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Explanation: Spooky shapes seem to haunt this dusty expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood, they lurk above the plane of the Mil...

Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the up to $5.5 billion stolen. The rest may exceed Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.

Sir Patrick Stewart, best know for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died at the age of 86. He passed at home in Los Angeles from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was largely considered an unknown when the “Star Trek...

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions

Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API.

OpenAI have now launched pretty much exactly the same deal: if you have a $100, $200, or $500 subscription plan with them you now get that same quantity of credits to apply to one of your API organizations.

I maintain subscriptions with both companies, so this is great news for me! I may even ship some public-facing demos now that the credits are already covered by my existing subscriptions.

Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, llm-pricing

It's 2027 residency application season!

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Apple Developer News:

Apple is making changes to the Taiwan storefront of the App Store, following discussions with the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission.

As of October 31, 2026, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Taiwan storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS. Currently, that rate is 30%.

Well there we go. The App Store in Taiwan — just like in Japan — is fixed.

Link: developer.apple.com/news/?id=w9mxlhek

An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found in his attic. Wheat with seven ears per stalk came up and the farmer found a reference to this type of nutritious, drought-resistant wheat in the Bible’s book of Genesis.

This is an update video for my tour in Australia, I'm currently on my way to Melbourne from Sydney, and then from there I'm headed to Brisbane.

The Halloween Bundle which has all 7 courses, is on sale for $109, but if you use the link below, it'll take an additional $10 off for you at checkout (85% off) → https://rickbeato.com/s/halloween-bundle

Also this is not a subscription. You buy it once and have lifetime access including the updates.

Here's are the courses you get:

1. The Beato Book Interactive
2. The Beato Ear Training Method
3. The Scale Matrix
4. Quick Lessons Pro
5. The Arpeggio Masterclass
6. Music Theory for Songwriters
7. Beato Beginner Guitar Course

That's a $733 value and it's yours for $99 until Halloween at midnight. And no, it's not coming back from the dead once it's gone.

Get it here → https://rickbeato.com/s/halloween-bundle

Somehow I’d never heard of this before: NPR produced and aired1 radio dramatizations of the films in the original Star Wars trilogy. The first program was particularly popular, garnering NPR hundreds of thousands of new listeners. The original versions are available in full ...

Craig Hockenberry:

If you noticed that the Iconfactory sites were kinda broken last week, now you know why. It’s because I was kinda broken last week.

Now I’m finishing this post from a comfy chair on our deck. Typing into the latest version of WordPress and PHP. And I couldn’t be happier.

No, you teared up a little reading this.

Very good news from a very good friend.

Link: furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/

Rolfe Winkler, in a crackerjack story for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Blevins, who left Apple in 2022, sometimes set up back-to-back meetings with suppliers so that rival sales teams might run into each other, stoking competitive tension. Sales representatives l...

Just a lovely little movie. I always like their animations and stories. And it featured a few nice little references to other movies, which was extra fun. Recommended!

👍 Recommended!

Ketamine is often used in medicine as one of medicine's safest painkillers, but without safeguards, it can be very dangerous. So, what exactly is ketamine, and how does it work? #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #drugawareness #dru...

Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster diving, his tenacity in connecting the dots, and his magnetic charisma as he unearths the secrets of others were a captivating lens through which to explore themes of privacy, waste…”

What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280 characters. So: “9999…” or “one centillion” or “googol!!!!!!…” or an image of a number? Turns out it’s complicated!

Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes.

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 Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces appeared first on Colossal.

"Today more than 1,900 agencies in at least 30 states have signed up for ICE’s task force model, with more than 29,000 deputized officers. With their help, ICE recently hit a record of immigration arrests."

• Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
  • Stock checker
• 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Time Management is here! 🗣️
• iPhone Duo first impressions
  • Stephen Robles’s shortcut
• New Apple announcements
  • Monday: iPad Mini
  • Tuesday: M6 iMac
  • Tuesday: M6 MacBook Pro
  • Wednesday: OLED MacBook Pro
    • Launch video
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    • 🚨 THE LID LIGHT IS BACK! 🚨
    • Stephen Levy at Wired
    • Design for Touch on Mac
  • Mac Studio with 512 GB RAM
• Post-show: Marco’s new app, Fineliner
  • Parakeet
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Is Apple re-entering the server market??
  • Macworld: Apple may revive Xserve for the AI market
  • The Information
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How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier ...