Tells Tim Cook to Stop Hitting Himself

wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99?st=B1aQCP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

From the bottom of Rolfe Winkler’s report for The Wall Street Journal Thursday, on Apple’s unprecedented price increases (gift link): Apple’s price hikes arrived the day after Micron Technology, the big American maker of memory and storage, reported blowout quarterly ear...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 23:24 • John Gruber

★ Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus

Bernie Sanders, posting on Twitter/X Thursday (don’t complain to me that he doesn’t use his Bluesky account): Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is “unavoidable” after it made $112 billion in...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 22:48 • John Gruber

Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022

warner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warner-rubio-urge-dni-to-review-risk-chinese-chipmaker-ymtc-presents-to-national-security/

From a September 2022 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, co-signed by Marco Rubio (then a Republican senator from Florida, currently secretary of state) and Mark Warner (Democratic senator from Virginia): We write to convey our extreme concern...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 22:18 • John Gruber

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup

news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/25/xbox-console-price-update/

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. Last October, we increased XBOX console pri...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 20:30 • John Gruber

FT Reports That Apple Is Lobbying to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Company CXMT

ft.com/content/d72a25e2-7bde-4aa9-bd8d-0c4f3d6cb2cb

Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, alas): Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese company that the Pentagon has put on a blacklist because of alleged connections t...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 20:06 • John Gruber

Grok Is a Generative Porno App

theinformation.com/articles/xai-bets-groks-racy-side?rc=jfy0lk

Grace Kay and Theo Wayt, writing for the paywalled-with-no-gift-links The Information: xAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with rivals in areas like c...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 20:06 • John Gruber

OpenAI Announces, But Is Blocked From Releasing, New GPT-5.6 Models

openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

OpenAI yesterday: We’re beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2× cheaper and Luna brings stron...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 20:06 • John Gruber

White House Grants Access to Anthropic’s Mythos Model to 100+ U.S. Institutions; Fable Still Shut Down

semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies

Reed Albergotti and Ben Smith, reporting last night for Semaphor: The decision, in a letter sent Friday afternoon to Anthropic, is a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump Administration and one of the world’s most valuable private companies. Two week...

Daring Fireball
27 Jun 19:36 • John Gruber

The Steam Machine

theverge.com/games/952765/steam-machine-review?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Illsb3pPdVlCSmQiLCJwIjoiL2dhbWVzLzk1Mjc2NS9zdGVhbS1tYWNoaW5lLXJldmlldyIsImV4cCI6MTc4MzAxOTM4OCwiaWF0IjoxNzgyNTg3Mzg4fQ.ksUd5qynurLxKTvjnCTD3mj4xzH9gdFgqAzFJ577ZcE&utm_medium=gift-link

Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the same basic goal: to effortlessly play proprietary games on a TV screen. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have spent decades essentially sel...

Rick Beato
27 Jun 18:54

Sean Ono Lennon on his dad’s singular songs. #thebeatles #johnlennon #shorts

Simone Giertz
27 Jun 16:24

We have some big news

Dan’s Polaroids
27 Jun 12:38

26.06.2026

An evening sky with the sun illuminating the left half much more. — This evening’s sky

Colossal
27 Jun 12:30 • Colossal

July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
27 Jun 04:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

The Tower of Baa-Goat

We visit the tower of Baa-Goat, which is inhabited by a flock of goats who speak Swiss French. Along the way we hear about 19th century architectural follies, why goats like to climb, and how sometimes household projects can take on a life of their own…

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xkcd.com
27 Jun 02:42

720 Ollie

This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

Daring Fireball
26 Jun 23:45 • John Gruber

★ Om

Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart. Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as we’d been friends for 20 years. Folks at Apple PR knew that we were close, and would often pair us...

Simon Willison's Weblog
26 Jun 22:36

Quoting Dean W. Ball

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. After that period elapses, ...