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Daring Fireball
22 Sep 21:39 • John Gruber

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten’s Messages Database

inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-to/91408202

Jason Aten, writing for Inc: Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for ...

Colossal
22 Sep 21:03 • Jackie Andres

Microscopic Universes Come Alive in Nikon’s Small World in Motion Contest

This year's cycle received more than 340 video entries from 40 different countries.

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 Microscopic Universes Come Alive in Nikon’s Small World in Motion Contest appeared first on Colossal.

Daring Fireball
22 Sep 21:00 • John Gruber

Why Didn’t Google Build Muse?

spyglass.org/why-didnt-google-build-muse/

MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: The number one response I’ve gotten to my thoughts on Meta’s Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of “I will never trust Meta with my data.” But the number two response is arguably more interesting (and related): “Why didn’t Go...

Daring Fireball
22 Sep 21:00 • John Gruber

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Assistant

geekwire.com/2026/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-ai-assistant-in-new-standoff-over-agentic-shopping/

Todd Bishop, reporting at GeekWire: Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers, after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to voluntarily exclude the e-commerce site from the exp...

kottke.org
22 Sep 20:45 • Jason Kottke

A thoughtful review of Nolan’s The Odyssey, comparing it...

A thoughtful review of Nolan’s The Odyssey, comparing it to the original Planet of the Apes movies. “I was very influenced by seeing The Planet of the Apes when I was a kid. We had the Statue of Liberty half destroyed. That idea of a fallen monument.”

Daring Fireball
22 Sep 20:27 • John Gruber

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent App Overtakes ChatGPT as Top iPhone App

9to5mac.com/2026/09/18/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-app-overtakes-chatgpt-as-top-iphone-app/

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5 Mac on Friday: Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. Muse by Meta only launched this month, although the app has been around for ...

kottke.org
22 Sep 20:03 • Jason Kottke

Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind

I always learn so much from Evan Puschak’s videos about art. In this one, he takes a look at the work of Mary Cassatt, who, unlike many of her male peers, used the flattened perspective of Impressionism to reveal the thoughts and feelings of her subjects. Like Manet, she...

Daring Fireball
22 Sep 19:27 • John Gruber

Xcode 27.2 Now Supports a New JSON Project File Format

developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_2-release-notes

Apple Developer: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27. Apple released, on G...

Simon Willison's Weblog
22 Sep 19:24

Quoting @therealcornpop

Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's not X, it's Y", or the rule of three, or the really weird broken staccato-like way of writing where you just say a lot of things with all these punctuation marks. and it sounds really deep, but it's not.

It's the lack of anything. It's the lack of a definitive sort of spear of your voice. It's the fact I can tell you don't have opinions about the thing that you're talking about.

— @therealcornpop, on TikTok

Tags: tiktok, ai, ai-misuse

kottke.org
22 Sep 19:00 • Jason Kottke

3D models for every single object in Katamari Damacy, all...

3D models for every single object in Katamari Damacy, all 1680 of them. You can download models and animated gifs of each one.

Marques Brownlee
22 Sep 18:33

The Apple Watch Has a Problem

Apple Watch series 12 has a new "Audio Intelligence" feature, let's talk about it

Apple vs the AI Race: https://youtu.be/eWKY0OnPByg

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Apple wearable study: https://www.apple.com/health/pdf/Heart_Rate_Accuracy_Study_2026.pdf

Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5

Watch provided by Apple for review.

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Colossal
22 Sep 18:18 • Kate Mothes

Emmy Star Brown’s Vivid Murals Channel Youthfulness and Play

Brown's work is currently on view in 'The Peace of Wild Things' at Joy Machine.

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kottke.org
22 Sep 18:06 • Jason Kottke

Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace...

Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which may “be able to deliver the first direct images of distant planets in visible light” as well as measure the effects of dark energy.

Simon Willison's Weblog
22 Sep 17:21

llm-typesafe 0.1a0

Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe Then set an API key (get one here, the waitlist seems to move pretty fast): llm keys set typesafe # Paste key ...

kottke.org
22 Sep 17:15 • Jason Kottke

Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were...

Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were shaped like actual canyons? What would that sound like? “The floor sets the key. The shape of the walls sets the mood. The width sets how long one pass takes, and the depth sets the echo.”

Work Chronicles
22 Sep 16:30 • Work Chronicles

(comic) Deep work

Colossal
22 Sep 16:18 • Kate Mothes

Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest

This year, the competition welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe.

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Simone Giertz
22 Sep 16:15

Fun facts about our bigatures

Daring Fireball
22 Sep 16:15 • John Gruber

Siri AI Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement Website Is Now Live

macrumors.com/2026/09/20/siri-ai-settlement-website-now-live/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live. Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible customers, who can submit a cl...

kottke.org
22 Sep 16:12 • Jason Kottke

Dimensional Drawings of Apple Products

So that companies can use them to make accessories like cases and bands, Apple maintains a collection of downloadable dimensional drawings and tech specifications for many of their products, including the iPhone, AirPods, Watch, and iPad. They are beautiful. I love their corner & edge measurements…you can see how fiddly Apple is with their curves. Curiously, the only Mac listed is the Macbook Neo. I guess that’s the only one that needs accessorizing? Also, I presume if you’ve got a 3D printer, you could use these to make your own very precise accessories? Tags: Apple · design